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    The readings in the Reader by Judith Van Allen and Janheinz Jahn show what life was like for women and their roles in society. Jahn tells the life of a girl named Ewumi and describes what her duties were like as a woman. From a young age‚ Ewumi experienced what the gender roles were and how she was expected to live as she got older. When she became of age‚ she was able to pick a suitor. This surprised me because I thought that the women did not have a say in who they married. Women were expected

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    "Offering Truth" was painted by Kendra Runnells. This painting has a lot of life lessons and meaning. The colors in the painting give off a sad and dark feel‚ but one can see another person giving instead of receiving and it also shows that it is sometimes better to stand alone than to go along with the crowd. Throughout the painting one can see darkness and sadness. It appears to be raining. When it rains‚ it sometimes makes people sad. It also makes things really dark‚ not just the sky‚ but also

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    secret; they might feel regretful that they have hurt a friend; or they might feel embarrassed that they have betrayed a close relationship. So overall‚ shall we feel against with lying or the other? From the short story‚ “The Truth About Lying” by Judith Viorst‚ it highlights the ways and the result of lying under different circumstances. In my opinion‚ lying is not a good way to benefiting or helping others and ourselves. Lying is just an emergency expression‚ the truth itself will appear in one

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    negative‚ their parents bore the blame. This perspective seemed to leave little room for other influences for how children turn out; influences such as biological factors and personality type‚ cultural and peer influences‚ and the child’s own choices. Judith Rich‚ however‚ in her Group Socialization Theory of Development‚ proposes that influences outside the home‚ with peer-groups‚ carry greater importance in development than parental influence. Using biological evidence‚ studies of twins and immigrant

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    The response paper Youngil Hong The Psychic Life of Power- Judith Butler Butler surveys the ideas of Hegel‚ Althusser‚ and Foucault around subject formation‚ interrogating how power produces its subject and how that subject comes to perceive itself as one. Butler understands power as forming the subject and as providing the very condition of its existence. I believe that her basic idea is that the subjects become attached to the conditions of their own subjectivity even if these conditions

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    In Abuela Invents the Zero by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ Constancia meets her grandmother for the first time‚ which leads to her being ashamed of being with her grandmother because she acts and dresses differently; that makes Abuela very sad that her grandmother. The theme is given people with the utmost respect‚ or you will lose the respect from the other person. To begin‚ the main character named Constancia and her family picks up her Abuela. Constancia’s mother tells her about the stories of her mother

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    C. Wright Mills’s sociological research led him to realize that a person’s life is heavily influenced by societal norms and opinions. Therefore‚ no individual experience is ever completely free from society’s influence. The #MeToo movement‚ which was started in 2006 to raise awareness for sexual assault‚ got a wave of resurgence in October of 2017 when Hollywood actresses began to tell their stories of sexual abuse. The brave and honest women who spoke up against powerful Hollywood men encouraged

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    clearly states that child abuse and the murder of one’s child is illegal‚ but does allow abortion. Regardless of whether it is right or wrong‚ the fine line that exists between abortion and murder will be discussed and debated for decades to come. In Judith Thomson’s article‚ "A Defense of Abortion‚" she argues that abortion can be morally justified in some instances‚ but not all cases. Clearly‚ in her article‚ Thomson argues‚ "…while I do argue that abortion is not impermissible‚ I do not argue that

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    In the 1940’s white people were clearly the majority and superior race. Whites looked down on all other races‚ especially blacks. This superiority had been going on for hundreds of years and was never challenged until the 1950’s and 1960’s. During this time period there were many civil rights movements led by Communists and other groups who believed in racial equality. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. was the most famous spokesman and adamant believer in racial equality. The helm of all white supremacist

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    In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “First Love”‚ the speaker is opportunistic and infatuated. The narrator is opportunistic because she did not let a sense of morality stop her from taking advantage of whatever opportunity she had to get what she wants. Simply because the narrator wanted a mere glimpse of her crush who worked at a grocery store‚ she hoped her mother “[smoking] with so little enthusiasm”(Cofer 1) did not mean that she’d have to stop going to the store to pick up cigarettes. The narrator did

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