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    Women’s Liberation Movements Since the beginning of time there has been the age old term battle of the sexes. In times such as the 17th century women were thought to be so much of a weaker sex that they were nothing more than property. In some countries today that concept still is the dominate idea when it comes to the things that women can do versus what men think they can do. Laws dictate many times just how much freedom a woman has in her own life. Americans have fought

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    approached with caution. Réné Girard states “…If we assume that Shakespeare really had this double goal in mind‚ we will find that some unexplained details in the play become intelligible and that the function of many obscure scenes becomes obvious…” Seneca the stoic Greek philosopher gives the certain and used rules‚ which classify a revenge tragedy. Hamlet does maintain these rules up to an extent‚ to the audience’s eye it is a complete revenge tragedy inducing catharsis‚ although what can be seen

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    Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) (p.794) -- hailed as a liberator in Latin America. Worked for the establishment of a large confederation that would provide Latin America with the political‚ military‚ and economic strength to resist encroachment by foreign powers. Pofirio Diaz (p.805) -- dictator who ruled Mexico (1876-1911). Diaz represented the interests of large landowners‚ wealthy merchants‚ and foreign investors. Under his rule‚ Mexico industrialized as railroads and telegraphs connected all of Mexico

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    Stereotypes of Sexuality‚ Race‚ and Madness. Ithaca: Cornell UP‚ 1985. An Indian Father’s Plea Medicine Grizzlybear Lake Medicine Grizzlybear Lake‚ also known as Bobby Lake-Thom‚ is a Native healer and a member of the Seneca and Cherokee Indian tribes. He is half Karuk and part Seneca‚ Cherokee‚ and Anglo. Throughout childhood and as a young man‚ Lake studied with numerous Native healers. He taught Native American Studies at Humboldt State University‚ at Eastern Montana College‚ and is currently an

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    Between the years of 1776 and 1876‚ a key change came about in America over the women. Before these dates‚ women were not considered to be very important to the community. The only major role they played was raising children and bringing food to the table. Since the years of the Revolution and the Constitutional Convention‚ however‚ the nation nearly doubled its geographic boundaries and its population. When the Market Revolution hit America‚ many people felt isolated and cut off from traditional

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    This spurred them to host the first ever convention for women’s rights. The 1848 convention took place at Seneca Falls‚ New York. During this convention Stanton made a speech call the Deceleration of Sentiments (RFW‚ 2007). In the Declaration of Sentiments Stanton demands equal treatment. Not only men are created equal‚ but women too. She voices the bondage

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    Schiedewind‚ 2012‚ p. 556).” Feminism does not focus on those who opposed them‚ but the women and the movements that changed the lives of women both in the present and those who helped set the stage for later women to continue the fight for equality. Seneca Falls is used as a historical mark to mark the beginning of the feminist movement

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    characterization of moral code as completely evil or inherently good. No gray area or in between dwellings creates an inhumane rupture of the conscious leading to moral ineptitude in both The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and Madea by Seneca. The mental

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    Once it became the 18th century‚ the Unitarians and Universalists in New England‚ ended up contesting against the notion of predestination and believed that all individuals were capable of good deeds and were able to receive salvation. When they were able to preach the conception of salvation by free will‚ the preachers of the Second Great Awakening‚ promoted interest among Protestants in frontier revivals. The Methodist and Baptist‚ were able to gain a lot more followers which especially included

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    that was so treasured. Some people had to keep fighting for the freedom long after the Revolutionary War. Frederick Douglas‚ in his speech‚ “What to the slave is the fourth of July” and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention‚ share stories and explain how two groups of people‚ slaves and women‚ fight for their individual freedom. Both authors wrote two different pieces for different people‚ but by comparing and contrasting both texts it

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