TERMS AND CONCEPTS: 1. Sex and Gender What do they mean‚ what are the differences between the two? Gender is a social construction. Sex refers to biological differences that are unchanging; gender involves the meaning that a particular society and culture attach to sexual difference. Because the meaning varies over time and among cultures‚ gender differences are both socially constructed and subject to change. Male/Female (sex) vs. Masculine/Feminine (gender). 2. Race and Class Issues
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Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining‚ establishing‚ and defending equal political‚ economic‚ cultural‚ and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women. Feminist theory‚ which emerged from feminist movements‚ aims to understand the nature of gender inequality by examining women’s social roles and lived experience; it has developed
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AP U.S. History Summer Work Zinn Study Questions Zinn Chapter 1: pp.1-11 Columbus‚ The Indian‚ and Human Progress 1. Zinn’s main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States is to show history from the viewpoint of others. 2. This is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11: These traits did not stand out in the Europe of the Renaissance‚ dominated as it was by religion of popes‚ the government of kings‚ and the frenzy for money that marked Western Civilization and its first messenger
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Yoelmis Velasquez Was the American Dream really obtainable to anyone and everyone? They call the United States of America the land of equal opportunity‚ where hope is a given and all you have to do is dream. However this was not the case for many people‚ such as the women in the United States around the late 1860 through the 1920s‚ when our beautiful country began opening its doors. As a matter of fact when we look back at our history‚ during that
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An Acquaintance with Darkness ~By Ann Rinaldi Ann Rinaldi has written many books for young teenagers‚ she is an Award winning author who writes stories of American history and makes them become real to the readers. She has written many other books such as A Break with Charity‚ A Ride into Morning‚ and Cast two Shadows‚ etc. She was born in New York City on August 27‚ 1934. In 1979‚ at the age of 45‚ she finished her first book. An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi is about Emily
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SCL251 GENERAL BIOLOGY LABORATORY SYLLABUS Spring Semester 2014 Stephanie Mott: smott@bryant.edu Bio Lab Sections on Monday: 11am Thursday: 11 am and 3:30 pm DAY LABORATORY CHAPTERS Thu Jan. 23 Lab 1 Review of Microscopic Techniques Lab 2 Cellular Systems I: Protistan Diversity Observation and study of algae and protozoan cultures. Jan. 27/30 Lab 4 Biological Diversity I: Invertebrates Observation and classification of several small aquatic animals. Group
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Southwest Airlines Resources Tangible Resources Financial Resources - Southwest has always managed its cash well . In the financial year 2001 ‚ the airline had generated 64 ‚446 ‚773with an operating income of 821 ‚659 and a credit value very good Physical Resources - In all the cities it operates instead of having agents or computerized booking system Southwest has its reservation centre and vending machines at the airports . Previously Southwest only operated in cities near Texas ‚ but started
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Imagine you are walking down a block in New York City. When all of sudden you hear a loud siren; the cops. Lethal red and blue lights cast circles on the concrete around you. The police car stops and two officers get out of the car and prevent you from walking any further. They interrogate you and then they frisk you. Even though what you are experiencing is demoralizing‚ you realize that it is something that you would have become accustomed to because you are an African American living in New York
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In Charlestown‚ Massachusetts a young boy was born on April 27th‚ 1791. His parents were Calvinist Pastor Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) and Elizabeth Ann Breese (1776-1828). This young lad would soon be known to the world as Samuel Morse. He would later be known as a painter and for creating the electric telegraph‚ along with a unified language that would reach all four corners of the world. Morse was a smart lad and was enrolled in Yale College at the age of fourteen in 1805. In his college
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HISTORY Early Period: Aeneas is a Tojan prince who found a new homeland in Italy for his followers‚ which later became known as Rome. Alba was found by Ascanius. Ascanius is Aeneas’s young son by his first wife‚ Creusa and he is most important as a symbol of Aeneas’s destiny—his future founding of the Roman race. Though still a child‚ Ascanius has several opportunities over the course of the epic to display his bravery and leadership. Brutus was a Roman Senator during the late Republic. Though close
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