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    Why are Reading and Writing Skills Important in Democratic Society? Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is‚ not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey Nowadays reading and writing is not a privilege or a status‚ it is a way of communication and a significant part of our everyday life. Time when most of literate and educated people were from wealthy and privileged families is long gone. It is no longer the case when people from less fortunate

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    Easy A: The Feminist

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    The movie‚ ‘Easy A’ is set in present day in Ojai‚ California. It tells the story of Olive Penderghast‚ a high school girl whose situation mirrors the novel‚ ‘The Scarlet Letter’ which is a reading assignment for her English class. She tells a lie to her best friend‚ Rhiannon‚ that she had sex with a boy from community college. This lie quickly spread throughout the school causing classmates to treat her differently; the boys wanted to date her and the girls treated her unkindly. Olive decided

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    A Feminist Perspective

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    Ice-Candy-Man: A Feminist Perspective * Summary In Ice-Candy-Man the women characters cannot be easily subjugated. Lenny‚ her Ayah Shanta‚ her mother and Godmother are capable of new roles and responsibilities. It is the second novel by a woman writer dealing with the theme of Partition of India. It is likely to be a more neutral on account of the traumatic event of Partition which caused divisiveness‚ disharmony‚ mutual suspicion‚ hardening. Writer depicts the events overtaking the Partition

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    The African Union: Providing Peace in Africa? A case study of the African Mission in Burundi Dr Annemarie Peen Rodt Department of Politics‚ Languages and International Studies University of Bath‚ 1 West North‚ Bath BA2 7AY‚ United Kingdom Email: apr20@bath.ac.uk International Studies Association Annual Convention 16-19 March 2011. Montreal‚ Canada. This is a first draft. Please do not quote without consulting the author. Comments and questions are more than welcome. Abstract The African Union

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    The Cracker Barrel Restaurants John Howard King’s College‚ London Discrimination against lesbians and gays is common in the workplace. Sole proprietors‚ managing partners‚ and corporate personnel officers can and often do make hiring‚ promoting‚ and firing decisions based on an individual’s real or perceived sexual orientation. Lesbian and gay job applicants are turned down and lesbian and gay employees are passed over for promotion or even fired by employers who view homosexuality

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    Bell Hook Critique

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    The readings for this week consisted of the second half of Bell Hooks’ work. In this book‚ Hooks is giving the reader an insight into her experiences as a Black female feminist educator teaching about Black women’s issues. Although I myself am not Black‚ as a Mexican-American woman pursuing an academic career‚ I could relate to a vast amount of what Hooks stated throughout the book. The point that struck me the most was the discussion of critiques and the validation of experience in academia (Hooks

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    Article 1: Multiple Bodies ’Sportswomen‚ soccer and sexuality’ by Barbara Cox and Shona Thompson (The University of Auckland‚ New Zealand) In the text ’Multiple Bodies ’Sportswomen‚ Soccer and Sexuality’‚ Barbara Cox and Shona Thompson address how women face the pressure of biding by the rules of the ideal female body‚ and the social exclusions women face if they digress from the ’norms’ or struggle to achieve these optimal female traits. They explore how and why sportswomen are continuously being

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    Outline and assess Feminist explanations of the relationship between gender and crime. (50 marks) Gender is on the agenda” wrote Francis Heidensohn (1989) Feminist definition of crime is that “crime is politically informed and linked to particular interests”– of men. Before feminism‚ women were invisible in sociological research‚ this meant that explanations for female recidivism saw‚ female crime as a ’special case’ resulting from sexual promiscuity and biological deviance. Biological explanations

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    Feminist Art

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    Feminist Art The subject of Feminist art has been debated for many years. Female artiste worked anonymously in a society‚ obsessed with male dominance for a long time‚ examples of women artistes before 19th cent are rare. They encountered a clash between their roles as Mothers‚ householders‚ workers etc in the society where males imposed patriarchal social systems and hence restricting a female’s artistic (along with her political‚ social) expression. significant in the dominant culture’s patriarchal

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    The English Effect 6 Mufwene 2010 – Globalization and the Spread of English 8 Pike‚ 2013 - 5 Reasons Why You Should Learn English 10 Shumann‚ E. (n.d.) – Effects of English Hegemony on Education 12 Reference List & Further Reading 14 Page |2 Adapted from Colls‚ T. (2009‚ October 19) The Death of Language? Retrieved from http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8311000/8311069.stm The Death of Language? An estimated 7‚000 languages are being spoken around

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