Do Words Matter? Words are very powerful‚ and sometimes the words we use offend people. Freedom of speech is highly valued but what happens when your freedom becomes hurtful or disrespectful to someone else? There are so many different kinds of people and different things that offend each person. In this day where we are more inclined to say whatever we want‚ we see more and more offense being taken to the words that get said. It’s hard to understand why certain words can be insulting to someone
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Monique Wittig’s works‚ The Lesbian Body (1975) and “One is Not Born a Woman” (1980)‚ might seem similar to Cixous’s‚ in that she engages in a political project designed to create a non-phallogocentric discourse‚ but she turns to “lesbianization” rather than bisexuality. She posits an opposing model to the heterosexual mode of language that transcends the categories of sex and gender‚ and she calls it the “lesbianization of language”. She claims that‚ saying‚ “lesbian is the only concept I know of
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in usage for generations. There is no single concept of cool. One of the essential characteristics of cool is its mutability—what is considered cool changes over time and varies among cultures and generations.[1] Nick Southgate writes that‚ although some notions of cool can be traced back to Aristotle‚ whose notion of cool is to be found in his ethical writings‚ most particularly the Nicomachean Ethics‚[2] it is not confined to one particular ethnic group or gender. Although there is no single
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Culture is a crucial aspect of learning. It not only shapes the thinking process of individuals but it also plays a role in how people communicate and receive information. During my multicultural field experience at Henry Thoreau Elementary School‚ I developed a cultural knowledge base‚ incorporated a culturally relevant curriculum‚ built a cultural learning community‚ acknowledged cross-cultural communication‚ and integrated cultural congruity in instruction‚ to help insure I was being a culturally
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Space-ship landed on Earth ... 3 - The Improbable World of the Unexplained 4 - Was God an Astronaut? 5 - Fiery Chariots from the Heavens 6 - Ancient Imagination and Legends or Ancient Facts? 7 - Ancient Marvels or Space Travel Centres? 8 - Easter Island—Land of the Bird Men 9 - Mysteries of South America and other Oddities 10 - The Earth’s Experience of Space 11 - The Search for Direct Communication 12 - Tomorrow -----------------------------Illustrations • One of the Piri Reis maps. Photo: ’Maps of the
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The two Fridas or Los Dos Fridas was painted by Frida Kahlo in 1939 during the movement know as surrealism (Stokstad 1079). Kahlo ’s self-portrait reflects her emotions within her mind and body. It reflects the emotions that she truly feels. Frida does this in a way that others would interoperate as stuff of dreams and nightmares. It is how others see her work that makes it surrealism. Frida writes‚ "I never painted dreams I painted my own reality" (Stokstad 1079). Frida Kahlo did the surrealist
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that there something good about scrooge but then lowered the expectations by saying that no steel had ever struck out generous fire. He almost makes scrooge look like a pointless person with no good use. -He then uses a range of adjectives at once. ‘Squeezing‚ wrenching‚ grasping‚ scraping‚ clutching‚ covetous old sinner.’ He uses a clever technique of having the first five adjectives have the same ending‚ but then uses covetous. Covetous‚ you may think‚ is the word which is the odd one out‚ but
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A Nonviolent Mindset King was influenced by the works of Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. He studied his work while at Morehouse‚ and was impressed with his concept of civil disobedience (McElrath & Andrews‚ 2007). King was intrigued by the possibilities of Thoreau’s method. Thoreau stated that it was better to “break the law than to participate in the injustice toward another person” (McElrath & Andrews‚ 2007). “I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation
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The issue with the first two studies is the sample size; the sample size being one. This is too small to be a sample‚ and as such are merely opinions of individuals. One thing that might be slightly useful is that the first study did include prices of coffee‚ albeit plain black. The savings of a few cents were not enough make the researcher value the cheaper coffee from burger king‚ as he chose the most expensive ones. However‚ as this is just opinion it may not be indicative of the target population
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With the use of cubist elements and iconography‚ Tarsila do Amaral aims to communicate through her artwork‚ A Negra (1923)‚ the reality experienced by Africans in Brazil during the 20th century. Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) was a Brazilian painter‚ daughter of farmers that became one of the most important modernists in Brazil. Her artwork A Negra was painted while Tarsila was studying in Paris with the cubist artist Fernand Léger (1881-1955). This painting became important‚ and it was considered
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