TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE WEEK ONE /TWO JAN 14: FIRST DAY OF CLASS! Welcome!!! SYLLABUS & INTRO TO CLASS (read syllabus and introduction to course . . . “look around” in the Blackboard “Course Management System” ). READING ASSIGNMENT # 1 FOR QUIZ #1: DUE DATE TO BE READ: midnight Tuesday (12:00 A.M. E.S.T. Wednesday )‚ JANUARY 22 (Quiz 1 will post Wednesday‚ January 23rd and is Due to be taken no later than Monday‚ January 28th)
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people. It does not consist of solely understanding how inequality holds you in particular back‚ but understanding how inequality affects different races‚ cultures‚ and women all over the world. Simply put‚ “The differences between women‚ as Audre Lorde pointed out over and over again‚ are our
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What is Feminist Thought or Feminist Theory? Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining‚ establishing and defending equal political‚ economic‚ and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Feminist theory emerged from these feminist movements and includes general theories and theories about the origins of inequality‚ and‚ in some cases‚ about the social construction of sex and gender‚ in a variety of disciplines. Waves of Feminism The period described as first-wave feminism refers
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Shelby Anderson Mr. Kirkendall English 1 Honors 22 May 2016 The Impact of Racism "If there’s just one kind of folks‚ why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike‚ why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout‚ I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time‚ it’s because he wants to stay inside" (240). We don’t even realize it but our biased perspectives seriously mess
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Hurston Lorde and hooks all believe in social and economical equality. They believe that everyone is or should be equal. People in today’s society fight many different battles of discrimination‚ due to markers of difference. These three intellectuals give advice on how to raise future generations to become egocentric. In order to do this parents must raise their children with high self esteem. As they grow they will begin to explore differences with confidence and use their past to educate themselves
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EL382 Freedom from Oppression: Literature that Changed the World “The Invisible Irish” Re-asserting literature from below: memoir as a means of establishing postcolonial identity and/or history. 2012‚ Mark: HD 90% “Memory is not about recovering a past but about the production of possibility-memory is a recreation‚ not a looking backwards‚ but a reaching out to a horizon‚ somewhere ’out there ’”.1
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27 October 2011 Chapter 19 1. "Briefly describe the origins of modern poetry." The origins of poetry are very much like those of literature in general. It began as oral communication handed down through generations to tell a story or entertain. Most was in a simple verse or rhyming format seemingly to be remembered better. It then developed into the epic poem. Finally‚ it transformed into free verse along with a set pattern of poetry. Romanticism led to modernism‚ which led to imagism. The
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Feminist movement The issue I have chosen to cover is feminism. There are many different opinions and thoughts on this issue. Despite all the grumblings about feminism‚ 66% of men still feel they hold a more powerful position in society. But‚ within relationships‚ they concede‚ it is women who resolve the day to day issues‚ while men settle the life changing disputes. The feminist movement (also known as the Women’s Movement‚ Women’s Liberation‚ or Women’s Lib) refers to a series of campaigns
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much money and besides‚ you never could tell whose hands had been playing all over that food‚ nor where those hands had been just before. My mother never mentioned that black people were not allowed into railroad dining cars headed south in 1947‚" (Lorde‚ para5). In this paragraph‚ Lorde’s mother is trying to put a curtain over her eyes‚ to make it seem as if they cannot go into dining cars because the food is not sanitary‚ vice the fact they were not allowed. In "Shooting and Elephant"‚ the beginning
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Summary I really enjoyed watching the film Bye‚ Bye Brazil. I found it to be amusing as well as heartbreaking. I loved Gypsy Lorde. His character had the charisma bordering that of a male chauvinist pig to that of a gentleman. I liked the way the director used symbolic images to get his point across to the audience. I think if I had not done research on the Internet for most of our assignments as well as reading the textbook‚ I would have found the movie very educational. I had no questions after
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