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Internet and Women's Activism in Afghanistan, 2005.
Examines how the internet has impacted women's rights movements in Afghanistan.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 11 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses the role of the internet in the transnational mobilization of women's movements in Afghan using as a specific case study a set of seminars sponsored by US women activists and intended to support women's political activism. The main argument of this paper is that the internet is a key component in transnational organizing.
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"The current study on social change emphasizes the importance of transnational advocacy networks and a globalizing civil society, in which borders between states become permeable to international political activism (Keck and Sikkink 1998; Della Porta, Kriesi, and Rucht 1999; Tarrow 1999). Such transnational organizing has blossomed within the women's movement, as elsewhere, and has affected the types of resources available to activists. Efforts to produce change in gender relations can now rely heavily on elite and expert social networks, in which women's organizing has become increasingly professionalized and "NGO-ized" (Alvarez 1997; Ray 1999; Silliman 1999). Local feminist activists now participate self-consciously in international forums, and construct a women's movement understood as being both local and global (Bystydzienski and Sekhon 1999)."
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The Internet and Women's Activism, 2005.
This paper looks at the Internet as a means for linking the world in a common cause, focusing on women's activism.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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In this article, the writer points out that the Internet is an ideal location to participate in activism for women in developing countries. The writer notes that in a world of global politics, a global economy, and even global education, it is not a surprise that global activism takes place. The writer explains that the Internet allows women's issues in developing nations to become more widely known, permits assistance from people in countries who would otherwise be unable to provide it, and allows community building in such a way as was unavailable even a few decades ago. Further, the writer notes that several such activist groups support women's issues in Afghanistan, the focus of this paper.
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"The Internet is an ideal location to participate in activism for women in developing countries. In a world of global politics, a global economy, and even global education, it is not a surprise that global activism takes place. The Internet allows women's issues in developing nations to become more widely known, permits assistance from people in countries who would otherwise be unable to provide it, and allows community building in such a way as was unavailable even a few decades ago. Several such activist groups support women's issues in Afghanistan, the focus of this paper. Certain disadvantages do exist in using the Internet for activism on behalf of women in third world nations."
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The Status of Women in Canada and Afghanistan., 2006.
A discussion regarding the status of Canadian women in relation to the status of women in Afghanistan.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines the status of women in contemporary Canada and Afghanistan, highlighting two societies that really cannot be compared. At the same time, this paper's topic remains illuminating because it shows how women have been given unequal roles, over time, as they have been fitted into changing economies and societies in ways preventing gender equality. This paper refers to a handful of sources that offer some less considered features of both societies with regard to the status of women.
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The Affect of the Afghanistan Economy on Women, 2002.
This paper examines the effect of the state of the economy of Afghanistan on the women in society.
1,190 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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The following paper examines the role of women in the Afghan Society, focusing on the economic ravage which is affecting the women and children the worst. The writer discusses how women make the bottom of the social ladder in a patriarchal society and amid the chaos of the economy the result is that the women are the worst affected. This paper examines how many women in Afghanistan are illiterate and uneducated about the society, resulting in a situation in which they do not know what work can be found and are left struggling in a hostile world. The main focus of this paper is that despite the aid and the pledges from developed nations on women rights the Afghan economy is adversely affecting the women.
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?Within the paradigm of this debate has arisen the question of the role of women in the Afghani Society. We have seen the pictures of women wrapped in veils of cloth and not even an eye visible in the roles of clothes. We have heard how women were brutally killed for merely showing a finger in public and we know that women played no role in the political or social fabric of the society. They were the silent majority. That has changed after the War on Terror initiated by America. We know it has changed because the media has shown us Afghani women without their 'veil'. We have heard that women have been reestablished in the work place as the Talibans have run for cover. We have heard that women have been emancipated and given the freedom they deserve as humans. Yet, what we do not know is what effect this emancipation has had on women. What sort of economic conditions the women are living under and how they are coping as a result thereof. (Skaine, 2002: 25)?
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Global Activities and the Internet, 2002.
Discusses the impact of the internet on international business activities.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will discuss how the internet is applied to global business activities and how they partake in communication. By observing some companies that utilize this information system, we can see how business is highly accelerated in this manner.
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How Afghanistan?s Economy is affecting its Women, 2002.
An analysis of the rights of women in Afghanistan and how they are related to the country's economy.
1,230 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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A description on how women in Afghanistan were stripped of all their rights under the Taliban regime and in the name of Islam. This paper discusses how experts maintain that religion is never a problem, rather it is the economy of a country that leads to poor human rights situation. It gives an historical background to Afghanistan specifically how it has been torn apart with more than 23 years of warfare and its poor economic situation. Furthermore it explains how this is negatively affecting the social setup and especially the lives of the female population.
