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The Progressive Era: Women & Mexican-Americans In the United States, the 1890s through 1920s time period is known as the Progressive Era. Political reform, along with social activism, was what established this era. In order to move forward as a country, progressives believed we needed to fix or reform our problems. The problems that the…

For two thousand years in ancient China women lived under the rules set by Confucius in his analects. Confucius doctrine said women weren’t equal to men, because women were unworthy or incapable of a literary education. Other than this Confucius says little about women, which perhaps shows better than anything else how a standing they…

Throughout history, Americans have fought for various rights and freedoms such as religious freedom, freedom of speech and press, abolition of slavery, and the right to vote. These fundamental liberties have been handed down from one generation to another. However, it is unfortunate that many Americans do not fully grasp the significance of these privileges…

            The people under the Qing Dynasty in China suffered a lot of hardships in a really extreme period of tribulation and crises during the seventeenth century. Many factors such as society, government, culture, and Confucianism greatly influenced the lives of countless Chinese. While considered ordinary for the time, life for the Chinese people in…

Many Howard fans consider his heroines such as Dark Agnes, Belit, Valeria and Red Sonya, with their swords and pistols, to be the only strong women in his fiction. But skill with weapons is not the only way for women to control the decisions and issues that shape their lives. Howard also created women with…

Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl: Stripped from Motherhood and Womanhood In Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs in the asses, Harriet Jacobs describes her life as a slave and how she and many of the other slave women were stripped of their motherhood and womanhood on…

Women’s Rights Over the years, women’s rights have lessened in the Muslim society after the Taliban took over. For example, things like laughing, singing, writing, even having an education was all forbidden (Hosseini, 248). A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini, is a prime example of this, telling the lives of two women, Mariam…

Comparison: “The education of women” by Daniel Foe and “A Vindication of women’s rights” y Marry Woolgathering BY assonant In “The education of women” by Daniel Defoe, few rhetorical devices were used; one of them was use of analogy. Defoe states “the soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be…

An Analysis of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Little Women and A Tree Grows in BrooklynThe mother-daughter relationship is often protrayed in literature as a reflection of either a family’s answer to a crisis or a daughter’s rejection of societal norms (Nadeau, n. pag.). This is primarily due to the fact that although the mother is the…

Despite progress in achieving gender equality, the representation of Latina women in STEM fields remains inadequate, with only 2% of STEM positions in the United States being held by Latinas. Stereotypes and biases within our society pose a major barrier for women pursuing careers in STEM. Even if a Latina woman manages to overcome discrimination…