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This paper examines Oprah Winfrey's leadership style, identifying her charisma and love for her audience as major factors in her success. It briefly discusses her professional and personal life and her special skills, including her ability to organize.

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"In the list of the world's ranking mega-leaders there are few women. This is undoubtedly not for any lack of talent or leadership ability among women but more likely because the step between being a good leader and being a ..."

Tags:Oprah Winfrey, leadership, charismatic

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The paper begins with a description of the abolitionist movement. The role of white women in the movement is then discussed, including motivations for involvement, such as empathy with others considered second-class citizens, and personal relationships with slaves.

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"During the 1800's when the anti-slave movement began the main champions for the ending of slavery other than slaves themselves were white women. White women sympathized and even helped slaves; one notable example was the Underground Railroad, where some white women risked their homes and possibly even their lives to help slaves escape to the North. Some white women stood side by side in full public view with slaves proudly demonstrating their support for the anti slavery movement. On the surface it would seem that white women and slaves would have very little if anything at all in common. However, such an assumption would be far from the truth. The abolitionist movement was about human suffering and human rights, the quest for justice, liberty, equality and freedom resounded within the hearts and minds of women who silently longed to be free themselves. While it was whites that enslaved Blacks, it was primarily white men who involved themselves in the business of buying and selling slaves, it was white men who owned the property and the land that the slaves toiled on day and night. At the same time, white women had few if any rights. White women felt as if the same shackles that bound the slaves bound them as well. The words orated by slaves who spoke of the yearning to be free also struck a cord among women. Women begin to take issue with slavery and later as history revealed women began to fight for freedom for themselves. It was the above-mentioned reasons that women were so attracted to the anti slavery movement, and pursued the cause with a vengeance."

Tags:black, inferiority, discrimination, equality, oppressor, Constitution, Chapman, Garrison, Philips, Kelly

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This paper analyzes the attributes that made Marilyn Monroe a cultural icon.

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This paper focuses on the historical personage of Ida B. Wells as displayed through secondary and primary reports, with special attention given to the public and social interconnection of her political goals.

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"In her early life, a more personal attenuation can perhaps be attributed to the life of Ida B. Wells in terms of the absence of her standing within political organizations, but she was still very concerned with social networks from a young age, and showed herself to be unflagging in her efforts to advance the cause of black women everywhere through her
own individual example. Wells became an orphan at a young age but remained dedicated to education, and when her family was split up after a Yellow Fever epidemic in Mississippi, she fought to retain control of her siblings and keep her family together by getting a teaching position. This shows that family and togetherness were important to Wells from an early age; she did not profess individualism and the conviction that she would be able to "make it on her own" as an orphan, but instead struggled to keep her family network together by making personal sacrifices."

Tags:persecution, inequality, south, frederick, douglass, african, american, southern, horrors

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This paper examines the controversial life and work of Margaret Sanger, and her drive to provide women with an education regarding birth control. The author discusses Sanger's views on pregnancy, contraception, and the early beginnings of planned parenthood.

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"The early twentieth century was a revolutionary turning point in American history. This was especially true regarding woman and their rights. During this time period, there was a tremendous amount of human suffering. Those who endured much of this were women. Although there were many women who made their mark on history during this time period, Margaret Sanger was among the most influential, yet controversial women of her time. Her work in creating what is today known as Planned Parenthood, and her avocations to legalize birth control, remain a controversy to this day. "

Tags:medicine, parenthood, planned, studies, women, abortion, new, york

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This paper details the state of nursing up until the mid nineteenth century and gives a history of the life of Florence Nightingale. The paper explains her contribution to the development of nursing theory and its application to nursing practice. It shows how she raised nursing to the level of a medical profession with high standards of education and important responsibilities. The paper also explains her promotion of public health care systems.

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"Nurses, until the mid nineteenth century, were usually volunteers (often men and women belonging to various religious orders) with little or no training. As late as the end of the 18th century nursing was considered an unsuitable occupation for "proper" young women, partially due to the fact that hospitals in those days were dirty and unhygienic places where patients invariably died. As a result, nursing care was commonly provided by persons who had been imprisoned for drunkenness or who could not find work elsewhere."

