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    important because sexual freedom in today’s society is confined in a structure of norms set by the society on how women should talk‚ act‚ behave‚ etc. These norms completely destroy the beliefs of love and sexual freedom--especially for women. Meanwhile‚ Barbara Fredrickson‚ in her “Love 2.0” offers a new perspective on love. As she explains it‚ looking at love

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    Barbara Rogoff studied cultural transmission in several families across different indigenous cultures. Her ethnographic research tries to show that cultural factors combine with biological factors to shape a child’s behavior‚ values‚ and gender identity. She was inspired by the work of Vygotsky‚ who claimed that human activities and skills take place in cultural contexts and that development is mediated by linguistic‚ social‚ and cultural interactions. This made sense to her because humans change

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    According to Barbara MacKinnon we have a propensity to think of ethics as the set of values or principles held by individuals or groups. Each person is set to have their own ethics‚ and groups have sets of values that they tend to identify. Ethics can be thought of the study of the various sets of values that people have. Ethics which is also known as moral philosophy is the discipline apprehensive with what is morally good and bad or what is right and wrong. The phrase is applied to any classification

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    pixels but each pixel alone does not have any meaning. Only when you put these pixels together that is when you start to notice the small details that makes the bigger picture. After we took the pictures outside‚ I had to reread “on Compassion” by Barbara Ascher and began to understand what she was trying to say this time. She just wanted to notice what is going around her and when she did‚ she had noticed different scenes that made her questions if they are done because of care and love or feeling

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    In the book The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver‚ there is a young girl named Taylor who did not want to be like the typical girls from Kentucky. She wanted to go and get out of the small town. She got in her old beat up car and traveled throughout the United States‚ until she landed in Arizona. When she was there she not only had to deal with herself‚ but she now had a little girl who she named Turtle. This was not her daughter; instead someone she barely knew handed her off to Taylor. Turtle was

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    Ehrenreich’s “Cultural Baggage” essay found in Greene and Lidinksy (2012)‚ expresses the author’s views on traditional values that come from a family’s heritage. Ehrenreich is motivated to write about this subject because her way of being raised was challenged. She was raised to find new things to try‚ and not succumb to the mindset of just accepting something because it’s always been there. Her Father said‚ “’think for yourself’ and ‘always ask why’” (Ehrenreich‚ 2012‚ p. 1). The purpose of

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    Challenging society’s viewpoints about compassion‚ Barbara Lazear Ascher’s essay “On Compassion” calls to attention the act of giving to the homeless‚ and whether these actions are done out of true compassion or simple agitation. The various stories recalled within the essay are set in “The Empire State”‚ New York. As the essay begins‚ the author first writes about a homeless man who approaches a mother waiting a crosswalk with a stroller in hand. The man is distracted as he walks by the sight of

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    In Barbara Lazear Ascher’s essay called "On Compassion" is about how she is looking around at people at a bus stop and she starts to point out the flaws in everyone that is there. In the opening sentence she talks about how sloppy this one man is by saying he has "his buttonless shirt‚ with one sleeve missing‚ hangs outside the waist of his baggy trousers." She also says that everyone at the bus stop is just daydreaming and not paying attention on what they are doing. As it goes along the owner

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    http://www.rtjournal.org Published by the Religion and Theatre Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education The Journal of Religion and Theatre is a peer-reviewed online journal. The journal aims to provide descriptive and analytical articles examining the spirituality of world cultures in all disciplines of the theatre‚ performance studies in sacred rituals of all cultures‚ themes of transcendence in text‚ on stage‚ in theatre history‚ the analysis of dramatic literature‚ and

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    Barbara Mellix (1999) in "From outside in" explains how a person of different ethnicity is also able to succeed in appropriating his or her own academic discourse through determination and diligence. She reveals her nostalgic as a little girl of two diverse but similar languages. She used to speak ’Black English’ in her yore time as a lingua-Franca and tried to speak in ’Standard English’‚ which was used for articulate Communication with the public that built her more motivated‚ enthusiastic and

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