The Women of Lockerbie Sara Smith University of Chicago The Women of Lockerbie was written by Deborah Brevoort. The play starred Brittany Reed as Olive Allison‚ Mark Vukelich as Bill Livingston‚ Elizabeth Brooks as Woman 1‚ Brookelyn Walters as Woman 2‚ Jodie Maier as Madeline Livingston‚ Austin Meyer as George Jones and Jill Mac as Hattie. On December 21‚ 1988‚ above Lockerbie‚ Scotland‚ a Pan AM flight enroute from London to New York was blown up by a terrorist’s bomb. The 259 people
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nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hosted uproar among the women of America who sought equal representation and rights from the U.S. government. Among the female activists‚ authors‚ such as Willa Cather and Louisa May Alcott‚ began to commence about women’s suffrage through their writing. A multitude of other women‚ such as Anne Sullivan‚ began to feel empowered to become independent and strong females‚ just as able and equal as men. Women faced an immense amount of difficulty during this time period
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This paper is a review of the book Japan’s Comfort Women-Sexual slavery and prostitution during WWII and the US occupation by Yuki Tanaka. This book was published in 2002 by Routledge. The book deals with the thousands of Japanese‚ Korean‚ Chinese and other Asian and European women who were victims of organized sexual violence and prostitution by means of "comfort stations" setup by the Japanese military during World War II. As we first get into the book‚ we find out that the origins of comfort
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Violence Against Women Information Around the world at least one woman in every three has been beaten‚ coerced into sex‚ or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Every year‚ violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women. Gender-based violence kills and disables as many women between the ages of 15 and 44 as cancer‚ and its toll on women’s health surpasses that of traffic accidents and malaria combined.1 Violence against women is rooted in a global culture of discrimination
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Japanese Comfort Women It is estimated that between one and two hundred thousand female sex slaves were forced to deliver sexual services to Japanese soldiers‚ both before and during World War II. These women were known as comfort women and the Imperial Conference‚ which was composed of the emperor‚ representatives from the armed forces and the main Cabinet ministers‚ approved their use by Japanese soldiers. (Walkom) The term "comfort women" refers to the victims of a "premeditated systematic plan
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Should women have the rights to decide their own fate? Feminism is the belief that women have the same human capacities as men. One of the most important feminist texts of the twentieth century is The Second Sex which showed about a long project refuting of female inferiority and rejecting biological explanations of women’s secondary status. Simone De Beauvoir‚ a French prize-winning novelist‚ applied her knowledge of philosophical‚ historical‚ and psychological theories to analyze the problem of
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Recent Tendency of Women Rights Violation in South Asia Amity Saha M.A.1st Year‚ South Asian Studies‚ UMISARC‚ Pondicherry University Abstract: Chauvinism‚ discrimination‚ sexual harassment‚ rape and other crimes against women are problems faced severely by women in South Asia in recent days. These are the serious cases of violations of human rights. In this article several current incidents‚ where women rights and dignity as a human being are completely violated in south Asian countries are
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Women’s Rights Women’s rights have been slowly progressing throughout the history of our country. They have been stuck at home keeping the house clean‚ taking care of the kids‚ making dinner‚ and completing other tasks around the household. Two articles will be overviewed to help show the progression and the difficulties of women trying to gain more rights and to break out of their current social status. The article “Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights” by Charlotte
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LITTL E WOMEN Chapter 1: "Playing Pilgrims" Summary The March family consists of Marmee and her four girls‚ Meg‚ Jo‚ Beth and Amy and Father who is off working as a chaplain in the Civil War. We meet the girls first in Chapter 1 as they sit around the living room bemoaning the fact that they will not be having Christmas presents this year. They each have one dollar which seems too little to help any social cause. The girls discuss what they are going to buy for themselves with their money.
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All American women in the 19th to early 20th century faced social and legal disabilities that forbade women to have the same equal rights as men. Through all the obstacles that made women’s rights achievable were the hardships that influenced historians such as Harriet Tubman‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ and Susan B. Anthony to overcome the inequality in property rights‚ family law‚ and education to allow women fulfill the same opportunities as men that is seen in society today. Women protested and
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