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"To say Afghanistan is a poor country would be an understatement. Afghanistan is simply one of the poorest countries in the world with its GDP growth rate being negligible and more than 53 percent of it coming from agriculture which is still in primitive stage. It is important to mention here that Afghanistan?s dependence on agriculture is leading to extreme poverty because no sophisticated methods are being used to increase productivity and the government is not doing much to exploit land, which contains abundant mineral resources. (CIA Fact book, 2000)"
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Women in the U.S. and Afghanistan, 2004.
This paper compares women in the United States and in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper contrasts the rights of women in the United States and in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The author points out the restrictions against women for religious reasons by the Taliban. The paper underscores the gains made by American women in a secular society.
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"American women make about seventy percent of what American men do for comparable or even the same work, perform the majority of domestic labor and child-rearing roles and comprise only a very small fraction of government officials leading scholars and artists."
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Art Activism and WWII's Korean Comfort Girls, 2008.
An analysis of how artistic activism is attempting to draw more supporters to the comfort women's cause.
2,042 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper discusses the ways that artistic activism portrays Korean girls who were sent to serve military brothels of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) throughout occupied Asia, during World War II. It discusses how, together with international law, litigation and documentation, artistic activism has attempted to draw more supporters to the comfort women's cause.
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Introduction
Artistic Activism
Exhibits in North America
Concluding Discussion
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"Far work continues to be promised in the future, as more women and other artists take up the cause of the comfort women, making use of their testimony collected in several countries and what are said to be numerous surviving photographs taken shortly after the end of the War or at different times in the surviving comfort women's futures. For viewers not at all interested in imperial Japan's atrocities in Asia or the comfort women in particular, each work discussed in this paper, nonetheless, succeeds in a kind of informal reminder that what we see in the exterior or a person, or in perceptible emotions, can tell very little indeed as to a person's precise life experience. Of the third or so of comfort women to survive their existences of being military prostitutes, each had an horrendous story of devaluation, violence and injuries of all kinds."
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The Stock Market and Shareholder Activism, 2004.
Considers the stock market in general and the rise of shareholder activism.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 0 sources, APA, $ 23.95
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This paper considers the stock market in general and the rise of shareholder activism. It concludes that shareholder activism is likely to increase rather than decrease as increasing numbers of investors hold greater amounts of wealth in the market.
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"Companies can raise capital in two ways by issuing debt or selling equity. Debt is a straightforward borrowing arrangement that does not change the ownership structure of the firm ..."
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Judicial Activism vs. Judicial Restraint, 2002.
The paper examines the way that the judiciary is empowered with the freedom to act in opposition to the wishes of the electorate using judicial activism, unlike the political branches who must follow the wishes of the voters.
1,161 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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The paper discusses how judicial activism is necessary because some issues are too difficult for the political branches of the government to confront. It examines how advocates of the opposing theory of "judicial restraint" hold that the judiciary should follow precedent carefully and defer to legislative decisions. It also analyzes the reasons the system of governmental checks and balances and judicial review was set up.
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"Another important principle implicit in the Framers' writings and actions was that no branch of the government is infallible and this must be seen to apply to the majority of voters, whose will is expressed through their elected representatives, as much as it applies to the un-kingly presidency and the nonpartisan judiciary. Thus the will of the majority in various states was that schools be segregated by race and the rules of these localities codified this expressed wish of the majority which resulted in a status quo in which white and black children were educated separately and, according to advocates of the system, equally. Strict adherence to the will of the majority and to the right of states to decide their own course of action would have meant that the Supreme Court could only decide in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that the majority's wishes must be respected. The decision to order desegregation, however, was based on no explicit Constitutional basis but on the finding that "government-supported racial discrimination violates the principle of equal justice under the law" (Patterson 425). Although this was widely perceived as a case in which the Constitutional principle could not be denied it should also be understood as a textbook case of the need for judicial review and the invalidating of laws that are unconstitutional."
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Aboriginal Activism in Australia, 2002.
A look at activism by the Aboriginals in Australia since the 1930s.
2,156 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 67.95
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This paper provides a brief history of the colonization of Australia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the Europeans and examines the effect it had on the native Aboriginal people. It looks at how an incident in 1926 when a Aborigine killed an Australian causing the murder of the whole tribe, led the Aboriginal to reconsider their situation and to organize themselves to initiate a movement, a protest against the brutality and discrimination against them. It examines how in the late 1920s and 1930s, the modern movement for the Aboriginal rights began and looks at the governmental policies and changes that resulted ever since.
