Reading Synthesis Essay for September 23rd In this week’s readings we focused on gender roles and feminism. This is a topic I knew little about going into the readings but I have since learned a great deal about the struggle of women in our culture. Pop culture is not a female friendly business and it shows throughout the modern culture. In most blockbuster movies men play the main leads and the heroes are almost always a man or a woman who acts masculine in nature. Television shows are the
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Kant’s Threefold Synthesis and Transcendental Unity of Apperception A large portion of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason concerns itself with explaining how humans are able to attain knowledge‚ especially empirical knowledge of the world. Addressing this question‚ Kant wrote: “We must enquire what are the a priori conditions on which the possibility of existence rests” (A95-96). After problematically deducing that all cognition of objects is limited by the objects’ physical appearances (A95)
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Catcher in the Rye Synthesis Essay Holden confronts many issues throughout Catcher in the Rye that still pose a problem to teenagers: such as the need to succeed‚ the desire for friendship‚ and the need to mature. These issues are generally forced upon a teenager by a more authoritative figure with higher expectations in comparison to themselves. Although some may regard these as a eustress‚ they cause distress to many teenagers‚ and society still upholds such standards. The need to succeed was
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Animal Experimentation by Peggy J. Parks describes advantages and disadvantages of animal research. This book explains one of the major social justice issue that is becoming controversial these days: Animal Rights. Scientists are trying to find new vaccines and medical products‚ but you cannot test them on humans right away. We cannot risk human’s life‚ but can we risk animal’s life? In 2005‚ the USDA reported that 1‚177‚566 animals were used in the laboratory‚ excluding mice‚ rats‚ birds‚ fish‚
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Bankruptcy: Its Prediction and Accounting Indicators One major assumption in accounting is the Going Concern. It states that an accounting entity is viewed as continuing in operation indefinitely‚ thus‚ financial statements are normally prepared in the assumption that the entity will continue its operations for the forseeable future. But then it is inevitable that one shall come to an end. So if there is evidence that the entity’s operations are to be terminated‚ the going concern assumption
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Intertextual Synthesis Essay Kate Chopin’s novel‚ The Awakening‚ centers around the theme of discovering oneself. The book shows readers the world of Edna Pontellier and gives them a window into her numerous insecurities and hesitations. Throughout the book‚ Edna attempts to become the opposite of the stereotypical women of her time. She chooses to be herself instead of the socially acceptable role she is expected to be. Additionally‚ Natasha Tretheway’s poem “Domestic Work” and Bobby Coles’ poem
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Social scientists have studied it‚ lawyers have tried to fix it and post-feminist society is over it. But women are still outnumbered by men in math‚ science and engineering fields. Most overt discrimination against women in the sciences has been reduced or eliminated in recent decades through legal‚ academic‚ corporate and government measures. But a climate that is less than fully friendly to women remains‚ and its texture is often still so taken for granted that it tends to be invisible. The
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Animal Farm Essay 9-22-13 2. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm‚ Orwell writes the story as a metaphor of the Russian Revolution and Communism. Napoleon is a pig that plays the part of Joseph Stalin and refers to Communism as “Animalism.” Napoleon uses cruelty‚ treachery‚ and propaganda to twist the meaning of Animalism throughout the story to justify his rise to power and eventually turns the animal’s dream of a utopian type of life into a pig-ruled disaster. By doing this‚ Napoleon’s nature represents
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the different ways of enlightenment that are described throughout each story. In “Shooting an Elephant‚” Policeman Eric Blair is asked to kill the elephant that was ravaging the village. Many times he would describe how he did not want to harm the animal and once even said “I had no intention of shooting the elephant – I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary – and it is always unnerving to have a crowd following you” (Orwell‚ pg. 287). The last part of that sentence is one of
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Toxic. Evil. Cruel. In the epic poem Beowulf a villain‚ Grendel preyed on innocent humans when nighttime fell. Grendel was a demonic monster and needed to be stopped. Beowulf came to the rescue and saved Herots people from this creature. Drugs and Alcohol are very toxic to your body and even can cause death. Although they bear many superficial similarities‚ the differences between Grendel and alcohol and drug addiction are striking. Just as Grendel is the embodiment of all that is evil and dark
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