Love vs. Punishment In the article “Justice: Childhood Love Lessons” bell hooks claims that “there is nothing that creates more confusion about love in the minds and hearts of children than unkind or cruel punishment” (hooks 27). In other words punishment of any kind‚ let it be pinching‚ flicking or spanking will result in disorientation in a child’s mind. This statement is true to some people‚ false to others‚ but overall hooks tends to be bias in her argument. She doesn’t explore the different variations
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Evaluation/Summary Oct. 4‚ 2002 Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education I decided to evaluate an excerpt from the book The Presence of Others. This selection‚ entitled Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education‚ was written by Bell Hooks‚ and is taken from her book Talking Back‚ published in 1989. Hooks is the author of many other volumes‚ including Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)‚ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994)‚ and Remembered Rapture: The
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1. In her novel Communion‚ Bell Hooks sets up a main idea‚ which ultimately reveals the reasoning in which she wrote the book. In Communion she speaks about the truth behind loving oneself. When men are growing up they are taught to be able to keep their emotions to themselves‚ while women are taught the opposite. They are taught to be able to act on their emotions‚ which gives them a disadvantage. She goes on to speak about how men do not show their feelings and emotions to the public as much as
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successful future. The first chapter of Bell Hook’s book “Feminism Is For Everyone” is simple‚ a definition of a topic she feels so strongly about. Feminism is for everyone Hook encourages as she makes her mark on the worlds stage with her second book. “Simply put feminism is a movement to end sexism‚ sexist exploitation‚ and oppression.”‚ Hook wrote in the first sentence of her book. Feminism is the change the world needs to be able to evolve and learn‚ Hook pushes and encourages throughout the read
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Bell Hooks wishes to express the feminist perspective about masculinity‚ and she wrote Be Boy Buzz about loving being a boy during her involvement. A question of masculinity comes into play today. While in a thrift store‚ Bell Hooks saw a George Bush quote talking about love and community and how we must work together for a better good. Bell Hooks believes that men can change and move away from patriarchy. Harry Brod believes the challenge is not getting men to change but rather make men aware of
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significance of the "Teaching to Transgress" passage hints at dark undertones using pathos‚ imagery‚ the first-person point-of-view. Bell Hooks describes her loss of love for school when realizing that "For black children‚ education was no longer about the practice of freedom" since they "...were mainly taught by white teachers whose lessons reinforced racist"(114). Hooks goes on to say that "that shift from beloved‚ all-black schools to white schools where black students were always seen as interlopers
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Gloria Watkins under the pen name bell hooks (1994)‚ addresses how poverty is presented through society and criticizes the misrepresentations made by the higher class and media. Watkins (1994) emphasizes her argument that the dehumanizing form of representing the poor is the root cause low self-esteem among poor people. Poverty is portrayed through a variety systems of representation that have come to create misconceptions about this issue. Throughout the article‚ hooks (1994) was able to present her
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at Stanford bell hooks experienced things that only an education can provide‚ from different social status to keeping ties with her community and her heritage even though she went far in her studies. Education changed bell hooks life in many ways from the experiences at Stanford having her values collide with others values‚ being introduced to the intellectual circles and having others try to press upon her their beliefs . By going to Stanford to continue her education‚ bell hooks experienced
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“Teaching is a performative act”‚ and it is for that reason that it is crucial that teachers teach beyond the textbook (hooks‚ 11) . The textbook merely supplies the student with information‚ data‚ and serve the core curriculum agenda that has been set up by the state or district. The teacher’s job is not to reiterate what the textbook says‚ although there is a responsibility upon the teacher to ensure that students understand the assigned readings‚ but the teacher’s job is to relate the text to
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bell hooks’ examination of black female spectatorship is‚ as she discusses in the essay ‘The oppositional gaze’‚ is a comparatively unexplored territory by scholars. She focuses on cinema in its early form as a unique site for a gaze to emerge that opposed the assumed maleness and whiteness of the viewer. Hooks’ main argument stems from the idea that the black women are doubly excluded from the practices of looking as a hierarchical structure continuing to use this in terms of cinema. She argues
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