“Teaching is a performative act”‚ and it is for that reason that it is crucial that teachers teach beyond the textbook (hooks‚ 11) . The textbook merely supplies the student with information‚ data‚ and serve the core curriculum agenda that has been set up by the state or district. The teacher’s job is not to reiterate what the textbook says‚ although there is a responsibility upon the teacher to ensure that students understand the assigned readings‚ but the teacher’s job is to relate the text to
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bell hooks’ examination of black female spectatorship is‚ as she discusses in the essay ‘The oppositional gaze’‚ is a comparatively unexplored territory by scholars. She focuses on cinema in its early form as a unique site for a gaze to emerge that opposed the assumed maleness and whiteness of the viewer. Hooks’ main argument stems from the idea that the black women are doubly excluded from the practices of looking as a hierarchical structure continuing to use this in terms of cinema. She argues
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bell hooks: “Seeing and Making Culture” Summary In the essay “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor”‚ hooks proposes a different perspective on issues regarding people of higher class compared to those of lower class. In doing so‚ she clarifies and illustrates assumptions made about the poor‚ how they are viewed in popular culture‚ and in the media. To further validate her points‚ she utilizes ideas that stem from her own personal experiences with poverty‚ as well as examples from pop
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1. In her novel Communion‚ Bell Hooks sets up a main idea‚ which ultimately reveals the reasoning in which she wrote the book. In Communion she speaks about the truth behind loving oneself. When men are growing up they are taught to be able to keep their emotions to themselves‚ while women are taught the opposite. They are taught to be able to act on their emotions‚ which gives them a disadvantage. She goes on to speak about how men do not show their feelings and emotions to the public as much as
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with benefits are a friend with whom one has occasional sexual relations without a commitment or dating arrangement. Sex is different from both hook-ups and friends with benefits. Usually with sex‚ strong feelings are involved. Love and attraction are generally the sexual feelings. Not all the time will there be a romantic connection‚ like hook-ups or friends with benefits. Pleasure is usually the component of sexual feelings. The word sexual intercourse
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Los Angles‚ California gave a talk about the hook-up culture on college campuses. She started the talk with college being a big‚ four-year orgy. I never thought about college being a big orgy‚ until I thought about my experience at my first college‚ Saint Lawrence University. The period I attended St. Lawrence University‚ I was so naïve to the hook-up culture‚ especially in my own sexual community‚ the gay community. Once I explored and engaged in the hook-up culture in the very small gay community
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Taha Al-Yousif Hooke’s Law Lab Date conducted: September 18th 2013 Partners: Mohammed‚ Liam‚ Ben Nguyen Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to find the relationship between the stretch of the spring and the attached mass and to verify that this relationship is accurately described by Hook’s Law. Theory: Hooke’s Law states that to extend a spring by an amount (Stretch) from its previous position‚ one needs to add an external force (Mass). Therefore
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a few of the mass shootings that took the United States by storm. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is considered a crisis and I will use the Life Cycle of a Crisis and Social Media and the Internet Effects of a Crisis to dissect this crisis in detail. The first ‘step’ in the life cycle of a crisis is the preconditions. This is the series of events
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term of the sexual activity it is and many young adolescents and young adults have ways to rework the whole aspects of the “hook up.” Nevertheless‚ the whole idea of “hooking up” does has some negative and positive aspects to it especially in regarding to women because of gender inequality in sexuality. Women‚ in regarding to hookups‚ are treated differently from men. For example‚ men are praise for their “masculinity” when it comes to the number of how many girls or women they had have sex with. Yet
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Persuasive Speech from Captain Hook Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury‚ I have‚ may it please the court and jury‚ a few words to say. In the first place‚ I do not deny anything that the court has against me. Of course‚ I am here to make an appeal to the court to acknowledge that I did not have any intention to kill Peter Pan. I didn’t mean to severely injure him by any means‚ but you must understand that he tried to attack me and take someone I dearly cared for. I therefore urge you to listen
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