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'Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Among Women', 2006.
A review of 'Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Among Women' by Bell Hooks.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper is a reaction to an article written by Bell Hooks called 'Sisterhood Political Solidarity Among Women'. In order, for feminists to unite they must openly communicate with others who are different than them. The paper further discusses how they must look past racial and cultural differences. They must be willing to accept other women regardless of their race, color, ethnic group, culture, or class.
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"This is a reaction paper to an article written by bell hooks called, "Sisterhood Political Solidarity among Women." Feminists are not united because there are too many issues that separate them. Women are taught at an early age to dislike other women who are different. The early feminists did not encourage African American women to participate in their groups. Today, feminist are not united nor are the politically solidarity. In order, for feminists to unite they must openly communicate with others who are different than them. They must look past racial and cultural differences. "
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Sisterhood, 2008.
A discussion on Bell Hooks' article "Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Among Women" and Linda Carty's article "The Discourse of Empire and the Social Construction of Gender."
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper discusses Bell Hooks' article "Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Among Women." It then compares the concepts in her article to Linda Carty's article "The Discourse of Empire and the Social Construction of Gender." The paper argues that it is only through the construction of a multi-dimensional perspective on the realities of women's experience that we can hope to achieve a sisterhood based upon our common strengths and achievements.
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"It is perhaps understandable that only someone who knows the lack of empowerment could understand the critical importance of the littlest piece of agency and strength in one's life. Hooks' perception of the fundamental divisions that fragment the potential Sisterhood - divisions fostered and reinforced by the structures of class and race that are deeply intertwined with white patriarchy - one recognizes the extent of the struggle that remains for women. Consider, for example, the unpleasant fact that many young women today would not identify themselves as "feminists" despite their lives being built upon the advantages won by decades of feminist struggle. When hooks writes of how the focus on shared victimhood led many "white women activists to abandon feminist movement when they no longer embraced the victim identity" (hooks 107) the weaknesses engendered in the women's movement by this wallowing in "victimhood" become apparent. I have sometimes wondered why so many women find the terms feminist and feminism disturbing and alien to them. Hooks' contention that they are operating from the illusion of power serves to explain this otherwise inexplicable aspect of social identification."
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Women Mentoring Women, 2000.
A brief historical overview of women and their past legal, as well as an analysis of the unique influential process of mentoring and the problems that have resulted from this process.
6,535 words (approx. 26.1 pages), 52 sources, $ 150.95
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This is an exhaustive paper examining the way that women mentor women in modern American professional society. Examines the history of the phenomenon, and gives information on how mentoring should be given and received.
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"Women mentoring women in the workplace is a relatively new phenomenon. Woman-to-woman mentoring encompasses circumstances and rules that are specific to a female style and representative of a female culture. The workplace puts demands on our priorities and our energy that bring new factors into woman-to-woman relationships. Our identity as professional women with career responsibilities affects our interactions with other women who are also committed to improving their performance and achieving greater success. Women learning from women at work, women mentoring each other as career professionals with job and personal lives, is an emerging opportunity with enormous potential to change work and women's lives for the future (Duff, 1999, p. xv & xvi). Mentoring begins with an influence that someone has upon another person. It also can help to shape and develop a person's personality and thoughts. In research, it has been proven that women need role models that help them to pursue and conquer future endeavors in the workforce. Discovery into the differences between males and females might be a way to unlock strategies to aid in diversity counseling as well as provide positions in organizations that are solely devoted to mentorship."
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Women's Poetry and Women's Politics, 2002.
A comparison between the poetry of Muriel Ruckeyser and that of Adrienne Rich, and an exploration of their feminist messages.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper analyzes the poetry of Muriel Ruckeyser, as found in her book ?The Book of the Dead?, and that of Adrienne Rich, using her work entitled "Twenty-one Love Poems". The paper gives a biographical background on each of the poets, stressing their importance to the contemporary women?s movement and to American poetry. Rich?s poems are explored for their ideas on the relationships between women, and Ruckeyser?s are studied in terms of their comparison to a documentary and in relation to her strong political view.
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"To many, Poetry is the voice of women. It is the way in which women can express their inner thoughts and feelings, to write the things that they can not say. Poetry is more than words on paper but someone?s feelings and life poured into the readers mind. Poets let the readers climb inside their heads and taste what the poet feels, sees, and thinks.
