For this week’s reading memo‚ I will be looking at The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber‚ and Getting Off and Getting Intimate: How Normative Institutional Arrangements Structure Black and White Fraternity Men’s Approaches toward Women by Rashawn Ray and Jason A. Rasow. In The Social Construction of Gender‚ the most obvious argument lies within the title of the reading itself‚ Lorber is arguing that gender is a social construct yet still has an effect on people’s lives. One example
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Why was the world silent during the Holocaust? By: Mary Katherine Mayes and Sarah Grace Whitt Gadsden Middle School Hitler had an invincible ally without whom he could have never flourished. His ally was the world that chose to endure silence as Germany kept challenging the boundaries of the universal acceptance for its evil actions. The Holocaust didn’t begin with crematoria. Hitler moved gradually‚ carefully intensifying his anti-Jewish guidelines. In 1935‚ he approved
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In the Jewish religion‚ men often play dominant roles while women remain belittled by the Jewish religion and its culture. Judith Plaskow‚ the author of Standing Again at Sinai; Judaism from a Feminist Perspective‚ highlights the ways in which Judaism marginalizes women. Women‚ in the Jewish religion‚ are always thought of as unimportant and are constantly playing minute roles. Plaskow points out the many ways in which women are constantly ignored throughout Jewish religion and culture. For example
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Carly Turner English 102 Polliard May 5th‚ 2011 Dancing With The White Rabbit People go under sedation all the time. They jump into the rabbit hole to receive colonoscopies‚ plastic surgery‚ dental work and other various medical procedures. Today’s world has become accustomed to regular use of sedation drugs however they do not realize just how dangerous they can be. There are many factors to be taken into account when someone is put under. Proprofol (Diprivan)‚ a drug that is used to induce
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Critique essay Silent Spring – “A Fable for tomorrow” Alexandre Clavier (31053242) Rachel Carson was the author who leaves her mark on the birth of the ecological movement. Indeed‚ her book represents the first targeted campaign against the ravages of pesticides and herbicides in the United States of America (Carson‚ 1962). In her work‚ Carson exposes the impacts of pesticides on wildlife and describes its bad effects on natural environments‚ fauna and flora but also on the human DNA (Online
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Every year on National Coming Out Day‚ LGBTQ+ individuals come together to celebrate our proudly declared identities. But what are we really celebrating? In “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”‚ Judith Butler explores what it really means to come out and claim an identity. Although Butler acknowledges the importance of coming out for purposes of personal affirmation and community organization‚ she is ultimately skeptical in the coming out process because it means conforming to the discourses of
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history‚ the international government has neglected the needs of the dying and helpless and only after the calamity reached seismic proportions did the government act against the terrorists. The Congo Genocide‚ the silent mass murder‚ is one of the most atrocious‚ violent acts of history and the majority of the American population is ignorant of the terrors inflicted upon the indigenous peoples by King Leopold II.‚ who was rewarded
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And the World Kept Silent “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor‚ never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor‚ never the tormented” (Brozo 979). This quote was said by Elie Wiesel during his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize. Elie was eloquent about what the world tried to suppress. Wiesel affected society because he wrote and spoke for the surviving and gone‚ that their stories not be erased‚ and that the world keep silent no more. Elie Wiesel‚ a convict in the
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When Ransom initially meets Weston and Devine‚ Devine describes him as‚ “The great physicist. Has Einstein on toast and drinks a pint of Schrodinger’s blood for breakfast‚” (Out of the Silent Planet 15). From this the audience can determine the Weston is an intelligent man through the comparisons to Einstein and Schrodinger. Weston’s opinions on humanity are rather Darwinist as he views Harry‚ a boy who worked for them that they were originally going to use for the presumed sacrifice on Malacandra
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James Nickel is the author of “Mathematics: Is God Silent?” He was born and raised on a farm in Dinuba‚ California. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and his master’s degree in education. He spent most of the late 70’s and 80’s teaching mathematics at a high school in Australia and Hawaii. During those years he not only taught mathematics‚ but he also spent a lot of time researching it. Aside from teaching‚ he was a mathematical analyst for the United States Navy. Through all of his
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