In this paper the writer, Michelle Powers, will be critiquing American Disabilities Act (ADA) and Affirmative Action. The ADA’s role in society is to prohibit discrimination against a person with a mental or physical disability in regard to public services, telecommunications, employment, and transportation. (American Disability Act, 2009) Affirmative Action is a set of policies ...
The 1st-wave feminism refers to those women who fought for the right to vote. Suffragettes fought through the 1920’s and 1930’s for the right to vote. Once they were allowed to vote, they fought for equality voting. This means they wanted the right to vote just as men did. Body: Second- wave Feminism was introduced ...
Paul Anka was born in Ottowa, Ontario, Canada in 1941 and became an extremely popular teen idol of the 1950’s and 1960’s. His early singing experience was in church and he first started performing at the age of 12. His father, Andy, financed Paul’s first recording, “I Confess” when Paul was 14. In 1957, Paul ...
In June, 1966, hundreds of representatives of women’s concerns nation-wide met for the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington D.C. Frustrated at the lack of agency they had within this U.S. government organization, some of the conference’s attendees decided that the time had come for a private national organization ...
I have a friend who says she’ll only go out with one other woman at a time –Dyads–she calls them. Why? She says when women are together in groups of 3 or 4, there’s a noticeable jockeying for power akin to the alpha dog tactics in animal groups. She doesn’t trust them, for she says: ...