Two major women poets that are in the inner ring of American feminist poets are Muriel Ruckeyser and Adrienne Rich. Though their poetry may be different in content, many of their messages are the same: we need to be heard. Ruckeyser?s ?The Book of the Dead? describes conditions and feelings of the Gauley Bridge tragedy through actual courtroom testimonies to words from actual citizens of the town. Adrienne Rich?s ?Twenty-one Love Poems? describes in many ways, her love of her companion as well as their struggles and times together."
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Wallace Stevens and Desire: Woman Lost--Woman Ignored, 2005.
A psychosexual and archetypal study of feminine figures in "Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens".
5,141 words (approx. 20.6 pages), 33 sources, MLA, $ 128.95
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This paper examines the "Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens", America poet. The paper shows that desire and desired denied in this work may be interpreted through the archetypal psychology of Carl Jung to disclose the reason for Stevens' preference for places over people and to explain his ambivalence toward the abstract feminine figures in his poems.
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"Feminine archetypes reconstruct the distant attitudes in Stevens' poetry by figuring-forth embedded emotions. First, they provide an archetypal perspective on individual poems. Second, they illustrate how, ranging from Harmonium (1923) to The Rock (1954), clusters of motifs influence the poet-hero's psychic development. Although their appearances change to fit their ambiguous roles, these singular feminine figures determine the poet-hero's canon-long struggle to achieve a regulated unity of self. Two categories need to be distinguished: (a) feminine figures and (b) the interior paramour. Their protean capability makes scrupulous demarcations between exterior feminine figures impossible, but three forms or combinations prevail: the summer maiden (Kore or lover), the universal mother or earth mother, and the maiden-mother (an overlapping maid and mother figure). The interior paramour represents a climax to the poet-hero's experience with exterior feminine figures."
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"On Mechanical and Organic Solidarity?, 2005.
An overview and critical analysis of Emile Durkheim's seminal work:"On Mechanical and Organic Solidarity".
931 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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In his essay, "On Mechanical and Organic Solidarity" the sociological theorist Emile Durkheim defines two of his most key anthropological concepts, that of mechanical and organic solidarity. This paper explains that these two different kinds of human, communal senses of social solidarity are what Durkheim used to delineate primitive versus modern capitalistic types of economic relations. It explains that through these different divisions of human solidarity, one primitive and one industrial, Durkheim proposed a theory of human interaction that suggested a great fissure or split occurred in human society with the event of the industrial revolution.
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"On a literal level, as more people moved to cities, they had less ties to the community, and were now paid to do specific work, rather than to simply work as was needed on a subsistence basis. Where one individual used to, for instance, do all of the weaving for his or her own family, now that same individual threaded a simple spool or bobbin in a factory all day long, to earn wages to buy all of his or her needed goods and services from strangers. In primitive societies, in states of mechanical solidarity, individuals were dependant upon one another in close and intimate fashions, for trading goods and through integrated kinship structures. The weaver would trade a sweater for food with his neighbor. These structures were mechanical, in other words, society itself was dependant upon these structures to function. Society was synonymous, in this state of mechanical solidarity, with such systems of barter and the kinship structures that they generated between neighbors and between families when two people married. These economic and kinship structures were equivalent with society."
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"Solidarity and Contention", 2005.
An analysis of the book "Solidarity and Contention" by Michael Dreiling.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This paper analyzes the book "Solidarity and Contention" by Michael Dreiling, and relates the book to recent history. The paper notes that the author examines issues related to the increasingly rapid pace of globalization, centering his discussion on NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).
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"Michael Dreiling in his book Solidarity and Contention - The Politics of Security and Sustainability in the NAFTA Conflict examines issues related to the increasingly rapid pace of globalization, with the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) being the specific issue he uses as the center of his discussion. The battle over NAFTA was waged first in the normal political arena as various interest sought to express their views on whether such an agreement would work, would be valuable, would achieve the goals set for it, and whether it would help or hurt the U.S. economy. After it was adopted, the battle expanded, with more and more people concerned about not only about potential damage to U.S. interests but to the economies of other countries party to it."
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Poland's Solidarity Movement, 2005.
Examines issues that ultimately resulted in Poland's Solidarity Movement.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses the political and economic factors that led to Poland's Solidarity Movement. Due to overnight increases in consumer prices, specifically meat, Polish workers mobilized to protest against the Communists governments' mismanagement of resources. The paper shows that over the years the movement transformed into a political party which gained popularity in the 1990's.
