Original Research Article Menstrual hygiene management amongst school going girls in Kisii County, Kenya Definitions Pubic mixed day secondary schools- government schools with both boys and girls who do not board in the school. ABSTRACT Introduction: Menstruation is a natural phenomenon among matured females who experience shedding of blood for 1-7 days every month from the age of maturity until menopause. Menstrual hygiene management is an issue that is insufficiently acknowledged
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literacy rate higher for boys than for girls? What beliefs do such literacy statistics reflect? Worldwide, only 30 percent of all girls are enrolled in a secondary school. The cause of the low literacy rate for girls has been due to global issues such as gender inequality. In most countries around the world girls are brought up with the mindset that they must not think like a man rather a mother and a wife. This has brought about a decrease in the number of girls being allowed to go to school. Early marriages
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people with different professions that have examined this new focus and how it has affected America, specifically teenage girls. The article “Fat and Happy?” by Hillel Schwartz points out how society disavows fat people and exposes how poorly they are treated. Roberta Seid takes a slightly different approach in her article “Too ‘Close to the Bone’” and explores the idea that girls obsess over a perfect body and this obsession takes a large toll on
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the type of your classroom you’re in when you go to school. Much to my surprise, when you choose your teacher, you’re only given female options. How could a game be created for children under the age of 8 in mind that already marginalizes boys and girls in this way? I first thought of my niece Julia, only 2 and a half, sitting near them but not paying attention. I shuddered in anger thinking of all the images like this that will try to put her in a box. The constant stream of images from the media
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the woods with some of her friends. Things took a turn when Tituba started “conjuring demons”. All the girls went crazy. They danced, screamed, and took their clothes off. Salem’s reverend
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Popular Girls “Popular Girls, a short story by Karen Shepard, written in 2001, about the life of 5 spoiled girls, who lives in the city that never sleeps, with absent parents and their daddy’s credit card. You’ve guessed it. It’s about “Popular Girls”. The story follows five girls living in New York City in 1982, whose lives revolve around being popular. They do everything in their power to do so. God has put them on earth to know everything about the latest fashion and trends. They have become
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year old girl who has been having an affair with Jack for the last two years. This story takes place on the young girls Eighteenth birthday. Although throughout the story, the young girls feeling of love and hope for their relationship are steadfast, the narrator takes the reader on the wavering struggles Jack has between caring about the eighteen year old girl and their relationship, while remembering the reality of both their situations, even though Jack consistently shows signs of being a non-caring
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high-risk adolescent girls: Implications for mental health intervention”. I will start by giving a brief summary of the article I have chosen. Followed by discussing the type of article this is and my conclusion I have drawn form the information found in this article. Lastly I will discuss how this article fits into our sociology class as well as how this article differs from non-scholarly periodicals The article begins by describing the issue of increasing numbers of adolescent girls being entered into
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Introduction Society today sets high expectations for an adolescent girl, this same society forces her to be faced with many social pressures and high demands. Adolescent girls at this age have to deal with the pressure to include the notion of having to look a certain way in order to be accepted by her peers. Adolescent girls also may feel pressure from peers to act older than she is in order to fit in with the “in” crowd. Girls have a lot of pressure from the media, such as TV shows and music
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Robbing the innocence and purity of young girls is in fact an inhuman thing to do. Child marriage should come to an end throughout all countries. Child marriage is in fact a violation of human rights that exploits and strips young girls of their innocence, which then exposes them to the harsh realities of adulthood in countries where poverty and lack of education is high. Being a child means going to school, hanging out with your friends or just being at home eating junk food and watching television
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