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    Santa Barbara- wrote an article called “What Was Political Correctness? Race‚ the Right‚ and Managerial Democracy in the Humanities”. The article was written about the challenges of politics and racial difference in humanities research. As Newfield begins his article he says‚ “If everyone gets the enemies they deserve‚ it doesn’t seem fair that pluralistic liberal humanists last year found themselves denounced as the threat to

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    Political correctness is a growing issue in the united states‚ especially when it comes to the education system. College campuses are becoming more and more hostile as political correctness continues to grow and divide the community. Colleges are meant to challenge students and their views‚ it is meant to educate students on how to understand opposing while still being able to argue their own views. Political correctness is impacting college campuses’ ability to teach students this by causing students

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    are different from them which causes conflict. A term that prevents this from happening is Political Correctness. The meaning of Political Correctness‚ is the right term or definition for a group of people that are oppressed in some way being‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ sexuality. All of these are categories of people who have a stereotype name and are oppressed by society. The point of Political Correctness is avoiding conflict between groups of people.

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    Joseph Koltes M. Guista English 101 14 Oct. 2010 Oleanna is a two character play about a power struggle between a University Professor‚ John‚ and a student‚ Carol‚ who accuses John of sexual harassment. The play begins when John‚ a condescending University Professor who holds power with his status‚ expresses his frustration at Carol’s class performance as she deduces that he is buying a house. He feels she is‚ in reality‚ bright but troubled‚ and she agrees‚ citing her social and economic background

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    Political correctness has gone too far The "Politically Correct" movement’s purpose is to bring historically condescending terms‚ offensive music and art‚ and controversial educational content to an end and replace them with more positive and less-offending references. Offensive and demoralizing efforts are wrong‚ but the censorship and deletion of words and phrases that do not contain the intention to demoralize are taking political correctness too far. Politically correct (or "PC") antics have

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    Political correctness. The term that is well-known in the world‚ especially in America. The simple definition would be a way of saying things or describing someone without anyone being offended. Everybody today has rights (and I have no problem with that) but it also feels like people are getting more and more sensitive about their appearance‚ their social status‚ their character flaws‚ everything! You can not even say that somebody is lazy or homeless without fear of somebody getting offended. Has

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    Free Speech Vs Political Correctness "The plain fact is that not all free speech is good speech. Which means that freedom of speech is not always a sound or just public policy."’ Free speech is the cornerstone of democracy and should be a right that all are entitled to. In the United States the topic of free speech is more contentious as it is written into the constitutional rights‚ it is a worldwide issue and has come more into focus recently in Ireland. In a recent survey by Claire Byrne 65% of

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    What we see and hear first of all‚ when we enter Olena Newkryta’s installation folding unfolding refolding are sewing machines‚ sewing fabrics. On the three large format screens that surround us‚ waves of folds of a white fabric are flowing towards a buzzing needle‚ resistant at times‚ yet only to be drawn back where they belong – between the shuttle and the feed-dog – by a hand that appears briefly within the frame. What we do not instantly recognize: the hand is the artist’s hand and the fabric

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    3 from page 73 (John: And you might speak to the committee?) to page 78 (Carol: Yes. Perhaps you should) Discuss how ideas about power are presented in this extract and at least one other point in the play. Power is a very strong theme in Oleanna‚ it’s one that runs through out the play. Mamet was aware about the power struggles in America at the same time he wrote the play. The play was written in the 1990’s‚ at this time in America there was a very hot topic about ‘Gender Struggles’. It

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    literature review addresses how political correctness affects normal people in their everyday lives through social media‚ education‚ social sciences‚ cultural politics‚ the Arts and globalisation and how the media uses this to choose what and how they report everyday going on in the media. The above issues will be examined in mainly a western context and Fairclough (2003)‚ who would be referenced as a major theorist in the area describes the controversy of Political Correctness as “an objective on both

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