First-wave feminism arose during 1918 – 1968‚ paving way for a number of inaugural achievements for the women’s movement in the political sphere. Though legislation may change overnight‚ personal attitudes do not. I therefore argue media‚ due to its ever-changing nature and ability to reach a mass audience‚ is the main cause in constructing changes in attitudes through the way in which certain social groups‚ in this case women are represented through the platforms of news‚ propaganda‚ advertisement
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The Dichotomy of Cultural Appropriation | Womanist Musings Wednesday‚ September 12‚ 2012 Cultural appropriation is the ultimate dichotomy. The conqueror or oppressor says that a group of people are worthless‚ that they are less than human and don’t deserve equal rights. The oppressors strip these people of their rights‚ their dignity‚ and often‚ their culture. At the same time‚ this isn’t good enough for the conquerors. The culture that these people have created and the fruits of their labor are
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Key Word #1: Identity. An overarching concept that framed both readings “Ain’t I a Woman” by Avtar Brah‚ and “Race and Ethnicity” by Stephen Spencer looks at defining identities whether it be of individuals or social and cultural groups. Stephen Spencer discusses how language is a cultural code that can “reflect inherently different social attributes: class‚ gender‚ ethnicity and so on (Spencer‚ 40).” Language is crucially important when looking at many social issues. How we define these issues
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In “An Elephant Crackup?”‚ Charles Siebert partly attributes the belligerence of the recent generations of elephants‚ the animals considered to be among the most intelligently advanced‚ to the lack of a matriarch‚ a powerful female figure. He takes an example of the case of the last elephant survivors at Queen Elizabeth National Park‚ where the elderly female elephant was the one who “gathered the survivors together from their various hideouts”‚ “led them back out as one group”‚ and “held the group
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How Equality and Inclusion Inspires Change In our everyday lives we come across barriers‚ barriers of inequality‚ barriers of exclusion‚ barriers that prevent us from accomplishing our goals and ambitions. However‚ do we let these obstacles get in the way of our wants and desires or our basic rights and privileges? No‚ we do not. We work as individuals and together to encourage positive change in today’s society. People of the past and present have demanded equality and the right to be included
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Many authors use rhetorical strategies in their work to “support claims and respond to opposing arguments” (Purdue Online Writing Lab). The three forms of persuasive articles are ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos. Ethos‚ is the ethical appeal‚ which reflects the reliability of the author’s argument (Little DK Handbook)‚ such as using trust and authority to get their reader to agree with their position. Writers use logos to appeal to the audience with logic and reasoning‚ “often depending on the use of inductive
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When discussions concerning the greatest artists of all time arise‚ we hear mention of Van Gough‚ Rembrandt‚ Da Vinci and the likes‚ but never any great women artist numbered among the aforementioned. Why is this? Linda Nochlin in her 1971 essay‚ “Why have there been no great women artists?” essentially proposes two reasons or ideas to answer this question. Nochlin believes the notion of artistic genius is one of the primary reasons why art historians are unable to answer this question. The idea
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Pop culture has idealized the way women are presented in film. We have come to expect that women can be presented as and it is acceptable to portray them as passive‚ sexual objects in film‚ which revolves around the male gaze‚ meaning it is portrayed through the eyes of men and their desires. (Haslam 187-190) “Babylon” the sixth episode of Mad Men reinforces this focus on women through the ‘male gaze’ as argued by Laura Mulvey and ‘hyper-sexualization’ argued by Phillips & Strobol. There are two
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Shacole Smith TOPIC: Shirley Chisholm GENERAL PURPOSE STATEMENT: To inform my audience about Shirley Chisholm SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT: To inform the audience on her speaking and speeches. CENTRAL IDEA: Shirley Chisholm Speeches I. INTRODUCTION: Attention Getter-How many of you know who Shirley Chisholm is Preview Statement- Today I am going to talk about Shirley Chisholm’s background‚ the major ideas of her speeches‚ and analysis her speeches
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Carla Moleiro and Nuno Pinto wrote an article together over the recent controversy of gender identity. In the article‚ they include different concepts‚ the mental impact it can have on someone and history over gender identity. Moleiro and Pinto get their point about gender identity across well by appealing to logic‚ ethics and emotion throughout their article. Instead of basing the article solely on what they know from personal experiences and studies they bring in other people who have studied this
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