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"The collapse of communism in Europe was one of the most crucial international developments of the 20th century. The move towards adopting Western political and economic systems came after the failure and mismanagement of resources of centrally planned governments. The creation of market economies in post-communist Eastern Europe was an enormous undertaking due to the overwhelming nature of the task, particularly establishing markets where none had previously existed. Shifting governance from one of communism to a democratic state was involved and affected fewer people compared to the impact of reinventing a market economy in a post-communist state. The economy is the setting in which most adults in every country spend their working lives (Weschler, para. 1982)."
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Durkheim and Two Ideal Types of Solidarity, 1984.
This paper discusses he two types of social solidarity described by Durkheim: mechanical bonds formed because like humans are drawn each other and organic bonds formed through natural differences in humans that leads to division of labor.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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"In discussing the bond of social solidarity, Durkheim indicates that there are two ideal types of solidarity, one mechanical and the other organic. The bond of solidarity is that which defines a society and its rules and regulations. The rules can be transgressed by the criminal precisely because solidarity exists and stands against, is directed at, and defines crime. Crime is defined by Durkheim as an "act contrary to strong, well-defined states of common consciousness". He then indicates that it is possible to see what kind of solidarity the penal law symbolizes, and he says that it is clear that social cohesion exists when there is a certain conformity of each individual consciousness to a common type, the psychological type of society. Individuals in society are attracted to one another because they resemble one another, but they are also linked to the .... "
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Pope John Paul II, Faith, and Solidarity, 2006.
A look at the very active role that Pope John Paul II in both the political and religious arenas.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper takes a look at the papacy of Pope John Paul II, explaining that he was active in both the political and religious arenas. The paper contends that, although his papacy has taken a few hits due to the recent abuse issues within the church, on the whole it was a positive force for the social good. The paper points to the example of how Pope John Paul II supported solidarity, not just through his association with the labor union, but also through his actions to bring the Roman Catholic Church into solidarity through its parishes and through attempts at unity with other faiths.
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"Most people in the Western world, whether Roman Catholic or not, are familiar with the name of the late Pope John Paul II. Pope John Paul II, or Karol Wojtyla, as he was known in secular life, was a charismatic figure at the head of arguably the most influential church in the late twentieth century. However, John Paul II was far more than "merely" a holy man. Over his lifetime, he was also a poet, a freedom fighter, and a political activist, as well as being a diplomat and a priest. For all that he did as a priest and as the pope, John Paul II never forgot the country from which he came. When Poland was suffering under the control of the Soviet Union, supported the actions of the Polish labor group, Solidarity."
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Power and Solidarity of Hierarchical Systems, 2006.
A review of 'Antigone' by Sophocles and 'A Star Called Henry' by Roddy Doyle, focusing on the structure of hierarchy within government ideology.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper compares the two works 'Antigone' by Sophocles and 'A Star Called Henry' by Roddy Doyle, as they define the failure of hierarchy within familial and governmental ideology. For Doyle, the basis of Henry Smart's rise to power as a leader within the IRA provides an individual sense of power, but one that is not applicable in the failure of the military institution to defeat the British. In this regard, Sophocles provides the familial hierarchy of the royal family of Thebes to illustrate the lack of solidarity in Creon's tyrannical rule.
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"The aim of this literary study will focus on the problem of solidarity within hierarchical systems of government in 'Antigone' by Sophocles and 'A Star Called Henry' by Roddy Doyle. In many ways, Doyle's novel reflects the growing separatism that existed within the Irish Republican Army (IRA), which Henry Smart eventually joins as an adult. He constant infighting within the IRA helps to diffuse the notion that this nationalistic Irish trend had solidarity, as one can also find within Antigone. While Creon has the same chaotically organized hierarchy through his stewardship as King of Thebes, Sophocles also provides the failed format of familial hierarchical institutions. "
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Activism, Authenticity & The Solidarity of Self - The Social Forces that Shaped the Sixties in America, 2001.
This essay is about the transformational turmoil and cultural chaos that was the decade of the 1960s.
2,075 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper historically covers the period of time between 1960, which marked the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement sit-ins in North Carolina, and 1973, which was the year that America's involvement in Vietnam ended. During this span of time, both the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Liberation Movement were highly active and the nation became heavily involved with the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia. In addition, the largest youth movement in history swept across the nation as students on college campuses all over America organized, rebelled, and eventually brought about a staggering amount of political, social and cultural change. This paper describes the forming of the Sixties Movement and it's actions as well as impact on society.