Tags:hospital, war, nurse, theory, education

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This essay develops an understanding of the struggles that were faced by Loyalist women and the contributions that they made nonetheless. It develops the argument that these women were not properly acknowledged by historians and deserve far more respect for their endless troubles and efforts than what they have received.

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"After the American Revolution, Americans had traditionally viewed the Loyalists as stiff-necked Tories, who were rich, greedy, self-interested, and remained loyal only for personal gain.1 However, portraits of the white Ontario Loyalists entirely contradicted the American stereotype. They say that the loyalists enjoyed neither wealth nor privilege.2 The only people who experienced more difficulties than the Loyalist group, itself, were loyalist women, who faced inequality and discrimination as an everyday part of their lives. Because many women had been raised with stern father-figures and came from conservative families, they had a strong sense of respecting authority and were socially conservative.3 Women did not decide to become a Loyalist or a Patriot, they merely followed their leaders and stood by their families under the given circumstances."

Tags:america, american, brtish, conservative, female, history, north, revolution, role, woman

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The paper discusses the psychology academia's discrimination against women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The paper focuses on the life and work of Eleanor Gibson, a female psychologist who struggled throughout her career to be fully recognized by her male colleagues. The paper concludes with the hope that the faces of psychology departments will change and begin to represent more equally the gender statistics of those studying in the field of psychology.

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"The majority of textbooks discussing the history of psychology or the major figures in psychology are written from the 'Great Man' perspective, in which the achievements of a few men mark the timeline of psychology and its progression as a recognized and respected discipline. Even individuals who have never taken psychology courses are likely to be familiar with names such as Freud, Maslow, and Wundt. But individuals, within psychology and not, who are familiar with the names of Mary Calkins, Marget Washburn, Christine Ladd-Franklin or Eleanor Gibson are few and far between. A number of women have contributed significantly to the field of psychology and yet received little to no recognition for their work."

Tags:discrimination, gender, nepotism

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This research examines the life, work and legacy of Dorothea Elizabeth Orem, a nursing theorist whose ideas emerged in the 1950s, exerting a great deal of influence on nursing education and practice. This paper analyzes Orem's theory, also known as the self-care deficit theory of nursing (SCDT).

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"Based on the assessment, the nurse may provide different degrees of "compensation" for the individual patient's "deficits" or relative inability to care for himself/herself(Orem, 1985). The theory is consistent with notions of wellness, preventive intervention, and patient empowerment that have been observed to foster recovery in a variety of venues and with a variety of illnesses (Shea, 1992; Neergaard, 1990)."

Tags:Providence, health, deviation

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This paper examines how Mary Magdalene is a character who often catches the imagination of biblical scholars and how although her role in the "New Testament" is quite limited, recent knowledge uncovered when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered suggests otherwise. It looks at how the "Gnostic Gospels" suggest that she was a very important figure in early Christianity and that the suppression of her personal religious philosophy was an intentional move by the disciple Peter. This paper tries to reconcile those ideas with the text of the "Gnostic Gospels" and that of the "New Testament". Was she a prophet, an apostle, Jesus' wife or simply the former prostitute who washed his feet?

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"There is evidence that Mary was spiritually superior to all the other disciples. She was the first to be charged with the supreme ministry (proclaiming Christ's message) at the site of his resurrection (Haskins 2). Mary Magdalene is referred to as "the woman who knew the All", she who "reveals the greatness of the revealer", the "chief interlocutrix of the Saviour", or the one who brings gnosis to the other disciples, and the "one who is the inheritor of the Light" (Haskins 38). Mary's position as the "apostle who excels the rest" according to Dialogue of the Saviour (Haskins 40), is due in part to her ability to prophecy. After the resurrection of Jesus, Mary tells of a vision in which "Jesus showed her the course of the liberated spirit on its way back to the Aeon" (Price 57)."

Tags:bible, dead, jesus, prostitute, scrolls, sea