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    between the characters: the powerful men who run the village and the scared men and women who work for them. The biggest contrast‚ however‚ is between the adults and the child‚ Anil. Anil Anil is seven. Both his parents work as servants of the headman of a small Indian village. His future is therefore likely to be very poor‚ with no education and no prospects. But as he lies awake‚ looking at a star through a hole in the thatched roof‚ "he found the star fascinating. His parents would not even

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    Lorna Goodison states in her poem “Guinea Woman”‚ “Great Grandmother was a guinea woman”(Goodison). This statement can be interpreted in many ways as guinea has multiple connotations. For example‚ Guinea is a country in West Africa‚ but it is also an ancient coin and name for a witch or wise-woman. Creolization‚ as a term‚ also has multiple meanings. These meanings are based on different aspects of the mixing of cultures. This can be a mixing or change in religion‚ music‚ food‚ and skin color. The

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    Critical Summary – When God Was A Woman In chapter nine of When God Was A Woman‚ Merlin Stone sought to explain the laws introduced by the Levite priests in Canaan that were put in place to prevent the worship of the Goddess. Members of the Hebrew religion were commanded to kill their own children if they worshipped any deity other than God. Stone argues that the laws put the men of the society in power‚ as it was not stated that the husband should be killed for worshiping the Goddess. The Levites

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    The woman I am in my Dreams Lexi MacConnell 1.) What we can infer about the narrator based on the contrasts she reveals is that she is a short woman‚ who wears sensible average clothing‚ she is unconfident with lack of sex appeal. 2.) The woman in the narrator’s dreams is a tall well-dressed woman who is very social; she is concerned with her own needs. This woman in her dreams is very confident‚ she is able to overcome obstacles and it’s her way or no way. We know this from the poem

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    Women in India have attained greatness through the ages – in political‚ academic and spiritual spheres. They enjoyed freedom and equal participation in public life in ancient India. In the Rig Veda‚ women are placed at the highest pedestal – ‘Yatr nariyastu poojayante ramante tatr devah’ or where women are worshipped‚ Gods preside there. The Taittriya Upanishad teaches us ‘Matridevo bhava’ or ‘Let your mother be God to you’.  Swami Vivekananda rightly said‚ “All nations have attained greatness

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    Woman is the magnificent creation of god‚ a multi faceted personality with the power of benevolence‚ adjustability‚ integrity and tolerance. She is companion of man‚ gifted with equal mental faculty‚ a protector and provider‚ the embodiment of love and affection. The role given to women in a society is a measuring rod and true index of its civilization and cultural attainment. Woman by nature is a peace maker. She is blessed with the’ tact and skill to convince and drive the argument in her favor

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    Radicalesbians – The Woman-Identified Woman In their paper “The Woman-Identified Woman” (1970)‚ the collective Radicalesbians‚ much like Wittig will do in the following decade‚ focuses on the marginalized sexual standpoint of ‘women’ and ‘lesbian’ that emerge from the intersection of the personal and the political circa late 1960’s/early 1970’s. It is the agenda of the political environment of the day‚ Radicalesbians argue‚ that the former is policed in part by weaponizing the latter as a stigmatizing

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    1. A critique on the available community resources related to unwanted pregnancy Critique on availability of community resources (30) • Provide a brief account of unwanted pregnancy and the educational talk/seminar conducted • Clearly identify the available community resources related to the selected client /women’s group from a variety of sources • Comprehensive analysis‚ synthesis and evaluate the availability of identified community resources (consider issues for client‚ family‚ society

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    Brianna Abanira 3/20/12 M/W 8am Prof. Robert Bond Lessons for a Woman 1) The author is Nancy Lee Swann‚ and the speaker in the text is Ban Zhao Pan Chao‚ a member of the Han dynasty. From the introduction we learn that she was the daughter of the writer Ban Biao and was very well educated and came from a good family‚ where she was married and basically went from being extremely well taken care of to just another house wife. When her husband died‚ she didn’t remarry but instead took up

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