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Maxine Moore Waters (née Carr; born August 15, 1938) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 1991. . The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991 to 1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013, includes much of southern Los Angeles, as well as portions of Gardena, Inglewood and Torra
The science of generosity initiative at the University of Notre Dame [12] investigates the sources, origins, and causes of generosity; manifestations and expressions of generosity; and consequences of generosity for givers and receivers. Generosity for the purposes of this project is defined as the virtue of giving good things to others ...
The “Conga” and “Rhythm is Gonna Get You” singer, a spokesperson for the National Women’s Shelter Network (NWSN), is pushing Congress to pass the Women’s and Family Protection Act ...
An alternative phrase "life, liberty, and property", is found in the Declaration of Colonial Rights, a resolution of the First Continental Congress. The Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution declare that governments cannot deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property" without due process of law.
Women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population. And though we are by no means a monolith — in fact, we fall into every ethnic, socioeconomic, religious and ideological group — we have historically been underrepresented politically. This underrepresentation makes our political participation even more imperative.
The essay was published under the title, "The Personal Is Political," in Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation in 1970. The essay's author believes that Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt, the book's editors, gave the essay its famous title. [11] The essay has since been reprinted in Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader. [12]
[7] She authored the 2012 book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (along with her sister Karen Fields, a sociologist). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 5 ] The book argues that race is a product of racism; that racism is an ideology and a way of misunderstanding social reality; and that racecraft in American society serves to obfuscate the ...
Kindness is a type of behavior marked by acts of generosity, consideration, rendering assistance, or concern for others, without expecting praise or reward in return. It is a subject of interest in philosophy, religion, and psychology.