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    Women In The Great Gatsby

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    In the novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald and playwright Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ women play an important role and impact men’s lives.With their impacts the men are on the turn for the worst and may not of even seen it coming. In both books the authors do an excellent job in portraying women in the past by showing control‚manipulation and masculinity. In both novels women use controlling to have more power and to survive for themselves since women did not really have a powerful

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    The New Deal did everything but fail once Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed off on programs to help with the Great Depression. Ultimately‚ the New Deal was successful because of the fact that it brought programs like social security‚ and brought in new means of conservation and nature. On the other hand‚ the New Deal was not completely perfect because it brought unemployment‚ too much involvement from the government‚ and there was still an overwhelming amount of poverty in the society. Overall‚ the

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    Loftus 1 How Religion Has Affected My Life I’ve been going to church with my grandparents for as long as I can remember. I’ve always been a part of church related activities. We always said grace before we ate a meal. I said my prayers before I went to bed. I was baptized when I was born. I had my first communion. I was a very religious little kid and I always had God in my life. Of course‚ I only did all those things because I thought I was supposed to. I just thought it was something that

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    Shakespeare’s Othello is considered to be a timeless text with the key themes that are incorporated into the play still relevant in today’s society. The text’s central themes are racism‚ honesty and jealousy‚ themes that are still seen in contemporary society‚ therefore making the text just as relevant today as in the Elizabethan era. Racism is a widely explored theme in Othello and is mainly delivered throughout the play by Iago. In the Elizabethan era‚ black men were considered to be lesser men

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    There are so many events that has shaped JROTC to how it is today. JROTC was established by congress in 1916. That was almost one hundred years ago. One hundred years ago people would not have thought we would have the things we have today. A hundred years from now the people will be writing about today. Everything changes overtime. One of the biggest things people take for granted today is technology. There are so many events that has shaped JROTC to how it is today. Norwich University is a private

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    Discrimination

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    Purvis Majzoub EDUC 2120 10/5/10 The act of discrimination is as old as mankind. Over the years many people have struggled to overcome whatever discrimination they face or feel is unequivocally unjust. Unfortunately‚ discrimination still continues today. Although‚ here in America‚ we seem to have taken leaps and bounds away from the bigoted society we once lived in‚ discrimination remains. Organizations like the Ku Klux Klan‚ abolitionists‚ and the Women Suffragettes are no longer around because we’ve

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    the Great Depression was the most severe and sustained economic enfeeblement in the United States. This harsh drawback in the country eventually ensued soon after the stock market crash‚ also known as Black Tuesday‚ in 1929‚ where Wall Street experienced extreme panic and lost many investors. Declines in industry and the rise of unemployment came about due to the plummeting of consumer spending and investments. President Franklin D. Roosevelt though helped to lessen the effects of the Great Depression

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    Women in Policing: The Assumption of Gender Difference Working Paper # 2010-02 October 2010 Michelle Comeau Center for Public Safety Initiatives Rochester Institute of Technology mjc4339@rit.edu John Klofas Center for Public Safety Initiatives Rochester Institute of Technology 585-475-2423 John.Klofas@rit.edu 1 Abstract A primary argument for the introduction of women into policing is the belief that women bring to the field gender-unique skills and abilities. This argument of “special

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    Different kinds of discrimination have always been a problem throughout the history. Race discriminationgender discrimination‚ age discrimination were the reasons of why people were not getting in school‚ in a bus‚ in a restaurant‚ not getting a job or a place to live. Even thought the things are slowly getting better a lot of young and old people still experience ageism. Ageism is prejudice and discrimination directed toward older people (Social Problems 141). People experience change on every

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    Discrimination While discrimination is a social challenge because it usually perpetrated by the majority group and it affects multiple lives on a daily basis‚ it can also be considered a personal challenge because it has consequences for individuals. Discrimination is defined as “treating a person differently from other persons based on group membership and an individual’s possession of certain characteristics such as age‚ class‚ gender‚ race‚ religion‚ and sexuality. Discriminatory behavior can

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