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...Women have served in and with the United States armed forces since the founding of our nation; yet it has only been since the 1970s that issues concerning women in the military have been seriously and systematically pursued b...

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...Abstract The question whether to ordain women or not threatens the fabric of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The anti and the pro-ordination argument hinge on scripture, the only source of authority for the Remnant Church. This paper has made a critical observati...

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...This paper reviews four case studies that demonstrate the variety of ways women have participated in modern armed conflict and explores whether current US laws and policies excluding women from combat remain valid or need to be amended. Each case study examines three principal facets of female part...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4 SHAHIDA IN A BRAVE NEW WORLD . . . . . .39 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 5 AMERICAN WOMEN AT WAR . . . . . . . . . . .53 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 6 THE WAY BACKWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 7 THE W...

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... years of World War I, 1914-1918, were years of change for Canada. Canada made a place for itself in world affairs, and the country found its stride. Women in Canada too found their stride, making significant contributions to Canada’s war efforts, and becoming fully engaged in the social, economic, political and cultural life of the country. Canada and the place of women, ...

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...ence in 1919 and the devastation wrought by the worldwide flu epidemic, which added to the death toll. The contributions of, and consequences for, women’s participation in the war effort are not well documented. A number of published diaries of nursing sisters who saw service on the battlefields in France (see Bongard, Gass) and the National Film Board’s “And We Knew Ho...

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...A collection of short stories, highlighting some of the best and worst characteristics we women are capable of in our Christianity and in our home life. (Summary by TriciaG)...

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...Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious, book worm, Jo, wh...

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...The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life and included such prominent women as Mary Parker, Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and Lydia Maria Child. One outcome of this im...

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...The Phoenician Women is a tragedy by Euripides. The title refers to the Greek chorus, which is composed of Phoenician women on their way to Delphi who are trapped in Thebes by the war. The chorus represents the innocent and neutral people ...

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Excerpt: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence.

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...ove by D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHA... ...hilst Ursula stitched and Gudrun went on with her sketch. The sisters were women, Ursula twenty-six, and Gudrun twenty-five. But both had the re- mote... ...two girls were going between some rows of dwell- ings, of the poorer sort. Women, their arms folded over their coarse aprons, standing gossiping at th... ...pproached the group of un- easy, watchful common people. They were chiefly women, colliers’ wives of the more shiftless sort. They had watchful, under... ...two sisters held themselves tense, and went straight towards the gate. The women made way for them, but barely sufficient, as if grudging to yield gro... ...f a hound that bears down on the quarry. ‘Ay, after her!’ cried the vulgar women below, carried sud- denly into the sport. She, her flowers shaken fro... ...is social functions, he smiled, and was abundant in hospi- tality. 20 The women wandered about in a little confusion, chased hither and thither by th...

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...volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Chorus of Women by Aristophanes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 21, 2012. Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. This poem is from the Thesmophoriazusae; meaning Women Celebrating the Festival of the The...

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...Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. However, it begins first with the gods Athena and Poseidon discussing ways to punish...

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...h century Woman Question by looking at themes of feminism, marriage, and love. The novel raises these issues through the lives of several contrasting women: Mary Barfoot, a feminist philanthropist who helps train women for careers; her close friend Rhoda Nunn, who believes marriage is a disastrous choice for women; and Monica Madden, who starts out as one of their protegee...

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...Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudru...

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...This is a collection of works -- short stories or poetry -- by women writers in English from around the world and first published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...