field of language and gender is Deborah Tannen’s non-fiction book‚ You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (henceforth also referred to as YJDU). Tannen‚ a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University who specializes in discourse‚ posited in this book that because of differences in basic underlying cultural understandings between men and women‚ their speech was like an interlanguage communication. While this piece draws on research done by Tannen and other researchers at the time
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In the essays “There Is No Unmarked Woman” by Deborah Tannen and “Ways Of Seeing” by John Berger‚ the authors try to convey a similar point‚ but in two different contexts. Tannen describes a conference meeting and how she views others around her (Tannen 444). Berger on the other hand uses European oil paintings to show how only women are judged by the male eyes in society‚ Unlike a man‚ a woman has two elements to her identity‚ “the surveyor and the surveyed” (Berger 5). He also goes on to note
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Tannen’s “Fighting for Our Lives” touches on how our culture is seen as an argument culture where there are two distinct sides to an argument seen as being either right or wrong‚ without a middle ground. The argument culture‚ Tannen explains‚ urges us to approach the world in an adversarial frame of mind: the best way to approach any sort of idea‚ dialogue‚ or conversation is to set it up as a debate. This tactic does not solve any residing problems‚ by ignoring what the other person has to say
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Different?” “Boys will be boys” (Tannen 193) is a statement is said quite frequently. Boys can sometimes be more outspoken in any kind of group setting‚ whereas girls are more than likely to keep their opinion to themselves. In How Male and Female Students Use Language differently‚ written by Deborah Tannen‚ we are giving a look into how because boys and girls behave differently there is a reflection of that in the classrooms. Through an experiment in a classroom setting Tannen was able to gather how differently
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Ar’n’t I a Woman The hardships of slavery were not easy for anyone whether they were male or female. However‚ these experiences of hardships differed greatly among black males and females in the south. Male and female slaves had their own ways of dealing with the depression of slavery by passively or actively resisting against their masters. Also‚ they had different types of work assigned to them usually based on gender and value. Finally‚ they had different sexual experiences on the plantations
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Blue and Gray Review: First Draft by Todd Mosier It’s often said that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes‚ finding that beauty requires looking deeply beneath the surface. Never before has this sentiment seemed so relevant as when one first observes Gray and Gold by John Rogers Cox. Gray and Gold by John Rogers Cox‚ currently hanging in the Cleveland Museum of Art
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young Private‚ Robert Shurtliff "…was always mentioned in glowing terms as being one of the toughest‚ strongest‚ and most patriotic soldiers… Shurtliff ’s physical endurance was legendary" (Leonard). In contrast‚ the inexperienced‚ eighteen-year-old Deborah Sampson rarely received compliments nor stood out among the beauties of Plympton and Middleborough‚ Massachusetts. These two seemingly-different personages have much more in common that one might imagine. In the late Eighteenth Century‚ women had
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Her name was Deborah Fontanel. August knew I was her daughter the day I showed up at her house. When August was younger she worked as a housekeeper in Deborah’s house‚ and took care of her. Deborah and August kept in touch and August told me that Deborah met T-Ray and fell in love. After a while Deborah was losing her love for T-Ray. He asked her to get married‚but she said no. She changed her mind eventually because she was pregnant‚ with me. I was an unwanted baby. One day Deborah called August
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The “Song of Deborah” is one of the most famous songs in Jewish history. The song‚ sung by two of the heros of the story‚ Deborah and her husband Barak‚ begins by praising Hashem. It states Hashem’s name “Adoni” five times in the first four lines of the song‚ mentioning some cherry picked miracles he had performed. For instance it mentions the earth quaking and the heavens opening up. After the introductory praise of Hashem‚ the state of the Jewish people is examined. It says that deliverance had
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Deborah Gray White’s book‚ Ar’n’t I a Woman? is a depiction of female slaves in the southern plantations. Many texts and primary sources cover slavery through the eyes of men and rarely has the public been given a clear representation of the female slavery realm. White explores the burdens that these women encountered. These women lived through sexism and racism all while assuming their roles in their families and community. White begins her book by contrasting two portrayals of enslaved women:
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