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    The Gender Payage Gap

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    In most jobs, women earn eighty cents for every dollar a man makes for the same exact job. This type of injustice affects everyone, men and women alike. Although throughout the years the gender wage gap has narrowed; earning twenty percent less is not equal pay for equal work. Men and women should earn comparable wages when doing the same job and having the same level of education, job skills, and work-related responsibilities. Today, education plays a decisive role in obtaining a good job that

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    Although we think that equality is something good and that everyone should be equal, equality not only takes away your personality, but also your freedom. Likewise, in “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, the reader learns that equality is not necessarily a good thing that we should try to achieve.At the start of the story, the author makes us believe that being equal is a good thing because it is something that people want in society. It is not until we experience how the government treats

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    There are a lot of distinct differences between females and males, but one of those difference shouldn’t be how they are raised. Parents and Guardians should not have different hopes and standards for their sons than for their daughters because it affects their children in many different negative ways and promotes anti equality. Although I do understand that in our society today we have different set standards for males and females I still believe that the way parents and guardians raise their children

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    In Paradise Lost, John Milton places empathizes on the hierarchical system in marriage which relates to the role and ideas of women in his time. This theme is seen throughout the poem in the form of Eve’s role as wife to Adam and how she is perceived in comparison to him. In the poem, Satan remarks that “both [Adam & Eve] are not equal, as their sex not equal seemed” (Book 4, 295-6). Since Adam and Eve were not born the same way, it would be unlikely for them to be considered equals in God’s spiritual

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    immigrants — who account for around a quarter of all children under age 8 in the U.S. — face discrimination at school during this formative period.” the article then goes on to say, “This results in a multitude of negative psychological, academic and social outcomes. And children of immigrants in the early grades may be especially vulnerable as they are only beginning to develop an understanding of how they fit into their family, culture, and community. Research suggests that students who are confident

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    What Is Chivalry

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    This world is full of fear, regret, and thanklessness. It is almost as if the population ignores everyone but themselves, as though no one else besides that person matters. Life is a beautiful thing; something everyone should cherish. Chivalry is needed in today’s society. This is just one of the many steps to a better environment for everyone involved. But it takes an expanded amount of people instead of one person to complete. In order to work together, chivalry is mandatory. Chivalry is not

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    The three foundations of government are freedom, equality and order picking from these foundations which one weighs the heaviest in importance would come down to which of these foundations could in some fashion provide all three. Equality is the of the utmost importance in any society and if only one foundation could prevail it would and rightfully so should be equality. Equality can provide pieces of all three of these basic and essential foundations. If everyone is equal, everyone will have the

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    In The Phaedo, one of Socrates’ aims is to convince us that our souls existed prior to our birth. In making this argument, he claims that we had some knowledge of imperceptible things prior to our birth, and that through “recollection” of our pre-birth knowledge of imperceptible things, we are able to perceive certain qualities of things like equality beginning after our birth. Socrates’ argument begins by defining recollection as when someone ‘perceives one thing, knows that thing, and also thinks

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    Entitlement Society

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    Entitlement, the belief that one is deserving or entitled to certain privileges. What does this mean in our society? Our country has become an entitlement society. Causing a negative effect not only to our generation, but to our economy as well. This culture of entitlement is teaching an entire generation to be dependant on the government. Breeding a generation with little motivation and ambition. Our country's values which say we all have the ability to earn prosperity through whatever

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    yet a wage gap persists. Some portion of the wage gap may result from decisions women make, personal job preference, or socio-economic circumstances; however, many still face overt or subtle employment discrimination, contributing to continued inequality." Women have more of a drive to get a higher education. Growing up women have always been taught school comes first and the goal is to have high grades. If a women was to do poorly on a test or fail a class, they would be looked down upon. When

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