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"The Age of Industrialization that accompanied America's entrance into the twentieth century brought with it the promise of unprecedented national prosperity and progress. The ten years proceeding the turn of the century had marked a decade of industrialized change that had greatly improved the quality of American life and had ended the long and stifling sociocultural period known as the Victorian Era (Garrett 288). Those involved in the developing fields of social and economic sciences noted the changing demographics brought on by the Industrial Age and began to chart patterns of predictions for a rapidly urbanizing America. They foresaw a series of successive social, economical and political changes for an American culture poised on the edge of progressive and eager for evolution and change. These formulas for the future proved effective in aiding cultural and economic adaptability for only the first few decades of the twentieth century, however. Neither the science nor the society of the developing American culture of the early 1900s could have conceived the concept of accelerated speed and veering versatility that these changes would begin to adopt around the middle of the century. Even the most highly advanced and sophisticated technology of today could ever have predicted the transformational turmoil and cultural chaos that was to be the decade of the 1960s."
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Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" and "Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman", 2000.
An examination of the author's feminism and the application of her ideas from non-fictional "Vindication" to fictional Maria and her family in late 18th century England.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 2 sources, $ 87.95
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"This study will apply the ideas from Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to its fictional companion Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman, showing how the ideas in Vindication are embedded in Maria. Essentially, Vindication argues that the inferior position of women in British society in the late 18th century is due not to any innate defect or weakness in women, but rather to the fact that men have the power to define and shape relationships, to make the laws, to own the property, and to decide the destiny of the genders socially, economically, and politically. The author does not absolve women of their responsibility for this situation. She first acknowledges the natural physical strength which men have over women, then adds:
But not content with this natural pre-eminence, men..."
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In Search of Solidarity - The Dominican Republic's Long Struggle For Political, Societal & Economic Stability, 2001.
This paper is a historical description of the Dominican Republic from establishment until the present.
3,505 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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This paper describes a chain of events from the establishment of the Dominican Republic that would, over the space of the next five centuries, work to shape the political, societal and economic face of this Caribbean country. It describes the continuing conflict between the powers of Spain and France and the history of instability in politics as well as in society and economy. The paper gives an overview of the economic situation, the societal culture as well as an outlook for the future. It concludes that today, when international interference has subsided, the Dominican Republic will be able to progress and develop.
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"The thought of Christopher Columbus' first voyage of discovery in the late fifteenth century leads most of us to mentally envision the coast of North America and what has since come to be known as the country of the United States. When Columbus first sailed the ocean blue in the year 1492, however, he discovered a host of other uncharted territories, among them an island made up of mountainous terrain and rolling, fertile valley situated between the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean that he called La Isla Espanola, or Hispaniola (Weil et al PG). Preliminary interaction with the native Taino, or Arawak, Indians led Columbus to immediately claim the territory in the name of Spain and to make subsequent attempts at settlement and excavation over the next few years. Settlement was finally established in the southern region of the island, in what is now known as the city of Santo Domingo, the largest city within and capital of the independent country currently known as the Dominican Republic (Weil et al PG)."
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The Muslim Woman, 2006.
This paper analyzes the culture of Islam, its effect on women and the recent emergence of various women's organizations that deal with specific issues relevant to Muslim women.
1,712 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper examines the various Muslim cultures and their attitudes towards women. Women in Afghanistan suffer from human rights abuses, females are not allowed to work, they receive no education and are often denied health care services. This paper discusses the numerous Muslim women's organizations that have emerged around the world. These organizations have active women participants and deal specifically with issues of relevance to women. Many Muslim women are critical of the ideals of equality formulated in the western world, and question the values of sexual equality. The writer of this paper also delves into the use of the veil which is the hallmark of Islamist women worldwide. Once seen as a symbol of oppression and backwardness in the discourse of colonial domination, the veil was given up by most upper class and middle-class Muslim women in the early part of the 20th century. However, it has recently made a global comeback with the Islamic revival. Islamist discourse portrays a contradictory attitude towards gender. There are still Islamic condoned practices and institutions, which gender activists find difficult to explain and reinterpret. For example, even the most committed gender activists have difficulties in explaining the issue of polygamy.
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"Many Muslim women are critical of the ideals of equality formulated in the Western liberation paradigms. They ask whether 'sexual equality' is a good thing after all. Islamist women seem to have opted for complementarity of the sexes and strictly defined gender roles. Many non-Islamist women feel the Islamist 'return to Islam' to be regressive and backward. These non-Islamist women have internalized the popular media image of 'fundamentalism' as being fanatical, irrational, anti-modem and misogynistic. So, is Islamism always opposed to women's rights and autonomy? Does it deny women educational and employment opportunities? Have the movements succeeded in making their 'ideal Muslim woman' (the home-making, self-sacrificing mother and wife) a reality?"
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