The Women of Lockerbie Sara Smith University of Chicago The Women of Lockerbie was written by Deborah Brevoort. The play starred Brittany Reed as Olive Allison‚ Mark Vukelich as Bill Livingston‚ Elizabeth Brooks as Woman 1‚ Brookelyn Walters as Woman 2‚ Jodie Maier as Madeline Livingston‚ Austin Meyer as George Jones and Jill Mac as Hattie. On December 21‚ 1988‚ above Lockerbie‚ Scotland‚ a Pan AM flight enroute from London to New York was blown up by a terrorist’s bomb. The 259 people
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the Sexes: Inequality of Women During the Enlightenment The Enlightenment was a period when clusters of philosophers‚ writers‚ scholars‚ and aristocrats sharply debated standards and assumptions about women’s rights in society. Issues that pertained to widening the women’s sphere into more than just the household‚ questioning the ability of women to logic as men‚ and debating egalitarian co-educational opportunities for both boys and girls. This was a time when women started to come forth as
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The Struggle of Women in India By: Michelle Brown Copper Hills High School The Struggling Women in India Introduction All over the world women have a numerous amount of freedom. We have worked 1 for it hard and have succeeded. There is a country in this world that the women don’t have as much freedom as we do. That place is India. For centuries women in India have been struggling for
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Japanese Comfort Women It is estimated that between one and two hundred thousand female sex slaves were forced to deliver sexual services to Japanese soldiers‚ both before and during World War II. These women were known as comfort women and the Imperial Conference‚ which was composed of the emperor‚ representatives from the armed forces and the main Cabinet ministers‚ approved their use by Japanese soldiers. (Walkom) The term "comfort women" refers to the victims of a "premeditated systematic plan
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Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women OR Meg‚ Jo‚ Beth and Amy (1868)‚ was a two-part book that told the story of four sisters and their family during the Civil War. The novel was geared towards young girls and the author drew from her own experiences to develop her characters and her plot. Madeleine B. Stern (1912-2007)‚ author of Louisa May Alcott: A Biography‚ wrote that among the musings made by Ms. Alcott‚ while deciding what to write in her book‚ was one that “There was no trick in writing
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This paper is a review of the book Japan’s Comfort Women-Sexual slavery and prostitution during WWII and the US occupation by Yuki Tanaka. This book was published in 2002 by Routledge. The book deals with the thousands of Japanese‚ Korean‚ Chinese and other Asian and European women who were victims of organized sexual violence and prostitution by means of "comfort stations" setup by the Japanese military during World War II. As we first get into the book‚ we find out that the origins of comfort
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nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hosted uproar among the women of America who sought equal representation and rights from the U.S. government. Among the female activists‚ authors‚ such as Willa Cather and Louisa May Alcott‚ began to commence about women’s suffrage through their writing. A multitude of other women‚ such as Anne Sullivan‚ began to feel empowered to become independent and strong females‚ just as able and equal as men. Women faced an immense amount of difficulty during this time period
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LITTL E WOMEN Chapter 1: "Playing Pilgrims" Summary The March family consists of Marmee and her four girls‚ Meg‚ Jo‚ Beth and Amy and Father who is off working as a chaplain in the Civil War. We meet the girls first in Chapter 1 as they sit around the living room bemoaning the fact that they will not be having Christmas presents this year. They each have one dollar which seems too little to help any social cause. The girls discuss what they are going to buy for themselves with their money.
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Little Women Louisa May Alcott was greatly influenced by the transcendentalists of her time. Transcendentalists believed that humans should pay more attention to their inner beings‚ rather than dawdle on superficial ways of living. In the novel‚ Little Women‚ published in 1868‚ Alcott uses her characters’ ordeals to stress that wealth is not the key to happiness. To begin with‚ it is important to stay genuine and not yearn for material items. Meg‚ the oldest of four sisters‚ attends a party
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How would you empower women in today’s India In India‚ today‚ women appear to rule the roost. India as a nation is revered in a feminine form i.e. ‘the Bharat Mata’‚ the first citizen of our country presently is a woman‚ many important government posts are occupied by women and educated women are pouring into the professional workforce with profound implications for national and multinational corporations. However‚ ironically‚ these are accompanied by news about dowry killings‚ female infanticide
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