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"These organizations made in the 1930s demanded that Native population must be saved and that the government should implement policies which would guarantee the safety and protection of the Native people and their lands. The government of Australia took some steps to provide some sort of relief to the Aboriginal population, the government created more reserves, but these had strict control of the government. The Europeans settled in Australia had always considered the Aborigines as inferior beings with primitive culture and life style. It was believed that the population of Aborigines would soon die out but this was challenged by the mixed race children which started to spring up in Aboriginal settlements. The Native people understood that in order to gain complete freedom and end of racial oppression they have to fight for the rights of the Native people [Miller, 1985]."
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AIDS Activism, 1994.
This paper discusses AIDS activism: History, delay in community reaction, ACT UP, Gay Men's Health Crisis, ideologies and strategies, leadership, dissension, fundraising and the role of entertainment industry.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 10 sources, $ 95.95
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"By the start of the 1990s, 200,000 Americans had already succumbed to the AIDS virus, and at least one million more are probably infected today. Unless a spectacular breakthrough comes soon, most of these people will be dead before the new millennium. This is the setting for the continuing battle against AIDS, a battle which has been going on for at least ten years now. Gay activist organizations, which had been little more than parade planning committees and social groups in the 1970s, became voices of rage and civil disobedience in the 1980s and 1990s. Less radical AIDS organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGTLF) continued to work behind the scenes. Fund raising groups in the private sector, such as the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) and AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), were sponsored heavily by celebrities, including Elizabeth Taylor. Initially, however, there were two AIDS activist organizations responding to the crisis."
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Anti-Abortion Activism is Terrorism, 2002.
A discussion on anti-abortion activism as an act of terrorism.
1,435 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The following paper discusses why anti-abortion campaigns must be halted by providing the reader with media references and statistics with regards to the anti-abortion population. This paper discusses what must be done in order to put the pro-choice laws, that have already been enforced, into practice by a well-briefed, well-trained state system.
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?Only a small, militant section of the population is actively anti-abortion.
They believe that abortion kills a living human baby in a painful way. For example, a pro-life website, ironically called The Pro-choice Homepage, describes abortion this way: ?forceps must be used to grasp the baby's body because of the child's advanced development. The baby is dismembered as the abortionist twists and tears the parts of the body and slices the placenta away... the procedure is devastating...?
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Internet Marketing: How to Make Free Money on the Internet, 2001.
A discussion about the various ways a person can make free money on the Internet.
1,614 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, $ 52.95
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"These days, owning a computer is becoming less of an option and more of a necessity. However, owning a computer isn?t always enough for people anymore. The convenience of the Internet is becoming the real necessity in people?s lives. The Internet has millions of sites with information on people, news, finances, places, history, entertainment and many hundreds of other topics. This information can be accessed from the Internet through a computer. Through marketing, companies have been able to pay people money to use their good or service via the Internet. By marketing the good or service as a way for people to make free money, companies have gained the attention anyone wanting more money, students, and advertisers. The company makes money from advertising, and the person using the website gets paid by the company. Making money on the Internet requires almost no effort, but is sometimes time consuming. Ways to make money on the Internet include: surfing the web, having an Internet start page, filling out surveys and giving opinions of products and services, and listening to music. "
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Student Activism in the Civil Rights Movement, 2002.
This paper describes the role of student activists in the quest for civil rights during the 1960s, emphasizing their role in the "sit-in" movement, Freedom Rides, the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and the rise of Black Power.
3,120 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper states that, regardless of whether student activists were rioting or peacefully sitting-in, they played a fundamental role in encouraging social reform in civil rights in the 1960s. The author believes that their volunteerism inspired other youths to more actively participate in their communities and supported a great liberal tradition in colleges and universities. The author feels that, most of all, the activism and gains produced the foundations for many other movements that occurred in the 1960s: The free speech and anti-establishment movements, the anti-war protests and women?s rights.
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"The social and political conditions of 1960s America spawned a revolutionary attitude. This emerged from the new humanism, a mood that materialized from a deep felt revulsion to man?s inhumanity against man. The era?s movements were grounded in a democratic vision; the belief that all people should be full members of society, that individuals become empowered through meaningful social participation and that politics should be founded on respect and compassion. The activists attempted to express the voices of those society treated as ?other?: racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, women, homosexuals, and Vietnamese peasants. Students particularly caught on to this movement and spread it to the general public through protests, demonstrations, and activism within the community."
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