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    Women In The Aeneid

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    In Vergil’s The Aeneid‚ women play crucial roles throughout the epic. Though the epic follows Aeneas’ journey‚ the women characters move the plot by sometimes holding him back or helping him continue forward toward his goal of finding a place for his men though he will never live to see his goal be completed. Vergil portrays the women in The Aeneid in many different ways that are showcases in their relationship with Aeneas. Juno is portrayed as the villain in the epic. She does everything in her

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    Dracula, Women of

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    and both characters are narrators. It is clear that these two play a very important role in the novel. Their actions have a huge effect on the way the novel unfolds. Lucy and Mina have many differences and similarities in representing the Victorian women. Lucy represents all of the evil traits of a woman of the time‚ while mina represents the “New Woman” of the era. Mina and Lucy share many similarities and differences‚ Mina is very modest and shy‚ but Lucy is more outgoing and flirtatious. Mina

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    Pregnant Women

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    “SHOULD A PREGNANT WOMAN BE PUNISHED FOR EXPOSING HER FETUS TO RISK?” TAMEA SPURLIN HEALTH RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY (HS542) JANURARY 23‚ 2011 PROFESSOR GOMILLION In my opinion‚ pregnant women should be punished for partaking in legal behaviors such as taking fertility medication‚ smoking‚ and drinking‚ all of which can cause harm to the fetus. I think a woman should subordinate her right to control her life when she decides to become pregnant

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    Women in Art

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    Topic One: Women in Art The role of women in the Art is complex because artists were affected both by the art and stories of the past and the women that they saw around them every day. The influence of the various roles of woman produced some of the greatest art. Women had a different role in ancient Greek society than they do today. It also seems likely that the role of women changed radically from ancient‚ pre-classical times to the more familiar classical period. Classical Greeks were definitely

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    Violence and Women

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    Violence and Women I thought that our discussion went well. We had a small group of about six people but three of us were leaders so we had a lot to talk about. Each of us went around and asked one question because we did not have time to discuss them all. But that did not matter because the other leaders had similar questions to mine. I was able to retrieve different responses from the others in the group for three out of my four questions. My first question asked why rape was so much

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    Profession for Women

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    Virginia Woolf’s speech “Professions for Women” is a very metaphorical speech chosen to address her society‚ especially women‚ where it was normal and acceptable to consider women inferior to men. Thus‚ Woolf wrote this speech to encourage women to pursue what they wish to be‚ despite the psychological obstacles‚ which she personally has faced. She embodies these obstacles in three individual metaphors: the phantom and fisherman. Through personal anecdotes of how she responded to each obstacle‚ she

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    1930s Women

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    The 1930s provided women with more opportunities for women in education and work. Women graduated high school at a slightly higher rate than men did. Female high school graduates increased 20% throughout the 1930s; double than that of the 1920s. However‚ more men continued to graduate college than women (7%); there were less female college graduates in the 1930s than in the 1920s. Even though not as many women were getting college diplomas‚ businesses were hiring twice as many women than men. According

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    Women Empowerment

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    Women Empowerment It has been said that women constitute the largest minority group in the world. Even if they constitute a great portion of the world’s population‚ they are considered a minority group because of the conditions imposed on them by society in which they live.1 The selected informal sector is the women and the desire agenda for the said informal sector would be one of the main focuses of this paper. The paper would also discuss how the chosen informal sector was able to advance their

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    Women in Politics

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    proven over and over many times that women have the abilities to do the same jobs as men‚ but as a society we tend to discourage women when they are trying to get in the fields of politics and government. No longer is the excuse that family is what is pulling women back when it comes to job opportunities‚ it is what society has chosen as what roles women should and shouldn’t take part in. The more we encourage women in running for offices‚ the more there will be women in office‚ and therefore we would

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    Athenian Women

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    This is how women were depicted and treated in Athens. Most were either sold into slavery or prostitution..Many Greek City States treated and depicted women this way; however‚ Sparta was an exception from this way of thinking. Sparta‚ could be called a safe-haven for women’s rights. Women in Athens were different than Spartan women. But how is this so? Women in Athens were disrespected as a person and served only a few purposes to the community. Athen’s city-state suggested that women were either

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