Joseph Koltes M. Guista English 101 14 Oct. 2010 Oleanna is a two character play about a power struggle between a University Professor‚ John‚ and a student‚ Carol‚ who accuses John of sexual harassment. The play begins when John‚ a condescending University Professor who holds power with his status‚ expresses his frustration at Carol’s class performance as she deduces that he is buying a house. He feels she is‚ in reality‚ bright but troubled‚ and she agrees‚ citing her social and economic background
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Political correctness has gone too far The "Politically Correct" movement’s purpose is to bring historically condescending terms‚ offensive music and art‚ and controversial educational content to an end and replace them with more positive and less-offending references. Offensive and demoralizing efforts are wrong‚ but the censorship and deletion of words and phrases that do not contain the intention to demoralize are taking political correctness too far. Politically correct (or "PC") antics have
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Political correctness. The term that is well-known in the world‚ especially in America. The simple definition would be a way of saying things or describing someone without anyone being offended. Everybody today has rights (and I have no problem with that) but it also feels like people are getting more and more sensitive about their appearance‚ their social status‚ their character flaws‚ everything! You can not even say that somebody is lazy or homeless without fear of somebody getting offended. Has
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Free Speech Vs Political Correctness "The plain fact is that not all free speech is good speech. Which means that freedom of speech is not always a sound or just public policy."’ Free speech is the cornerstone of democracy and should be a right that all are entitled to. In the United States the topic of free speech is more contentious as it is written into the constitutional rights‚ it is a worldwide issue and has come more into focus recently in Ireland. In a recent survey by Claire Byrne 65% of
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What we see and hear first of all‚ when we enter Olena Newkryta’s installation folding unfolding refolding are sewing machines‚ sewing fabrics. On the three large format screens that surround us‚ waves of folds of a white fabric are flowing towards a buzzing needle‚ resistant at times‚ yet only to be drawn back where they belong – between the shuttle and the feed-dog – by a hand that appears briefly within the frame. What we do not instantly recognize: the hand is the artist’s hand and the fabric
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3 from page 73 (John: And you might speak to the committee?) to page 78 (Carol: Yes. Perhaps you should) Discuss how ideas about power are presented in this extract and at least one other point in the play. Power is a very strong theme in Oleanna‚ it’s one that runs through out the play. Mamet was aware about the power struggles in America at the same time he wrote the play. The play was written in the 1990’s‚ at this time in America there was a very hot topic about ‘Gender Struggles’. It
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literature review addresses how political correctness affects normal people in their everyday lives through social media‚ education‚ social sciences‚ cultural politics‚ the Arts and globalisation and how the media uses this to choose what and how they report everyday going on in the media. The above issues will be examined in mainly a western context and Fairclough (2003)‚ who would be referenced as a major theorist in the area describes the controversy of Political Correctness as “an objective on both
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at least 83 women and 7 men. This links with ‘Oleanna’ due to the fact that John touches Carol ’s shoulders on several occasions asking her to sit down or to stay on in the office. * Later‚ Carol writes a letter of complaint against her professor alleging that John is lewd and sexist. She claims that his intention was not good when he touched her shoulder. She believed it was a case of sexual harassment. * Particularly in the first act of ‘Oleanna’‚ there are many occasions where John tries to
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evenly distributed across both scales‚ compared to AAE’s peak towards the high end of the scales. Still‚ the average rank numbers for Latino/Hispanic English are 4.5 (correct-ness) and 3.7 (pleasantness). This yields the biggest difference between correctness and pleasantness in this study (0.8 discrepancy). While participants perceive this dialect to be almost as correct/incorrect as AAE‚ Latino/Hispanic English is ranked more pleasant. This is clearly indicated in figure X‚ as the two lines to not
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NAME: ULEBOR ESTHER ISIOMA. PROGRAM: POLITICAL SCIENCE. MATRIC. NO.: 11AI011605. LEVEL: 300. COURSE TITLE: REVOLUTION AND SOCIETY. COURSE CODE: POS324. LECTURER: MR GODWYN AGBUDE. QUESTION: DISCUSS ANY OF THIS REVOLUTION. 1. RUSSIA REVOLUTION. 2. CUBA REVOLUTION. 3. ENGLISH REVOLUTION. INTRODUCTION One of the most significant single events in modern world history is undoubtedly the Russian Revolution of 1917. It cannot be compared to any revolution (preceding or following
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