...Odyssey that he portrays women in the epic. During this time period, women did not have many rights and everything was left to the men. In Homer’s poem, not only do women portray beauty, but they also portray power. Most women that are read about in this epic are usually a goddess that have great beauty or mystical powers. Homer also portrays them as smarter and wiser as men. Some of the women are evil but there are also some that are good. There are many women that portray power in this epic and the most powerful are Penelope, Athena, and Circe. One very important woman in the epic was Penelope. Not only was she Odysseus’s main goal to get back to, but she was also his motivation. Penelope was not...
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...world views women and their roles in society. Specifically, how life for Canadian women has changed and how women from different cultures and countries each face unique problems in being respected and treated as equal members of society. Women have gone from being valued only as housewives in the fifties to CEOs in modern times. This is a remarkable achievement which should have come sooner. Although, even in today’s society women are still subjected to unfair and unjustified prejudice, stereotyping, sexism and conservative old fashioned gender role ideas. Women were believed to be passive and weak which is a complete contrast to how most of the world views women today. When compared...
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...Chanda Kochhar (born 17 November 1961) is the managing director (MD) of ICICI Bank and its chief executive officer (CEO). ICICI Bank is India's largest private bank and overall second largest bank in the country. She also heads the Corporate Centre of ICICI Bank. Kochhar was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and raised in Jaipur, Rajasthan. She is an alumnus of St. Angela Sophia School, Jaipur. She then moved to Mumbai, where she joined Jai Hind College for a Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduating in 1982 she then pursued Cost Accountancy ICWAI, Later, she acquired the Masters Degree in Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. She received the Wockhardt Gold Medal for Excellence in Management Studies as well as the J. N. Bose Gold Medal in Cost Accountancy for highest marks in the same year.[3] Kochhar resides in Mumbai, and is married to Deepak Kochhar, a wind energy entrepreneur and her Business schoolmate. She has two children, a son and a daughter. She was excellent in studies. In 1984, Kochhar joined the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Ltd. (ICICI). as a management trainee after her Master's degree. In her early years in ICICI, she handled Project Appraisal and Monitoring and projects in various industries like Textile, Paper and Cement. In 1993, Kochhar was sent to ICICI bank as part of a core team to set the bank. She was promoted to Assistant General Manager in 1994 and then to Deputy General Manager in 1996...
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...experiences, and countless other factors. Something that stands out is that Women usually are not associated with the Divine. God is usually believed or presumed to be a he. Women overall seem to be pushed off to the side when it comes to any type of powerful position in society. In class we have gone over many different books and movies, all in which conceive The Divine in many different ways. Tillich, the authors of Latina Evangélicas, and the people in the episode of The Hand of God, all have different thoughts on what the divine is and what he does. Tillich for example doesn’t even believe that one should define God. The Divine is unable to be defined because God is conceived in many different ways, but it should not be ignored that women are usually ignored as a possibility....
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...Dangerous Women They fight with power, speak with persuasion and play with seduction. Their humor is cold and wet and they strive to make a name for themselves. They nurture and take care of their followers but they also make time to get down to business. Don’t worry, I knew what you were thinking, but this has nothing to do with any sort of political election, well almost nothing. For once this is about the women. For many centuries, women would seldom leave their houses. They weren’t tied up, or locked in, so why were they always there? Women worked and spent most of their time cleaning the house, doing dishes and taking care of her children because that is what society and men expected from all women back then. “They did what they could to assure that women carried out their supportive roles as faithful and deferential helpers and nurturing companions” (Hoffert, 15). Men were the breadwinners and were physically stronger than any women, or so they liked to believe. For men, their physical strength is what made them so powerful in the world and amongst the opposite sex. But unfortunately for the men, they forgot that women posses a strong sense of mental and emotional strength, making them extremely dangerous in any situation. Women were stepped on for so many years, and they were tired of being treated like flies. Of course they all wanted the perfect love story with the perfect family, but had ambitions to accomplish so much more. Women wanted to make it known to all...
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...Over several years, women have overcome numerous hardships. Bearing the role of a woman it was expected for them to have been belittled and mistreated. Required to be obedient to their husbands and the rest of the men they come in contact with, women had only a few roles which mainly consisted of cooking cleaning and bearing children. During this era of time being a woman was a minority in itself let alone being inferior. Men were known to have a lack of respect for women, and would often treat them as if they were slaves. During the time of the Greeks Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, and Aristophanes women were depicted as wise, powerful, revengeful and deceitful creatures. These four characteristics show the similarities and differences...
