Moderns forms of power and control and what hygiene “has got to do with it‚” are two of the central themes in this week’s readings. Nancy Tomes’ article looks at the workings of the Progressive hygienic movement in the American mainland. Concentrating their efforts not on the filthy streets and other urban public spaces known for their risks to human health‚ but on the “home” front‚ Tomes illustrates how white-middle class women invested great parts of their time and budged to create homes free of
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Ruth Starkmam‚ author of cyberslacking in Shanghai: What My Students Taught Me weighs the pros and cons in a very well thought out and experience oriented essay. Starkman starts out by introducing the term cyber-slacking. ’Cyberslacking’‚ "the act of avoiding work and/or other responsibilities by scouring the internet in search of games or other non-work related amusements." ("Cyberslacking Definition | Investopedia 2015. ) While establishing credibility as a college professor and has taught in a
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Beastly Ways Beauty to many people is how something looks; one of the main attractions for humans is the shape of the body. A good example of how women would go to the extremes with their bodies to be fashionable is the poem “Flower Feet” written by Ruth Fainlight. In this poem it explains what feet binding is and why young girls did this‚ the reason was so that they were fashionable and considered higher class. Even though it would cripple them for life to have their feet banded back‚ but rich women
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Venue The performance was at Ruth Lilly Performance Hall Christel Dehaan Fine Arts Center‚ on the campus of the University of Indianapolis. It was very beautiful‚ the program gave a disclaimer about the design of the concert hall; which read “The acoustics of Ruth Lilly Performance Hall was designed for optimum dispersion of sound‚ projecting the softest parts of the music clearly too each listener.” I was extremely amazed by this note in the program because we learned about the way that music and
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Again‚ this may not be in the modern context‚ initial thought when one hears the word power. The article The Power of a Jewish Woman by Rabbanith Ruth Menashe discusses power as‚ “… is the ability to effect change and exercise control”. Using this definition the Jewish woman has a lot of power in control for she is obligated to teach the husband the Torah‚ she is trusted in her home to deliver a
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picture was taken by Tom Howard using his smuggled ankle camera that is now held in the Smithsonian Museum. The woman was Ruth Snyder‚ wife to Albert Snyder whom she murdered with the help of Judd Gray‚ a man with which she was having an affair with. 2Ruth Snyder was a house wife that lived in Queens Village‚ Queens‚ New York. Judd Gray was a corset salesman (MacKeller). In 1927 Ruth Snyder and her lover‚ Judd Gray‚ murdered Snyder’s husband‚ Albert Snyder who was a New York magazine editor (Shahid)
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In ‘Patterns of Culture’‚ Ruth Benedict wrote‚ “Morality differs in every society‚ and is a convenient term for socially approved habits.” Cultural relativists have claimed the following; (1) different societies have different moral codes. (2) The moral code of a society determines what is right within that society. (3) There is no objective standard that can be used to judge one society’s code as better than another’s. (4) The moral code of our own society has no special status. And (5)‚ It is arrogant
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Love At First Chip Love At First Chip Love At First Chip Ruth Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie in the early 1930’s. The phenomenal cookie was an accident. Wakefield thought that by adding some chips from a Nestle chocolate bar would make the cookie dough like a chocolate cookie‚ not a chocolate chip cookie. Ruth Wakefield graduated from Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. She was a dietician and lectured on food. Wakefield then went on to open
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When reading through the Bible many people easily pass over the prophet books. The books of Ruth‚ Esther‚ and Jonah are filled with anxiety and fear. These books are about judgment. When reading through these books there are a few major themes that we apply to our lives today such as: idolatry‚ social injustices‚ and religious ritualism. Many may think of these issues in past tense but they are very much relevant in today’s world. Along with those three major themes there is another theme that comes
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important role in our community is Supreme Court Justice‚ Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Not only did she impact our American society‚ but she changed the way gender equality is seen. Ruth Bader Ginsburg impacted gender equality in a positive way by utilizing her education‚ connecting to her audience by personal life experiences and having a strong willed personality. By doing these things‚ she became an advocate for women and altered views on these rights. Ruth Bader Ginsburg applied her education into her fights
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