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    Yung-Lien Lai and Jihong Solomon Zhao of Sam Houston University’s College of Criminal Justice both found the influences of these demographic factors such as race, age, and gender. They found the main focuses on the relationship between neighborhood contexts such as crime related factors and residential evaluations of their…

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    made by the women and human rights communities in the past, but they deservingly won the case when eventually government made the 19th amendment to allow women the voting rights. The other main characters in the movie were Alice’s friend Lucy Burns, college friend Mabel Verno, social worker Doris Stevens and Polish factory worker Ruza Wenclawska. Overall the plot twists and story was interesting, but the best scene was in the market when Alice and Lucy stopped by a shop to buy the hat. Both of…

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    (“Margaret Sanger”). She attended school Claverack College and Hudson River institute. She also studied nursing for four years at White Plains Hospital. As a nurse Margaret treated many women who had just undergone back alley abortions or tried to self-terminate their pregnancies. This…

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    protest that gained importance during the Civil rights Movements in America in the 1960s. Roe V. Wade was a supreme court case in the United States that was decided in 1973. The decision to legalize abortion or not remains one of the most disputable rulings in the history of the Supreme Court and is still questionable today. On February 1st, 1960, four African American college students went up to a “whites only” lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and asked for coffee. They’re services…

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    crimes, no one theory works with every crime. Rational Choice Theory generally is not compared with violent crimes. In the case of rape I feel that Rational Choice Theory is the best theory to explain why people do it. The UCLA Women’s Law Journal says that “The United States has the world’s second highest rate of reported rape. About sixteen to eighteen percent of American women and one to three percent of American men have experienced an attempted or completed rape” (Rhode). It is hard to…

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    The Constitution of the Untied States of America starts of with, “We the people” and yet for a century it excluded both black people and women by denying them from the law. African Americans and women; these two groups have traditionally been oppressed in the United States. They were rejected and looked down upon because they weren’t the typical white, wealthy males. However, the constitution now after the civil right movement protects in particular the freedom for these groups to express…

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    SAN JACINTO COLLEGE Gynecologist Katlyn Sanders EDUC 1300 Sec 142 Professor Kathy Roosa 10/23/2014 Katlyn Sanders Professor Kathy Roosa EDUC 1300 October 21, 2014 Gynecologist Gynecologists are healthcare practitioners that specialize in treatment for women, specifically relating to the reproductive organs. I chose this career because it would be rewarding to show women how to improve their lives and overall health, as well as it fitting in well with my lifestyle. As I weigh the…

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    what they could do. However, this was the reality of the women who lived in the early 20th century and earlier. Women back then were considered as objects; they were the property of their husbands. Thankfully, this is not the reality now, due to the Women’s Suffrage and Alice Paul.Their work was depicted in many books, articles, and even films. A film in particular called Iron Jawed Angels depicted Alice Paul and the Women Suffrage for the modern day audience, and provide entertainment along…

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    head on. For the first time women were attending college to be a contributing factor to society which lead women to hold a lot of new jobs that included many government jobs. Resulting in women winning Supreme Court cases and gaining other laws to protect them (Roark 930). The United States could learn a lot from the past of women. Not only did they stand up for what they wanted but they did what society expected from them also. The United States could learn that not everything is going to go…

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    The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the center for amateur and college sports in today’s society. This organization houses 1,281 institutions all across the United States. With levels of competition at the Division 1,2, and 3 levels there are over 460,000 students athletes competing in the NCAA. NCAA Student-Athletes are recruited from their hometown high school or club organizations worldwide. The athletes are rated on how they perform in the classroom and on the field. Many…

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