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    Does child labour still exist today? 1. Does child labour still exist in Britain? -Yes‚ child labour still exist but there is very few. After the Industrial Revolution‚ people realized how bad child labour was and tried to stop it. However‚ despite their efforts‚ there are still child labour going on in Britain for example‚ Primark‚ an Irish company‚ is using child labour in 2008. 2. What countries does it exist? -Child labour is around the world and not many countries ban child labour

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    Contrast between the Women of Yesterday & the Women of Today Introduction: * Introduce the essay * Define * Divide * Discuss * Drive Home 1. Domestic & work: * How women were at home long ago * Progress that happened * Why they are able to work now 2. Education: * No education before & reasons why * How education is helping women today 3. Rights: * No rights before: Women were under the control of men * How they were able to get their

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    ‘Fitzgerald’s novel displays an ambiguous attitude towards the 1920’s greater freedom for women’ how far is gender an important aspect of the novel Scott Fitzgerald’s novel was set in the 1920’s‚ where the role women had was moving on to make a drastic change‚ The Great Gatsby portrays the change in female roles through the two main female characters Daisy and Jordan. Both characters show the different characterises that many of the woman growing up in the 1920’s held‚ as Daisy is presented as

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    credit to Sherlock Holmes than he deserves. The fact is civic management has been around since biblical times. I do agree‚ however‚ that the logical techniques of investigation that Sherlock Holmes practiced is as valid and relevant today as it was nearly a century ago. First Sherlock Holmes was not the initiator of public administration‚ like I said earlier managing people‚ helping to solve their problems‚ and settle disputes has been around since biblical times. For example‚ Moses was managing the

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    the 1920’s through The Great Gatsby Given all of the crimes that were committed in the 1920’s‚ why does Fitzgerald focus his attention so much on prohibition and gender roles? The era of the 1920’s was a time of prosperity and corruption throughout society. Some wealth was gained through honest work while other wealth was earned through greed‚ organized crime‚ and other illegal acts. In Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ he displays multiple accounts of prohibition‚ gender roles and organized crime

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    Discrimination “The hope of a secure and livable world lies with discipline nonconformists who are dedicated to justice‚ peace‚ and brotherhood.” Martin Luther King Jr states that a perfect livable world must contain justice‚ peace‚ and brotherhood. Social justice is the proper administration of laws to the natural law that all people are created equally without prejudice. Throughout history‚ many groups have been discriminated against in what they believe‚ however America has become a just society

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    Puritan Gender Roles Puritan beliefs were very strict and proper. They believed in a close correlation between church and government. One huge belief that they lived by was gender roles. These roles were ingrained in their society‚ seeing women as inferior. (Puritans). All puritans were expected to live by this‚ having the idea that there is a strict right and wrong. The Puritan belief of gender roles are not necessary or fair in society. Puritans had many reasons for this belief that they saw logical

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    To what extent was the New Deal successful in the recovery of America during the Great Depression? The aim of this investigation is to analyze the extent of the success of the New Deal during the Great Depression. In my investigation Robert F. Himmelberg’s piece entitled The Great Depression and the New Deal (2001) was a very useful source because it helped me to see the viewpoint of historians who believed that the New Deal was vital in the recovery of the Great Depression. Other helpful sources

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    Katrina Anderson September 3‚ 2013 Title: Why Race‚ Class‚ and Gender Still Matter Authors: Margaret L. Andersen‚ Patricia Hill Collins Publication: Wadsworth The critical issues mentioned in “Why Race Class and Gender Still Matter” are how inequalities are going to be spoken about in the book “Race Class and Gender” and about how race‚ class‚ and gender still effect society today. Another critical topic in this chapter is Hurricane Katrina and how that brought the poverty

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    "In their daily search for clean water‚ women in rural sub-Saharan Africa literally and symbolically walk the social‚ economic‚ and geographic paths along which‚ scholars argue‚ the HIV/AIDS epidemic can be mapped." Link It was back in 2002 when Kofi Annan identified women as the backbone of Africa‚ and sounded the dire alarm that the combination of famine and AIDS was disproporationately impacting African women "who keep African societies going and whose work makes up the economic foundation

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