bell hooks is the pen name of feminist‚ American author‚ and social activist Gloria Jean Watkins. She stylized her name by using small cased letters (ex…bell hooks)‚ and it is an eye catching monogram derived from her maternal grandmother Bell Blair Hooks. “She put the name in lowercase letters “to distinguish [herself from] her grandmother. She said that her unconventional lowercasing of her name signifies what is most important is her works: the “substance of books‚ not who I am” (bell; 2). Besides
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Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom‚ Bell Hooks depicts the classroom as a source of constraint on one hand but‚ also as a source of liberation on the other (hand). She points out that teachers’ use of power and control makes students lose interest in a subject or topic and she also goes on to recommend that universities encourage students and teachers to transgress‚ and seek ways to use collaboration to make learning more relaxing and exciting. Most of Bell Hooks’ teachers
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We live in a world where there are numerous discriminations: race‚ religion‚ sex‚ age‚ or sexual orientation. bell hooks has eloquently explained multiple reasons why the black population is discriminated against in an educational setting‚ “...most white folks are rarely‚ if ever‚ in a situation where they must listen to black women lecture to them.” (hooks‚ 31) Daily we hear about the killings of transsexual men and women‚ as well as multiple examinations talking about men who receive more money
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different authors‚ I completely engrossed myself into my thoughts to think about which was the best option‚ a common practice for me. I created a list inside my head of arguments for each‚ and realized this usual process is an exact example of bell hooks’ quote on education: “School was the place where I could forget that self and‚ through ideas‚ reinvent myself.” All of the skills and techniques that I have developed during my school years have made me into the person that I am today. I am a critical thinker
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Keeping Close to Home Summary In the article “ Keeping Close to Home”‚ the writer Gloria Watkins was grow up in the small town named Kentucky. As a african american female during the time when she went to college. It was really hard for her because of her culture and the place that she is from. In the United states of america during that time‚ it was quiet discriminates not just as an african american and also as a female. When she got acceptted from the university of standford‚ watkins knew that
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Jean Kilbourne and bell hooks agree in their writings that the media often distorts what we perceive as reality in one way or another. Film‚ television‚ and advertising shape our ideals and what we believe should be true. Kilbourne focuses on the distortion of gender‚ particularly the distortion of the female gender in society in the excerpt from her book included in From Inquiry to Academic Writing‚ whereas hooks analyzes the misrepresentation of the impoverished and homeless in the excerpt from
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citizenship and their right to vote. In both Bell Hooks and Linda Harris Dobkins articles they respectively introduce race and power within the women’s movement and how it affected the movement. First off‚ in the passage Revolutionary Parenting Hooks acknowledges how difficult it is to define motherhood by including how race is a big factor and the perceived notion of mothers needing to be the nurtures and primary care takers of the children. When Hooks states the difference in opinions of motherhood
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Black Women “Ain’t I a Woman by Bell Hooks brings to light many aspects of how many oppressive forces such as racism and sexism can affect woman’s life. The book emphasizes how these deep interconnections between sexism and race are the key reasons why black women especially‚ struggle for liberation. Hooks takes a feminist stand point to expose the strengths and suffering of black women. This analysis will address the concept of patriarchy hooks emphases and many different views as such
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through their cell phones. A place where individuals are making changes to benefit themselves and the future generations. Today’s generation are living for the moment and not really thinking about the consequence for their actions. Pico Iyer and Bell Hooks both argues that people should start making “inner changes” in order to make “outer changes.” So what does this mean? Individuals should start thinking differently‚ stop challenging each other and start cooperating. With this one can possibly obtain
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Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks SCHER Critical review of any new evidence on the hazard profile‚ health effects‚ and human exposure to fluoride and the fluoridating agents of drinking water SCHER adopted this pre-consultation opinion at its 7th plenary on 18 May 2010 Fluoridation of drinking water About the Scientific Committees Three independent non-food Scientific Committees provide the Commission with the scientific advice it needs when preparing policy and
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