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... (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. Overall, it has had more than 300 printings, been made into four film versions, and has been per...

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...to the roots of her auburn hair at her almost indelicate conversation. ‘Your husband is a man of discrimination, Helen. But surely you do not belie...

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...s family sent him to live with his mother’s aunt in New York, a fashion designer. Fearing discrimination, his aunt changed his name from Branderos t...

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...into the hard facts of life. Her school nativity play turns out to be a pretty ugly affair. It opens up the cracks in the social divides, religious discrimination and dark family secrets. Told with wry humour and compassion for the pain of children, unseen by adults, a complex web of history unfolds underneath the rivalries and small disasters of Nyla's school play in w...

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.... A consolation prize, appearing in only one scene. Why? The answer was a lot more complex than I knew. In fact I had fallen afoul of religious discrimination. It was a late aftertaste of the persecution that had made my ancestors walk all the way across Europe in search of a sanctuary. And although I was only nine years old, my life was inextricably entangled in his...

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...Excerpt: Sec. 101. Counterterrorism fund -- Sec. 102. Sense of Congress condemning discrimination against Arab and Muslim Americans -- Sec. 103. Increased funding for the technical support center at the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Sec. 104. Requests for military assistance to enforce prohibition in c...

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...he median age from 40 to 50 in the next several decades. ―So age discrimination, which has been the worst type of discrimination, must cease... ...d and you forget the lesson of experience, forget experience and you lose discrimination. Lose discrimination, and you miss life‘s only purpose. ... ...s they ply their ethical highways to salvation ―Those who lack discrimination may quote the letter of the scripture, but they are really ...

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... passed acceptance of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. This is another example of the reactionary ap... ...ommander just mentioned The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which was adopted in 1979 by the UN General A... ...en. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to e... ...gainst women and sets up an agenda for national action to end 38 such discrimination. It defines discrimination against women as „...any distinct...

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...elcomed by the power elite of Kino. While the immigrants faced some ethnic discrimination because of their paler skins, they were accepted for their...

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...n the complex, women were respected and held in high regard. There was no discrimination between men and women when it came to duties. All were equa... ...he governing power struggles. Genetics perfected the human body, causing discrimination that led the way to irradiating the planet of imperfection....

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...% women on national Olympic committees by 2000 and 20% by 2005—but they haven‘t met their own goals. So it is a toothless proclamation. Sexual discri...

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... aunt had insisted he shorten his name so as not to be discriminated against. Discrimination was something Michael didn't understand; but as he secr...

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...taboo there that nobody believed in its existence. In that respect, free of discrimination, one was free to be gay in Korea. Then the18 year-old boy ...

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.... 26 Shaping Experience .......................................................................................................................... 28 Discrimination .................................................................................................................................. 30 How to Make a Local Convenience Store Employee MAD ............................

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............................................................ ............. 28 Discrimination ............................................................... ...Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Discrimination T he definition of discrimination is the unfavorable treatm... ...the unfavorable treatment of people because of their race, color, or sex. Discrimination can be as minor as saying a blonde is dumb to as major as no... ... discrimi- nate unknowingly while others intentionally discriminate. early discrimination of sex. What happens when Jimmy wants to play with Barbie do... ...f sex. What happens when Jimmy wants to play with Barbie dolls? Besides discrimination because of sex, children are taught to discriminate against ... ...Learning discrimina- tion is passed from generation to genera- tion. Since discrimination is ignorance, per- haps education is the only way to stop it... ...orance, per- haps education is the only way to stop it. We do not learn discrimination only when 30 The definition of discrimination is “the unfav... ...the unfavorable treatment of people because of their race, color, or sex.” Discrimination can be as minor as saying a blonde is dumb to as major as no... ...eople discriminate unknowingly while others intentionally discriminate. Discrimination based on one experience is unfair. The robber could have eas...