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...Based on the representations shown in Discovering the Global Past, chapter three, the Greek and Egyptian cultures both value strong men, and women who needed their men. However, one difference that the Egyptians and Greeks have in their values is simplicity. The Egyptians favored elaborateness and the Greeks preferred simplicity. Both the Greek and Egyptian cultures value strength in their men. The images of the Greek men show these men in the prime of their abilities. The well muscled bodies depicted in the images show vitality and power that men in their prime have. The image "Theseus and the Amazons" shows strong and militarily powerful men defeating the Amazons. Competition of any kind, athletic or militaristic, was a way for men to prove themselves in Greek society. If a man showed arete he had honor (Burger, 49). Because of the Greek's chase of arete, men had to be strong both physically and intellectually in order to win. When Greek artists depicted men, the only men worthy to make art of were strong men with arete, so looking at the Greek culture, strong men were valued. The Egyptian images two and three show powerful men as well. In image two, showing Nebamum hunting, Nebamum is larger than his wife and servant. He is also closer to the foreground of the image with the other two in the background. Another instance of the man being larger and more forward is with image three. King Ramesses II is much larger than his wife, with Nefertari only coming up to his...
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...role : homemaker or work? Women nowadays play many roles in their daily life. Unlike in the past, women now are more educate and seek for achievement and success in their career. The 2012 FORBES list out the world’s most powerful women and these 20 leaders represent the year’s most powerful women in business. At the top of the list, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg ranks as the most powerful woman in business. 30-year IBM veteran Virginia Rometty who was tapped as CEO and becoming the first woman ever to lead the century-old tech giant with more than $100 billion in revenues is ranked at No. 4. Former eBay Chief Meg Whitman was ranked in No.6. We can see that women are sometimes more capable in a business world. However, a recent report in Turkey shows that women quite their job after they went into a marriage. Maybe because of they can’t take the balance between their job and take care of their family. This problem would become more obvious when they have children. Children need good care and full attention from parents to ensure that there are in the right path. Parents play an important role in educates their children to behave in proper. Many cases on media show the impact of both working parents that took too less care on their children. So women are being encouraged to be a homemaker in such case. There are many different arguments about a woman’s role, whether to work or just be a homemaker. It’s just like what I’ve mentioned earlier, women now are seek more achievement...
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...Women on the U.S Home Front When the war began there was an extremely high demand for jobs to produce wartime materials, and when the men were shipped off to war, the women stepped up and took their place. Women also did various other things from victory gardens to rationing goods. But, arguably their most important role was to keep a positive attitude and high moral on the Home Front. War can be a very scary time but women did all they could to make their children, and others feel safe. During WWII, life on the Home Front was a significant part of the war effort and had a major impact on the outcome of the war, and no one had a more significant role on the Home Front than women. This document is a personal account of Mourine Merrow, she describes her early life and her life throughout the wars. It also includes a photo of Mourine and her husband working together at the Aircraft Training School. Mourine Merrow was born in Michigan in 1916 and she lived there throughout the war. Mourine felt many impacts of the war in her daily life, and rather than complain or get upset, she took things into her own hands and did all she could to support the war. She supported the war by rationing foods and goods, by volunteering at various places, wrote letters to troops to boost moral, planted a victory garden, and she even enrolled in the Aircraft Training School. This story was intended for all U.S citizens, to show everything that she did, and you can do, in your life to be a good American...
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...In the epic Odysseus, readers see that men and women play very different roles in the Greek culture. Women can have very powerful roles that range from goddesses to queens. Many times in this epic, women display that they have control over men, and they can influence a man to do anything they want. But, men have different views on different classes of women, and they value high class women more than lower women. When a man and woman marry, the woman is expected to be loyal to him when he is away. The same act is expected of the men, however, showing that both genders are important in the Greek culture. Women are shown to be either very powerful or very mistreated depending on social class, whereas men are shown to be powerful, free warriors....
