USA TODAY Written byClaudia Puig December 20‚ 2002 Year of the woman in film Pg. 1E Nicole Kidman was convinced she wasn’t right for the part of Virginia Woolf in the film adaptation of the Pulitzer-Prize wining novel‚ The Hours. "I almost talked myself out of it‚" she says. Until she learned Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would be her co-stars. "From the moment they said these are the other women‚ I didn’t even think twice‚" says Kidman. "This opportunity rarely comes along. It’s unheard of
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openly. Women rights are now the problem‚ on which many organisations and people worlwide are working‚ trying to solve it. Although there are very much improvments done for the last twenty or thirty years‚ there is still plenty of issues that society needs to improve. For example‚ women are often working more hours than man‚ nevertheless they are paid less‚ or gender discrimination‚ when employeer is not giving you a job because you are female. Or the fact that government of the countries where
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was acknowledged in 1854 by the East India Company’s Programme: Wood’s Dispatch. Slowly‚ after that‚ there was progress in female education‚ but it initially tended to be focused on the primary school level and was related to the richer sections of society. The overall literacy rate for women increased from 0.2% in 1882 to 6% in 1947.[56] In 1878‚ the University of Calcutta became one of the first universities to admit female graduates to its degree programmes‚ before any of the British universities
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increase‚ there are two fundamentally different views regarding this underrepresentation; the explanatory perspective and the feminist perspective. The explanatory perspective argues that “political institutions should reflect the composition of civil society” ‚ while the feminists perspective argues that‚ “since women offer unique perspectives‚ their exclusion from political power means that their needs‚ demands‚ and interests would currently not be echoed in the political arena.” However‚ through the
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Course breakdown 5-6 2 Course description Studying Victorian poetry is a matter of constant interest for different types of people for the drastic changes and controversies within a society trying to find a compromise. This compromise of a middle way between being conservative or give in to change into modern life was forming a huge debate within individuals‚ both internally and externally. Thus prominent poetical figures will be discussed
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plays in the socialization process? Does it affect everyone to the same extent? Post your positions in your blog and defend your positions. Several forms of media from music to television and including books and magazines influence people of society‚ children especially. Children are influenced easily due to the fact that they are still learning and have little experience in certain areas of life. Not to say that adults are not impressionable because there are some immature adults who are still
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Michelle Luzuriaga December 2013 Health or beauty ? Which to choose ? For many people this is a everyday question‚ not in a literal way but in a habit way. Mostly teens‚ but neverless anybody riskes their lives to fufill this idea of "perfect". Awareness is growing about this deadly disorder but many are still uneducated. This relates to me in a personal matter as well because I have expierenced this myself‚ first hand. This deadly mental disorder is called an eating disorder. An eating disorder
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Oscar Wilde’s presentation of women in ’A Woman of No Importance’ in comparison to John Fowles’ views of women in ’The French Lieutenant’s Woman’‚ in light of the view that Oscar Wilde has a more sympathetic view of woman in his time. In this essay I will be comparing Oscar Wilde’s play ’A Woman of No Importance’ to John Fowles’ novel ’The French Lieutenant’s Woman’. I will be exploring their differing views of woman in Victorian society. Generally‚ woman were viewed as inferior to men‚ yet Wilde
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In the video on Sentimental Women Need Not Apply it made me think about how poorly nurses were treated in the past. Nursing has improved tremendously‚ but there are still some parts that it can improve on. The principles of nursing will always be the same such as caring and helping the patients. The thing that I learned from this video was that I was shocked that at the beginning of nursing it was segregated and before 150 years ago there was no nursing. I have always thought that nurses were just
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I was going through my old files and profile articles that I’ve written/published in magazines over the past couple of years and it struck me that I could collate some of the gems of insight they shared in an article. Many of the people have moved on to even greater success‚ but their words of wisdom remain relevant years afterwards. Here are some of success tips: I was going through my old files and profile articles that I’ve written/published in magazines over the past couple of years and
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