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Oppression of Women, 2007.
This paper discusses the theme of oppression of females in the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman.
2,465 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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In "The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Gilman provides a timeless blueprint of the oppression of women in her era as she illustrates, through the eyes of a narrator, what women of that era endured. The writer examines the short story and discusses the many underlying themes, with a focus on feminine oppression. The paper explains that oppression of females was an accepted practice at that time. The paper contrasts this to members of American society who were born within the past three decades; they have grown up with the understanding that women are equal partners in life. The paper describes how the feminist movement in America exploded during the 1960s and from that time, women have entered the work force in record numbers. The paper portrays how the story is an excellent example of the subtle but difficult walls that women encountered in their daily lives during that time.
Outline:
Abstract
Introduction
The Story
Analysis
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Questions And Answers
Conclusion
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"The story is told from a narrator's point of view in which a woman and her retired husband, who was a doctor, rent a mansion for the summer. The need to rent the summer mansion stems from her ailing health as she needs time to recuperate from an illness.
"Today women who are recuperating from illness or injury are often encouraged to resume their normal duties and activities as soon as they feel able, but in keeping with the story era this wife is "forbidden" by her husband to partake in any of the things that give her pleasure."
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Did Women Benefit Under Soviet Rule?, 2007.
The paper examines how revolutionary the policies toward women were under Soviet rule, 1921 until 1939.
2,908 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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The paper explains that historians argue whether women experienced advances in freedom and equality under the rule of the Soviet Union between 1921 and 1939. The paper reviews the available literature in an attempt to disseminate the truth from fiction as to the advances, or lack of advances, in society during this time period. The paper relates that the lot of women, particularly those in the lower classes of Russian society, certainly changed for the better after the revolution of 1917. The paper explains, however, that underneath the facade of advances for women, dark agendas were lurking for the taking over of countries such as the United States. The paper discusses how the methods proposed to do so would undermine the society through creating dissension and revolution among the female members of the United States.
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Objective
Introduction
Background
Literature Review
Summary and Conclusion
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"The year of 1917 in Russia began with a Romanov monarchy however, just a few months later the Bolsheviks came into power with their leaders under indictment for state treason. The Russian society was in a state of conflict between the classes when this change of power came to be. According to the work of Leon Trotsky entitled: "The History of the Russian Revolution" a problem exists in that "society does not change its institutions as need arises, the way a mechanic changes his instruments. On the contrary society actually takes the institutions which hang upon it as given once for all." (Trotsky, 1930) According to Trotsky "the masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime.""
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The Influence of African-American Women, 2006.
A discussion on "When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America" written by Paula Giddings.
948 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper discusses Giddings' works and the motivations for and the face of feminist movements in the 1960s and 70s. It highlights the influence and impact that black women have had on racial and sexual issues in America. The author of the paper offers a personal opinion on the state of racial and gender equality in a modern, progressive world.
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"Another surprising aspect of this black influence was that many radical white organizations still did not accept female members or support feminist ideas. Here are groups working for societal change and they still do not take women's concerns seriously. That is disturbing and even laughable that an organization dedicated to change was so deeply entrenched in male values that they could not accept women at a time when they were violently opposed to most aspects of modern society. How could they possibly have any remote hope of changing anything in society when they could not, or would not, alter their own prejudices and macho, sexist ideals?"
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Battered Immigrant American Iranian Women, 2006.
This paper is a dissertation, including an extensive literature review, about battered immigrant American-Iranian women.
15,450 words (approx. 61.8 pages), 40 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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This paper explains the many abuses and violent events that occur toward the American Iranian woman in the process of daily living, immigration and assimilation into a foreign society. The author points out, in the literature review, the customs, which Iranian women are conditioned to in terms of their treatment and their validity as knowledgeable and capable human beings. The paper stresses that immigrant women specifically, those of the Muslim culture, undergo much in the way of abuse and injustice not only in their countries of origination but even more so in their immigration to the United States because the laws and regulations of the United States are not structured in a way that provides protection of the rights of women, who are victims of abuse as well as immigrant women with the many complicating factors of Islamic marriage. The paper includes two statistical tables and several long quotations.
Table of Contents:
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of Study
Nature of the Study
Research Instruments
Sampling Methods and Location
Methodology
Significance of the Study
Nature of the Study
Hypotheses/Research Questions
Conceptual or Theoretical Framework
Scope, Limitations, and Delimitations
Literature Review
Conclusion
Research Methods
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"In relation to access to credit, women of color are stated to be as innovative and entrepreneurial as any other group, they face lingering stereotypes and bias that often prevent them from receiving fair and equal access to the bank credit and capital necessary to start up new businesses. In a 1998 study by the National Foundation for Women Business Owners, findings state that less than one-third or 29 percent of women business owners, who are also women of color, surveyed presently have bank credit compared to over one-half or 53% of European American women."
