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    Victorian model of a home we can see that the husband was expected to work, and the wife was expected to stay home. The female of the house was also expected to cook, clean and care for the husband and children. Very much as it remains to date. Inequality in the home has many downsides to it. The marriage will not be an equal partnership. The female could feel undervalued, and

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    In Kurt Vonnegut’s story, “Harrison Bergeron,” everyone is made equal by the United States Handicapper Genera1 while the country is under totalitarian control. Handicaps are forced upon the people by the Handicapper General to create an all-equal society. The character George Bergeron is forced to stay equal by the government’s laws of equality while his wife, Hazel Bergeron, is of only average intelligence, and consequently not given a handicap. Their son, however, has broken the laws of equality

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    A place where everything is perfect, where there are no troubles, where everybody wants to live: these are the things we immediately associate with a utopia. But what really characterizes this divine paradise? A utopia is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect.” The social conditions of a utopia entail that every single organism holds a position within the society that he desires. Could this ever be achieved

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    The Equal Pay Act is an anti-discrimination policy, which was signed into law on June 10, 1963. The purpose of this policy was to stop gender based pay inequality. During World War Two, more women started to join the paid workforce, because a large amount of the men were away at war. As more and more women entered the work force, the pay differences began to rise. Women would only make fifty-nine percent of what men would make. This social issue brought the Equal Pay Act into law, it was to ensure

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    Warby Parker was founded in 2010 by Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt, David Gilboa, and Jeffrey Raider - in the Venture Initiation Program of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Warby Parker designs glasses in-house and sells directly to customers to avoid retail markups. The company primarily sells eyewear online and through its New York City headquarters extension into retail stores. Warby Parker’s Home-Try-On program allows customers to select five frames from online to try on at

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    LESSON PLAN CONTEXT This lesson is designed for a small group of three first-grade, classified English language-learning (ELL) students. The students are ages six- through eight-years-old and are in a first grade classroom. They spend 90% of their time in the regular classroom, and the other 10% outside of the classroom receiving instruction from the ESOL teacher. All three of these students are female, two of which are Latino and the other of Arabic descent. Only one of the Latino girls was

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    Twenty-five percent of children are being raised by a single parent, eighty percent of which are single mothers yet only single dads seem to be able to support themselves well. In my research essay, I will be explaining whether a single mom or dad could support themselves and a baby for a year. Through my research, I found that a single mom on average could not sustain herself for a year of the child’s life but an average single dad with could sustain himself through a year of the child’s life

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    According to Sojourner Truth, women are just as equal to men and they should have just as many rights and privileges as any man. She draws a picture of her equality to men by professing her strength and hard-working efforts. Right away, Truth’s first goal is to establish a sense of identity and relationship with her audience. She describes events where she has faced discrimination as a black woman to trigger an emotional response. Truth juxtaposes the ideal way man says women should be treated with

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    LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! For decades, Hollywood had been considered the place where dreams come true. Women who wanted fame and money went into the entertainment industry to make their dreams come true, getting money, and having fame e entertainment industry to make it happen, but at what cost? Up and coming actresses did not expect their diginity and pride would be stripped from them in just a matter of days, weeks, or  months. Soon these actresses learned the horrifying truth about Hollywood. Sexual

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    Equality by default is an idea that has been ever present throughout philosophy. Though its name may not be the same from philosopher to philosopher, its philosophical ideals are relatively similar. Equality by default is the idea that no single act or choice is more right or wrong than another. All men are equal by nature and oneself cannot be considered better than another. Equality by default teaches that all acts, all thoughts, and all opinions are equal because it is impossible to be unequal

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