What makes Jansen to say we are a sick country? Jansen thinks that South Africa is a sick country due to violence taking place in our country and interpreting things according to race. I agree with Jansen because South Africans are obsessed with the past and they are dwelling on the past. In 2008 there were xenophobic attacks in South Africa whereby people from other countries were brutally killed and beaten‚ and then it happened again in 2015 whereby South African started to burn down the businesses
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SUMMARY Karen Smith in her article “Has Africa got anything to say” wanted to basically address the rising criticism of how the developing world and in particular Africa has been neglected in International Relations theory. She attempts to go beyond the criticism by addressing concerns of how the developing world can make contributions which are potentially vital in enriching people’s understanding of IR. She highlights how the existent Western knowledge is seen in many parts of the globe in a superior
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that disability is “socially constructed”? Kaplan means that everyone is the judge of themselves. If the person has a disability or is impaired or is handicapped‚ says they are disabled; then they are. If that person says they aren’t disabled then they aren’t. It is about how that specific person feels about themselves and no one can say otherwise. 4. Kaplan’s final paragraph is below. Do you agree that we should not draw “an artificial line that separates ‘disabled people’ from others”? Yes
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spend time decorating our appearances and the mind is the source where our creativeness is coming from. It also helps us to be aware of the environment and to sense pain and happiness. According to Rene Descartes divisibility argument in which he says that the body and mind are absolutely two different things so it is not identical. He also argues that the body
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I meant to say good luck An AUBG teacher told a student: “Go break a leg” for good luck‚ and the student actually broke a leg during a performance. The teacher felt somewhat responsible as if he wished bad luck upon the student. I think the teacher was sorry for not using a simple “Good luck!” Furthermore there are a lot of phrases that are used to wish good luck but have a bad literal meaning as “Break a leg”. Most people use them without considering their literal meaning and history. The Oxford
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Hala Darayad ENG 212 Response paper #3 27 August 2016 “This is What it Mean to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” The short story of‚ “This is What it Mean to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” by Sherman Alexie is about a young man named Victor dealing with the tribulations of his father passing away and traveling to his father’s town to retrieve his old things‚ which includes his father’s pickup truck.‚ Victors old friend Thomas‚ whom he fought with in the past travels along with him. Victor had a rough relationship with
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1. What does it mean to say gender is socially constructed? Give at least one example from Lorber’s article. Saying gender is socially constructed means there are widely-shared and deeply-rooted social expectations on how men and women suppose to behave. Such expectations build a clear division between men’ and women’ roles in the society and enforce them to adjust their behaviors to suit the assigned gender roles. For example‚ as Lorber points out in her article “The Social Construction of Gender”
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The Way We Say What We Say In his book The Stuff of Thought (2007)‚ Steven Pinker states that all humans‚ universally‚ must be careful in the choice of their words in order to convey a specific message while keeping up a particular relationship between the speaker and the listener. In the simplest form‚ people do this for basic politeness. Whether it is asking for someone to pass the salt or asking somebody to donate to a specific cause‚ people phrase their desires in a way to not offend the listener
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The pear story is about when Augustin was a young men. He was involved with a group of trouble makes. Him and his friends go out and on their way back home they decide to rob a pear tree. They decide to take few bites and throw away the rest at the pigs. I think the reason why Augustin talks about the pear tree is because he is trying to find out why we do what we do? What is actually behind our motives? For example‚ what was Augustine drive to act upon something he knew that it was wrong. He explains
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Students‚ Teachers need to be Transculturally Literate‚ Experts says … Making new friends and learning new things are great. How about having an opportunity experiencing unusual yet unforgettable experiences‚ sounds even more interesting right? But how do are we going to start to achieve all of this? For me‚ it’s going to start by “Communication”. We meet new people by communicating with them; and we can also learn new information’s and experiences through it. According to Keyton (2011) communication
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