In her essay “A Feminist Primer for Philosophers of Science‚” philosopher Janet Kourany describes science’s ugly history with women. From perpetuating androcentric societal biases to neglecting women’s health needs‚ science‚ Kourany argues‚ has been instrumental in decelerating feminist social progress. Now‚ in a social rebirth of feminism‚ does science have an obligation to undo its harms by joining the feminist movement? To answer this question‚ I first explain how science has slowed the progress
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The Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s Janet by Chuck Close The Final Janet of its series FNAR 377 Dr. Pendleton “I remember Jack Beal once criticized me in print for not having any books on artists before 1945. Jack always felt that being a realist was some king of ‘us against them’ moral crusade. He thought that Frank Stella was the devil or something. It’s true that I don’t have a lot of books on Velasquez and the history of portrait painting and that I was really interested in trying
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Following news that singer Janet Jackson has given birth to her first child at the age of 50‚ stories of women above 40 delivering babies has come to public attention. Such a phenomenon is actually not unusual. Thanks to scientific advances‚ women aged 55 or even 65 years old can now become pregnant and give birth to healthy children. As reported by kompas.com‚ according to records‚ the oldest woman who has delivered a baby was an Indian named Rajo Devi Lohan at 70 years of age‚ who reportedly
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Artist Report I chose was Janet Fish. Janet Fish is a contemporary realist painter and printmaker who was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts in 1938‚ and raised on the island of Bermuda. Her grandfather‚ Clark Voorhees‚ was an American Impressionist painter who inspired Janet. Her father was an art history teacher‚ and her mother‚ Florence Whistler Fish‚ a sculptor and potter. She went to Skowhegan Summer School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine‚ and studied sculpture and printmaking at Smith College
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“Abigail Adams” by Janet Whitney is far from being a biography of her life. Janet Whitney arranges her material in chronological presentation. She starts from how Abigail Adams and John Adams fell in love and got married. She continues on with the biography describing how John Adams came to presidency as Abigail Adams gave birth to his kids one by one. The author chose wisely to arrange her material in chronological order; it helped better understand that time period. Janet Whitney didn’t
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Janet Stone is a 21-year-old female that has a six-month history of heart palpitations‚ heat intolerance‚ and increasing nervousness. Although she has a good appetite‚ the patient has lost twenty pounds within the six months. A year ago‚ Stone was jogging ten miles per week‚ but has not done any jogging in the past eight months because she “doesn’t feel up to it.” She also seems to have weakness in her legs. No previous medical problems have been reported (Rashi 2010). The first hypothesis was
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Janet Lerner is the best student I have this year‚ and I enthusiastically support her graduate application. She is highly intelligent‚ works well as a team member‚ and has demonstrated leadership potential. I enthusiastically supported her application for the student position on the Mythic University Board of Trustees for the same reasons. She was the runner-up for that distinguished post‚ and Mythic University lost out on a true leader. But I believe her time is yet to come. Janet has taken only
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Hamlet has been praised and revered for centuries as one of William Shakespeare’s best known and most popular tragedies. Based on its popularity‚ critics alike have taken various viewpoints and theories in order to explain Hamlet’s actions throughout the play. The psychoanalytic point of view is one of the most famous positions taken on Hamlet. Psychoanalytic criticism is a type of literary criticism that analyzes and classifies many of the forms of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of
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Janet Jackson was born May 16‚ 1966 in Gary Indiana. She is the youngest in the whole Jackson family. Also‚ this amazing singer is gladly still alive today! Janets’ Early Life Janet Jackson may be the youngest in the Jackson family‚ but she sure is not the worst singer. In fact her first album‚ “Janet Jackson” reached number 84 on the pop chart. Which had 3 hit singles‚ “Young Love”‚ “Give your Love to Me” and “Control”. Her and her brothers and sisters were raised at the church Jehovah’s Witness
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Extra Credit Janet Mock Janet Mock told people that she wants to interrogate her experiences in her book to show how she can be relatable to people. She did not think much about her writing because they were just conversations and life experiences. Her writings included about the painful choices her parents made and how they treated her. Her mom wanted to do the best she can for her child‚ but the journey for her father was intense. Janet mentioned that her father was not there for most of her transitional
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