Why Athletes Are Good Role Models
.... this. We all know that they really don't care about
anything else except for a hot topic. The truth really does not mean anything
to them. This we notice in all the cases that the media jumps to wrongful
conclusions, such as the Richard Jewel case and the Olympic bombing and the TWA
flight 800 that blew up over New York. The media jumped to numerous conclusions
that had us lost. Do you think these people worry about what fund raiser
Michael Jordan attended and about what Shaquille O'Neal did on Thanksgiving for
the needy? No. They are more interested in what color Dennis Rodman's hair is
and what he wore last night at Exc .....
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Revolution Girl-Style Now!
.... and empowering each other. In actuality, Riot Grrrl is a frame of mind.
It's a way for them to come together in a common cause: “Revolution Girl-Style
Now!”. Since no specific person or people claim they created it, Riot Grrrl has
meant many things to many people. Most girls do not attempt to define it anymore.
“EVERY GRRRL IS A RIOT GRRRL. All you need is a healthy dose of pissed-of-ness
at the treatment of womyn in our society. We are NOT all punk, all white, all
lesbians, all musicians, all fanzine editors, all vegetarians, all victims of
abuse, all straight edge. There is no ‘stereotypical' Riot Grrrl.” (Knight 9)
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Impact Of Abuse
.... put me in a
situation that had to be kept a secret then you pledged me to secrecy...As
a ten-year-old child, what was I supposed to do? You are an intelligent
man you figure out the options available to a ten-year-old in that
position." (Rush, 1980)
Guilt:
The abused will feel tremendous guilt for a numerous reasons: They feel
they did nothing to stop the abuse therefore they are responsible and it
should continue. They felt uncomfortable but the abuse was sometimes
pleasureable. They somehow deserved and/or caused the abuse. A victim
will usually feel this way when their self-esteem has diminshed and they
have no more answers .....
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A Comparison Of The Status Of Women In Classical Athens And Early Christianity
.... and weaving, and maybe managing the domestic arrangements. No
wandering in the beautiful streets for them." The suppression of women went so
far as to divide the house into separate areas for males and females. While the
women stayed home, the men were usually out fighting, and when they weren't
fighting, they were entertaining their friends and having sexual favors
performed by courtesans.
The rights of women in early Christianity were a far cry from today,
although they were much better off than their Athenian counterparts. In the
Christian church, women were treated as equals. The first evidence of this is
when the woman w .....
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Athletes And Domestic Violence
.... Olden Polynice,
Robert Parish, and OJ Simpson( Callahan, Sports Ilustrated). And these are only
the pro athletes whose wives had the courage to report the violence.
Madeline Popa, president of Nebraska National Organization for Women
stated, "Athletes are role models to small children. [Viewers] worry about the
violence on television, but generally that is make- believe. When [there are]
real-life heroes [engaging in violence], the message to young boys and
girls is, 'If you are a star athlete you can get away with things
(qtd in L.A. Times).'"
There is an act of domestic violence every eighteen seconds in the
United Sta .....
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A Time Of Prosperous Change
.... who one
can feel one with because of the fact that the author creates great depth to
her as a character. In the Critical Survey of Long Fiction the author states
that "In her fiction, Fay Weldon explores women's lives with wit and humor.
She is caustic in her implicit condemnation of injustice but avoids
preaching by characters say and what they do"(Magill 3474). On the other
hand Ericson has more of a formula to Weldon's novels unlike the Critical
Survey of Long Fiction. "The Weldon narrator is usually omniscient; she is
wise, sad and cynical"(Ericson 1). which shows that the characters must
be well developed to have s .....
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A Woman's Identity
.... being forced by society to move between the traditional definitions of
male and female roles, because of the many different tasks they have to carry
out from day to day. For example, in order for women to enter the “male” world
of work, they have to obtain “masculine” traits and leave their “feminine”
traits at home.
Bearing children is expected in today's society, because nurturing and
child care are viewed as feminine traits. Women are conditioned at a young age
to believe that once they are adults they will become mothers. If a middle aged,
married woman doesn't have any children, people often assume that there is a
biolog .....
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Abuse Of The Innocent
.... for fur".2 They suffer from unbearable pain for several
hours before their lives are ended by the trapper's club. Is the price of
live worth the price of fur? Psalm 104, 27-30. All creatures depend on you
to feed them throughout the year: you provide the food they eat, with
generous hands you satisfy their hunger. You turn your face away, they
suffer. You stop their breath, they die and revert to dust. You give
breath, fresh life begins, you keep renewing the world. Disections have
been practiced in biology classes for many years. Critics accuse some
teachers of killing and argue that disection teaches nothing but cruelty.
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Gender Roles
.... These roles have been in a state of flux in American
society in recent years, and men and women today can be seen as having expanded
their roles in society, with women entering formerly male dominions and men
finding new ways to relate to and function in the family unit.
When I was growing up a woman was never heard of having a job other than
a school teacher or seamstress. Our(women's)job was to take care
of the house. We had a big garden out back from which we got most
of our vegetables…A garden is a lot of work you know…We also had to
make clothes when there were none to be had(hand-me- downs)
Gender can be defined as a s .....
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Domestic Violence
.... or 12,000 calls a year.
In January 1992, 30 criminal domestic violence complaints were issued.
For January 1994, the number was more than 100.
Nationally, estimates range from 2 to 4 million women assaults each year.
Some studies show that 20 to 30 percent of all women who seek help at
hospital emergency rooms are there because of domestic violence.
Kyra Woods never made it to the emergency room. Whoever killed her saw to
that. She suffered 13 stab wounds to the back five of them so violent the knife
came out the other side of her body.
Wood's mother, Mable, and two aunts wept quietly in a back row of the
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Domestic Violence
.... to American women between the ages of fifteen and forty-
four” (Briggs and Davis 94) . Abusers need to be stopped before its too late
for their victims.
Women are not the only victims of abuse. Children who live in a
situation where domestic violence is prevalent suffer in many ways. The
psychological impact of witnessing violence among many children is just as
severe as if they had been the victims of physical or sexual abuse themselves
(Krueger 94). These children who witness abuse at home suffer in many unseen
ways, and too often their pain goes untreated (Krueger 94). If an abused woman
does not have the guts to stan .....
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, And Susan B. Anthony Were All Leaders Of The Early Women's Rights Movement. Select One Of These Women And Discuss Her
.... people, should
understand and applaud her work. However, that was not the case. During the
Seneca Falls convention that she had organized, her husband left town rather
than witness here propose the idea of women's suffrage to the group. When she
lectured she was often booed and hissed at. She suffered much at the hands of
the media. The only support that she ever received was from her fellow
suffragists. This did not stop her from continuing her work and becoming an
integral part to the early women's rights movement.
With seven children and an entire household to manage, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton somehow found time to help found the .....
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