Essays Tagged: "females"

My Great-Grandmother was not a Person

PersonMy Great-Grandmother was not a person. Neither was yours. Up until about 67 years ago no females were. We were supposed to be pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen. At least that's the perce ...

(3 pages) 38 0 4.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

"End of an all-male era"

y and should stay that way.In "End of an all-male era", Katia Hetter discusses the case of allowing females toenroll into the two state funded, all-male colleges, Citadel and Virginia MilitaryInstitut ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.3 Sep/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Women in Society

few womensurvive and many fail. Where progress was once thoughtto have been made, there aren't many females getting aheadin the world of television news. Today, there is a veryslow, if any, gain in th ... ficulties in 'making it' in this profession. I haveread about the incredible ambition of successful femalesin television news, and it seems like it takes a specialkind of passion to want to keep up in ...

(13 pages) 462 0 4.1 May/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Hebrews and Yom Kippur

ansfer sins to. The first animal that was used was a goat, but soon roosters for males and hens for females were used. The sins were transferred from people to the animals by tying a rope to the fowl' ...

(5 pages) 60 0 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Reviving Ophelia Analysis

nging around them, their insides are changing too. Between about 12-17 are especially hard ages for females. Mary Pipher describes the different reasons for this, mostly having to do with America's "p ...

(3 pages) 72 0 4.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Alcholism

considered alcoholics or at least they experience drinking problems to some degree. More males than females are affected, but drinking among the young and among women is increasing. Consumption of alc ...

(3 pages) 118 1 4.4 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The Modern Men's Movement

cs and business. They were attacking male chauvinism, dominance, and a social system that relegated females to household duties. By most standards, the feminist movement has been successful in nearly ...

(4 pages) 109 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Haemophilia

herited through the sperm of the father. Of thesechromosomes, those that determine sex are X and Y. Females have XXand males have XY. In addition to the information on sex, 'the Xchromosomes carry det ... gle X chromosome that is effected cannot compensate for thelack, and hence will show the defect. In females, however, only oneof the two chromosomes will be abnormal. (unless she is unluckyenough to i ...

(4 pages) 84 0 3.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Intro to Human Sexuality

e interested in the same sex as lovers. They are often thought of gays for men and lesbians for the females. A persons sexual orientation is what sex one is attracted to, the types are: bisexuality ( ... associated with social, medical, educational, and financial difficulties. 1 in 11 active adolescent females become pregnant each year. Sex education is the answer to these problems. The more that youn ...

(10 pages) 298 0 3.6 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Hemophelia

ereditary, passed on from parent to child. Because of it's genetic makeup, hemophilia is carried by females however those affected are almost always males. In one-third of all cases hemophilia thought ... es hemophilia thought to be caused by spontaneous gene mutation with no family history. This is how females are able to be affected by hemophilia. Inheritance is controlled by a recessive sex-linked f ...

(1 pages) 55 0 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

"The two wrongs of an alcoholic case", by F. Scott Fitzgerald

, to the similarities in the reactions and emotions of the supporting characters, both of which are females. With this also are the cases of the men having changes of hearts and trying to achieve a se ...

(3 pages) 95 0 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

"The two wrongs of an alcoholic case", by F. Scott Fitzgerald

, to the similarities in the reactions and emotions of the supporting characters, both of which are females. With this also are the cases of the men having changes of hearts and trying to achieve a se ...

(3 pages) 29 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Attention Deficit Disorder

definition of A. D. D., it's known that it's a genetic disorder that affects males more often than females, in a 3:1 ratio, and is marked by a classic triad of symptoms, which are impulsivity, distra ... that drift off to their own world during class or during conversations. This type is most common in females and the core symptom is distractibility. This, while being the most frequent, is also the ha ...

(6 pages) 106 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

MAC Cosmetics

cs, created for everyone. Rich and poor, old or young, conservative or trendy and even for males or females. Sales for M.A.C. are growing rapidly. From 1985 ($600 000) to 1989 ($3 million), sales were ...

(5 pages) 239 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Appearances, an universal concern

sire to be attractive. Male birds of paradise, with their brilliant hues, contrast sharply with the females. Male peacocks have stunning tail-feathers that are obviously used to attract females as wel ...

(4 pages) 66 0 3.0 Jul/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

A four page paper about Spider Monkeys

ly weighs between thirteen and twenty-five pounds and is about nineteen to twenty inches in length. Females are usually larger and heavier than the males.Spider monkeys are found in lowland rainforest ... , with mating limited to only three or four days. Gestation length varies between 134 and 230 days. Females choose their mates, sometimes spending the whole mating period with one partner, sometimes m ...

(3 pages) 55 0 4.4 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

this essay compares the skeletal system between a tiger and an ant

h a tail that extends about a meter. Tigers range in size from the smallest Sumatrans, in which the females weigh from 75-100 kg; males weigh from 100-140 kg, to the largest Bengal tigers, in which th ...

(3 pages) 53 0 4.2 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays

The detriment that society can cause to its inhabitants. Refers to relationship in "The doll house" by Ibsen and also expectaions of men

world. The male role was defined as the superior and dominant gender in society that looked down on females. The female's role in life was to be the child-bearer, or the person who took care of the ho ... e characters could not live up to what was expected of them. Back in the late 1800's, early 1900's, females were considered the inferior gender and experienced many problems. The men, however, had to ...

(5 pages) 105 1 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

American Male Pig.

e male populations, so that they might be better able to distinguish between the different types of females and notify all other members of their findings.Everyone is unique. However, most women can b ...

(5 pages) 98 0 4.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The date of death

g a small knife to slay his victims' cheerfully reported the annoying news reader.' Police warn all females between the ages of fifteen to nineteen to lock up securely.'Concern turned to anxiety as Me ... ss the street. They chatted uselessly as Melissa answered John's endless questions, loving, as most females do, talking about herself. Although talking quite loud it would not drown the soft tap-tapin ...

(6 pages) 61 0 4.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing