In the story, Withering Heightes, by Charlotte Bronte, the characters weave together to provide a picture of the culture of 1947, as influenced by the economic system of the time. ... The two Catherines, unable to inherit through legal means, and thus without real money of their own, use their sex as currency to buy positions of greater value. As Terry Eaglton has noted in his siminary work on the subject, the story ends with Catherine Earnshow and Hindley reclaiming their rightful place as masters of both lots of land haunting the moors. To fully understand sex and rank in this barren l...

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Some argue that not all women working in the sex trade can be classified as "coerced". These women, proponents argue, willingly crossed borders and entered prostitution as a means of survival, and should therefore not be labeled "victims" of the sex trade. ... The need to survive heightens the vulnerability of these women, hence their willingness to serve as sex workers without overt coercion (Jones et al, 2007, p.107). ... Each victim has his or her own story to tell, often with a bitter ending. ... The number of sex workers who succumbed to diseases such as HIV and AIDS has yet to be com...

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His intelligence and incredible speaking abilities led people to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of language and power of thought- they were utterly at loss to devise"2. ... A header in Douglass" newspaper once read, "Right is of no Sex - Truth is of no Color."7 Frederick Douglass broke free from the shackles of slavery, and with his relatively small amount of Freedom ac...

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Black women were viewed as sex symbols; they were believed to promote promiscuity and were forced to sexually please their owners. ... If I got mad over a story and was disgusted by our government's fictional actions I can definitely understand how racism is still evident in today's society and why African Americans feel the need to fight the "white power". ...

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