1. The quotes from George Eliot’s novel argues that women can be talented and contradicts from Broca’s argument which is “Women‚ like it or not‚ had smaller brains than men and‚ therefore‚ could not equal them in intelligence” (519). In paragraph 5‚ Gould refers to Eliot because Gould’s article is focused on Eliot’s article and conflicts with Broca’s statistics that “prove” women’s smaller brains made them inferior to men. 2. The vulnerability in Braca’s argument is that although his numbers are
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Women‚ Men and Competition Loudly and often‚ women insist they don’t like competition‚ and that competition is an act of aggression. Ironically‚ however‚ competition as aggression is inevitable in a society where men must compete for the attention of women. Women encourage this. Every time they passively wait for men to take the initiative‚ or reject nurturing men in deference to domineering men‚ they sustain the dynamic of dominance. Ignoring this‚ pop-feminists contend competition is the capitalization
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Name: Pham Thi Minh Huyen Class: Sociology How have you been socialize as a man/ woman? The documentary that we watch in class‚ Codes of Gender‚ shows how images in advertising have socialized us to out gender roles as men/ women. What other thing‚ beside advertising images‚ have socialized you to act as a man/woman. Journal Entry In our society‚ socialization has shaped us variously. The effect the society has on our daily life from the beginning‚ in every stage in life is incredibly from
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Burris 09/16/2008 Topic of Choice English 1010 Some People Are Born Winners A simple definition of the word winner is somebody that is successful. In our society we have constructed an unwritten classification of who we consider successful‚ and since the words success and winner have the same meaning‚ we therefore also have an unwritten classification of who we consider to be winners. This is something that most people know‚ but have those people actually taken the time to look deeply into others
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The achievement of full equality between women and men is one of the most important prerequisites for global prosperity and the advancement of society. The denial of such equality‚ in whatever form‚ perpetrates an injustice against one half of the world’s population and promotes in men harmful attitudes and habits that are carried from the family to the workplace‚ to political life‚ and ultimately to international relations. There are no grounds‚ moral‚ practical‚ or biological‚ upon which such denial
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the 19th amendment was passed that gave women all the rights that men have. this was know as the women’s suffrage act. Even with this being against the law for over 80 years women believe they aren’t treated equally. But this couldn’t be any farther from the truth‚ fact has it that men have less rights than women‚ don’t believe me? With affirmative action men have to get way higher sat score than a female just have the same chance to get in the same college. Men don’t get a choice when it comes to parenthood
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Jordan-Ashley Pilkington Government 2305 Essay 1/Prompt 1 The Natural Rights Argument states that under natural law people have the rights to life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness‚ Jefferson called these rights the “unalienable rights” which could not be abridged by our government. No one is Sovereign under the Natural Rights Argument and no one can take away another’s life‚ liberty‚ or pursuit of happiness. The government is meant to be simply a tool of the Sovereign‚ and should work for
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the reason why there are differences and similarities among the world’s peoples. According to Professor Kluckhohn‚ it’s because of culture. People who live in the same culture share many things in common and different cultures shape different characteristics of people. I share the same point of view with him‚ based on my own experience and observation. In my opinion‚ different values in different cultures make people different. In many cases‚ TV drama reflects most of the values which the country
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People have different ways of escaping the stress and difficulties of modern life. Some read‚ some exercise‚ and others work in their gardens. What do you think are the best ways of reducing stress? Nowadays‚ the word “stress” seems to be very common. Many people are under stress because of their modern and busy life particularly ones who pursue materialism. The reason why they become aggressive and sensitive with everything‚ and try to find the ways to escape the stress and difficulties. Then‚
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our ability to think for ourselves. Indisputably‚ in this era we rely on technology to solve a problem than we perform it by ourselves and this tendency makes us lazier‚ challenging our ability to become ingenious. Nevertheless‚ it’s not completely true at all‚ if we ask a question to ourselves that‚ "who are the creator this technology?"‚ then it clarifies most of the vagueness of the controversy. Thus‚ I generally disagree with the opinion that technology deteriorating the ability to think for
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