10 résultats pour "gender"
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Débat Single Sex School
ways to learn, independence, participation during class, ability to succeed in school, attitude in school, behavior in school and grades. Highlights of the survey results included: · Roughly three-quarters of the students who participated in the survey believed that single-gender classes were contributing factors to their improvements in each category. · Although both boys and girls gave positive reviews to the single-gender experience, the strongest endorsements came from girls. Four ou...
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violence againt women
I N TRODUCT IO N V io lence agai ns t women means al l v io len t i nd i v i d ua l or col lect ive behav io r based solely on a quest ion of gender. Rela ted to gender stud ies ( the study of w ha t is gender speci f ic), t he resea rch ai ms to demons t ra te t ha t t h is t ype of behav io r is based on a socia l rep resen ta t ion of t he k i nd t ha t to le ra te or encou rage such a t tacks. T hey a re associa ted w i t h fo rced ma r r i ages, forced p regnanc...
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gender and transgression in Horace
Women objectification: Camille as object “frère posseseur”, “je serais le salaire”, and objects of possession. Men assure that because he is in love with Camille he possesses her. Both of the female characters are aware that they are being passed around between men being objects of possession. They are expected to pass from one identity to another. Horace says to Sabine she has to merge with his emotions and ideas not for him to lower his standards to support her. Lec...
- Gilbert HERDT, The Sambia: Ritual and gender in New Guinea
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Cancer (medicine).
unable to repair the DNA damage, p53 instructs the cell to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis , putting a stop to runaway cell division before it starts. Programmed cell death is a normal part of cell life and is tightly controlled by many genes, primarily p53. In a cancerous cell, one or more mutations prevent these genes from doing their jobs. When mutated, p53 allows a cell to continue to divide, even with damaged DNA.This can lead to additional mutations in proto-oncogenes or tumor...
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Hinduism.
they do not share any basic terms. B Sanātana Dharma Evidence from inscriptions indicates that Hindus had begun to use the word dharma for their religion by the 7th century. After other religions of Indian origin also began to use this term, Hindus then adopted the expression san ātana dharma to distinguish their dharma from others. The word san ātana, meaning immemorial as well as eternal, emphasized the unbroken continuity of the Hindu tradition in contrast to the other dharmas . The Bu...
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Supreme Court of the United States.
The Constitution does not specify formal qualifications for membership on the Supreme Court. From the beginning, though, justices have all been lawyers, and mostpursued legal and political careers before serving on the Court. Many justices served as members of Congress, governors, or members of the Cabinet. One president,William Howard Taft, was later appointed chief justice. Some justices came to the Court from private law practice, and others were appointed from positions as lawprofessors. Man...
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Criminal Procedure.
B State Criminal Procedure A person prosecuted in the courts of a particular state on a charge of violating the criminal laws of that state is subject to state criminal procedure. State criminalprocedure is found in the constitution, statutes, rules, and judicial decisions of that state. Furthermore, portions of the U.S. Constitution are applicable to state criminaldefendants. State constitutions generally guarantee a state criminal defendant most of the same rights that a federal defendant is...
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Theater
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INTRODUCTION
The Art of Theater
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
Theater at EpidaurusAncient Greek dramas were performed in open-air theaters like this one in Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed byPolyclitus the Younger in 350 bc. A festival of ancient Greek drama is still held in the summer in this 14,000-seat theater.Roger Wood/Corbis Fundamental to the theater experience is the act of seeing and being seen; in fact, the word theater comes from the Greek word theatron , meaning 'seeing place.' Throughout the history of world cultures, actors have used...