Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Travesti Sex Workers in Brazil Introduction Travestility in Brazil has been used to refer to the disparateness of travestis’ identities. On the other hand‚ travesti is an emic idea widely used in Latin America and Brazil. Scholars argue that trying to explain who travestis are can seem paradoxical‚ especially when travesti identities are talked about as heterogenous‚ plural and multiple. Travestis are individuals who change their physical appearance to
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Stereotyping Women in the Media Throughout history when we think about women in society we think of small and thin. Today’s current portrayal of women stereotypes the feminine sex as being everything that most women are not. Because of this depiction‚ the mentality of women today is to be thin and to look a certain way. There are many challenges with women wanting to be a certain size. They go through physical and mental problems to try and overcome what they are not happy with. In the world
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We frequently make moral judgments about the actions of others. We proclaim that things like removing a wallet from someone else’s pocketbook on a crowded train; flying airplanes into the Twin Towers; and intervening (or not) in the Syrian war are wrong. According to Gilbert Harman‚ such judgments about people’s actions are defective because they lack relativity to the individual’s moral framework. (Harman‚ 1975) In ‘Some Moral Minima’ Goodman argues that “there are certain things that are simply
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the artwork is obscured‚ since rats possess their own agency and are accountable for the artistic process as well as the final product. Rats as chimeras or hybrids‚ therefore‚ act as demonic animals that offer a prospect of re-envisioning animal subjectivity. Their unfamiliarity deconstructs the notion of pure classification‚ human cultural hierarchy and highlight the interspecies fluidity in a form of universal flesh. The lack of such distinction‚ in turn‚ induces depersonalization‚ emerging non-identity
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(Blackwood 2010‚ 101; 137). In contrast to the tombois who tend to experiment with dating boys and girls before settling into the realization that they liked women exclusively (Blackwood 2010‚ 120-4)‚ the femmes are likely to only attach lesbi to their subjectivity during the times that they are dating a tomboi (Blackwood 2010‚ 134-6). Blackwood argues that this acceptance of the hegemonic gender binary by tombois and femmes places them at odds to Western assumptions about queer resistance to normative practices
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UGRU Journal Volume 8‚ Spring 2009 Educational Research: An introduction to basic concepts and terminology By: Hilda Freimuth Introduction One of the major deterrents to pursuing a Ph.D. for many educators is the esoteric language used in research. This paper is meant to de-mystify some of the terminology as well as present some basic ideas studied in an educational research program. Although not perfect‚ this paper provides an easily-understandable perspective of some educational research
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showing how they play a major role and how we perceive reality since media is selective and framed. According to Sontag‚ photography‚ which came into its own capturing images of World War I‚ possesses an inherent tension between objectivity and subjectivity. The problem with this tension is that it is not always acknowledged. Photographs are more easily accepted as fact‚ even though truth cannot be established without context or an understanding of the perspective of the photographer and
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Educational Research and Review Vol. 4 (4)‚ pp. 111-116‚ April 2009 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/ERR ISSN 1990-3839 © 2008 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper The implications of Nyerere’s theory of education to contemporary education in Kenya Joseph W. Nasongo1* and Lydiah L. Musungu2 2 Department of Educational Foundations‚ Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology‚ Kenya. Department of Educational Planning and Management‚ Masinde Muliro University of
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forces‚ and not the revolutionary struggle of the masses‚ as the key to advancing society (1988). 2.2 Through taking the woman question which was unheard of even the OAU did not take the women serious‚ it was not empowerment but liberation that subjectivity informs revolutionary praxis The OAU’s creation represented a culmination of resistance against European imposed slavery that begun in the 15th century. After numerous revolts seeking freedom and self-determination for the African people‚ during
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1. INTRODUCTION Designing a compensation plan is one of the most complex tasks for most organizations as it affects job satisfaction‚ employee turnover‚ productivity and the overall company effectiveness. If not properly managed‚ this may lead to high employee turnover‚ low productivity‚ among other problems which is especially true for a large service-oriented firm like McDonald’s. McDonald’s first-line managers deal directly with customers along with the front-line crew and it is crucial to draw
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