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    Equality was a human right that was a controversial issue which directly affected women. We can depict the importance of equality even from ancient eras to current modern ages. According to the tale, women most desire the self-same sovereignty over her husband or any other male. In the medieval periods, women were considered as mere objects and their only duty was to bear and raise children. They were not given a choice or an opinion. This had a huge effect on their thoughts which was…

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    Furthermore, men play a role in gender equality. There are men in the world who fear, women are going to do better than men. According to Sheryl Sandberg when a man is successful he is liked by both men and women, on the other hand when a woman is successful she is disliked by both genders. This is because a woman is seen as if she cannot achieve much, and when she does it provokes the emotion of jealousy. Even though, studies have shown women bring knowledge to work places. Sheryl Sandberg…

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    potentially cause tensions between the government and the citizens. The reciprocity of freedom and equality can be easily envisioned when involving it in highschool regulations as a base, and then connecting it to our government. During lunch time, some schools allow their students to leave their campus, which gives them more freedom, while other mandate their students stay at school which gives them more equality. As for the government, whites were allowed more freedom such as voting and…

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    and without his brothers beside him. He works for his own purposes, for his own desires, for the dreams that were born in his own steady heart and bright mind. In the world of Anthem, Equality 7-2521 is a relic from a time long passed. By working in the dark to bring forgotten scientific truths into the light, Equality defies the most valued rule, the baseline for all human life in this dismal age: there is no “I,” only “we.” However, it is Equality’s indefatigable thirst to create something…

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    expected to follow, and the novels and poems we read. This theme consists of many factors but the one that stands out is equality. As we get older, this theme becomes less apparent in our studies because it is assumed that we, as teenagers, are aware of racial prejudice and women’s rights but this is not always the case. The play Romeo and Juliet does not just demonstrate equality through the love that Romeo and Juliet have for each other, but it goes further to display Juliet as the influential…

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    solely on industrial capitalism. The idea of a perfect socialist society with complete fairness and equality in its entirety is only found on TV shows like HBO’s Walking Dead. The world would need a substantial calamity and vast chaos causing a group of survivors to be forced to create their own society; in which fairness and equality might have a chance at success. Yet when given fairness and equality, will the people of that country become poorer or will they strive? In…

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    knowledge about equality in society. With the movement of equality and the leader of our country defending it, as they look up to the president who is there to only help others, many people began spreading love to one another. For that reason, Barack Obama is the Person of the Year…

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    Equality is agreeably something the world should be pursuing, but should we have total equality? Should everyone be the same in order for it to be fair? Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, “Harrison Bergeron” describes a world where there is total equality; everyone is the same. The story takes place in 2081, where amendments have been added to make everyone the same. Those who are stronger, faster, smarter or beautiful wear burdens to bring them down to the same level as the rest of society. No one…

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    A final important idea of the age of enlightenment was that adding social equalities, and rights would positively affect society and its development. Mary Wollstonecraft was the first ever feminist in history. She would be the face of social equality for women. Through her impressive arguments and books based on women’s rights, her philosophy of social equality would be a start for not just equality and rights for men, but everyone, regardless of gender. Mary Wollstonecraft was an English…

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    Humanity’s dream of equality has evolved to a great extent ; over the past 100 years and even farther than that. Humanity is mainly America. America has many different types of people, so America has many different types of dreams. The dreams of equality are based off of the people, such as women rights are based off of women who feel as though they don’t have rights or their rights aren’t as equal as men’s and so on. But, the evolution of equality is worth learning about, the different types of…

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