Why does Beauvoir call women the second sex?

1.For Marx, how many classes are there? What are they called?

2.What did Hobbes describe as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”? Why is it this way?

Write a persuasive speech on: Is online education or face to face education better for students

Why do media, individuals, and books have such a strong influence on the public agenda?  Do they have the same influence on the formal agenda?  Why or why not?

1.)  Describe the five factors mentioned in Reckhow that could shape a foundation’s decision to fund a proposal.

2.) What does Reckhow claim are the two major factors influencing the likelihood of foundations funding particular school districts?

Describe development from toddlerhood through adolescence from a biological perspective (physical development, genetics, epigenetics, or evolutionary psychology). Provide five (5) examples to illustrate the biological component of development. You must provide at least one example from each chapter (chapters 4 - 8). Explain how each example impacts development.

What is a good introduction to start a paper about Media Violence's effect on children?

In processing information people tend to pay more attention information that goes against what they believe than information that fits with what they believe. TRUE OR FALSE?

The Fight for Equal Rights, 1923-1972

The ERA, in varying forms, was introduced in every session of Congress from 1923 until 1971, but it was routinely bottled up in committees and never even received a floor vote until after World War II.

In the early 1950s, the division among feminists became apparent when the "Hayden rider" was attached to the ERA. This provision would have preserved the protective labor legislation deemed so important by many labor unions, and many working-class women, at the time. Such legislation included laws that mandated a minimum wage, or prohibited long hours or night shifts, for women workers.

Because these laws assumed that women were "different" from men—in the sense of being "weaker" or more in need of special protection—they were vehemently opposed by the National Women's Party. As long as the ERA included the Hayden rider, Paul and the NWP opposed its passage.

The Republican Party was the first to embrace the ERA. The GOP national platform first included a plank in support of the ERA in 1940, and President Dwight Eisenhower publicly called for the amendment's passage in 1958. But the combination of firm opposition from organized labor, and feminist opposition to the Hayden rider, continued to block the amendment's passage. (Frum, 2000)

Democrats, with closer ties to organized labor, were slower to embrace the ERA. Although John F. Kennedy endorsed the amendment late in the 1960 campaign, he did not push for its passage after winning the White House.

Kennedy did take a number of steps favored by women's rights activists: he appointed a blue-ribbon national Commission on the Status of Women, which lobbied successfully for passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which banned sex discrimination in pay for many professions. He also issued an executive order banning gender discrimination in the civil service. But most of his women appointees, including Commission chair and feminist icon Eleanor Roosevelt, had ties to the labor movement and opposed the ERA. (Wolbrecht, 2000)

The amendment's prospects improved considerably in the mid-1960s, as women's rights activists began to make common cause with civil rights activists, and the rise of a new and more activist "women's liberation movement" focused on a wider range of issues of concern to women.

In 1964, Congress banned workplace discrimination based on gender (as well as race, religion and national origin), in the Civil Rights Act; the inclusion of women in the Act reflected, among other factors, the concerted lobbying of Coretta Scott King, wife of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and the NWP's Alice Paul. While the women's rights movement and the civil rights movement did not always see eye-to-eye—and tensions between the two would become evident in the late 1960s—their cooperation during the debate over the Civil Rights Act was a critical moment for both.

In 1966 feminist author Betty Friedan—whose 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, had given voice to the frustrations of millions of American women—helped found the National Organization for Women (NOW) and co-wrote the organization's Statement of Purpose. NOW, she wrote, would lead "a new movement toward true equality for all women in America, and toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes," and would " confront, with concrete action, the conditions that now prevent women from enjoying the equality of opportunity and freedom of which is their right."

NOW, which would formally endorse the ERA in 1967, became the driving force in the second wave* of American feminism (discussed on the next page). Along with several other feminist organizations, NOW focused on "consciousness raising"—using highly publicized (and sometimes confrontational) events to increase public awareness of gender inequality—coupled with old-fashioned, hard-nosed lobbying to advance its legislative agenda.

In early 1970 NOW disrupted a Senate hearing on a proposed Constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18, and demanded a hearing on the ERA. The following August, on the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, it organized the Women's Strike for Equality, a protest of more than 20,000 women that highlighted the need for social, political, and economic equality. (Gourley, 2008)

Coming at a time of profound social and political change in America—a convergence of the civil rights movement, protests against the war in Vietnam, the rise of the counterculture*, and the so-called "sexual revolution"—the demand for equal rights for women suddenly seemed less radical than it had, only a few years earlier. (Frum, 2000) Organized labor, for the most part, dropped its opposition, and political leaders of both parties, including President Richard M. Nixon, publicly embraced the ERA.

In 1970 Representative Martha Griffiths of Michigan spearheaded a movement to "discharge" the ERA from the House Judiciary Committee, where it had languished for years. Once given the opportunity to vote on the ERA the full House of Representatives approved it overwhelmingly in 1971. The Senate followed suit in 1972 and before the year was out, 22 states had approved it—more than half the total of 38 states needed for formal ratification. The ERA, it seemed, would soon be enshrined in the Constitution.

Question: Based on your reading in the webtext, respond to the following prompt in one to two paragraphs. In one or two sentences, summarize the author’s thesis statement about the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). To support your answer, copy and paste one or two sentences from the article that convey the author’s central point. Also answer the following question in your post: How does this article excerpt give you a better understanding of the political difficulties that faced ERA proponents in the mid- and late 1970s?

TRUE OR FALSE

1.Strawson claims that we can never be truly or ultimately morally responsible for our actions.

2.Strawson objects to the second premise of the basic argument, “To be truly morally responsible for what you do, you must be truly responsible for the way you are.”

3.According to the principle of alternate possibilities, a person is morally responsible for what he has done only if he could have done otherwise.

4.Frankfurt claims that moral responsibility and determinism are incompatible.

5.Frankfurt states that a person is not morally responsible for what he has done if he did it only because he could not have done otherwise.

Compare and contrast the traditional roles of mothers and fathers in caring for their children in Western culture. What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of these roles? Would you change the parenting roles to improve the child's chances for healthy development? If so, how?

Using the "Theory of planned bahavior" complete the following

3) Provide a specific “Personal” “interpersonal” example of this theory being used. Provide logical support for how this example is inline with the concepts of the theory and making an "Ethical" decsion. Make sure you address all the context levels in that interaction clearly, richly and directly.

Find a popular song and examine its lyrics using the pentad. What elements do the lyrics emphasize? What is the dominant ratio? What does that say about the songwriter's motivation?

Explain (in a few paragraphs) why there are so many civil wars in Africa.

The struggle for women’s rights has made some important strides and experienced a number of setbacks over the last 30 years. Discuss the “Equal Rights Amendment,” Title IX of the 1972 Education Act, the Supreme Court’s decisions in Franklin v. Gwinnet County Public Schools (1991), and Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (2007)