Christina Kiaer has described the main aim of the constructivist movement as ‘to mass produce transparent utilitarian things for use in everyday life’. How adequate is this description? Constructivism is primarily an art movement that was based in Russia in the early 20th century. It had a considerable link to the Russian Communist Revolution. They merged the arts with modern technological rationalism for political and ideological uses‚ being essentially a form of Soviet propaganda. The theory
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entertainment needs. Children are not the ones to blame for the belief that every aspect of this world is categorized according to genders because this idea has been in our society for ages and there has always been a debate on this topic. In Christina Hoff Sommers’ article “You Can Give a Boy a Doll‚ But You Can’t Make Him Play With It” published on the 6th of December 2012‚ in the newspaper The Atlantic she seems to be a firm believer that genders are different‚ each sex has separate needs and tendencies
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In her article‚ “Teaching the Virtues”‚ Christina Hoff Sommers addresses that the main problem today is that kids are unaware of their moral values and are unable to define what is right and wrong. Sommers suggested the teachers to teach their students individual virtues as they are further away from their morality. Striking changes have taken place from the more directive teaching of right and wrong‚ by study and example‚ to situation ethics‚ dilemma ethics and other approaches that rationally
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or conflict. Sarkeesian‚ who may not be a ‘heavy gamer’ (as Christina Hoff Sommers describes in her “Factual Feminist” videos) recognizes how women are portrayed with ‘demonizing’ characteristics within popular video games people play today and games played throughout history. Christina Sommers simply thinks that video games are essentially ‘owned’ by males for the reason that a higher percentage of ‘heavy gamers’ are males. In Sommers defense‚ there are plenty of female oriented jobs and activities
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Essay By Ben Rager I read the debate on economist.com about women’s role in society. The two debaters were Linda Basch and Christina Hoff Sommers. Ms. Basch believes that women belong in the workplace because it helps stimulate the economy and helps them realize their full potential as well as it is good for families and communities. On the other side of the debate‚ Ms. Sommers believes that women don’t have an assigned place in society‚ meaning in a free society like the U.S. supposedly is‚ they can
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and opinions on the same matter‚ for instance Jon Spayde argues in his short essay “Learning in the Key of Life” that informal education can lead to a rich and full life‚ one that formal education could possibly not reach; and then we have Christina Hoff Sommers‚ who carefully and logically contradicts the feminist belief that girls are treated poorly in schools and universities by arguing that they actually have far more advantages than boys in today’s society in her short essay titled “The War
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“Knocked Up” and action-related examples such as “Bionic Women” and “Resident Evil” to support his argument. As a preface‚ Karnick references Christina Hoff-Sommers’ book “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men‚” which discusses how educational systems are suppressing masculinity‚ in connection to his claim. He notes that Hoff-Sommers observed that “school curricula […] are skewed toward girls’ strengths and away from those of boys.” Karnick feels that the same phenomenon
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some others’ studies. All of the studies have indicated that single-sex school is not beneficial at all due to scientific research. In addition‚ it will inflates gender stereotyping which is not good at all. In second article‚ the author Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She is strongly supporting single-sex schools. For evidence‚ she has provided the 2007 British study compared life outcomes which shows that single-sex school has benefits on "gender
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workforce‚ a controversial issue has been whether women have progressed in society or do they still face the glass ceiling by enduring wage discrimination. On the one hand‚ some argue that women have come a long way. From the perspective of Christina Hoff Sommers‚ American Enterprise Institute scholar and author of Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today‚ American women know that they’ve succeeded and feminism was a thing of the past. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue
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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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