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    Gender Inequality in Sports Journals of Reflection Sociology AND 1021 Professor Lauren Barr 26th March 2014 Basil Agyekum Sociology Journal #1 - Discussion of Both Genders Growing up my parents thrust me into organized basketball leagues and by the time I was fifteen I was on my high school basketball team. Even though I was just a young teenager I could notice the greater amount of effort‚ time and attention given to young

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    Differences‚ that’s what makes us unique. They define who we are. God made each one of us special. Then why have we been judged for our differences and have been treated different because of them? It doesn’t make sense. This is what our world has done for so many years. People with disabilities have been treated the most unfavorable of us all. This goes back almost all the way back in history. I am going to be focusing on the 1800s/ early 1900s‚ the 1950s to the 1960s‚ and what life is like them

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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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    our love and friendship can create the illusion for the moment‚ that we are not alone”(Orson Welles). If friends did not have each other everyone would be alone. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ Johnny and Dally have similarities and differences. When Johnny and Dally are not out with the gang‚ they both have bad home lives. Johnny’s parents abuse him while he is at his home‚ his father is “always beating him up‚ and his mother ignored him”(12). The time Johnny spends at his house

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    Research proposal: “Depiction of gender in Science fiction Films.” Abstract “Media images of female protagonists reinforce cultural stereotypes about the role of women in world of cinema. These images can have a positive impact on adolescent girls who are making career plans at a time marked by waning self-confidence and a heightened awareness of cultural norms of femininity. An analysis of images of female protagonists in popular films ( e.g. Charlie’s Angels) shows how these images reinforce cultural

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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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    UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES CAVE HILL CAMPUS INSTITUTE FOR GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES NITA BARROW UNIT GEND 2201 WOMEN’S STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO FEMINIST THEORIES Semester 1: 2011/2012 Written Assignment Name: Kasha Grimes Id # : 409002427 Lecturer: Dr. Halimah DeShong Due Date: 14th November‚ 2011 “Man for the field and woman for the hearth; Man for the sword and for the needle she; Man

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    Effect of chalepensin on S. mutans growth Fifty microliters of a S. mutans suspension (1 x 103 bacteria/ml) in BHI medium (Remel‚ Lenexa‚ KS) were transferred to flat-bottomed 96-well plates (Corning Incorporated‚ Corning‚ NY) containing serial dilutions (1:2) of 50 μl of chalepensin‚ or 1 μg/ml tetracycline‚ chalepensin-free vehicle (vehicle was similarly processed as with chalepensin extraction‚ but without plant material)‚ and culture medium controls‚ and incubated for 6 h at 37°C. Next‚ MTT was

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    The widespread imbalance in the intrests and expectations between the sexes‚ poses as a communication gap between the two genders. It causes us to have different impressions of social interaction between men and woman. One must understand the other sex in order to come up with a solution. In Debrah Tannen’s essay on “Why Is It So Hard For Men and Women to Talk to Each Other‚” she tries to inform us of this lack of communication between men and women and the problems that it

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    Teun A. Van Dijk‚ in his essay "Pragmatics and Poetics‚" explains the reason for speech is "to change the internal state of the hearer" (Dijk 30). Ferdinand de Saussure describes in his essay‚ "Nature of the Linguistic Sign‚" how a word is more connected to the minds of the speaker and the hearer than to anything else. He describes that the "linguistic sign" as a unit formed equally by the association of a "concept" and a "sound-image." The "sound-image" is what one would call a spoken word‚ something

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