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    pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases can be preventable with the proper education. Sexual Education classes should be mandatorily taught in public schools to benefit the adolescents who are more susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases, who are sexually active, and who lack positive decision making skills. “Educators feel apprehensive or unsure in tackling the topics of sex, sexuality, and sexual health. They feel very overawed about where to start or disorderly about what to teach and

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    Food is vital to survival and Williams-Forson writes that “food sharing and networking were ways in which women reached out in collective unity to help themselves and others survive” (Williams-Forson 85). This concept of food sharing in order to promote community survival is also a prevalent part of Cat’s, and to a lesser extent Ursa’s, role in Corregidora. When Ursa is too sick to leave her bed in Tadpole’s apartment, Cat brings her broth, presumably as a token of good will, or perhaps because she

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    Sexism And Sexism

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    As the famous 2016 candidate Hilary Clinton once said, “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.” (Chozick para.4). Women everywhere have experienced some type of unequal rights against them. In one way or another. What some people do not know is they are facing injustices every day, all around the world. {Women faced social injustices back in the 1960s and now, but it is improving over time.} Sexism, especially in regards to women, has been a part of history for quite

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    require that public schools teach some form of sex education. Sex education is a broad topic that covers many things including human sexuality, reproductive health, safe sex, birth control, and abstinence, etc. There are primarily two forms of sex education that are taught. The first of the two is an abstinence-only program, where schools teach their students not to have sexual relations with others outside of marriage; they also do not teach about safe sex or birth control. The other form of sex education

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    Today’s Adolescent: a look at Sexual Development Puberty What role does early puberty play in sex? As childhood slowly fades away and the signs of puberty becomes apparent on the young adolescent body. During puberty the body undergoes many physical changes that seemingly just appear. For girls in the early years of adolescence may not see any secondary changes in their appearance however their ovaries began to grow. In recent years girls have been experiencing puberty at early periods rather

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    particular practice of child prostitution while drawing parallel examples from ethnographic studies. It will further explore the challenges and risks attached to this subject from a protection perspective and it’s mitigation within the fabric of human rights and social justice model. Considering the limitation of contemporary research on devadasi system, I will use some of the available literature and information whenever possible, otherwise, will discuss how existing research on the culturally

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    spread of HIV among HBCU’s. Some examples include, same- sex sexual practices (MSM vs. MSW), irresponsible drinking and drug consumption, and unsafe sex practices. This paper will discuss and determine why programs should be implemented on HBCU campuses to decline the rate of HIV among the students. Interaction between same sex individuals has been a leading cause of high HIV rates among men, but also effects the women who have sexual contact with bisexual men or women. In a research article by

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    stigma has seemed to become the new “norm.” From popular movies and music, to social media, to simple everyday conversations, our environment is strewn with this notion of men with the sole purpose of forcefully obtaining sex. Our culture, in which sexual violence and where people aren’t taught not to rape, but taught not to be raped, has become the new normal. This term, “rape culture,” first began in 1970 by feminists, but has soon become increasingly popular over the recent years as more survivors

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    The human immunodeficiency virus (also known as HIV) has been an increasing health concern primarily African American community. I will be mainly focusing on the African American community even though I know this issue can affect many other groups. There are a variety of reasons that place African Americans at a higher risk for HIV than any other ethnic groups. Some of those reasons are: being involved in risky sexual behavior, not getting tested for STD’s/HIV/AIDS and social settings. The experiments

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    different from my peers. One of my first memories of middle school was in fifth grade, being around a group of boys in my class and hearing them talking about women’s bodies and discussing them in a sexual manner. I was taken aback, I could not understand why they would desire to engage with someone in a sexual manner. In the back of my mind, I knew that sex was a violent act and nobody wants that to happen to them. It was unclear why those boys would want to do something so horrid to someone they found

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