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    Ariela Ann Dimaano BSIT II-2 When Is an Abortion Not an Abortion? When the Media Says So. By Drew Belsky & Dustin Siggins Shortly before the New Year‚ a number of religious organizations were given protection from the HHS abortion and contraception mandate.  While social conservatives and defenders of the First Amendment cheered‚ numerous prominent media organizations manipulated basic scientific facts to deny that the mandate -- required byfederal law -- forces people to fund abortion-inducing

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    similarities for women. Women had expectations they were meant to follow‚ and often were unable to pursue careers for themselves. Sexism was rampant throughout the 1900’s and very much dictated the way women lived. Through the perseverance of the suffragettes‚ women retained the right to vote in 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. This brought about voting equality for all sexes and races. But the attitudes society held‚ and still holds to a large degree about women continued to hinder opportunities

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    women as equals.

I also disagree with your assertion that feminists often face a “barrage of harassment” as it’s a sweeping generalisation and outdated statement given that cases of harassment against women have dramatically dropped since the suffragette movement. Although women‚ especially in the Middle East‚ still suffer harassment on a regular basis‚ describing all feminists’ experience of harassment‚ if they’ve had any‚ as a “constant barrage” suggests it is inescapable and relentless which

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    his religious views are what made his career. Golding’s life began on September 19‚ 1911 when he was born in UK‚ St. Columb Minor to a Mr. and Mrs. Golding. Alex Golding‚ his father‚ was a schoolteacher. While Mildred Golding‚ his mother‚ was a suffragette. Although Golding was born in St. Columb Minor‚ he and his family lived in Malborough‚ Britain‚ where his parents brought him up to be a scientist. Golding‚ being a reluctant boy‚ did not want to be a scientist. His true calling was in literature

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    From 1750 to 1900 there were some big changes which had an impact on every day life. Progress is defined as continuous improvement over a certain period of time. A revolution can be known as a big change. So a revolution‚ and then everything being at a standstill isn ’t progress. Furthermore you cannot improve over a period of time and have big hindrances in between; if any‚ hindrances can only be very minor. So the big question is how much consistent improvement was there from 1750 to 1900?

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    Incivility comes in different forms. It is seen everywhere‚ such as places in politics‚ in public‚ or online. This poses a question of how important incivility is and how it affects the people who encounter incivility. Online incivility specifically brings up different perspectives if online incivility should be tamed or be left alone. Cornell Clayton‚ discusses in his article “Understand the ‘Civility Crisis’” that there are five reasons why there is online incivility. They include the public contributing

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    One in three women are beaten or raped in their lifetime; that’s one billion women (United Nations). Some would say that is a pandemic. In Canada alone‚ more than 3000 women (along with 2500 children) are living in an emergency shelter to escape domestic violence. Each year‚ over 427‚000 women over the age of 15 reported they have been sexually assaulted. Since only about 10% of all sexual assaults are reported to the police‚ the actual number is much higher. You might be wondering what kind of people

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    "establishment of English common freedom". As indicated by the British Library’s Matthew Shaw‚ both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Bill of Rights drew logically on the Magna Carta. Magna Carta was likewise summoned by the Suffragettes in the mid twentieth century as a major aspect of their endeavors to acquire the privilege to vote in favor of ladies. England’s first female lawyer‚ Helena Normanton‚ was the originator of the Magna Carta Society. Normanton composed that ladies’

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    Although Stephen Crane had never fought in the American Civil War‚ most of those who interacted with him assumed otherwise. With his immense attention to the detail of emotions over the detail of war‚ Crane was able to craft tales so convincing one would have thought him a soldier. In fact‚ he pioneered a way of Naturalistic writing that told a story primarily through strong emotions; a style quite like his was seldom seen before he popularized it. While the novel’s plot may or may not seem to

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    Discrimination

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    Unfortunately‚ discrimination still continues today. Although‚ here in America‚ we seem to have taken leaps and bounds away from the bigoted society we once lived in‚ discrimination remains. Organizations like the Ku Klux Klan‚ abolitionists‚ and the Women Suffragettes are no longer around because we’ve made incredible progress as far as advocating white supremacy‚ suppressing a non-white person’s right to vote‚ and women’s rights. Some may say that discrimination doesn’t exist anymore however‚ others would

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