9/3/13 Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We? Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org) Home > Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We? TomDispatch.com [1] / By Rick Shenkman [2] Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We? July 1‚ 2008 | "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free‚ in a state of civilization‚ it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson Just how stupid are we? Pretty stupid‚ it would seem‚ when we come across headlines like this: "Homer Simpson
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Women have been oppressed by those of the opposite sex for years‚ which has led us to where we are today. “Girl” seems to have been written during a time period when women were looked down upon and had to act a certain way in order to maintain a good image. A little back story on the author allows you to see the point of view from which this short story was written. “Girl” was published to bring Antigua’s rich history to light where the author experienced what is was like to be a female in a poor
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Yde Girl Yde Girl‚ named after the village in which she was founded‚ is a human remain that had been founded in Stijfveen peat bog Drenthe (refer to figure one)‚ Netherlands in 1897. The Dutch peat cutters who had found her body first believing they had saw the devil‚ because of her red hair had had resulted in running away and returning a day after to cover her body with stacks of peat. Her body now in displayed in the Drents museum in Assen along with her modern reconstruction of her physical
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Boys and Girls Throughout the story “Boys and Girls”‚ gender is a popular issue that came up. During the time period‚ women were considered to be second class. The narrator of the story‚ whose name you do not find out‚ struggles with the social norm. She does not enjoy the “dirty” chores she is entitled to do such as kitchen work with her mother. The narrator although older than her younger brother‚ is still considered to be below him. Laird which is a synonym for “Lord” is an obvious
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composition relates to how I feel about design which is to just think out of the box. However‚ there is another image that comes to mind when. The artwork is by Roy Lichtenstein called Drowning Girl. The first image connects with the Lichtensteins’ image because when I see the word ‘think’ I think about my senior year of high school where the Drowning Girl was painted in my classroom wall of my computer class. That painting made me feel inspired to create so I started to learn how to use Illustrator
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Eng305 Prompt 3 November 13‚ 2013 The Flapper Girl and the Gibson Girl At the end of the nineteenth century and into the early part of the twentieth century there were two predominant styles of dress and manner for women. The Gibson Girl was popular from about 1890 until the end of World War I which then gave rise to the Flapper Girl of the 1920’s. They were different in most things‚ except that they both promoted the sense of what the time thought the “modern woman” was. They both
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Day of the Dead is a holiday which is celebrated in Mexico and begins on October 31st; the day of Halloween in the United States‚ and ends on November 2nd. On the Day of the Dead‚ families and friends come together to remember and pray for their relatives who have died. This holiday is much like Memorial Day which is celebrated in the United States. The Day of the Dead originated from traditions observed as much as 3‚000 years ago. These traditions have been passed on from generation to generation
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In the video “Darfur in Ten Minutes”/ Pete McCormack explains three reasons for the Civil War in Sudan. One of the three reason of the civil war is ethnic tension Sudan is split into three regions North Sudan‚ South Sudan‚ and Darfur or West Sudan. All three have either different religion or ethnicity‚ North Sudan are Arabic and Muslims. South Sudan are ethnically Black and Christian‚ and Darfur are Black and Muslim. They’re considered one Country and the government is in North Sudan so they only
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The painting Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand by Albrecht Durer was made in 1508. It was commissioned for the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg‚ Germany. It is Oil on panel transferred to a canvas. What I found interesting is the amount of detail and how everywhere you look there’s something happening. The painting uses a pyramid layout to get a sense of balance. A color in the painting that only appears in one location is black which can be interpreted as death. It also shows men being led to their
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Part One Essays CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE FORM OF LITERATURE a. Elements of Essays b. The essay and other forms of literature c. The essayist and the reader d. Four essays and commentaries • The essay as argument: Persuasion • The essay as story: history • The essay as poem: Meditation • The essay as play: Dialogue Total Essays 10 1. Cocksure
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