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...trivialize and romanticize violence against women. Kilbourne also suggests that advertising is America’s pornography; sex is used to sell everything. She also believes that our culture’s qualities are consistently divided into masculine and feminine, with feminine qualities being devalued or de-humanized. Advertising tells us who we are and who we should be, and what is most important about women is how we look. Given this state of affairs, failure is inevitable because we all have flaws. Beauty is equated with being powerful, but that power is short-lived because we all change as we age. The connection between advertising and women’s body image is that advertising presents powerful messages to women, beginning when young girls reach puberty and are taught through commercials that, as one ad said, “the more you subtract, the more you add.” The covert message in that statement is that the more weight one loses, the more one gains in prestige. In other words, also, the less noise one makes, the better it is, ultimately. Advertising communicates to women that they should be passive, as indicated by the many advertisements that were shown in the video where women’s hands were literally covering their mouths, with captions suggesting that the less the women say, the more desirable they are to men. Regarding that last statement, advertisements also suggests that the most desirable outcome for any woman is being associated with a man. Women are objectified, often appearing in the ads...
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...Leadership Krissy Island Liberty University Author Note Krissy Island, Student in Health Care Management with a minor in Human Resources at Liberty University. Abstract This paper will defines the different types of Charismatic leadership, whether it is used by a man or a woman. It will explore nine different articles to give a full broad view of how important charisma is when leadership is being obtained. The main charismatic leadership type that will try to be achieved is “Referent Power”. This paper will also go on to show how in business leadership is built and maintained. Also, how many famous leaders are prime examples of these charismatic leadership styles. It will go through the most powerful religious leaders, powerful business, and political powerhouses. This paper will show how each one possesses referent power and charismatic qualities and how they influence our decisions today. This paper will show how people use their charisma in daily day to day task and not even know they are using it. Keywords: Leadership, Charisma, Referent power Different Types of Charismatic Leadership There are different types of charismatic leadership. Charismatic leadership has cause some to debate over such a type of leadership. Some think it is difficult to define, such as Max Weber; he has also seriously tried to address the magical aspects of Charisma. Max Weber is synonymous with...
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...Women Equality In the early years of United States, while it was still a fledgling country, Thomas Jefferson made the Louisiana purchase. Suddenly, America had doubled in size and was full of unknown land. Sacagawea, a woman, lead an expedition commissioned by the American government to explore this new land and document all its findings. Her knowledge and leadership was essential to completing the mission, and because of her work the United States was able to safely settle the land. While the United States has relied upon strong, powerful women such as Sacagawea since its formation, the number women that have been capable of holding powerful positions has far exceeded the number of women that actually have. Currently, women do not hold the same power as men in the workforce and the government, in the United States. It is evident that women have come a long way, but it is important that we continue to support the movement of women in powerful leadership positions. Historically, women have always been at a great disadvantage in regard to competitiveness in the workplace. As early as 1790 women were already being discriminated against. One of our Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton was even quoted saying women are “a source of cheap labor” (Leckie). Women back then were often sent to work long hours, in hot sweatshops, performing undesirable tasks. Yet, they still made less than men. Organizations of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s such as the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association ...
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...evidence in the workplace and in today's society despite the battle that women are making for themselves. Sexism is a particular concern for society when considering its effect in the workplace. Sexism has always been a particular problem in the labor market especially with the formation of capitalism. Woman hold a large percentage of the work force in companies but hardly any seems to pertain any of the power. There are many obstacles in the way of woman in careers; women are in the quest for equal pay for both sexes. The pay should be the same for the same jobs, but many companies pay men a higher salary then women for the same job causing sex discrimination. Sex discrimination is not only present within the older generation but is also evident throughout the entire age range. Women now hold 46% of the labor work force, with young women seeing housework more of a part-time rather than a full time job. This is an enormous social change for the family giving women less dependence on marriages, which are increasingly falling apart day-by-day and a greater command over the increasing area of technology and resources. With more women getting jobs, it encourages other women who were reluctant to move into the labor market to do the same and become more career minded. The Sex Discrimination Act is in power to help woman in a number of ways and lets them into previously closed doors. However due to the fact that most legal institutions are male dominated it is not quite as clear-cut...
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...Sparta lasted a very long time. During a specific time they were more powerful than ever and were one of the most powerful city states from 431 BC and 404 BC. Although the reason they were so proficient is because of their harsh yet efficient educational system. Although some people argue that it wasn’t worth it. Yet I have evidence to support my claim that it was worth it. First, it helped women obtain more freedom in the city state of sparta. Because men were always either training, at war, or at the army barracks women would have to control the household. Because of this they were allowed in public. Some women even ruled the city state. Not only that but some woman could even own land. Although they did have to take care of their families by themselves. Then because of all of this women had became brave and strong because of what they had to endure when the men were at war....
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