History continues to be a widely contentious topic since it has polysemy connotation. History can be many things‚ it can the events that occurred centuries ago‚ events that happened just yesterday‚ or this moment. With history encompassing a large gamut of events‚ it is the role of the historian to view the events and offer explanations for what occurred. It has been noted by Michel-Rolph Trouillot that history has been altered from being a “sociohistorical process to our knowledge of that process”
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Crystal Tate McCubbins 1/23/12 Per.4 Amelia Dyer Amelia Dyer was born the youngest of five children‚ in the small village of Pyle Marsh. She was the daughter of a master shoe maker Samuel Hobley and Sarah Hobley. She learned to read and write but although she lived somewhat of a privileged life it was tainted by the mental illness of her mother‚ caused by typhus. Amelia witnessed her mother’s violent fits and cared for her until she died in 1848. As the years progressed Amelia became estranged
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The silencing effect is the act of suppressing knowledge that a rape on a college or university campus. This phenomenon intends to protect the university rather than supporting the victims of a sexual assault. Universities and colleges are intending to protect their collegiate brand so that rape statistics are low or are non-existent. The silencing effect is related to the profitability of universities because‚ in the eyes of potential applicants to the college‚ they see no negative accounts related
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stories of enemies‚ victims and different roles of power. By reading these documents we are given different insights and help with answering questions of how and why specific accounts took place. In the first chapter of Michel Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History‚ Trouillot sets out to answer the question of how history is produced by laying a framework‚ arguing that in the writing of history‚ lots of things get lost and what is lost
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The four processes of silencing that are presented are the following: ridicule‚ ritual‚ control‚ and harassment. The first of the four processes is ridicule. Ridicule can best be defined as when we use language to make fun of someone with the intention of them feeling less than or small. An example of ridicule would be men the dominant group-labeling women as nagging. They also convey through ridicule that women the marginalized group has nothing important to say. They hold an extreme double standard
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someone looks‚ talks‚ and acts all make up who they are as a person. When someone does something the way they are seen often affects the outcome and consequences of their actions. This is seen very often in both Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin. The main characters in both of these novels do awful things but their physical appearance‚ mindset‚ and whether they are a good or a bad person affects the way they are treated. The way society sees a person’s
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Unbecoming of Mara Dyer” by Michelle Hodkin is about a girl named Mara. Mara might look like your typical teenage girl that attends high school‚ but she is not anymore. Mara was involved in a horrible accident that left her as the only survivor while all of her friends died. Mara and her family relocate to Miami‚ FL. She has to begin school in the middle of the term while dealing with her post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Then‚ she meets Noah‚ and falls in love Mara Dyer doesn’t think life
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As a police detective‚ I see a lot of things ordinary men can’t even fathom—serial killers‚ rapists‚ drug lords—but nothing could have prepared me for the Dyer Street case. It started out like any other home invasion: a local woman went to bed with her family when all of a sudden she heard a scream coming from her son’s bedroom. When she entered the room she found her son on the floor‚ unresponsive. I started by asking Mr. and Mrs. Smith what they remembered about the night. The mother hesitantly
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In Goldie Taylor’s piece‚ she noted an important concept in her experience: the systemic silencing of survivors. Our culture has denied her voice and that of other survivors‚ making them fearful of judgement or that it is their fault. The rape culture that has been created in our society makes it difficult for any person to come forward because we silence the survivor and culturally accept the actions of the perpetrator. The first thing that Taylor did that many survivors do is question how her
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Eve‚ Mary-mother of Jesus‚ and Mary Magdalene are all prominent characters in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and to some extent are mentioned in the Quran. Regardless of whether or not a person believes these women really existed as portrayed within these religious texts‚ they had and still have a major impact on societal views towards women today. For women to be truly liberated and treated as equals to men requires the circumvention of conventional patriarchal‚ anti-feminist interpretations and
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