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…Roots "The steady murmuring that went on in the hold whenever the toubob were gone kept growing in volume and intensity as the men began to communicate better and better with one another." In this sentence from Roots, by Alex Haley, the author used…

…After the Second World War, and rationing was fading, many women were confined to tending children, and cleaning the house, while the men started careers after the strain of working with and for war-time efforts, that had dominated England…

…than himself. He speaks of the spirit of his men and how they are enthusiastic about fighting for their country just like the men in The Revolutionary war only this time they were fighting to give blacks freedom and to live in a United country where all can…

…rumbling across the sky. Everything is colored in a shade of gray, except for the bright blue lightning. The story begins with a group of men, led by a lieutenant, who are trying to find their way to a sundome. Sundomes are buildings build with a source…

…In Janice Turner’s Cutting Edge, it elaborates on how in today’s day and age cosmetic surgery is more common than ever for men and how it is sometimes needed to obtain “rank” in the work force. For years, cosmetic surgery was a way for a woman to alter…

…In her book A Room of Ones Own, Virginia Woolf provides a graphic portrait of sexism in the early 1900s. Since then our society has allowed almost all the same equal opportunity to women as men. The only restriction that comes to mind that women still…

…for violence against women and this essay will look at some of these reasons. Traditionally women have been seen as the weaker sex and men can often exploit this idea and use it as an excuse to be violent towards women. From early days the Bible taught that women…

…chose people as His Prophets, to deliver his word to the people. <Tab/>The Mesopotamians not only worshiped statues of their Gods; they bathed, clothed, walked and fed their Gods daily. Men could have individual statues in their own homes…

…The Commonwealth and the Need for a Sovereign <Tab/>The natural state of men, according to Hobbes is, "that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man" (Leviathan, chpt, 13, sect, 8…

…to a certain extent. The poetry of the Goliards and the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine are two very different groups of people and yet they praised women and allowed them power over men's hearts (and loins). The poetry of Bernart de Ventadorn both praised…