in the context of rape trials. In April 2011 the first protest march called “SlutWalk” happened in Toronto‚ Ontario. The “SlutWalk” is a transitional movement of protest marchers calling an end to rape culture. Specifically‚ participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman’s appearance. The protests started after a police officers from Toronto
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professions. They hope to extent acknowledges and professional experience. Depending on people’s interests strong or weak‚ the discourse community uniform is more confirm or not. 2. John notes that people joining a new discourse community can rebel against some of its conventions and in so doing actually change the discourse community. Explain what this means and try to think of some historical examples. It goes without saying that there is established or initiated member. They want to get their
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“Children are no longer vaccinated against smallpox because the disease no longer exists due to vaccination. The last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1948; the last case in the world was 1977 in Somalia” (ProCon.org). “Jenny McCarthy is an actress and has been in the public eye for her stance against vaccinations‚ “she has a boy with autism-like symptoms that she is convinced were caused by the vaccine for measles
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Against Affirmative Action Affirmative action is accused of being a racist system and this is based on the assumption that we live in a post-racial society‚ meaning racism is no longer an issue in the United States. If racism is no longer a problem‚ then why does the government need to pass a program that only benefits racial minority group and doesn’t exclude hard-working Americans from employment and educations? An issue on discussing about affirmative action is that racism is a problem in the
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provide equality to all people‚ and we believe in the virtue of justice. For this reason‚ the idea that “the right against torture is not inalienable” is false. I agree that the Just War Tradition gives inherent worth to all people‚ but it cannot be combined with the Forfeiture Theory because we do not have a just cause to harm non-combatants whom are no longer actively taking up arms against us. It is not necessary to harm people who will never again be in a position to harm us. Moreover‚ there is ample
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However‚ I personally lean towards opposition against DOMA. Though I can understand the ties that marriage has to religious institutions‚ I agree with President Barack Obama’s conception that there can be both religious and civil version of marriage (Pelts‚ 2014)‚ which means that marriage does not have
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Pennsylvania to get together and try to better the country to guard against that. They ended up building the federal government so that there wouldn’t be any tyranny. It was also made to make sure that the government doesn’t become too much powerful. How do you think our rights were protected against tyranny by the constitution? Tyranny is when one person is given all the power to control a country of a government. The Constitution gurded against tyranny in several ways‚ which were federalism (doc A)‚ separation
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it as a right of privacy or free speech. It seems hypocritical that MacKinnon is claiming that such liberty-limiting principles should be imposed. One can argue that MacKinnon is using her right to freedom of speech to make such radical proposals against men and speak out for women everywhere but if these rights were taken away from her‚ she would be powerless. MacKinnon is likely to reject the views of Mill and others who share his views because advocating such a position as the liberty of the individual
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THIS IS NOT MY PAPER!! A War Against Boys? By Michael Kimmel By now‚ you’ve probably heard there’s a "war against boys" in America. The latest heavily-hyped right-wing fusillade against feminism‚ led by Christina Hoff Sommers’s new book of that title‚ claims that men are now the second sex and that boys--not girls--are the ones who are in serious trouble‚ the "victims" of "misguided" feminist efforts to protect and promote girls’ development. At the same time‚ best-selling books by therapists
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an on going argument for a good amount of time. Physicalism is said to be the view that the all things are physical or they rely on other objects that are physical. Many philosophers who are said to be or seem to be anti-physicalists have argued against this theory. Anti-physicalists stance on the matter is that anything that pertains to the mind or the conscious cannot depend on physicality nor is physicality. Nagel has a stance on his view of this matter through his study of conscious that shows
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