The F-Word Conference: Reflection on “White Women and their White Feminism” White feminists is a type of feminism that believes that all women face the same oppressions‚ ignoring how race‚ class‚ ethnicity and sexual orientation impact the way discrimination is experienced. Yasamin Graff‚ in “White Women and their White Feminism‚” explained how white privilege should be addressed when talking about feminism. Especially in western society feminism’s goal seems to be the liberation for the white
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authors who were kidnapped and sold as slaves reveal the difficulties they went through as captives‚ as well as‚ the challenges they faced in order to obtain their freedom. The oppressors in “A Narrative of the Captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” by Mary Rowlandson were the Indians who held her and her daughter captive and sold them as property. While in From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa‚ the African‚ Written by Himself the oppressors are the
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than one-third of Americans are obese‚ approximately 78.6 million people (“Adult Obesity Facts”). Mary Ray Worley‚ a writer and member of the NAAFA‚ is one of these 78.6 million; however‚ she has successfully overcome many obstacles society has put in front of her. Through personal experiences in her essay entitled “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance”‚ Worley suggests that it is indeed possible to live a joyful life in spite
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The Praise of Folly The author of “The praise of folly” Erasmus‚ wrote this book not with the intention of starting wide spread theological debates but with the intention of showing how pointless these debates are. The book is written in first person so that Folly herself is the one who the readers/listeners (because the book is written as if she were speaking to a crowd) are hearing and not just some man acting like he knows more or is better than anyone else. The book addresses three different
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Case #2 Summary (F-Secure Corporation) Overview of the Case Case #2 describes the development of a business model based on "software as a service" (SaaS) for security solution distributed through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). F-Secure disruptively entered a mature business with dominant players by executing an innovative new service model. The case describes the challenges involved in developing and executing the new service model‚ and offers us the opportunities to discuss the evolving challenges
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500 word summary of Hicks theodicy John Hick is a modern theologian who developed his theodicy based on an argument originally put forward by St Irenaeus. Hick’s theodicy is a form of the free will defense with a few particular developments such as his concept of soul making‚ mans epistemic distance from God and the concept of universal salvation. Irenaeus’ original theory is based on his interpretation of Genesis 1:26 ‘Let us make man in our image‚ after our likeness’. From this Irenaeus concluded
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In the article “The Perils and Promises of Praise‚” Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck hypothesizes that praise for student’s endeavors encourages them‚ whereas‚ praising students for intelligence obscures the skills they can improve. Dweck insists that educators adjust the way they praise their student for the sake of present and future generation. Through research‚ Dweck came to the conclusion that different kinds of praise can affect how a student perceives themselves and how they do academically
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In her article Multicultural competence‚ Mary E. Kite contends that the using of difficult dialogues is necessary in teaching about diversity and claims that terminology is one of the simple ways to set the stage for engaging in this difficult dialogues. She states that the advantages of students’ studying diversity consist of: further scientific studies about human behavior‚ improvement in critical thinking skills‚ and improvement in both personal and cognitive development. According to the author
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“Attending a World” Mary Bateson’s “Attending a World” explains two different kinds of awareness. The first type of awareness is the ability to concentrate on one thing exceptionally well‚ and the other is to be able to concentrate on a number of things at one time. According to Bateson‚ most women have the ability to multi-task‚ whereas most men do not. This is a very interesting concept because in theory‚ women are forced to multi task on a daily basis. For example‚ women often concentrate
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Mary Ann Glendon begins by discussing the eighteenth century and what the Founding Fathers expected America to be when they were discussing social systems‚ the environment and emphasis on family during that time period produced different character and personality than our environment and definition of family does today. Glendon asserts‚ “the market economy‚ too‚ can take a toll on society.” This quote in particular reminded me of the probing social commentary discussed in the previous chapters of
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