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It's fun, and it's easy -- so easy that there is time left after cooking, and tent keeping, for the women to get out and enjoy outdoor fun with their families.
Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.
The study also suggests that per year increases in the portion of father / son family household income generated by fathers / sons have slowed ( from an average of 0. 9 % to 0. 3 %), barely keeping pace with inflation, though increases in overall father / son family household income are progressively higher each year because more women are entering the workplace, contributing to family household income if they're married or cohabitating.
Orthodox women will traditionally dress modestly by keeping most of their skin covered.
Gender differences are usually the result of social and cultural expectations, with women expected to be emotional and show pain and men stoic, keeping pain to themselves.
In most western countries, women began to exercise the option of keeping their maiden names after marriage ; in Canada, legislation was enacted to end the practice of automatically changing a woman's last name upon marriage.
In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or men, be they free or slaves.
* women with 2 or more areas of cancer in the same breast that are too far apart to be removed through 1 surgical incision, while keeping the appearance of the breast satisfactory
The often informal nature of female social capital allows women to politicize apolitical environments without conforming to masculine standards, thus keeping this activity off the radar.
The conditions required under the program include limiting prescription and dispensing rights only to authorized prescribers and pharmacies, keeping a registry of all patients prescribed thalidomide, providing extensive patient education about the risks associated with the drug, and providing periodic pregnancy tests for women who take the drug.
They commonly centered on practices such as keeping kosher, lighting Shabbat candles, studying Torah, putting on tefillin, helping to write sifrei Torah, and teaching women to observe the laws of Jewish family purity.
Lorde observes that black women's experiences are different from those of white women, and that, because the experience of the white woman is considered normative, the black woman's experiences are marginalised ; similarly, the experiences of the lesbian ( and, in particular, the black lesbian ) are considered aberrational, not in keeping with the true heart of the feminist movement.
According to Livingston, " In 1998 the National Commission for Human Rights issued a report charging gross irregularities and general negligence in state investigations, including the misidentification of corpses, failure to obtain expert tests on forensic evidence, failure to conduct autopsies or obtain semen analysis ... failure to file written reports, incompetence in keeping records of the rising tide of women murders.
On the other hand, if δ < sub > 0 </ sub >> 0 ( positive coefficient ), then women earn a higher wage than men ( keeping other factors constant ).
She points out the practice of Amish women keeping labor a secret to all except their own husbands and midwife or obstetrician, as well as the practice of women waiting till active labor before summoning a midwife or OB.
In recent years some women's decathlon competitions have been conducted, consisting of the same events as the men's competition in a slightly different order, and the IAAF has begun keeping records for it, but the heptathlon remains the championship-level combined event for women.
His many love interests were constantly shifting, and women were coming and going with such frequency that the audience had a hard time keeping up.
She preached that sinfulness could be avoided by not only treating men and women equally, but also by keeping them separated so as to prevent any sort of temptation leading to impure acts.
In keeping with the theme of an inversion of rules, and of disguise, crossdressing was a common strategy, and men would sometimes dress as women and women as men.
The Tupperware Party allowed for women of the 1950s to work and enjoy the benefits of earning an income without completely taking away the independence granted to women during the Second World War when women first began entering the labor market, all the while keeping their focus in the domestic domain.

women and their
But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.
Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.
Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.
Luckily both women knew my position and if anyone suffered in their opinion it was not I ''.
These women whose organization grew out of the old suffrage movement are dedicated to Thomas Jefferson's dictum that one must cherish the people's spirit but `` Keep alive their attention ''.
This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.
but he had sketched the women of Tuscany in their fields and homes.
He was able to discern the body lines of the Roman women under their robes.
The dust clogged their throats, and the heat parched them, so that the women were always making ice water.
All the women got up and offered their chairs, and when they were all seated again, the guests made their inquiries and their explanations.
I recommend to the Congress the establishment of a permanent Peace Corps -- a pool of trained American men and women sent overseas by the U.S. Government or through private organizations and institutions to help foreign countries meet their urgent needs for skilled manpower.
Just as modern transportation has outmoded the early Studebaker covered wagon, the demand of today's sportsmen and women has necessitated changes in their equipment.
Public relations strategists everywhere, watching the reaction of the German press, the liberal press, the lunatic-fringe press, listening to their neighbors, studying interviews with men and women on the street, cried out: Too much, too much -- the mind of the audience is becoming dulled, the horrors are losing their effect.
There are hordes of nubile young women there who, prodded by their impatient mothers, are determined to marry.
The women by remaining behind condemned their children, born and unborn, to bondage.
Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.
The radio broadcasts themselves were often so patiently informative, despite the baseball jargon, that girls and women could begin to store up in their minds the same sort of random and meaningless statistics that small boys had long learned better than they ever did their lessons in school.
A posse is formed and pursues the robbers, who, having made their escape, are whooping it up with some wild, wild women in a honky-tonk hide-out.
I am told the time will soon come when women will find it necessary to do most of their own work, and even now it is important to have conveniences for the use of servants.

