June 2011
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Chapter 10 Learning Activity
How many acts of violence were reported on your campus last year?
Could not find this statistic - links were for 2006 / 2007 reports, and did not include any numbers for some reason.
Does your campus have a security escort service?
Yes they do, you can either use an emergency phone box or call the campus police at any time to request an escort.
What resources does your campus provide to...
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Chapter 9 Learning Activity
Based on my analysis, the majority of women’s magazines are based on making a woman look good through any physical means - hair, makeup, fashion, etc. - and how to maintain a relationship rather than finding a career. While there were a few articles about travel, music, books, movies, and individual stories of women, they were still greatly outnumbered by beauty advertisements and...
Wikipedia Article Link: Emma Smith Devoe →
Sorry about the references, I wasn’t entirely sure how to format this so it looked like a proper article. Also, I did not go with my original idea because I could not find enough sources other than reading the entire book over myself, which would have taken too much time and I’d have had no other references.
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Chapter 8 Learning Activity
What are some of the key issues for working women identified by the AFL-CIO?
A few issues addressed on the site are violence in the workplace, unequal pay, disadvantages in the women’s global economy, immigration, etc.
What legislative issues does the AFL-CIO identify that would be beneficial to working women?
Specifically addressed was the Equal Pay Act, which would require employers to...
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Chapter 7 Learning Activity
How is property divided in a divorce?
The term “equitable distribution” is used, meaning that due to a marriage being, in theory, an economic partnership, the assets in total will be split evenly between the two parties. However, the court must also take into account many other relevant factors such as the length of the marriage, the health and age of each person involved, the income...
May 2011
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Chapter 6 Learning Activity
The Breast Cancer Fund is a community of people dedicated to doing whatever they can to prevent breast cancer in any way possible, through raising awareness via education, volunteering, and personal recollections from survivors. The campaign is very necessary because at least 12% of women in the United States will eventually develop some form of breast cancer, and it is a very widespread disease...
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Chapter 5 Learning Activity
What assumption about the size and shape of the users (height, weight, proportionate length of arms and legs, width of hips and shoulders, hand preference, mobility, etc.) are incorporated into the designs?
Most of the facilities are designed for the average sized person, of an average height and weight , with little consideration to people of various extremities.
How do these design assumptions...
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Chapter 4 Learning Activity
Card Store - 90% of the cards are geared towards husband / wife heterosexual couples. While there are a few cards that aren’t gender specific and are very generic, there are no cards specifically labelled “Wife to Wife” or “Husband to Husband” on the little tabs above each section. So even though there are a few options available, the card companies seem to think it...
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Chapter 3 Learning Activity
Adjectives Typically Used to Describe Men & Women -
Women - passive, nurturing, kind, quiet, polite, domestic, insecure, needy, fickle, emotional, patient, supportive, housewife.
Men - active, strong, business-oriented, in control, powerful, smart, breadwinner, primary decision-maker, independent, hard worker.
The words used to describe women are often more passive and what would be...
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Chapter 2 Learning Activity
Based on your various nontarget statuses, make a list of the ways you experience the following categories of privilege:
White - I appear white so often I receive benefits that go along with being Caucasian; however at the same time I have also gotten some comments about my last name, which is very obviously Hispanic, though I don’t believe I’ve ever been treated differently for it due...
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Iron Jawed Angels
This movie was more interesting than I expected it to be mainly because I never realized the real impact of the women’s suffrage movement on their families and themselves. We did of course study it in middle school / possibly high school history lessons, but I’m not entirely sure if I was surprised by what I saw due to not remembering what I learned, or just that it was never...
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Chapter 1 Learning Activity
The mission of the National Women’s Hall of Fame is to celebrate notable achievements of great American women in every area imaginable including art, athletics, business, education, science, government, etc. It was created as a permanent home to honor these women in the town where the struggle for women’s rights first began, in Seneca Falls. So far there have been no women honored in the NWHF...
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Intro.
I don’t really know what is expected out of this post since the guidelines were very loose and unspecific, and I don’t really like describing myself, but… My name is Gina, the most significant thing about me and my life is my love of art in every form, whether it’s drawing, digital, architecture, interior design, photography, literature, tattoos, fashion, etc. I also...