Marilyn Yarbrough with Crystal Bennett Excerpted from Marilyn Yarbrough with Crystal Bennett‚ Cassandra and the "Sistahs": the Peculiar Treatment of African American Women in the Myth of Women as Liars Journal of Gender‚ Race and Justice 626-657‚ 634-655 (Spring 2000)(254 footnotes omitted) In addition to the negative stereotypes scholars associate with all women who complain about sexual harassment and other types of sexual abuse‚ there are three common stereotypes ascribed particularly to African
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The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett. It was published on November 1‚ 1993 by Simon and Schuster. It was an anthology edited by William J. Bennett. The book is intended for the moral education of the young and is divided into the different virtues namely self-discipline‚ compassion‚ responsibility‚ friendship‚ work‚ courage‚ perseverance‚ honesty‚ loyalty and faith. Bennett has collected tales and stories and compiled it into one book. It was a type of fiction. The authors of each story used
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propositions that Bennet states are: “(a) that the drug problem in America is absurdly simple and easily solved; and (b) that the drug problem in America is a lost cause” (547). These deal with the issue of drug abuse because they are unattainable. Bennett gives a left and right side and both have the tendency to fail. The Right believes “there is a
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Weapons of Mass Instruction‚ is a book written by John Taylor Gatto‚ that 5touches extensively on what he considers to be negative aspects of the public school system. Gatto sees the compulsory public schooling as a tool used in orchestrating the development of a mediocrely minded population that is highly manageable due to the lack of ability to think for oneself. Gatto can be quoted saying‚ “we have been taught (that is‚ schooled) in this country to think “success” is synonymous with‚ or at least
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The History Boys‚ by Alan Bennett‚ is a play that tells the story of the conflict between two teachers over students while they prepare of their exams. The first teacher is Hector. Hector has been the boys’ teacher longer‚ teaching them literature and knowledge for the sake of it. Irwin is different in this matter. He was brought in solely to prepare the boys for their exam and was promised a permanent position if the Oxbridge boys do well enough on their exams. One scene in which you can see Irwin’s
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Dear Diary‚ I am Lydia Bennett‚ the youngest amongst the five Bennett sisters. I am fifteen years old today‚ and this journal was a precious gift from Mary. But to be honest‚ I awaited more of a better gift from her‚ I never wanted pieces of paper! She already knew that I’ve always wanted her jade earrings‚ the ones I have wanted forever‚ the ones that I feel almost rich in! She says that I must write in this journal every day to improve my mind. There’s nothing to write about and my mind does not
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k-12 education I always questioned why I had to go to school all year except summer‚ and especially why it had to be so early in the mornings. In the book “Rereading America” there is a passage titled “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto. In the passage Gatto asks “ Do we really need school? I don’t mean the education‚ just forced schooling: six classes a day‚ five days a week‚ nine months a year‚ for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary?[…] 2 million happy homeschoolers have
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schooling as boredom. To clarify his point‚ Gatto asserts having education is not equal to taking schooling which is instead considered as “a daily routine in a factory of childishness in order to make sure children do not really grow up.” Gatto supports his views by enumerating a significant number of successful Americans who did not go through the schooling system but turned out to be productive‚ such as Abraham Lincoln. In this short story‚ “Against School”‚ Gatto tells his experiences with students that
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In “Mental Causation‚” Karen Bennett discusses the overdetermination argument associated with the exclusion problem. Even if one assumes that causal power can be attributed to the mental‚ it is unclear that mental causation contributes anything meaningful to the explanation of an effect and does not merely overdetermine it‚ since the effect could be given a purely physical explanation (Kim 325). Some philosophers have bitten the bullet and claimed that mental causation is‚ in fact‚ comparable to
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King Henry II and Thomas Bennett were very close friends . Henry was the king of England and he had a great opportunity . The Theobald archbishop of Canterbury was the head of church of england and he saw potential in Thomas. He put him under his church tree and through that Thomas gained experiences and had great success and was the archbishop’s servant and trustworthy.King Henry II appointed Thomas as a position of chancellor of england. Now the chancellor is an important job because it was second
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