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Career Development Among Chinese Women, 2007.
An analysis of the relationship between culture and occupation among Chinese women working in the banking industry in New Zealand.
20,420 words (approx. 81.7 pages), 22 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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This study attempts to investigate career development among Chinese women in the banking sector in New Zealand. It discusses career, not only in terms of the relationship between the organization and occupation, but it also looks beyond to factors such as family and religion. The paper then discusses how culture and religion influence an individual in the way they dress and eat as well as many other customs.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2 - Women and Career Development
Career Theories
Career Planning
Differences Between Men & Women In Career Development
Barriers for Women
Career Development For Non-White Women
Chapter 3 - Minority Women in Careers
African-American Women as Minority
Remuneration Issues for Minority Women
Bi-culturalism
Family and Education Issues
Immigrants in Workforce
Chapter 4 - Chinese Women
Chinese Women In History
First Generation Chinese
Second Generation Chinese
Chinese in New Zealand - Current Situation
Chapter 5 - Banking Industry
Climate in the Banking Industry
Barriers for Women
Current Situation for Women in Banking
Chapter 6 - New Zealand Labor Market
Employment in New Zealand
The Effects of Immigrants
Women in the Labor Force
Other Issues
Chapter 7 - Methodology
Qualitative Research
Face To Face Interview
Participants
Sampling
Reason For Choice Of Method
Advantages and Limitations
Data Analysis
Chapter 8 - Findings
Education
The Predicaments Of Chinese Women In The Banking Industry In New Zealand
Glass Ceiling for Chinese Women
Negative Social Stereotyping
Issues In Future Career Development
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
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"The changes in the immigration policy of New Zealand are serving as tools to increase the country's human capital which is necessary for the nation's economic growth and development (Trlin & Henderson, 2000). However, with the increase in New Zealand's number of participants in the labour market, issues regarding the immigration policies have surfaced. Among the problems that trigger issues on immigration policy are the apparent rate of unemployment among the nation's locals as well as the unemployment of some migrants."
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Monica Ali's "Brick Lane", 2007.
This paper review's Monica Ali's novel "Brick Lane," and the role fate plays in the narrative.
1,224 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper reviews the novel "Brick Lane" by Monica Ali. This is the story of a Bengali woman who grows up surrounded by superstition and the belief in fate. The paper describes her development as she raises her own family in London and attempts to shed her superstitious belief system.
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"Learning from her sister that their mother chose suicide, Nazneen becomes able to embrace her strength. In her new found freedom, Nazneen has defied fate and made her own choices, and has not been punished or met death over it. Living in London has expanded her thinking, and her perspectives shift as she sheds her superstitious upbringing It has become clear to her that when a person depends solely on Fate, she possesses no power of her own to change anything. Her husband, as a highly educated man, could not make a happy life for himself where so much autonomy of choice keeps him confused and angry. In India, where there was not as much freedom and wealth, people are forced to rely on fate and their religious beliefs to be able to handle the rough parts of their lives. We can assume Nazneen's children will decide their own fates as they grow up, following their mother's example. Nazneen overcomes incredibly deep programming to make this major shift in her life, but she is happy, and dances in her autonomy."
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Women and War, 2006.
A review of literature depicting the role of women in times of war.
1,403 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes the books 'Maus: A Survivor's Tale' by Art Spiegelman, 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut, and 'Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning' by Victor E. Frankl. Specifically it discusses the role women play in times of war.
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"In "Slaughterhouse-Five" Vonnegut also notes the importance of women to the fighting men. Their absence makes the men want them more, and helps them survive the worst experiences of the war. Vonnegut writes of a group of prisoners of war, "Now they were singing to nearly the last. They had note seen a woman of a child for four years or more. They hadn't seen any birds, either. Not even sparrows would come into the camp" (Vonnegut 54). Thus, women are elusive during the war, and that makes them all the more desirable and necessary. It also helps them maintain their role as victims. While they wait at home for their missing men, they have no control over life or death. They can only wait, as a victim does, to hear news. They cannot make a difference and they cannot commit any actions to save their loved ones. In addition, they are the family members that must go on and survive even if they lose their loved ones to the fighting. They have to take care of children and home, and continue on with life even when it is the most difficult. This makes them a victim too, because they have no choice. They are victims of war just as if they had fought on the battlefield, because their lives are forever altered as a result of war."
