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    In 2012, Marie Claire, a monthly women’s magazine, released a series of advertisements in support of the Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines. The Reproductive Health Bill guarantees universal access to contraceptives, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care. The campaign is used as a vehicle to promote the message of female dominance in female health practices. The campaign as a whole depicts exclusively Filipino women with pieces of men crudely attached to sections of…

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    “…over 11 million people cycle through local jails each year,” (Prison Policy Initiative 2015). Because of this constant transfer of people from the jailhouse to the real world, correctional counselors are definitely needed. The purpose of having correctional counselors is to help inmates process the transition from jail or prison back to the real world. This counseling gives inmates the opportunity to express their fears and obstacles they think they will have to face before actually being…

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    ADA Compliance Case Study

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    WEB ACCESSIBILITY ADA WCAG AAA TESTING, AUDITING & COMPLIANCE IMPLEMENTATION The online web has been established as a “place of public accommodation”, to which fair access must be provided to all who visit. Website Accessibility for those with disabilities is a civil right that the Department of Justice is now aggressively defending, in addition to Accessibility Advocates and a growing number of plaintiff law firms. Following the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) is the de…

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    Republican Ronald Wilson Reagan stepped into office as the 40th president of the United States of America on January 20, 1981. At age 69 he began his two-term journey as one of the most charismatic presidents in history. His past as an actor, his great communication skills, and his inspirational and comforting whimsy led the public to form nicknames for President Reagan, such as The Great Communicator and The Gipper, that mimicked his inspirational nature. He was strong in his Conservative…

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    Strategic Defense Initiative The mission of the Missile Defense Agency is “to develop, test, and field an integrated, layered, ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends against all ranges of enemy ballistic missiles in all phases of flight” (History). Today, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is the United States’ ballistic missile research and development organization that resulted from the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative…

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    2015 Strategic Defense Initiative Long time ago in a galaxy not to far away, President Ronald Reagan initiated the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, as coined by critics. The initiative was formed on the 23rd of March in the year of 1983. The initiative was proposed at the time as a U.S. strategic defense system against Soviet Union Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, or ICBMs, by intercepting the missiles or warheads at various phases of their launch. The initiative would have…

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    Susan B Anthony Bicycle

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    There are many reason why the invention of the bicycle changed women’s lives, contributing to the individualistic thought that brought forth waves of feminism. Susan B. Anthony wrote, “That which made me succeed with the bicycle was precisely what had gained me a measure of success in life”; in The life and work of Susan B. Anthony: including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years. A story of the evolution of the status of woman, she equates her…

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    Lois Graessle Biography

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    organizations including Refugee Action, Water Aid, and The Mental Health Foundation. After marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, with Martin Luther King in her student years, she hitchhiked and worked across Europe and the Middle East. The Florid native later resettled in the UK, where she worked on the forefront of the women’s liberation movement — editing the first women’s movement newsletter, the Shrew, and organizing the first National Women’s Liberation Conference. She continued to…

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    that despite the readiness to embrace the subject matter, none of them has reported being able to ensure men's inclusivity. Wanner and Wadham (2015) have then further gone on to detail ways through which the gap can be bridged. Reports from the world health organization (WHO), the UN commission, GAD among other relevant kinds of literature suggest the introduction of men-based perspective in all matters that are associated with gender equality. But above all else is creating the association…

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    Son Preference Case Study

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    The major activities include several nationwide initiative: a youth volunteer programme; a programme under which journalists of national mass-media organizations travelled through Beijing, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hunan, Guangxi and Guizhou provinces, to advocate for the “Care for Girls” campaign and report…

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