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Dining with Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice

herself to be more than just a social or racial icon. Instead, Condoleeza Rice has shown her ability to make decisions, be a part...

A Review of Battered Women in the Courtroom by James Ptacek

This 5 page essay explores the legal complications faced by a woman litigating abuse. 1 source....

Women in Heart of Darkness

A 5 page analysis of Joseph Conrad's views on women and civilization. 1 source....

Women and Discrimination in the Workplace

to help the society survive, not to gain positions of power. Womens work, however, was considered just as crucial as that of the w...

Tutorial Sigmund Freud Lecture

In seven pages this tutorial essay instructs how to deliver to a group comprised of older Jewish women a lecture on Sigmund Freud....

Hayashi Fumiko's Writings and the Roles of Women

year old Hayashi and left the house. The child and her mother lived what we in the west label a "pillar to post existence," both,...

Hindu Society and Women's Roles

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

Older Women and Fertility

much wider range of lifestyle choices, and were no longer automatically expected to marry young and embark on a primarily domestic...

Portrayal of Women in Griselda by Boccaccio, Brothers Menaechmus by Plautus, and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...

Loving Differently? Men and Women

that they are to blame and are being criticized since the woman is not happy. If a woman expresses an emotion, she usually wants r...

Current Prejudices against Women in the U.S.

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

Writing Exercise: Autobiography

like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Comparative Analysis of the 7th Century Islamic Empire and the 13th Century Mongol Empire

In six pages these empires from different historical periods are contrasted and compared. Seven sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Early Christian and Islamic, Romanesque, and Gothic Medieval Art

This is exactly what happened during the early Christian visual transition. The full body shapes of the classical (pagan) world w...

Islamic Beliefs and the Five Pillars of Wisdom

he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...

Was Jesus A Feminist

women differently than the culture dictated? Did He treat them differently than He treated other people? Did Jesus behaviors place...

Jesus' Attitude Toward Women Versus Paul's Attitude

their contributions are told in any great detail. Then Jesus began His ministry and it is clear even from the short tales that His...

Arab Peninsula's Islamic Expansion

and their embracing of Islamic belief. "Following the death of Khosrau II in 628, then the Persian governor in Southern Arabia, B...

Perceptions and Travels of 14th Century Islamic Scholar Ibn Battuta

In eight pages Battuta's travels are outlined with a consideration of his people and cultural perceptions that his Muslim backgrou...

Pan Islamic Terrorism and the Middle East Conflict Between the Palestinians and Israelis

may be analyzed and perhaps resolved. Yet, it remains a source of tension in the world today and the outlook appears bleak. Some...

Examining Two Aspects of Islamic History

son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...

Islamic, Buddhism, and Christian Architecture

In nine pages this paper examines and compares the architectural styles of these three world religions. Nine sources are cited in...

Do Women Earn Less Than Men

Women do earn less than men. This is true when calculating the overall incomes of all men and women in the country. It is also tru...

Business under Islamic Law

set of laws which is universally accepted, the laws are subject to interpretation and application which can vary dependant upon th...

Islamic Civilization Breakdown

In four pages this paper discusses the collapse of the empire of Islam in a consideration of historic and sociopolitical events. ...

Islamic and Hindu Religions on Death and Dying

In eight pages the ways these religions deal with dying and death through ritual and corpse disposition are compared and contraste...

Islamic and Christian Fundamentalism and Global Holy War

of fundamentalism, and extremist elements exist in both Islam as well as Christianity. Islamic Fundamentalism is defined as "an u...