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... actual man’s note, from the first of our seeing it struck, is the note of discrimination, just as his drama is to become, under stress, the drama of ... ... makes that surrender only if one is prepared not to make certain precious discriminations. The “first person” then, so employed, is addressed by the ... ...ible fluidity of self-revelation. I may seem not to better the case for my discrimination if I say that, for my first care, I had thus inevitably to s... ... symptom of vulgar blinking an appointment for the Burlington Arcade. Mere discriminations about a pair of gloves could thus at any rate represent—alw... ...as exactly society, exactly the multiplication of shibboleths, exactly the discrimination of types and tones, exactly the wicked old Rows of Chester, ... ...e one of them—than the “terrible toughs” (Strether remembered the edifying discrimination) of the American bars and banks roundabout the Opera. Chad h... ...wo or three others soon gathered; he liked the delicate daubs and the free discriminations—involving references indeed, involving enthusiasms and exec... ...d women? It wasn’t even as if he had found her mother—so much more, to her discrimination, had her mother performed the finding. Her mother had, in a ... ... of a chastened ease still abounded after all, many marks of a taste whose discriminations might perhaps have been called eccentric. He guessed at in-...

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...he Hereafter does not shine before those who are lack- ing in the power of discrimination and are easily carried away therefore by the charm of fleeti... ...mortal, having heard and fully grasped this, and hav- ing realized through discrimination the subtle Self, re- joices, because he has obtained that wh... ... next he must reflect upon what he has heard; then by constant practice of discrimination and meditation he realizes it; and with realization comes th... ...is no doubt of his realizing the Truth, because he has shown the high- est discrimination as well as fixity of purpose. XIV Nachiketas said: That whic... ...at and all- pervading, grieve not. Then a wise man through the practice of discrimination has seen clearly the distinction between body and Soul, 32 ... ...e one who wills, feels, perceives and does everything. V He who is without discrimination and whose mind is al- ways uncontrolled, his senses are unma... ...nmanageable, like the vicious horses of a driver. VI But he who is full of discrimination and whose mind is always controlled, his senses are manageab... ...nd serve him as good horses obey their driver. VII He who does not possess discrimination, whose mind is uncontrolled and always impure, he does not r... ...n into Samsara (realm of birth and death). VIII But he who possesses right discrimination, whose mind is under control and always pure, he reaches tha...

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...nger opportunities, confronted with rare questions and called upon for new discriminations. Thus the scheme of her situation would, in a comprehensive... ...y, the very next moment, as if he had perhaps been a shade too candid. His discrimination seemed to mark a possible, a natural reality, a reality not ... ...r two; per- haps he would prove suggestive, but he helped her as yet to no discriminations: he spoke as if he had given them up from too much knowledg... ...h. Kate, verily, would perhaps not quite have known what she meant by this discrimination, and she came near naming it only when she said to herself t... ...rson whom one doesn’t ‘see,’ as I say, half so much.” 247 Henry James The discrimination was interesting, but it brought them back to the fact of her... ... might be awkward. “I’m sorry— but I of course often see her.” He felt the discrimination in his favour and how it justified Kate. This was Milly’s to... ...g to shut him out, of itself, from services of danger, a thing that made a discrimination against him never yet made—made at least to any consciousnes... ...and all the more promptly that he had had occasion of old to make the same discrimination. The establish- ment, choked at that season with the polyglo... ...e in the fact that her brushing against them would do nobody any good. The discrimination and the scruple were for him. So he felt all the parts of th...

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...it of a tree he may not pretend to have shaken. Against reflexion, against discrimination, in his interest, all earth and air conspire; wherefore it i... ... of talk for the others, however, and he appeared to eat his luncheon with discrimination and appetite. Miss Molyneux, who had a smooth, nun-like fore... ...ave been to close that rare volume forever. But Lily knew nothing of these discriminations, and could only pro- nounce her sister’s career a strange a... ...of the mustiest relics of its old society. In all this there was much less discrimination than in that desire for comprehensiveness of development on ... ...re was something irritating—there was almost an air of mockery—in her neat discriminations and clear convic- tions. In Isabel’s mind to-day there was ...

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...f others, more subtle, found a joint in it? W as there, among her delicate discriminations, any equiva- lent to his own rules? Might not her taste for... ...r belonged to her. What a pity that this exquisite insight, this intuitive discrimination, should for the most part have been spent upon reading the t...

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...l for my own sympathies, and I fancied he was rather too fond of superfine discriminations and of discovering subtle intentions in shallow places. At ...

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...gnored certain others; but it was with difficulty that he entered into her discriminations. Ameri- can promiscuity, goodness knew, had been strange to...