poured my class a glass of her great wisdom at the end of the semester. Truer words never ringed so clear and I wished I heed her advice months prior. I thought I hit the gold mine when I found a high-paying graduate assistantship dedicated to social justice. Sadly‚ working there as a black cisgendered womyn was a great nightmare. My first day should have set off an alarm: when I first walked in‚ I noticed that I was the only staff of any color‚ besides the student-staff. Perplexed because we were
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51. SJW Acronym for “Social Justice Warrior” Noun A pejorative term for an individual who repeatedly and vehemently engages in arguments on social justice on the Internet‚ often in a shallow or not well-thought-out way‚ for the purpose of raising their own personal reputation. “The SJW was so triggered by the movie that they began to attack the director for its fictional racism.” Twitter‚ confirmed on oxforddictionaries.com 52. Soyboy Compounding Soy + Boy Noun Describes males who lack all
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In the woman-to-woman sexual violence book‚ Dr. Lori B. Girshick records the participants’ narrative about their abusive experiences. According to the survivor’s stories‚ it can recognize the similar process such as controlling intimate partner behaviors‚ limiting interaction with other people and isolating the victims. In addition‚ not only the forms of abusive action include the physical‚ sexual‚ emotional abuse is closed to the heterosexual domestic violence‚ but also the reactions of batters
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they work toward many civil rights/social justice causes I care about. The issue‚ though‚ was that it was unpaid. I’ve worked my entire college career to support myself‚ so taking the internship meant I’d have to find another job that was paid (effectively
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social justice work as part of university services and scholarship. The action plan (recommendation 1) includes creating diversity and equity mission statement‚ encouraging professional development opportunities‚ providing support to develop partnerships between student‚ university‚ and community organizations‚ and to conduct on-going assessments of Campus Climate. Recommendation 2 allows for a space or forum for people interact with together and improve the communication among all associated with
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MODULE 1 THEORIES OF LEARNING: ACT – R (Adaptive Control of Thought - Rational) by John Anderson I. Objectives At the end of the module‚ the students are expected to: a. define ACT – R; b. apply the ACT – R Theory in learning; and c. appreciate the importance of ACT – R in learning II. Introduction of the Topic ACT-R (Adaptive Control of Thought--Rational) is a cognitive architecture mainly developed by John Robert Anderson at Carnegie Mellon University‚ which is also a theory
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R for Programmers Norman Matloff University of California‚ Davis c 2007-8‚ N. Matloff December 4‚ 2008 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This document is no longer being maintained. My book on R programming‚ The Art of R Programming‚ is due out in August 2011. You are welcome to use an early draft at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/˜matloff/132/NSPpart.pdf; it was about 50% complete and contains bugs‚ but should be useful. Licensing: This work‚ dated December 4‚ 2008‚ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No
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The seventh-largest country by area‚ the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people‚ and the world’s largest democracy‚ is India. India as a nation‚ perhaps the oldest. The first documented evidence of India’s civilization dates back to Indus Valley Civilization. Since then it expanded gradually to various parts of the sub-continent. The Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Gradually annexed by and brought under the
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Homework #1 09/07/13 The struggle by the powerless to achieve social justice is the change having the most impact in our society. This is the fight by the minority of the population for equal rights and respect as the majority. The main minority group that is fighting for their rights in society today is homosexuals. “Gay rights” have always been an issue but never as relevant as they are now. Beliefs on homosexuality being a choice or not differ‚ and because of this‚ many people are against
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a complete state of panic & chaos in the city The telephone networks collapsed‚ almost paralysing the communication between panic-stricken victims and relatives‚ and their concerned well-wishers. However‚ the most powerful tool in modern Internet technology‚ social networking‚ came to the rescue. Twitter‚ Facebook‚ Google and other similar networking sites have played a major role in helping the blast victims. For example‚ well-wishers posted messages that asked for blood donations from willing
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