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Jacqueline Alley

The Class-Domination Theory of Power - 0 views

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#class #america #Power Elite #GreatDepression

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 07 Oct 13
     
    This article discusses the idea that those with money have power. The article explains how upper class went to private schools, held large banquets/tea parties, and think they are better than everyone and therefore know how to govern better. The upper class controlled large corporations through stocks. The articles defines the Power Elite, people who tend to dominate American policymaking. This group includes bureaucratic, corporate, intellectual, military, and government elites who control the principal institutions in the US. Their opinions and actions influence the decisions of the policymakers.
melissa basso

National Women's History Project - 0 views

www.nwhp.org/2012theme.php

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  • Although women now outnumber men in American colleges nationwide, the reversal of the gender gap is a very recent phenomenon.
  • After the American Revolution, the notion of education as a safeguard for democracy created opportunities for girls to gain a basic education
  • based largely on the premise that, as mothers, they would nurture not only the bodies but also the minds of (male) citizens
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  • experts” who claimed either that females were incapable of intellectual development equal to men, or that they would be harmed by striving for it.
  • Emma Willard, in her 1819 Plan for Improving Female Education,
  • Harvard, the first college chartered in America, was founded in 1636, it would be almost two centuries before the founding of the first college to admit women—Oberlin, which was chartered in 1833.
  • ingle-sex education remained the elite norm in the U.S. until the early 1970s.
  • The equal opportunity to learn, taken for granted by most young women today, owes much to Title IX of the Education Codes of the Higher Education Act Amendments. This legislation, passed in 1972 and enacted in 1977, prohibited gender discrimination by federally funded institutions.
  • melissa basso on 04 Nov 13
     
    This particular link is to an article on the history of women's education and rights to equal rights in terms of receiving the same education as do their male counterparts.  The website, as a whole, provides great insight into the history of women's rights in many aspects. It also traces the triumphs and successes of women throughout history. 
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