<span>The are two factors that may make a person identify with a certain class: The age of the person and then what they do. A 72-year old Athlete who has teenage children will likely identify as middle aged. He feels he's just as agile as he was in his 20s. The tack of time hasn't taken a toll on him. A 33-years old Michelle who has given birth to 5 kids feels she's getting past the middle age category, but she'll likely identify as middle aged because she's still still young--she's in her early 30s; changes like menopause hasn't kicked in yet. A 47-year old mother of 2 college-age girls will not identify as middle age. She has kids. Kids who, by virtue of age, can be referred to as middle aged. At her age, she has probably experience several bodily and psychological changes. A 67-year old man will identify as middle aged (by virtue of the position he's manning) although not to the same degree as the others since he's also able to perform his roles as the vice President. He can probably read without using glasses. He's also able to perform administrative task, and he feels he's can do what he did in his 30s. So my point is since women age faster than men; a women who's post menopausal or approaching it with college age kid will least likely claim to be middle aged. "I have kids your age" she would say.</span>
A legal case would be having female workers only as cleaners of female restrooms and bathrooms. This is done to prevent men from entering female only bathrooms because they might be pervs or cause discomfort to those who go to the bathroom. It is legal therefore to employ only ladies for that position.
Frederick Douglass<span>Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Talbot County, Maryland in 1818. His mother was a slave named Harriet Bailey, who brought him into the world in the cabin of her mother, Betsy Bailey, also a slave but whose husband was free. The cabin was next to a small ravine on the Tuckahoe Creek near what is now called the village of Cordova. It was on the property called Holme Hill Farm owned by their owner, Aaron Anthony. Frederick’s mother soon returned to the farm where she worked, and he only saw her a few times thereafter; she died when he was eight.
<span>Frederick lived with his grandmother until he was six, and then was moved to the much larger Wye House plantation where his owner, Aaron Anthony, was employed as an overseer. Anthony died within two years, and Frederick came into the possession of Thomas Auld, Anthony’s son-in-law. He was sent by Auld’s wife to her sister-in-law in Baltimore, Sophia Auld. He was recognized as a gifted young boy, and Sophia began to teach him the alphabet, and to read, although doing so was illegal. Her husband Hugh Auld discovered his wife’s actions and insisted that she stop. He warned that if a slave were to read, he would learn enough to want to be free. Frederick overheard, and later described the statement as a “decidedly antislavery lecture,” one that made him resolve to continue to learn to read, and to become free.
</span><span>Frederick did continue learning – from white children in the neighborhood – and began reading everything he was able to see or to get into his possession. The Columbian Orator, a lesson book designed for classical education and public speaking, taught him the derivation of much of western philosophical thought from Greek and Latin literature, and taught him as well a great deal about freedom and human rights. It also taught him the principles of classical writing which he applied throughout his life in preparing the speeches for which he became world famous.
By then Frederick was owned by Colonel Lloyd, owner of the Wye House plantation, and was hired away by farmer William Freeland. He began to conduct a weekly Sunday school, teaching other slaves to read the New Testament, until after about six months a mob of slave owners stormed in to break up the meeting. Frederick began to form in his mind his life’s mission.
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