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Medieval Female Mystics, 2007.
An analysis of medieval female mystics and their impact on Christianity.
3,261 words (approx. 13.0 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 93.95
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This paper discusses female mysticism and visionary women in the Middle Ages. The paper begins by discussing how Christianity views women in general and then focuses on Mechtild of Magdeburg and the Helfta Community and the impact that they had on Christianity. The paper ends by describing medieval monasteries and their mystics.
Table of Contents:
The Feminine Mystique of the Middle Ages
Mechtild of Magdeburg and the Helfta Community
Love as the Power of the Mystic
The Medieval Monasteries and Their Mystics
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"The female visionaries and mystics from these monasteries expressed a slightly different point of view than their male counterparts. Although they kept the stress placed on physical suffering and mortification, their message was less severe and carrying more love and more emotional involvement in the world. The message of love was stressed particularly by the community of women from Helfta, a family monastery where enlighten minds allowed the rigorous St. Gertrude and the tormented Mechtild as well to live and to write about their experience of ecstasy."
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Economic Control Over Women, 2007.
This paper examines the oppression of women and economic oppression based on the arguments of Karl Marx and Alison Jagger.
938 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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The paper discusses how Marx and others maintain that the most significant cause of female oppression is economic oppression. The paper shows how Marx believed that environment shapes the individual and he blamed economic depression on the capitalist/private property system that is in place in most of the world today. The paper also quotes Jaggar, a well known feminist, who believed that there is a direct and traceable link between class structure and the oppression of women. The paper concludes that the only way women will reach the status of true equality will be for them to be treated as equals in the economic sphere with equal pay for equal jobs, with credit being allowed for women with the same criteria as it is for men, and with women being offered an equal say in the economic decisions their families and government make.
Outline:
Introduction
Marx
Jaggar
Conclusion
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"The feminist movement was big in the 1960's and 1970's in many industrialized nations, however the less developed nation and some of the developed nations did not jump on the bandwagon when it came to the equalization of women. The oppression of women has been occurring in many nations for many years and one significant factor that it can be reduced to is economic repression. Whether it is because women do not get paid as much as men do for the same job, or men in the homes keep a rein on the purse strings it cannot be denied that the underlying factor in the oppression of women is by wielding economic depression as a tool."
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Cervical Cancer, 2006.
An overview of cervical cancer.
821 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper reviews and discusses cervical cancer. The paper examines the disease, the symptoms, the treatments and the prognosis those suffering from cervical cancer.
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Introduction
What is it
Risk Factors
Symptoms
Diagnosis
Treatment
Prognosis
Conclusion
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"Risk factors for this type of cancer include having genital warts, beginning one's sex life at an early age, having multiple sex partners at a young age, smoking, and women with weakened immune systems such as women who have HIV or Hepatitis C(Cancer - cervix http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000893.htm).
World wide the incidence of cervical cancer is the third most common female cancer, though in the United States the rate is lower because of early detection through regular pap smears.
Since 1941 the death rate for cervical cancer has been reduced by 70 percent. There are approximately 12,000 United State women diagnosed with it each year."
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Osteoporosis, 2007.
An analysis of the results and implications of research into osteoporosis.
11,907 words (approx. 47.6 pages), 31 sources, MLA, $ 231.95
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This paper discusses a study that was done to determine bone mass density in a group of 58 women. The paper analyzes the methodology and results of the study and then discusses the implications of osteoporosis in the general population. It looks at the consequences of osteoporosis, the human and economic costs and gives recommendations for the community on how to combat the problem.
Table of Contents:
Results
Data Analysis
Methodological Limitations
Results
Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
Summary
Conclusions
Limitations of Study
Implications
Recommendations For Further Research
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"Fortunately, there is some guidance available from the American College of Physicians (ACP) for this purpose. The ACP published clinical guidelines for counseling postmenopausal women in 1992 concerning preventive hormone therapy emphasizing that a distinction must be made when initiating therapy for therapeutic reasons with regards to menopause versus prevention. "The decision to begin hormone replacement therapy (HRT) should be a consensus between the patient and her physician," they advise, "and a discussion should be held discussing the merits and potential harms of therapy" (p. 348)."
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Abortion Rights, 2007.
This paper provides an analysis of the sociology of abortion and looks at abortion rights among women.