women and voices
The other women had come close now, their voices murmuring together until they stood buzzing in an angry knot, their threats mingling, rising, nagging at each other, each trying to make her indignation and anger felt.
This position was stated by King George V in his first Christmas Message by saying that the " men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them.
The difference in vocal folds size between men and women means that they have differently pitched voices.
In a cappella or piano-accompanied situations it is not unusual for the men to be in the back and the women in front ; some conductors prefer to place the basses behind the sopranos, arguing that the outer voices need to tune to each other.
Later Sirens were sometimes depicted as beautiful women, whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive.
C. James Trotman argues that multiculturalism is valuable because it " uses several disciplines to highlight neglected aspects of our social history, particularly the histories of women and minorities promotes respect for the dignity of the lives and voices of the forgotten.
In Odyssey, however, Homer narrates a different story: Helen circled the Horse three times, and she imitated the voices of the Greek women left behind at home — she thus tortured the men inside ( including Odysseus and Menelaus ) with the memory of their loved ones, and brought them to the brink of destruction.
In 2005, Fonda worked alongside Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem to co-found the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content.
In Europe, when women were not permitted to sing in church or cathedral choirs in the Roman Catholic Church, boys were castrated to prevent their voices breaking at puberty and to develop a special high voice.
In choral music for mixed voices, " alto " describes the lowest part commonly sung by women.
The usual trio was two women and a singing bass, plus two treble instruments and continuo ; but when performance in the chapel of a male monastic community required male voices, he would write for an haute-contre
Over a million poems have been preserved, including those by women and by many other diverse voices.
The Dating Game, his first, put one unmarried man behind a screen to ask questions of three women who are potential mates, or one woman versus three men-thus hearing their answers and voices but not seeing them.
Marti also gave his support to the women's suffrage movements, and was " pleased that women here advantage of this privilege in order to make their voices heard ".
The ceremony ends with a choral representation of the triumphal festival that Moses and Miriam arranged after the passage through the Red Sea, the voices of the men and the women uniting in a choral symphony until the sun rises.
" She described herself both as a part of a " continuum of women " and a " concert of voices " within herself.
It has also been noted that " In feminist writing on mail-order brides, women ’ s and men ’ s voices remain absent.
To encourage all voices to be heard UNISON has " self organised groups " of black and minority ethnic members, women members, lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender members, and disabled members.
Singing was not thought to be the work of these intellectuals and was instead entrusted to women with beautiful voices who would learn how to play some instruments used at that time such as the drum, the oud or the rebab, and perform the songs while respecting the poetic metre.
# In women ( 2 voices )
The three chapters built around the women are bookended by four shorter chapters (" Onset ", " The Toxique ", " The Toxique ", and " Outcome ", with historian Tony's voice guiding " Onset " and " Outcome ", and all three voices present in the two Toxique chapters ), bringing the total to seven, and giving the novel a mirrorlike, palindromic structure.
She advocated women having their own voices and choices in marriage, and wrote it into the Republic of China's law.
By the 1830s, his was one of the most powerful black voices, not just for men and women of color in his native city, but for many thousands more throughout the North.
Mary Wollstonecraft ( 1759-1797 ) has been very influential in her writings as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman commented on society's view of the woman and encouraged women to use their voices in making decisions separate from decisions previously made for her.

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