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    Patriarchy

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    Isabelle Romero Mrs. Gickings IDS 100-04 2 August 2012 Blinded by the Male Monopoly Although America is oblivious of reality‚ the nation has succumbed to living in a patriarchal society.  From afar‚ our nation is known as the “land of the free”; however‚ when taking a microscopic view into our relationships with one another it is evident that there is something wrong.  In Allan G. Johnson’s Patriarchy he introduces the term patriarchy as a “male-dominated‚ male-identified‚ and male-centered

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    mills‚ although their wages were consistently lower -- often by as much as half -- than those of their male counterparts. Certainly‚ laborers at Lowell faced harsh working conditions. Like the Philadelphia laborers mentioned above‚ intellectual Orestes Brownson wrote a piece in the Boston Quarterly Review that criticized Lowell mills on the grounds that the male employer made a huge profit off of the operation‚ holding on to all the convenient aspects of slavery while dismissing all of its inconveniences

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    self‚ that many of the specific reforms rampant in Jacksonian America such as prohibition and vegetarianism were too narrowly conceived and that to engage in social and political action was to dissipate creative energies. One the other side were Brownson‚ Peabody‚ and‚ intermittently Alcott‚ who felt that rampant individualism was part of the problem‚ not part of the solution‚ and that social change could be effected only through social means. But even Emerson and Thoreau recognized that when evils

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    respect nature. Although it is hard to determine exactly when transcendentalism began‚ a probable date is September 19‚ 1836 (Hankins‚ 23)‚ when George Ripley‚ a Unitarian minister from Boston called a meeting with his friends: Bronson Alcott‚ Orestes Brownson‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Frederic Hedge‚ Convers Francis‚ and James Freeman Clarke. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the flaws of Unitarianism (Hankins‚ 23). Members called their group “symposium” and met four to five times a year for

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    Voice of Freedom Notes

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    Chapter 7 40. Petition of the Inhabitants West of the Ohio River. Ohioans that petitioned to Congress about the monopolizing of acreage by private companies on the frontier after the War of Independence‚ the farmers also asked for “vacant lands” 41. James Madison‚ The Federalist‚ No. 51 To generate support for the Constitution‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ James Madison‚ and John Jay composed 85 essays under Publius in The Federalist. The security of liberty and power balanced power lies in the nation’s

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    Nowadays for all health care professional including nurses Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is an expected core competency irrespective of discipline. EBP is necessary to integrate the best research with clinical expertise and patient value to establish best health outcomes (Winters & Echeverri‚ 2012). This essay will describe concise outline of Evidence based practice. Further it will discuss necessity of EBP into nursing practice and how EBP will helpful to improve the quality of care. The possible

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    This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War Book Review In the book This Republic of Suffering‚ the other intends to describe the many effects of death on the American population during the civil war‚ and argues that: The Civil War confronted Americans with an enormous task‚ one quite different from saving or dividing the nation‚ ending or maintaining slavery‚ or winning the military conflict-the demands we customarily understand to have been made of the Civil War generation. Americans

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    returns from the Trojan war to reclaim his sister-in-law Helen from the Trojans. Electra and her brother Orestes plot to kill their mother and her lover to revenge his death. Both authors wrote about the same plot‚ but the built the story very differently. Sophocles focused on Orestes‚ and Euripides focused more on the life of Electra. In Sophocles’s version‚ the play opens with Orestes learning his fate from the Pythian Oracle; he must revenge his father’s death unarmed and alone. He sends

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    Justice In The Eumenides

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    the Eumenides‚ the resolution of the trial indicates that justice does not always have to arise from the rules of systematic court. Based on the will of Apollo‚ Orestes is ordered to avenge his father and thus‚ Orestes’ actions are justified because he will suffer if he opposes the gods. However‚ even though the conclusion to free Orestes is just‚ there is no evidence provided for Apollo’s claims nor any validity in Athena’s decision. In other words‚ the lack of proof and validity shows that the justice

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    Euripides’ Electra

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    apparent. The main characters Orestes and Electra show through their actions that they would not be considered “good”. Aristotle states in his Poetics that there are four key components to a good character‚ “first and foremost is that the characters be good…the second requisite is to make the character appropriate…third is to make the character lifelike…fourth is to make them consistent…or consistently inconsistent.” (31) When these standards are applied to analyzing Orestes and Electra‚ their actions

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