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    Karen Anderson’s Wartime Women: “Sex Roles‚ Family Relations and the Status of Women during World War II” reexamines the various roles women occupied in wartime America. Anderson argues that though some historians they attribute women’s postwar employment changes simply to economics. Anderson implies that the 1940’s period played a more prominent role in developments‚ helping to accelerate the economic changes that would come after WWII. Moreover‚ though such studies exist in

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    Youth Empowerment in El Salvador: The Issue Since 2015‚ El Salvador has been deemed the most violent nation in the world‚ not experiencing an active war. With an unreal murder statistic of 30 per day (in a country of 6.3 million) ‚ the targeted party often becomes the prominent gangs‚ known as MS-13 and Barrio 18. The country‚ having lost a significant number of males and fathers in the civil war of the 1990’s‚ has been experiencing a generation of young men growing up without fathers. Without

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    was vital in pushing women to work‚ and consequently gave them the opportunity to testify that women could be just as competent as men. Furthermore‚ during the war‚ the government‚ for propaganda purposes‚ created individual heroines such as Rosie the Riveter – powerful and determined - who originated from the U.S. and later became a symbolic representation of working women in Canada. It was very important in the sense that it broke the stereotypes held against women‚ moving them into positions

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    Religion is one of the great unifying forces in the world today‚ as millions of people around the world are connected by their shared religious beliefs. Of the world’s religions‚ the three Abrahamic religions are the most prevalent worldwide‚ unifying the most people under a single religious canon‚ however these religions can also be homes of hatred for followers taking scripture too literally. For many religious traditionalists‚ the lines of gender identity and sexuality are drawn in stone in the

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    Two was quite an important time in female history‚ it opened a lot of doors that had previously been closed to women and allowed them to take on a bigger position in society. On January 20th‚ 2018 Naomi Parker Fraley‚ the face of the famous “Rosie the Riveter” died at 96‚ and she got me thinking about women and wartime. Feminist dissertations often talk about what an important time WW2 was for women‚ real life “Rosies” were women who filled traditionally male roles in American factories when men went

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    offices while others were on military bases to work in paying jobs . WWII gave women the chance to prove they are just as capable as men.While men were being sent out to fight Women were working in the factories‚ motivated by the famous poster of Rosie the Riveter exclaiming ‘we can do it!’ "The women factory workers fought their own battles during the war. They struggled with new horizons‚ social discrimination‚ gender harassment‚ and physical pain from long hours and poor work conditions. They worked

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    J. Howard Miller produced the “We Can Do It” poster in 1943‚ during World War II‚ as propaganda for woman in America. For century’s woman were perceived as weaker than men‚ this poster started to press into ideas of feminism as it introduced the concept that men and woman could do the same things. The image evokes connotations of patriotism‚ masculinity‚ and strength. The poster is clearly targeted to the housewife demographic of America and collects its persuasion from empathy towards their husbands

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    Since the beginning of human civilization man has looked down on women. With the average role in a woman’s life is at home mom. But it was not till recently that‚ that role was look down on. Not all civilizations were treated women with poor conditions. In many ancient civilizations women were basically equal to men besides in Rome‚ women could not have political power. In Egypt women were equal to men in all ways under the law and could become pharaohs both civilizations treated women better than

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    The definition of sexual discrimination is the discrimination against someone based on their sex in employment‚ education‚ opportunity‚ etc. Sexual discrimination is something that happens time and time again‚ whether it is men discriminating against women or vice versa. The act of sexual discrimination is not just morally wrong‚ but also illegal in today’s society. Both male and female can be subject to sexual discrimination. There are many ways male and females can experience sexual discrimination

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    America has often been portrayed as a land of opportunity‚ but not everyone has had equal access to opportunity. Choose three groups and trace their attempts to achieve the full benefits of citizenship and freedom since the 1930s. Who was the most/least successful in their efforts and why? America was created as an escape for those who were troubled by the governments of tyrannical nations and was‚ from the beginning‚ declared as a land of opportunity and freedom. This holds true for the most

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