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    divorce rate of up to 50%. The problem with this situation is that it tends to result in a stigma against divorced people‚ and focuses unnecessarily on divorced women. Divorced women get the house‚ they get the car‚ they get the kids. Divorced women get‚ get‚ get‚ while their male counterparts do nothing but lose‚ lose‚ lose. In the 1950’s‚ however‚ their roles were reversed‚ with the sympathy still in favor of the male members of the household. Men got everything in a divorce: the house‚ car‚ kids

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    of the time used this to their advantage and laid a heavy underlying sexual atmosphere as a basis for their stories. Henry James does just that in his Turn of the Screw. Though never directly stating so‚ his main character suffers from sexual repression that came along with her position in the Victorian age and eventually acts upon it‚ while the ghosts in the story then serve as protection for the children she acts out upon. The new governess‚ whose name we are never told throughout the novel

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    caregivers. Although women had the right to vote for over fifty years‚ the Equal Rights Amendment had still not passed since it had been introduced to congress in 1923. With the inequality still widespread‚ it came as no surprise women were still fighting for their equality in all aspects of their lives. Many women in this time turned to newspapers and magazines for the news and advice on the topic of women’s liberation. One such magazine‚ Redbook‚ targeted young married women with children. Although

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    Power to the Women Gender equality was never a problem because it never existed. Before 1920‚ women and men were not considered equal. Women were considered lower ranked compared to men. Being married and tending to the children was basically a profession. Everything seemed to change when women were given the ability to vote by the 19th amendment that got passed in 1920. From then on‚ women were considered equal‚ but with every success comes hardships. Women were always considered naturally weaker

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    Nazi propaganda‚ terror and repression on the Jewish community between 1933 and 1945. The Jewish community suffered to a huge extent from Nazi propaganda‚ terror and repression between 1935 and 1945. Persecution on the Jewish community varied from the destruction of Jewish businesses and homes to the ‘final solution’ plan to wipe out the Jewish race. Key individuals such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels played an integral part in the propaganda‚ terror and repression on the Jewish community between

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    Chopin Music

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    new but short melodic idea‚ but all the sections are united by persistent dominant pedals in quaver rhythm. Tonality and Harmony: Section A is in the tonic key of Db major‚ the countermelody is in Ab major but Section B is modulated to C# minor. Chopin defines the key of Db major by

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    ’poison ’." was the how the Republic described Kate Chopins most famous novel The Awakening (Seyersted 174). This was the not only the view of one magazine‚ but it summarized the feelings of society as a whole. Chopin woke up people to the feelings and minds of women. Even though her ideas were controversial at first‚ slowly over the decades people began to accept them.<br><br>Kate O ’Flaherty Chopin was raised in St. Louis in the 1850 ’s and 1860 ’s. Chopin had a close relationship with her French grandmother

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    Women no longer stand the same way they used too. Women used to stand under the working man‚ the disabled man‚ even under the enslaved man. Time has flourished and evolved the women figure. Many females’ show their empowerment through work‚ education‚ politics‚ movements‚ and in the home. Sometimes women’s stories get distorted throughout history. Many people consider females to have had a success story right away. The impact of women on earth has been tremendous and empowering. Women are the creators

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    Kate Sheppard Kate Sheppard is recognised as the leader of the fight to win the right for New Zealand women to vote. She and other pioneering women campaigned so effectively that in 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world to grant the vote to all women over 21. http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Society/People/S/Sheppard-Kate/ Kate was also involved in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union‚ founded the National Council of Women‚ established the first women

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    Also‚ I think the New women was one of the successful changes that emerged in the Roaring twenties. The now women known as flapper had more freedom (they did not want to use corsets and act like their mother). They had short hair‚ short skirt‚ drink and smoke in public. Women had access to a type of birth control‚ which helped poor families to not have a lot of children. In 1920‚ the 19th amendment allowed women to vote‚ which increased women presence in public area. Women had more chances to work

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