Contents 1. Doreen Pope 2. Education: Doing bad and feeling good 3. Dance cards 4. Language and literature 5. Inflation DOREEN POPE by Mary Loudon (The Independent Magazine‚ 20 August 1994) 1. Practically no one reading this will have heard of Miss Pope. Her greatness is not obvious and it has never been documented‚ but she is my hero nevertheless. This year she retires after a lifetime’s teaching‚ the last 25 years of which has been spent as a junior-school headmistress
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Introduction The development of society goes along with the enhancement in human equality‚ especially gender equality. However‚ this is not a new issue. Throughout the history‚ gender equality matter expressed by women’s liberation movements‚ the ideas and standpoint for the rights of women and later found development of the gender movements‚ gender mainstreaming into development. Equality has been received many scholars‚ researchers‚ and politicians concern which is clearly shown in the system
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reasons why compromise seemed impossible in 1860. By providing an assessment of when civil war became inevitable and why. This paper discusses the political and cultural tension in America leading up to the civil war and beyond‚ by discussing the feminist movement‚ the expansionist period of the 1840s‚ the compromise period
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theorizes that feminist standpoint is established in Marxist ideology. She argued that out of the experience of Marx understanding‚ a feminist standpoint could be built and used to criticize patriarchal theories. Thereby making a feminist standpoint important in the process of examining the systemic oppressions in a society. Hartsock maintains that since the life of women contrasts intrinsically to those of men‚ (as the owners’ lives contrasts with the workers’ lives) a foundation for feminist standpoint
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Descartes claims in his Discourse on Method that our dreams and conscious thoughts are untrue‚ but is this truly the case? Because of these questions of existence‚ it seems like‚ if Descartes’s arguments are taken a certain way‚ his arguments might be taken to imply that our lives are just a dream. Are we living in a universal soap opera directed by the Divine‚ and the question of who shot J.R. will never be resolved because we will all wake on Judgment Day from the dream of existence? If we are
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Chapter 1 Discourse Organization of Asian Fashion Blogs Introduction Background of the study Blogging has emerged as one of the most popular forms of online discourse. The ease and lack of expense in setting blogs has raised intriguing possibilities for language learning in social media. The unique nature of its architecture and its low cost have not only affected how different bloggers can publish and distribute their work to a wider audience but also how they see themselves as writers. According
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Carly Krueger English 100J-1027 Dr. Nancy El Gendy Essay #2: Discourse Community Analysis October‚ 26‚ 2016 One Heart‚ One Way ΣΚ Colby College in Waterville‚ Maine is the second oldest college in Maine‚ and Sigma Kappa was the only Greek letter society founded in the State. In 1873‚ the freshman class was the first to have more than just one woman‚ four more came along. Mary Caffrey Low was the first female student to attend the College. Louise Helen Coburn‚ Elizabeth Gotham Hoag‚ Ida Mabel Fuller
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Feminist Lens: A Perspective - The Awakening Kristin Miller South University Online Feminist Lens: A Perspective - The Awakening During the late nineteenth century‚ a woman’s place in society was confined to the reverence of her children and constant submission to her husband. The Awakening‚ by Kate Chopin is a novel about Edna Pontellier whose life was embraced through the frustrations and triumphs as she attempts to cope with the strict cultural demands in which she was confined. This essay
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Critical Discourse Analysis on Political Texts Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis (hereafter abbreviated as CDA) concerns power relationships between language and society. Meanwhile‚ politics have influence in many facets around the society. Presenting samples of political texts collected‚ this paper aims at analyzing the power relationships in political texts with CDA. 1. Introduction CDA can be summarized as a study of language use through discourse as well as social problems‚ revealing
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with the feminist scholars on the faculty of my university. As soon as I explained that I wanted to write about Medea came the assumption: of course‚ they said‚ you will be looking at the patriarchy as the issue in her behavior. And when I replied that indeed I was not going to be looking in that direction‚ but rather at Medea herself and at the meaning intrinsic to her acts and her story‚ interest in my work evaporated and they declined to serve on my committee. Though long a feminist myself‚ I
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