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    Dodds A sociologist. Comments in a removed way on the killings. Unemotional. Looks at everything through an ‘academic’ lens that is also proved to be narrow-minded and incorrect e.g. he claims that the poor will revolt because they are oppressed‚ but none of the three are actually ‘revolting’ ‘my field of study is inherited poverty or the culture of poverty’ Revolting is ‘the method they have devised to cope with the hopelessness and despair they experience because they know they’ll never

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    Ever since September 11‚ Islam have become the face of terror and this has brought a lot of attention and victimization towards average Muslims. Many people are just looking for a reason to bash Islam‚ so they pick on controversial topics that Muslims differ from. One controversial topic is the hijab and it what it symbolizes‚ to many non-Muslims conservatives. The hijab and/or burqa is a veil that covers the head and body and is a form of modest attire worn by Muslim women. This form of attire has

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    At first glance “The “Banking” Concept of Education” conveys the rambling or ranting of a man angry about the education system. But if you read the article and the small biography of the author‚ you are able to understand the deep and critical analysis of what is wrong with education today. Paulo Freire thoroughly and comprehensively condemns the current educational system to support radical ideals that reflect from his own experiences. In the small biography of Paulo Freire we get an understanding

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    his fight against the control over them. Before he came however‚ the patients had no idea to the extent that they were being manipulated. Kesey uses him to represent the importance of a resistance movement to an oppressed community. Throughout the whole world people constantly get oppressed and controlled and taken advantage of to the pleasure of there oppressors. They become mere pawns and get used to gain more and more power‚ and then get discarded if they prove to be of no use. Any lack of resistance

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    justice. The novella explores the way power can be abused within a small community. Through characterisation‚ Watson exposes how family loyalty can be challenged by moral truths and how unfair power structures can lead to the marginalisation of the oppressed. The characters of Wes and Julian represent the theme of loyalty to family opposed to loyalty to justice. Julian is the patriarchal leader of the Hayden family and does not demonstrate a strong desire for justice in regards to Frank’s weakness

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    The attack against Muslim women’s veils started in the 20th century where veiled Muslim women were depicted as sexually oppressed by powerful Muslim men and were also seen as a symbol of Islam’s resistance to modernity (Green81). Today‚ Muslim women are being forced to take off their veils at airports around the world and in France the veil was banned to assimilate Muslims

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    Can the Subaltern Speak? – Summary Gayatri Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an unsettling voice in literary theory and especially‚ postcolonial studies. She has describes herself as a “practical deconstructionist feminist Marxist” and as a “gadfly”. She uses deconstruction to examine "how truth is constructed" and to deploy the assertions of one intellectual and political position (such as Marxism) to "interrupt" or "bring into crisis" another (feminism‚ for example). In her work‚ she combines

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    Psalm 82 A Difficult Psalm

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    2.0 Hypothesis Psalm 82 is a difficult psalm to understand to its full extent. However‚ the main message is to defend those who are weak‚ needy‚ poor‚ have no families or are oppressed and to save them from the hand of the wicked. This theme is still relevant in today’s society as those affected by the hand of the wicked continue to need assistance from those with a voice. 3.0 Researched Interpretations 3.1 Literary form/Genre The psalms are songs and poems which are publicly worshiped and are specifically

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    from the oppressed group. Now they are individual men and women‚ no longer subject to the discipline of a movement.’ (Walzer 28). This is a bold statement‚ suggesting that for one to achieve a more perfect freedom‚ they must sacrifice the group that got them to a point of having enough power to be able to make a decision on leaving the group. However‚ I agree with Walzer on this point. It’s impossible for an individual to break oppression when they are still viewed as a member of an oppressed group

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    lead to. On one hand Marx saw the history of the world through the lense of class struggle‚ leading to his conclusion that the ever growing capitalist system was no more than another edition to the eternal conflict between the oppressor and the oppressed. “The Modern Bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes and New conditions of oppression.” On the contrary Tocqueville did not view the newly emerging

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