Female Supremacy Articles - Page 17

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They are more likely to be involved in student government and academic clubs. Differences between the sexes become monumental at the university level. In the United States, for instance, there are now more than 60 females for each 100 students, with the ratio continuing to rise each year. Among black Americans there are more than twice as many female as male students. The US Department of Education predicts that by the end of this decade there will be 155 female university graduates for each 100 male graduates.

For the purpose of my assignment to write an overview of this year's film festival, I look at a few of the entries as they describe the current position of women and/or predict the year ahead. And in every case how they execute and put before us the highly emotive term "passion".

To my surprise, I got extremely similar responses when I queried several dozen of my fellow festival-goers, on their understanding of the word itself: Passion. And very close they were to the strict dictionary definition; emotion as distinguished from reason: violent, intense, or overmastering feeling, outbreak of anger; ardent affection, love, strong liking for or devotion to some activity, object or concept, object of deep interest. Words such as fervour, ardour, enthusiasm, zeal were given to me.