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- 5351: 3rd World Essay
- ... this time. From 1979 to 1980 Saadawi was the United Nations Advisor for the Woman's Program in Africa (ECA) and Middle East (ECWA) (Speace 1). Later in 1980, as a conclusion to the long war she had fought for Egyptian women's social and intellectual freedom, an activity that had closed all avenues of official jobs to her, she was imprisoned under the Sadat regime. Saadawi says the main reason ...
- 5352: Searching For Utopia
- ... an accelerating pace with devastating results. Although, not everything in his theory was that glum. He noted that there were positive checks in population to keep it from exploding. Some of these positive checks include war, famine and plague. Unfortunately, for those who believed in his theory, by 1803 Malthus had come to the conclusion that the problem could never be solved, but that it could be kept in bounds. In ...
- 5353: Tatoo
- ... it is used as part of a complex of personal decoration that may express the prestige and unity of a clan, individual health and wealth, and also may reflect links with the ancestors. Painting for war is also widespread; in this case body-marking symbolizes radical change in the pattern of social relations. Christian Clerk Bibliography: Field, Henry, Body-Marking in Southwestern Asia (1958); Faris, James C., Nuba Personal Art (1972 ...
- 5354: Teaching Practice
- ... in the 18th century had taken loans, which returned two and three times the principal to the borrowers. The government was also unwilling to control its expenses at Versailles, the upkeep of a large aristocracy, war efforts, and perhaps the straw that broke the camels back, the expenses of trying to aid the American colonies achieve independence. French bureaucracy was also a nightmare with laws and rules that made effective administration ...
- 5355: Technology In The Home
- ... but none of the early pens worked very well until a Swiss inventor named Lazio Josef Biro designed the first modern version in 1939. He called it a birome. Commercial production was delayed by World War II, and then in 1945, an American firm, Reynold's, introduced "the miraculous pen which revolutionizes writing" at Gimbel's in New York City. The new pen didn't work very well and cost a ...
- 5356: Transcendentalism
- ... In the nineteenth century America plunged into the Industrial Revolution. In the eighteenth century, goods were produced in home system operations. The remarkable development of capitalism in Boston became evident after the French and Indian war of 1812. Two of huge factories privately owned in Boston were Francis Lowell's Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham and Merrimack Manufacturing Company in Lowell. As the role of women in society became more indiscriminate ...
- 5357: Teenage Rights
- ... Officers approached us in their vehicles and asked us to leave. Upon a friends departure I threw, a hand signal, which is known as Peace. Deriving from the old hand signal of victory from the war. It is a hand motion that consists of the middle finger and forefinger being placed in the upright position and the thumb crossing behind them. Do not let this be confused with a gang sign ...
- 5358: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... was mostly the hatred exhibited towards her by the Putnam family. She was against Samuel Parris as Reverend of the Salem Town Church, while the Putnam family was his friend, and her husband was at war with the Putnam family estate over some land. Rebecca exuded a saint-like presence over the dark days of the witch-hunt. After her accusation, thirty-nine of the most prominent leaders of the community ...
- 5359: The New Deal
- ... older of the unemployed, the Federal Emergency Relief Act was passed to form the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. This agency gave about $3 billion to states for wages, work projects, or direct dole payments. The Civil Works Administration was formed as a temporary source of jobs such as leaf raking during the particularly cold winter of 1933. All of these actions were still not enough to completely defeat the monster of ...
- 5360: Teenage Suicide
- ... of others. Or, it is thought to be committed for personal motives; depending on the time and place, it can be thought of as a heroic deed or it can be condemned by religious and civil authorities(Columbia). Why do teenagers commit suicide? According to this poem written by a teenage suicide victim it is because he is in pain. I find myself deep in a hole of sorrow. Too far ...
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