society. In one of Kruger’s work “Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground)” from 1989‚ a black and white photograph of a woman is displayed‚ but half of it is displayed like a photography negative. The woman is facing the viewer‚ showing a perhaps oppositional gaze. The text declares‚ “Your body is a battleground.” This work was created in support of birth control rights‚ with abortion being a topical issue. Kruger is showing‚ through this work‚ that a woman’s body is vulnerable and can be taken‚ unless
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Aaron Stallings Modern capitalist societies have long emphasized the pursuit of personal happiness while directly inhibiting the natural desire of individual pleasures. This is accomplished through the utilization of social systems which establish hierarchical rule and common law among ruled people. I argue that these social members suffer through alleged feelings of dissatisfaction and unhappiness due to their active participation in civilization. In capitalist societies people are vigorously trained
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Luc Brubaker Final Project Rhetorical Arts Writing in the Applied Math Discourse Community A discourse community that I would like to be involved in is the Applied Mathematics discourse community. Although James Paul Gee claims that it is not that simple to join a discourse community‚ it is even more so in the applied mathematics discourse community because of how broad it is. A lot of the time‚ people engulfed in the Applied Math discourse community are usually part of another discourse community
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Daiana Almanzar 10/9/14 Ba’Nikongo: The Caribbean: From Emancipation to Independence The abolition of slavery was a moderate‚ continuous and uneven process all through the Caribbean. After more than three centuries under an uncaring work framework in which a large number of Africans from numerous spots kicked the bucket in the fields and urban areas of the Caribbean‚ the procedure of abolition was the subject of genuine and profound thought for the segments fixing to the estate
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“Sticks and stones may break my bones‚ but words will never hurt… “ That statement couldn’t be further from the truth. How often have someone implied that words are meaningless and couldn’t possibly be hurt by them? “You’re stupid; you’re ugly; nobody likes you” are words most bullied victims may hear on a regular basis‚ words that can permeate through ones psyche emotionally‚ ones that can... well hurt. When we hear of someone being bullied‚ a normal humane reaction is to gravitate towards the
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Miscommunications Deborah Tannen’s “Sex‚ Lies‚ and Conversation” is a brief look at how men and women communicate with one another and the cross-culture differences between their individual styles and needs for conversation. Women often say that men do not listen or do not want to talk. Tannen gives reasons why women tend to believe that men are not listening‚ and shows that just because men have a different approach to communicating does not mean they are not listening to what women are saying
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Gender‚ race‚ class and sexuality—socially constructed hierarchies—were made purely because of power relationships. Though individuals can adopt the types of gender‚ race‚ class and sexuality to represent themselves‚ they weren’t made in the first place to accommodate that. They were made for a dominant group to “secure its position of dominance of the system”; to differentiate who is the subordinate group and who isn’t. The subordinate groups were instantaneously put into categories so dominant
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Positive labels such as being called smart and or athletic. While negative labels being that of children who have been diagnosed with behavior or mental disorders such as ADHD‚ Asperger’s syndrome‚ or Oppositional Defiant Disorder. This also wraps into the school to prison pipeline because according to the book The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Structuring Legal Reform “children who are diagnosed with special learning or emotional needs are much more likely
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Freedom of information‚ speech and the press is firmly rooted in the structures of modern western democratic thought. With limited restrictions‚ every capitalist democracy has legal provisions protecting these rights. Even the UN Declaration of Human Rights‚ adopted by the general assembly in 1948 declares "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek‚ receive and impart information and ideas through any
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Social order requires social behaviour to be predictable and individuals to cooperate. Amongst the explanations of social order are five outlined by Hechter and Horne: (shared) ‘meaning’‚ ‘values and norms’‚ ‘power and authority’‚ ‘spontaneous interaction’ and ‘networks and groups’. Following Hechter and Horne‚ describe how at least TWO of these explanations might account for social order‚ and discuss the extent to which you find those explanations convincing. Social order is one of the most central
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