I enjoyed this book by Bell Hooks far more than I did Creative Schools by Ken Robinson. I thought this author had a better ability to lay out her thoughts and explain to the reader more efficiently her ideas. The chapters were fifty percent shorter as well‚ which helped the reading feel less drawn out and lengthy. The author did a better job providing examples from her life that related to the subject than Robinson did‚ although they were also rather lengthy. Creative Schools tended to have the examples
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Black Morocco is divided into two parts. The paired chapters of part 1 consider slavery within the broad Islamic legal and moral framework‚ on the one hand‚ and‚ on the other‚ within a specifically North African and Moroccan context during the medieval and early modern periods. Chapter 1 examines legal and moral perspectives on slavery in the Qur’an‚ ḥadīth literature‚ and Sunni legal traditions. El Hamel argues that interpreters of Islamic law chose to accommodate existing institutions of slavery
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discusses how different people keep in God close to their heart when they are making the harsh‚ physical and emotional demanding journey to America. In chapter 7 of Migration Miracle‚ Hagan discusses how many of these migrants and their families’ use something called La Promesas or promises; in hopes that God will be a helping hand their journey. In this chapter‚ we see many unorthodox ways that people use in order to give praise to their religion. A couple of ways that the migrants and their families used
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In the first chapter of Freakonomics‚ the authors of the book used a quote that in my opinion best describes the whole idea of the chapter. That quote is “a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for” by W. C. Fields. This quote perfectly summarized the whole chapter’s idea incentives‚ the idea that incentive “is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing” and how incentive “is a bullet‚ a lever…‚ [and] an often tiny object with astonishing power to
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To summarize this Mill’s chapter two about what utilitarianism is‚ basically meaning that individuals would find some kind of pleasure that are more desirable and more valuable to themselves are inherently good. Utilitarianism is pleasurable when the actions are good; when the actions are bad the pleasure decreases. To Mill he compares human pleasures are as equal as animalistic pleasures. It depends on what kind of pleasure people are seeking. For this purpose‚ Mill mentioned that people would have
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how linguistics and dialogue further the development of the characters in a variety of television shows. The book specifically looks at Gilmore Girls in Part One‚ “Fictional Television: Dialogue and Drama‚” and in the chapter “The Genre of Dramedy and its Audience.” In this chapter‚ Bednarek looks at the relationship between dialogue and genre‚ specifically the intertextual references and dramedy of Gilmore Girls. In analyzing the dialogue‚ Bednarek looks specifically at the “intertextual references
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FINAL PAPER: CHAPTER 8 REVIEW The chapter begins by examining the relevance of symbolic interactionism‚ not only for deepening personal understanding of social life but also for improving social policy. It then moves on to consider how interactionism has moved beyond its early focus of interpersonal observations‚ particularly by broadening its scope to include analysis of mesostructure and organizational life. It concluded by discussing some of the new voices that have gained influence in interactionism
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The reading for today started on Chapter 9 on the day of Paige’s big breast cancer gala. Chloe had came home after being gone the night before and shared the news about her and Chris getting back together. They were still planning on going to California‚ and were leaving the next morning to start their road trip. Paige was upset because she did not want to see Chloe leave‚ but she knew Chloe was doing what she wanted and that she would be happy. Spencer came home from his trip to China minutes before
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Civil War about an African American young man who escapes from the south to the north. The story drew an emotional connection as well the basic facts about African Americans escaping and what life was when they reached the north. At the beginning of Chapter Four: Leg Irons‚ there is a newspaper that talks about how the Union soldiers should seize slaves that were escaping from the north. They were label as “contraband of war” and that the government encouraged it. After the newspaper‚ the story begins
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privilege that allows for a blind eye to be turned towards controversial and uncomfortable issues that don’t directly affect our lives. This‚ however‚ does not change the reality of migrant experiences and the control of international migration. Chapter five in Illegality Inc examines the life African migrants are faced with once they have managed to cross the border into Ceuta. Although‚ they believed “fortune was smiling upon them”‚ many hoped and desired to receive refugee status but‚ ended up
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