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- 781: Coming Of Age In Mississippi
- ... book acheived its goal of telling of one woman's struggle for her basic rights in a hostile environment . This book begins with the life of its author . She starts out as basically a slave child on a farm in Mississippi . She tells of her parents lives , how they went to the fields at sun up and came back from them at sundown . She describes her abusive cousin , George Lee , and ... later feed her fire to participate in the "Movement" . This want for an education is also a rather new trait for black women of her time . She is already a sort of radical as a child and does not even know it . As she grows older her mother begins a relationship with a black man from town named Raymond . She talks of her mother being pregnant and her realizing of how ... for not rises up against them . This passiveness of her race seems to be the most devastating to Anne's will . She is constantly speaking of her disgust for those blacks who passive take the abuse . The book ends on a note mixed emotion . After Anne had left the " Movement " for a while she returns to Canton , the city which most of her protesting took place , after being in New ...
- 782: Beloved
- ... married to Halle and has three children with him. After the farm is overtaken by a cruel master, the slaves try to escape, but they are caught and punished severely. Sethe suffers an act of abuse by two white boys and escapes in the woods, where she gives birth to her fourth child. After a short period of recovering in the free states, her former owner tries to recapture her, which drives her in the attempt to kill her children, resulting in the death of one daughter. Finding release from the death-penalty, she ends up living alone with her daughter in a haunted house. When Paul D, a former slave and friend of Sethe returns, the ghost, Sethe's murdered child, is not finally successful in drivig him away, so she disappears herself. -- Cultural Milieu "Beloved" is based on an ex-slave that is living with the haunting memories of her past. The book tells ...
- 783: Teenage Violence
- ... as victims of conflict and do not really feel responsible for their actions. Teenagers are neither purely violent or non violent. Any normal teen can lose his head in an argument. The most non violent child can be pushed to a level where they too can act irrational and even end up in a fight. The majority of very violent teenagers would want to solve conflict non violently if they only ... Power Rangers handle a bad situation by terminating the threatening source. What ever happened to turning the other cheek. "Who are the good guys really"? This are questions to ask yourself when you see a child admiring someone such as the so-called heroes mentioned above. Some would probably say that is taking things to seriously but something is provoking this violence and its time to look at every aspect. Secondly ... should act . If a teenager is physically, sexually or emotionally abused at home, or witness other family members being abused, they are being taught that violent behavior is acceptable and a way of survival. Substance abuse is also a cause of teenage violence. Alcohol and drugs can easily be obtained by teenagers. Ask any teenagers where you can get drugs, even if they don't use them, they know where ...
- 784: Beloved 2
- ... married to Halle and has three children with him. After the farm is overtaken by a cruel master, the slaves try to escape, but they are caught and punished severely. Sethe suffers an act of abuse by two white boys and escapes in the woods, where she gives birth to her fourth child. After a short period of recovering in the free states, her former owner tries to recapture her, which drives her in the attempt to kill her children, resulting in the death of one daughter. Finding release from the death-penalty, she ends up living alone with her daughter in a haunted house. When Paul D, a former slave and friend of Sethe returns, the ghost, Sethe's murdered child, is not finally successful in drivig him away, so she disappears herself. -- Cultural Milieu "Beloved" is based on an ex-slave that is living with the haunting memories of her past. The book tells ...
- 785: Coming Of Age In Mississippi
- ... book acheived its goal of telling of one woman's struggle for her basic rights in a hostile environment . This book begins with the life of its author . She starts out as basically a slave child on a farm in Mississippi . She tells of her parents lives , how they went to the fields at sun up and came back from them at sundown . She describes her abusive cousin , George Lee , and ... later feed her fire to participate in the "Movement" . This want for an education is also a rather new trait for black women of her time . She is already a sort of radical as a child and does not even know it . As she grows older her mother begins a relationship with a black man from town named Raymond . She talks of her mother being pregnant and her realizing of how ... for not rises up against them . This passiveness of her race seems to be the most devastating to Anne's will . She is constantly speaking of her disgust for those blacks who passive take the abuse . The book ends on a note mixed emotion . After Anne had left the " Movement " for a while she returns to Canton , the city which most of her protesting took place , after being in New ...
- 786: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... no voice in their formation. -Married women had no property rights. -Husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity. -Divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women. -Women had to pay property taxes although they had no representation on the levying of these taxes. -Most occupations were closed to women and when women ... of Labor was established to gather information about the situation of women at work, and to advocate for changes if needed. Many suffragists became actively involved with lobbying for legislation to protect women workers from abuse and unsafe conditions. In 1923, Alice Paul, the leader of the National Women's Party, took the next apparent step. She drafted an Equal Right's Amendment for the United States Constitution. Such a federal ... of women in hundreds of communities worked on grassroots projects such as establishing women's newspapers, bookstores, and cafes. They created battered women's shelters and rape crisis hotlines to care for victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence. They came together to form child care centers so women could work outside their homes for pay. Women health care professionals opened women's clinics to provide birth control, family planning ...
- 787: Oprah Winfrey
- ... not have any special background to be a most loved woman in America. She has overcame number of obstacles that most people have encountered in their own lives. She had to deal with poverty, sexual abuse, racism as a child, and her lifelong battle with weight. Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29, 1954. As a child, she moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then moved back to Nashville. She has lived through poverty, repeated sexual abuse, and a sentence to a juvenile delinquent home. (Hyde 1997 p.57) Oprah was crowned Miss. ...
- 788: Victims Still
- ... help victims are selective when it comes to which victims it will help. For example, there are some rehabilitation programs for drug users that refuse to take in pregnant women. However, when they have a child that is born hooked on drugs, they will be arrested for child abuse. The selectiveness of the programs leads to the policies that, in essence, do not work. The selectiveness of the programs ties in with why the crime is out of control. According to Elias, social ...
- 789: I Am A Feminist - Hear Me Roar!
- ... Majority Foundation, do we see any anti-abortion activists or women who decided a career-orientated lifestyle wasn't for them? Ironically, the leading women's groups point out Susan B. Anthony, who called abortion child-murder, as one of the greatest American women. Yes, Susan B. Anthony was more than an anti-abortion activist, but can we image NOW or FMF welcoming women who are against abortion into their group ... reaction to these feminist groups, gender feminists claim that they are part of the backlash against the women's movement. Feminism was once about women and men coming together to educate the public about rape, child abuse, domestic violence, and myths about women, creating a society that accepts women as equals in the home, workplace, and political arena, and making women feel like members of society. Now the women's movement ...
- 790: Teenage Violence: A National Plague
- ... as victims of conflict and do not really feel responsible for their actions. Teenagers are neither purely violent or non violent. Any normal teen can lose his head in an argument. The most non violent child can be pushed to a level where they too can act irrational and even end up in a fight. The majority of very violent teenagers would want to solve conflict non violently if they only ... Power Rangers handle a bad situation by terminating the threatening source. What ever happened to turning the other cheek. "Who are the good guys really"? This are questions to ask yourself when you see a child admiring someone such as the so-called heroes mentioned above. Some would probably say that is taking things to seriously but something is provoking this violence and its time to look at every aspect. Secondly ... should act . If a teenager is physically, sexually or emotionally abused at home, or witness other family members being abused, they are being taught that violent behavior is acceptable and a way of survival. Substance abuse is also a cause of teenage violence. Alcohol and drugs can easily be obtained by teenagers. Ask any teenagers where you can get drugs, even if they don't use them, they know where ...
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