Status of Women in India: Problems and Concerns Internship Project (December 2010 - January 2011) Supported by Heinrich Boll Foundation‚ Germany CENTRE FOR STUDY OF SOCIETY AND SECULARISM 602 & 603‚ New Silver Star‚ 6th Floor‚ Behind BEST Bus Depot‚ Santacruz (E)‚ Mumbai: - 400 055. Ph. 022-26149668‚ 26102089 Fax 022-26100712 E-mail: csss@mtnl.net.in Website: www.csss-isla.com pg. 1 1. INTRODUCTION Keeping in view the nature of activities undertaken by the CSSS‚ certain NGOs and educational
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My Life During World War Two By: Shantel Calderon World War Two was a rough time for millions of innocent human beings‚ especially those of the Jewish religion. It all started in 1939 when the Axis Powers-made up of Adolf Hitler from Nazi Germany‚ Benito Mussolini of Italy and Tojo Hideki of Japan. Unfortunately‚ my family was Jewish and we were all shipped off to a concentration camp or an extermination camp‚ all of which were contaminated with some of the deadliest diseases‚ a lack of food
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Middleton’s Women Beware Women is a Jacobean tragedy‚ which has a complex plot and deals with corrupted characters. This tragedy is about corruption in the court and life in general‚ love by money and how women can lead other women to destruction. As Tricomi states about the characters‚ they ‘are not wholly the product of their circumstances‚ but their circumstances condition their choices and propel them toward their destiny’.[1] Middleton‚ as other Jacobean playwrights before him‚ has managed to
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changed politically‚ socially‚ and economically after World War II. To begin with‚ there were many economic changes that occurred in America. After the war‚ there were no jobs in factories and the few jobs that were available had very small wages. The women who took over jobs in factories were displaced from work force and
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ended in late 1918. This conflict caused many American men to travel overseas leaving women with many unglamorous tasks. During World War 1 women contributed in nursing‚ factories‚ farming‚ and even spies. However not many women actually fought on the war front. World War 1 was a vital time for women to show a male-dominated society that they could achieve success as well as men had done. Before World War 1 women were not recognized but when men were fighting in a war for peace their recognition was
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Women in the Early Nineteenth Century vs. Women in The Awakening There are many different types of women portrayed in The Awakening. The goal of this paper is to compare and contrast the women in the book to the women during the turn of the nineteenth century and the society’s reaction to the novel.. The novel shows the social constraints of women in the Victorian era. During this time‚ women were supposed to be docile‚ domestic creatures‚ whose main concerns in life were to be the raising of their
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children (Women‚ 2016). The life of a woman was basically childhood‚ marriage‚ family‚ and death. Women never became artists or scholars. Men typically lived until the age of 45‚ and women to 36. Men were often 20 years older than their wife‚ therefore many women survived their husband and remarried. In this case‚ her new husband would gain her inheritance. The only crucial public role of women was to give birth to young citizens‚ more importantly males to be citizens and females to reproduce further
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Franz Ferdinand: In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was a trigger for WW1‚ but imperialism‚ nationalism‚ militarism and alliances were the major causes of WW1. Many countries had strong interest to expand their empire by colonizing smaller countries. A good example of this was the colonization of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary‚ which eventually led to the killing of Franz Ferdinand. While imperialists felt that they had the right to colonize other countries
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In 1941‚ Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor causing the U.S. to enter World War II. This event had a strong impact on everyday life in America. To provide for troops: families rationed supplies‚ communities collected scrap metal‚ and women worked in place of men. As for Japanese Americans‚ they were stripped of their citizenship and forced into internment camps. The major way Americans helped their troops was by rationing and recycling. The rationing program set limits on the amount of goods
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WATER COOPERATION –ISSUES AND CHALLENGES 1. Introduction Population growth and higher living standards will cause ever increasing demands for good quality municipal and industrial water‚ and ever increasing sewage flows. At the same time‚ more and more irrigation water will be needed to meet increasing demands for food for growing populations. This will require intensive management and international cooperation. Since almost all liquid fresh water on the planet occurs underground‚ groundwater will
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