Essays on Gender Issues

Sacking of Attorney General

Dana Loesch is a radio personality that is never afraid of speaking her mind. She always says issues as she sees them. In fact, she is one of the most vocal radio personalities in the current generation. In her latest show, which was on Tuesday 31, she raised different issues concerning the several aspects of the contemporary world and the lifestyles of people. In the first part, she criticized the people who are against the sacking of former attorney general of the federal government, Sally Yates (Loesch). In her argument, she states that President Trump did what other presidents ...

“Oedipus Rex”, “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, “The Glass Menagerie”

Nowadays, gender issues is a highly relevant topic in modern society which is not only raised in discussions, but also greatly present in the works of art. As one of the purposes of literature is to reflect the greatest concerns and world problems and speak up for them, the works describing the current role of woman in society are of a great importance. Moreover, the way the female characters are presented in the literary works make a great influence on how they are viewed in reality – that is why the depiction of women in literature needs to be thoroughly ...

Constructivism and structural realism are two theories of IR that seem to differ in their argumentations. The proponents of the structural realism seem to base the establishment of international relations on political powers while the social constructivists argue that international relations are socially constructed. Structural realism supports the decentralization of the international structure and the equality in sovereignty among all states or international actors. However, in the constructivism theory, the international relations seem to be grounded on social interactions, where the role of all international actors in negotiating international relations has central importance. The two theories view the interests ...

Introduction

Modernism was born out of the instability caused by World War I. People began to question the foundations of authority, as well as their social and cultural traditions. This unease is brought not only by the war, but also the increasing developments in politics, economics and science (Wrenn, 2010), liberating many traditions and perspectives. It is marred by “the struggle for knowledgesenselessness and alienation” (Wrenn, 2010). Literature was not immune to these changes, thus the modernist literary movement emerged. Here we analyze Chopin’s The Story of the Hour and Hemingway’s The Cat in the Rain to look ...

The subject of women in combat is one of the least studied in the history and the literature. This topic is very important in the context of gender and many other issues. For many years, researchers have been interested in the issues of women as the part of one of the most terrible events in the world. As it is known from the ancient times, war is a men's business, and nobody have doubted in this fact. Moreover, women always acted as passive victims, i.e. "damsels in distress", having secondary importance at war. However, many researchers, who have studied ...

Introduction

This report focuses on analyzing sociological approach and how it has been able to view societal issues. This is based on the fact that are common in the recent times, there has been an increasing demand for such issues to be well addressed to make the society a perfect place where development in every ramification will be the watchword. Sociological approach tries to explain man’s relationship among others around him in his everyday life or activities. Such could be either in the field of religion, business, politics or the society at large. In this write – up, the influence ...

Introduction

Within the last 10 years increased attention has been given to the LGBT community and their civil rights. The issues of gender are now being debated in schools and impacting educational communities. The term transgender has undoubtedly been a popular term in recent times. The idea of being transgender seeks to break down cultural norms of gender and categorizing. In this literature review the focus takes on different implications of how the LGBT community has impacted the way in which children are socializing. Schools are experiencing a SSA (Same Sex Attracted) phenomenon where young people are receiving a lot ...

Discussion of the problem and it’s prevalence in the country

A healthy relationship is defined by various factors, these include proper communication between partners, the existence of mutual trust and respect and most importantly, both partners should be able to understand each other, appreciate and embrace their differences (Brown & Bulanda, 2008). These conditions are necessary to ensure that partners are always in a position to resolve any matters arising between them in an amicable and rational manner without any violence. This scope of activities require certain skills that are unfortunately not found amongst the young adults; it’s as a result of lack of these skills amongst young adult ...

A WPR APPROACH TO POLICY MAKING FOR GENDER ISSUES

What’s the problem represented to be? In her discourse on addressing social problems through government policy, writes about how policies are put in place using only one representation of the problem. An example she cites is the problem of high infant mortality rate of Aboriginal children. The Australian government’s investigation drew the conclusion that their nomadic lifestyle was the reason for the problem. Therefore the solution was for them to settle in one place. The assumptions are many; one, that being nomadic is a problem, that two, settlements will give them a better life, and possibly the ...

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English philosopher, writer, and most importantly a women’s rights activists, who lived in the late 18th century. She is known for her book, A Vindication of the rights of Women, which was published in the year 1972. Through this book, Mary Wollstonecraft discusses the gender issues as at the time. By this time, the society was a male chauvinistic one, and women did not have much authority in the society. In her book, she argues that women and men are by their very nature equal, but it is only the lack of education that ...

Differences and Similarities of Basketball in Different Countries

This paper deals with the topic of differences and similarities of sport in different countries. The kind of sport, which is chosen for this paper, is basketball. Our main goal is to dwell upon differences and similarities of this kind of sport with regard to cultural, violence, and gender issues. In order to achieve this goal successfully, relevant sources of information were carefully analyzed. There is very interesting fact that some of the American basketball fans do not know about other basketball leagues except NBA. The basketball is considered to be one of the most popular sports nowadays. Actually, ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of this study is to critically identify and assess both the internal and external organizational environment for Telstra Corporation, and offer conclusive description of how most of these environmental factors impact human resource management in organization. The report will also identify the current and emerging workforce trends and issues, and also assess their implications on human resource management and workforce with Telstra Corporation as the reference point. This report stresses upon the factors impacting on Human Resource Management (HRM) as a key strategic element for any business organization. The findings will help address most of the organizational issues ...

Introduction

Discrimination involves action toward individuals on the basis of their group membership; Baron and Byrne (1994) defined discrimination as prejudice in action. Discrimination can take a very overt form (e.g., refusal to hire women into certain jobs), but in many instances, gender discrimination involves the degree to which the workplace is open to versus resistant to the participation of women. Although many discussions of gender discrimination have focused on the ways managers and supervisors treat men and women, gender discrimination could involve managers, co-workers, subordinates, clients, or customers. In general, gender discrimination include behaviours occurring in the workplace that limit ...