Perea 1 Victoria Perea The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky‚ a Satire of the Wild Old West Stephen Cranes short story “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” begins with a newly wed couple traveling by train from San Antonio to Yellow Sky‚ a small town in old western Texas. The groom‚ Jack Potter‚ is the sheriff of Yellow sky‚ and his bride “was not pretty nor was she very young” (Crane 5) The couple is not described in a romantic or idealistic way. Instead they are portrayed to be awkward‚ and overly self
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Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer David Zucchino’s "Where Violence Dwells: The Place Factor In Philadelphia And Its Suburbs‚ The Homicide Rate Closely Parallels The Poverty Rate" argues that high rates of violence are not associated with race‚ but with the socio-economic conditions of a place. Zucchion analyzes the data of the number of murders ’’in 31 of 60 biggest Philadelphia suburbs in Pennsylvania‚" which all together do not have even a single murder‚ and "Philadelphia‚ a city of 1.5 million
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cases people fail to distinguish between sex and gender‚ forbidding to come to the realization that gender is an achieved status that we constrict for ourselves. A very interesting discussion regarding Agnes experience on the article Doing Gender by West and Zimmerman really proves how society does expect specific sex to do gender as they think it is considered appropriate or “normal” for that sex. I’m sure that the transition of adopting a female identity was tough process for Agnes because of societal
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Book Review: Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest Mathew Restall’s Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest is a well-written book that serves an important purpose. That purpose being: the debunking of generally accepted falsehoods about the Spanish Conquest beginning in the 15th century. Restall’s book is separated into seven chapters that specifically address general myths most historians and students perceive as basic --- universal truths. Restall uses the term “myth” to describe the inaccurate/fictitious
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Chapter one of Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers presents different perspectives and theories on how myths are connected to our everyday lives. Campbell over the years has studied myths and given us an insight on how myths intertwine with religion. Religion is used to answer question that can’t be answered‚ for example “why do we die”. Campbell makes a connection by stating “Myths are clues to spiritual potentialities of the human life”. Then goes on to lecture about marriage‚ his
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article Workplace Violence written Smith‚ Sarah J. Professional Safety 47.11 (Nov 2002): 34-43‚ workplace violence and prevention require a team approach. The team should include management‚ law enforcement and company employees. It also lists what it has found to be the top ten things that need to be done to develop a proactive approach to preventing workplace violence. The tips main focus is on teaching management and employees on how to recognize the signs of potential violence and have a plan
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I watched the video about the Biology of Crime and Violence. In the video Adrian Raine talks about the biological factors affecting whether or not someone will become a violent criminal. He states that there isn’t exactly a killer gene but there are genes that predisposed or raise the odds that someone will become a violent criminal. After doing studies on twins it was found that 50% of the cause of crime antisocial behavior can be related to genes. Some of the risk factors are prenatal smoking‚
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Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages written by David Nirenberg and published under the Princeton University Press (1996) delves into the violence faced by minorities (the lepers‚ Muslims‚ and Jewish people) during the middle ages in France and the Crown of Aragon . Nirenberg is an American Historian who is a professor of Medieval History and Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. In the introduction of his book‚ Nirenberg acknowledges that minorities
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In the literature entitled “The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation”‚ Kohn’s talks about a very old controversy is regarding to grade inflation. This argument resurfaced when people‚ including The former Harvard’s dean of the faculty‚ Henry Rosovsky‚ express their concern about a perceived surge of student receiving higher grades-point average in recent years. Their argument stems from the assumption that students of the recent generation couldn’t possibly get better grade than the preceding generation
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know the day nor hour when death will come upon them. Some go in their sleep‚ some are consumed by disease or illnesses‚ and some go by tragic happenings. In the excerpt from The Last Goodnights‚ John West shares the unfortunate story of his parent’s wishes to end their lives with his assistance. West argues that this should not have to be the case for those with a terminal illness and how euthanasia should be legal so that others do not have to suffer the way his parents did. However‚ with legal assisted
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