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    “The Chosen” (1981) by director Jeremy Kagan explores the tension between ultra - orthodox Hasidic Judaism and its more cousin‚ Modern Orthodox Judaism. The film also provides us a glimpse into the process of cultural assimilation that Jews went through during the the early 19th century era in America. The film follows Reuven and Danny. Although hail from different backgrounds‚ the pair are linked in ways that are deeper than just friendship. Both the theme and the subject of the film are contained

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    Attitudes and values-similarity and dissimilarity Attitudes Attitudes are usually defined as a disposition or tendency to respond positively or negatively towards a certain thing (idea‚ object‚ person‚ and situation).It is a personal view of something or an opinion or general feeling about something Attitudes encompass‚ or are closely related to‚ our opinions and beliefs and are based upon our experiences. It is a hypothetical construct that represents an individual’s degree

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    Culture and Moral Values: Are they changing? As we enter into a new world of technology our culture and moral values are simultaneously fading away with every new invention. We seem to be forgetting the important things in life. Reading the works of William Wordsworth and other poetic authors‚ some people may start to see how men and women cherished life and nature at one point in time. Today‚ we look at nature as if it is meant to be slaves for our needs in order to provide us with food‚ water

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    questionnaires to compile information from the respondents‚ thus 98% of the lecturers were interviewed and questioned on this issue. 3.0 FINDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE It was found that since 2002‚ there has not been any pay rise. Lecturers were poorly paid. Those who have taught for more than fifteen years still received a monthly salary of 150.00 Ghana cedi. Apart from the monthly salary‚ there were no allowances or incentives to cushion the lecturers economically. 4.0 CONCLUSION

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    The 1920s was the peak of a women’s revolt for independence and ability to represent themselves individually while taking control of their own lives. The traditions of victorian gibson girls were worthless as the newborn flappers took control with their rebellious fashion sense and thoughts of equality. “Flappers drank‚ smoked‚ drove cars‚ cut their hair short while fraternizing with men and took full advantage of the advances in cosmetics technology at the time.” The roaring twenties fashion icons

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    1920s‚ The Influential Time Period (easybib) Milava Shumilova What made the 1920s such an influential time period? Because women started living on their own as well as getting the right to vote‚ immigration began‚ tariffs began to rise‚ the stock market collapsing caused the onset of the great depression‚ and cars were being made as long as roads and bridges. Women were denied key rights that were enjoyed by men‚ women who were married weren’t allowed to own their own land‚ and were expected to

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    The Changing Role of Women As we remember the women who entered the workforce during WWI. Many things had changed after the war which led to many controversies and fighting for social equality with men. Some of these events are called: The first female Member of Parliament‚ The Persons Case and of course the Famous Five. During 1920 was a new era for the women in Canada. Hoping for educations‚ women’s and children’s working conditions and health. However reality had not measured up to

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    When women are oppressed‚ it’s tradition." (goodreads.com) Women’s roles have changed quite a bit since the olden days. Women have received more rights‚ such as‚ the right to vote. Women have also travelled into the work field and can now do jobs that were considered a “man’s” job. Also women have joined together and became activists. Roles of women have changed drastically over the last decades in order to get to where women are now; this can be seen most prominently through women’s rights‚ the ability

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    Classroom Differences between Traditional and Non-traditional Students in a Statistics Based Classroom Abstract This report examines the differences between traditional and non-traditional students in terms of three aspects; anxiety towards statistics‚ attitude towards statistics and computer self-efficacy. A review of literature was conducted and hypotheses were formed about the three aspects. The three hypotheses tested were and what was expected to be found was; traditional students will score

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    assumptions we make about ourselves‚ about others in the world and about how we expect things to be. Beliefs are about how we think things really are. Beliefs tend to be deep set and our values stem from our beliefs Values are about how we have learnt to think things ought to be or people ought to behave‚ especially in terms of qualities such as honesty‚ integrity and openness which when people are asked what are their values tend to be the main values. Attitudes are the established ways of responding

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