Nature and Nurture: A Gender Sandwich It has always been said that both nature and nurture are the main ingredients in shaping a person’s behavior for the rest of their lives‚ like the meats and the cheeses to your favorite sub sandwich. Deborah Blum seems to think that not only do these things greatly effect human behavior but also gender identities. She gives the reader a new perspective on nature and nurture‚ arguing that it is way more than just nurture that paves the path of gender roles. Blum’s
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Deborah Samson was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man and served for over a year in the revolutionary war. I think it was very brave of her to do that knowing how much trouble she could have got in. In Deborah Samson’s child and teenage years were rough because she lived in poverty. It didn’t make anything any better when her father left on a expedition
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Hume’s appeals to human nature in order to explain knowledge‚ but his writings are more about discrediting the common beliefs and replacing them with skepticism. Hume accounts for human’s believing in cause and effect because of the habit that comes from common experiences‚ and not too dissimilar is his explanation for the existence of necessary connections‚ which he believes is due to our ability to examine enough similar instances to call something a connection. Hume does not provide anything that
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In “Both Sides Come Out Fighting: The Argument Culture and the Press”‚ Deborah Tannen explains that the Press over-simplifies and dramatizes situations‚ and validates ridiculous arguments in order to appeal to viewers. She provides many examples of the harm this practice can cause‚ and describes the “Argument Culture” which is present in society. The Press has sizable influence because the way that events are reported affects people’s perceptions‚ in turn this affects the events themselves. The Media
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Having self-awareness is the “conscious knowledge of one’s own character‚ feelings‚ motives‚ and desires. (Dictionary.com)” In my pursuit of becoming an improved person and leader‚ I wish to become more self-aware. In the video the The speaker‚ Deborah Gruenfeld‚ a faculty member from Stanford University. Discusses the importance of body language‚ self awareness and the way it defines a leader. Gruenfeld opens up her talk by stating that “people will decide if you are competent in less than a hundred
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The poem “Factory Work” by Deborah Boe is about a character who works in a factory assembling shoe parts. The character’s identity is that possibly of a female due to the line in the poem that states “If I hit my boyfriend now‚ in the supermarket parking lot‚ he knows I hit him”(Boe‚ 2009). There is no indication of the characters ethnicity‚ whether white or black‚ but the arrangement of the characters wording leads the reader to believe quite possibly that of white female. The character also appears
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Do you know if you have grit? Better said do you know if grit was part of your education? For the person who hasn’t heard about grit‚ in the article “The Significance of Grit” written by Deborah Perkin-Gough defines grit as being passion and perseverance not giving up. It explains that sometimes people know they could do more‚ but they get comfort and just do so much that it’s requiring. In my senior year of high school‚ I had to use grit on two occasions to accomplish my goals and succeed. This
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The image that comes to mind when someone says education is an old brick building covered in vines. This is a place meant to facilitate learning and literacy. In Deborah Brandt’s essay “Sponsors of Literacy‚” Brandt describes the process of how people become literate and the effect of their economic and family backgrounds on their learning. Sherman Alexie’s essay “Superman and Me” provides an example of the process of becoming literate. Alexie’s essay is the story of Alexie’s first encounter with
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Framing The Reading (331‐32) • Deborah Brandt is a professor of English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There is couple of literacy books and scholarly research articles‚ which were written by her. One of them is “Sponsors of Literacy”. There is some data‚ which is collected in Literacy American Lives. • Brandt opposes that people will not become literate by themselves. Instead of that‚ people‚ institutions and circumstances sponsor literacy. Moreover‚ it people actually acquires
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In The Myth of Mars and Venus‚ Deborah Cameron explores the claims about gender and language and its consequences in today’s society. Cameron titles her book a ‘myth’ due to two reasons. The first sense is the commonly known definition of a myth: “a widespread but false belief” regarding the notion that men and women have different ways in using language to communicate with each other (Cameron‚ 3). ‘Myth’ is also used in the sense that it is a story of the identity of an individual and what has shaped
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