2,269 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 70.95
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In this article, the writer maintains that the subject of abortion requires exploration into multiple moral, social and religious values. The writer points out that some may argue that abortion also requires an exploration of political views and legal perspectives, as the concept and subject is often shaped by multiple dynamics including those in the political realm. This paper reviews the subject of abortion from a sociological standpoint, arguing that women should be allowed the right to an abortion. The writer concludes that a woman's right to an abortion should be upheld and that women should be afforded the opportunity to make the decision they feel is best for them and their family when it comes to their body and their privacy.
Outline:
Introduction
History of the Problem
Discussion Present Situation
Opinion
Conclusions and Summary
References
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"The subject of abortion is one that has long been argued among politicians, sociologists, humanists and citizens. Controversial because it involves one's definitions of life and values as a human, the subject of abortion is one that legal analysts have reviewed over decades. Ultimately however, the subject of abortion is one that rests on a woman's right to privacy. As a woman's "right" to privacy is a right upheld by the law, one can only assume that a woman should be guaranteed that right under the law. Because abortion involves one's personal decisions affecting their bodies, it is important that sociologists, psychologists and legal analysts avoid applying political idealisms to the subject of abortion, and rather consider the subject of abortion based on value systems and beliefs."
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Women in Mafia Movies, 2006.
A discussion regarding the role of women in three movies with a mafia theme.
1,132 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper examines how Mafia movies portray women. Through an examination of movies such as 'Prizzi's Honor', 'The Godfather' and 'Casino', this paper explores how gangster films both uphold and challenge the traditional roles of women in Italian American societies.
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"Women who were not sexual objects are then the "good wives" and the mothers. The movie Casino implies, for example, that one of the reasons why Ginger is a bad mother is due to her desire to be ogled. A woman who revels in her sexuality clearly cannot fulfill the mother role. In The Godfather, Mama Corleone was the best characterization of the mother figure - a nurturing woman who was therefore worthy of the respect of her sons. Even the portrayal of the role of Kay changed from The Godfather I to its sequel, The Godfather II. In the first movie, Kay was the girlfriend who was the outsider. They had a few tender moments together, but nothing overtly sexual. In the second movie, Kay's character is pregnant, and even the few playful scenes from the first movie were no longer depicted."
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Career Planning for Women, 2007.
This paper discusses women's career planning and career path management.
1,974 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 62.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that for the woman who chooses to pursue a career, managing that career means making choices not only about which path to follow at work, but also how to structure one's life and relate to one's goals of family, children, marriage and home. The writer points out that highly talented, ambitious women face enormous hurdles when attempting to achieve success in a traditionally male field of employment. The writer further notes that work as career, and achievement defined as climbing to the top of the corporate pyramid are viewed as attributes of a quintessentially male world. The writer concludes that career development for a woman presents issues that are absent from the same kinds of career choices made by most men. Further, the writer notes that a woman's choices are often determined by powerful social and cultural forces that shape her decisions.
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"Yet it is not only the women at the top end of the career spectrum who are faced with these pressures to conform to traditional stereotypes. Those pursuing career paths that require less education and training are just as much the victims of societal attitudes that may cause them to accept less-than-fulfilling positions, at lesser rates of pay, and with fewer chances for advancement. Married women, or women with living with men, regularly find their own career choices limited by those of the men with whom they live. These limitations are not directly the result of any discriminatory practices, or indicative of a pattern of giving preferential treatment to the husband, rather they are the result of the fact that the man still tends to be the higher earner in the household. It is for this reason that a couple, or a couple with children, will more easily decide to relocate for the sake of the man's career, rather than for the sake of the woman's."
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Media Effects and Body Image, 2006.
A review of the effect that media images have on a women's perspective of body image.
1,140 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses how images presented in the media provide unrealistic expectations of women. The paper further discusses how young women continue to rely on the media for advice and direction regarding their own sense of self-worth and beauty.
Outline:
Introduction
Thesis
Feminist Theory
Theme History
Conclusion
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"Part of the media's power lies in its ability to influence self-perceptions of physical attractiveness particularly among women. Women are consistently bombarded with images considered "beautiful" by media standards. This may include images that in real life may be underweight or malnourished. What many women fail to consider when reviewing images portrayed by the media is that most of the women presented have been plucked, puckered, air brushed and more to appear more "perfect." On reviewing these women in real life many women would find they actually look no different than many of the women presented on television, except perhaps they may be at a healthier weight.
Women's attitudes toward their body and self-esteem are also influenced by their culture. The more value their culture has on meeting the standards established by the media, the more likely a young women is to succumb to false images of what is or is not considered beautiful in the eyes of the media."
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