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The period from the 1960 's to the mid-1990 is known today as second wave feminism. The beginning of this much more radical wave of feminism is often cited to have begun with the late 60 's protests in Atlantic City against the Miss America Pageant. The pageant had induced outrage in many women because was objectifying…

The Second Great Awakening This religious revival movement explored the role of ideas, beliefs and cultures that played into shaping the United States. Beginning in the 1790s, conservative theologians tried to fight the spread of religious rationalism and church establishments tried to revitalize their organizations. The Second Great Awakening gained momentum by 1800 and membership rose quickly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. It was essentially a…

Second shift is a woman being responsible for the child and the household work. Although this may be the definition, I believe a second shift is a woman that takes care of the household (including the child) after her real job. Many poor families deal with my ideal definition of a second shift. Women work for intensive hours and come home to deal with household work due to the difference in gender…

opponents have a skill level that includes making basic considerations about what sort of hand you might have, then you have the chance to start making some very advanced plays using what's referred to as second level thinking in poker. There are a number of common flop scenarios which illustrate second level thinking in action, and here we're going to look…

dominant racial rules. (Kennedy, 2001). Even though “passing” was popular during the 1920s and 1930s, it flourished between 1947 and 1957 where the dawn of the second Red Scare was making its way through the United States. “The Second Red Scare was a fear-driven phenomenon brought on by the growing power of communist countries in the wake of the Second World War,…

The second amendment was great because it gave the people a free to carry a gun on them. Most people who carry a gun on then are usually have it for protections, some people get guns for bad reasons. There has to be some gun laws but for adults to carry guns it's a good law that lets them. Criminals should not be allowed to carry guns which they aren't which is good it's smart, and kids under the age of 18 should not be allowed to own guns. There has been people's lives been saved by people who…

Learning a second language is a complex process that exceeds the acquisition of its structure and vocabulary. One of the major components of mastering a new language requires learners to become familiar and sensitive to the preference in language use by native speakers of certain sequences of words over others (Wray, 2000). It is the mastery of these word sequences that distinguishes novice from proficient L2 learners. Yet, there is still little agreement across studies on the number of words…

In “The Second Coming,” what does Yeats mean when he writes “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” (line 2)? How does this relate to “the centre cannot hold” (line 3)? In “The Second Coming” there is a footnote at the end of the first line explaining what Yeats envisioned for the word gyre. It mentions that it was meant to represent the age of Christians and how it was spiraling downwards to an end. With this in mind, the second line that reads, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” it paints a…

five second rule. If you are unaware of what this technique is, it’s were someone counts to five and does whatever they were too nervous or scared to do previously. First off, I am a really naturally shy person when it comes to raising my hand in class if I know the answer to a question, saying hello to someone new in a class or in the hall, or simply trying to give a presentation in front of the class. Being shy has ruined my confidence levels in myself at times because it makes me second guess…

Introduction Following the end of the Second World War (1939-1945), the United States was propelled into a Cold War with the Soviet Union and other communist countries around the world. At the root of this political hostility was the ideological struggle between western capitalism and Soviet communism. This era, beginning in the late 1940s and ending in the early 1950s, is characterized by a series of communist ‘witch-hunts’ and nationwide alarm caused by the perceived threat posed by communists…