Essays on Feminization

“Poor single mother on welfare tell me how you did it?” rings the famous lyric of the late Rapper-Activist Tupac Amaru Shakur. The son of a former Black Panther, this ode to his mother provides a glimpse into the conundrum of surviving in the wake of being poor and black on public assistance. What Shakur unknowingly reveals is the image of welfare in a more empathetic and realistic way that illuminates instead of ignoring the lived realities of its recipients. While Shakur’s lyric is compassionate in it’s depiction, conservative lawmakers are less considerate in their elucidation of ...

The butterfly effect is a concept indicating that minor causes may have vast effects. It is best explained in Chaos theory by Edward Lorenz where he derives the concept from the exact time a hurricane is formed and the path it takes during its occurrence under the influence of a minor change such as a distant butterfly previously flapping its wings for several weeks. While studying the behavior of his weather model he noted that a very minor change in the initial conditions had resulted to a considerably different outcome. As a result, butterfly effect concept is the subtle ...

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Summary of Saskia Sassen’s “Women’s Burden: Counter-geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival” and its Relationship to Current Events Saskia Sassen’s article discusses the “variety of alternative global circuits” for “making a living, earning a profit and securing government revenue” (523). The writer notes that these “incorporate increasing numbers of women” (Sassen 523). Sassen pointed out the most significant of these “global circuits” are the “illegal trafficking in women for prostitution” and “regular work,” “organized export of women as brides, nurses and domestic servants,” and the “remittances” of a growing “female ...