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Power Goes To Teachers Students And Discipline
1,793 words... e we all, teachers are subject to the subtle, nearly invisible workings of power. McNeil shows us how teachers are affected in ways that are extremely difficult to observe. 12 The teachers she presents to us are bright, intelligent professionals with a great deal of expertise in their areas. Mcneil's question when she began her project was why course content so often is shallow, simplistic, and disconnected from authentic scholarship. The common hypothesis is that teachers are the least inte...
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Female Characters York Routledge
970 words... bsp; theater characteristically calls idealization into question and foregrounds excess' (Belsey 92). Helen is both idealized and the pursuit of her excessive; hence she is unlikely to escape unscathed in a satirical treatment of the Trojan war. The contrast between the empowering masculinization of female characters and the paralyzing feminization of males make the latter more appropriate to a tragedy or a satire, the former more useful in comedy. Rosalind speaks several times in ways that ...
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Human Rights Violations Coca Cola
2,485 wordsGLOBALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS S. No HEADING PAGE NO 1 INTRODUCTION: 3 2 GLOBALIZATION 4 3 SOME ADVANTAGES OF GLOBALIZATION 6 4 LIMITATIONS: 7 5 GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES: 9 6 CONCLUSION: 12 7 BIBILIOGRAPHY 13 1. INTRODUCTION: Globalization refers to a world in which all countries and subjects are interlinked to international politics and economics either directly or indirectly. In other words, Globalization refers to a borderless world, a common trade ma...
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U S Military Women And Children
1,679 words... and entertainment industries. Female migrants from the Philippines were among the first group working in Japan and have been numerically dominant since the late 1970 s when this phenomenon of foreign labour began to emerge. Their initial entry has been facilitated by the introduction of a new visa category in the early 1980 s- euphemistically referred to as an "entertainers' visa" which allows for employment in the entertainment sector, usually as singers and dancers. But many end up working...
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Introducing Popular Culture And Media
975 wordsIntroducing Popular Culture and Media Outline: Cultural Studies and Its Evolution On Cultural Consumption, Production and Media Gender Studies and Issue Cultural studies, which many of us can hardly comprehend, can be about anything from norms, traits, and a nations sexuality, race to even economic behavior of a particular segment of a society. This particular branch of sociology was developed for the academic understanding and applicability of the said branch of knowledge. This specific branch ...
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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Violent Scenes
744 wordsRunning head: MEDIA AND VIOLENCE Media and Violence April 16, 2009 Media and Violence Violent content in media has become the issue of the day. From the earliest days of the popular newspapers, magazines, journals, and TV programs there was widespread public concern about violent scenes and episodes. Although there is no direct proof to the assumption that violence in the media causes violence in real life, still, what has been a subject of controversy is whether the media have enough power to d...
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Late Twentieth Century Target Language
1,598 wordsTranslation Theory To accredit the use-values is inevitably to opt for what domesticates or familiarizes a message at the expense of whatever might upset or force or abuse language and thought, might seek after the unthought or unthinkable in the unsaid or unstable. On the other hand, the real possibility of translation -- the translatability that emerges in the movement of difference as a fundamental property of languages -- points to a risk to be assumed: that of the strong, forceful translati...
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Racial Profiling In America
2,465 wordsRacial Profiling in America The contemporary understanding of the concept of race by scientists and other intellectuals is very vague. Nowadays it is argued that race is an artificial category, although there still exist attempts to classify people according to categories: for instance, such categories as class, race, and gender; these categories are proved to have no scientific basis. The term "race" is a modern concept that has adopted a whole new meaning, over the past few centuries, from the...
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Socio Cultural Reader Response
1,871 words... novel as a genre is. The book by Luise von Flotow's k is meant to popularize the achievements of a relatively young discipline situated on the intersection translation studies. The author manages to unfold a complex argument about the impact of gender on translation practice, history, and theory over the last thirty years. The gender was brought into academic discussions and redefined language as a powerful political tool. The writings of feminists add the translators politicizing and initia...
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Women Rights In Islamic States
2,821 wordsWomen's Rights in Islamic States Within Islam, women play a role almost solely as a homemaker. Women are rarely allowed to leave the house. To contribute to the seclusion of women men will do just about anything in order to keep them from leaving the house including going to the market for them. The ideal Muslim woman is modest, pious, and cares greatly for her family (Ahmed, p. 167). The status of women within Islamic society is almost a perfect mirror image of the seeming destiny of Islam at t...
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Racial Profiling In America
2,321 wordsRacial Profiling in America The contemporary understanding of the concept of race by scientists and other intellectuals is very vague. Nowadays it is argued that race is an artificial category, although there still exist attempts to classify people according to categories: for instance, such categories as class, race, and gender; these categories are proved to have no scientific basis. The term "race" is a modern concept that has adopted a whole new meaning, over the past few centuries, from the...
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Spanish Tragedy Cultural Tradition
1,476 wordsThomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587) is generally considered the first of the English Renaissance revenge-plays. A rich genre that includes, among others, Hamlet. These plays tend to be soaked in blood and steeped in madness. The genre is not original to the period, deriving from a revival of interest in the revenge tragedies of the Roman playwright Seneca. Nor is it exclusive to the past, as anyone who has seen the Death Wish or Lethal Weapon films can attest. The revenge-play satisfied a...
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Scientific Revolution Human Beings
6,060 wordsThe first part of this essay will outline the main arguments of the feminist ecologists and deal with the concept of Ecofeminism. The second part will sketch the main arguments of Rosemary Radford Reuther book, Gaia and God. The final part of this essay will analyze: Starhawk's The Spiral Dance, Witchcraft as Goddess Religion, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and the Descent of Inanna and examine the pros and cons of the position that a return to goddess worship would save our planet. Part One Ecofe...
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Radical Feminism Liberal Feminists
2,592 wordsIt can be said that the state is a category of abstraction that is too aggregative, too unitary and too unspecific to be of much use in addressing the disaggregated, diverse and specific (or local) sites that must be of most pressing concern to feminists. (Allen 1990) The difficulty of any theory of the state is an obvious one. The state is a generalization that is constantly shifting and redefining itself and the power paradigms that exist within it. Therefore, it is difficult to agree on an id...
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Twenty Four Years Pursuit Of Knowledge
1,724 wordsFaustus: the Punishment of Loss For a play that has retained much of its scholarly value over the four hundred and ten years, there is surprisingly little known about Christopher Marlowe? s masterpiece, The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. The date of its first performance is unknown, and is highly obscured by the added facts that there are two texts of Doctor Faustus, one published in 1604; the other in 1616 (Ribner viii). Christopher Marlowe, even in these early times,...
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Form Of Power Michel Foucault
3,613 wordsFor at least two decades discipline has been at or near the top of the list of public concerns about our schools. 1 Nor should this surprise us; developing the mix of foresight, judgement, and self-control that enables (or perhaps just constitutes) discipline is an important task of childhood. As long as schools are places where part of a child? s education takes place, helping children develop discipline will be one of the problems? that is, legitimate tasks? that schools face. However, when us...
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