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    evident in Jerry Mander’s essay “The Walling of Awareness” and bell hooks’ “Touching the Earth.” In “The Walling of Awareness‚” Mander examines how the construction of big cities has impaired people’s relationship with nature. Similarly in bell hooks’ “Touching the Earth”‚ she argues that when the blacks migrated to the North they suffered both physically and mentally from their lost relationship with the land. Although Mander and hooks agree that we are disconnected to nature‚ both examine these losses

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    through their cell phones. A place where individuals are making changes to benefit themselves and the future generations. Today’s generation are living for the moment and not really thinking about the consequence for their actions. Pico Iyer and Bell Hooks both argues that people should start making “inner changes” in order to make “outer changes.” So what does this mean? Individuals should start thinking differently‚ stop challenging each other and start cooperating. With this one can possibly obtain

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    The Sandy Hook Massacre and Its Effects on Gun Control The Sandy Hook Massacre is the second deadliest shooting by a single person in American history. According to CNN‚ this tragic attack took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown‚ Connecticut on December 14‚ 2012. The shooter‚ Adam Lanza‚ brought three guns into the school‚ two of which were pistols‚ and one of which was an assault rifle. To get into the building‚ which had an updated security system‚ he shot his own way into the

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    “Touching the Earth” we see the author‚ Bell Hooks‚ at various points mention that when shes doing something that makes her feel at place it makes her feel at home. Hooks even claims in the first sentence of the essay the following‚ “When we love the Earth‚ we are able to love ourselves more fully (968). This quote references the fact that when she gardens or farms she is able to enjoy herself and the life she’s living. Bell Hooks explains how she grew up in Kentucky where she watched her grandparents

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    Bell Hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom proposes an engaged pedagogy to handle the overwhelming sense of boredom‚ disinterest‚ and apathy that teachers and students feel about the learning experience. According to the author‚ the feeling of student alienation in the educational institutions can be traced to discriminatory‚ racist‚ and classist policies present in these settings. Hooks (1993) leverages on her past experiences to show the impact of race and gender on

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    In chapter 17‚ To Love Again The Heart of Feminism by Bell Hooks quotes; “If women and men want to know love‚ we have to yearn for feminism. For without feminist thinking and practice we lack the foundation to create loving bonds” (Hooks‚ 100). As I was reading this‚ it sounded to me as if feminism was a must‚ almost sounding like a religion‚ because it is something people practice. Yet‚ if someone was trying to make their ideology a requirement of life they should just put it aside. If feminism

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    The tragic incident that occurred in Newtown‚ Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th‚ 2012 was indescribably devastating. The day after the shooting occurred‚ the Wall Street Journal covered the horrific event and stated “A man armed with two semiautomatic pistols killed 20 children at an elementary school Friday in a rampage that left 27 people dead and one injured in this suburban town before he took his own life‚ authorities said. A federal law-enforcement official said a

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    Growing up a Third Culture Kid A Sociological Approach Who am I?Even though I had reason enough to ask myself this question during my adolescence years‚ I only recall reflecting and identifying personal characteristic personality traits intensely in the recent years.I am about three neighborhoods away from where I used to live 17 years ago.It is the fourth month now‚ that I would have had the opportunity to pass by the house I used to live in with my parents‚ my sister‚ my dog‚ Swami‚ Prema

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    Modern Culture The article I have chosen to review is called “Sexed up: theorizing the sexualization of culture” by F. Attwood. This article discusses various cultural aspects‚ values and effects of sexual behavior in a modern society. It also compares the current sexual culture with the culture before the invention of the Internet and social media. The author shows a detailed analysis on different changes brought by the modern globalization and how those changes influenced sexual culture including

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    Hooking Up In the book‚ Hooking Up‚ the author‚ Kathleen Bogle‚ devotes most of her research to interviewing male and female undergraduates and alumni. Throughout her book‚ she uses various methods to expose the complexity of hookups and the actualities of the gender “rules” on college campuses. The techniques Bogle uses are: explaining the norms of the hooking up culture prior to the twentieth century‚ describing how the ambiguity of the term “hooking up” on college campuses creates misconstrued

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