Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa explains the challenges experienced and unique perspectives gained by those who defy nationalities and cultures through their very existence. The author’s examination of culture‚ language and hierarchical societal norms states that the new Mestiza person "copes by developing a tolerance for contradictions‚ a tolerance for ambiguity" in the fight to gain legitimacy (Anzaldúa 101). The author compares the Mestiza reality to the lived experiences
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Consciousness refers to your individual awareness of your unique thoughts‚ memories‚ feelings‚ sensations and environment. Your conscious experiences are constantly shifting and changing. Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience‚ awareness‚ subjectivity‚ the ability to experience or to feel‚ wakefulness‚ having a sense of selfhood‚ and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty
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Constructing a Questionnaire The Steps in a Survey Project 1.Establish the goals of the project - What you want to learn? 2.Determine your sample - Who you will ask? 3.Choose interviewing methodology - How you will ask? 4.Create your questionnaire - What you will ask? 5.Pre-test the questionnaire‚ if practical - Test the questions. 6.Analyze the data - Produce the reports. Questionnaire Question Type 1 Dichotomous Questions When a question has two possible responses‚
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Chapter 1: Consciousness What is consciousness?: • The awareness of our internal and external environments is an ever-changing array of thoughts‚ feelings and sensations known as consciousness. • Your consciousness consists of all the thoughts‚ feelings and memories you are aware of at any given moment. It is easy to manipulate. • Consciousness is personal because it consists of your understanding of the world around you. • Consciousness is selective because you pay attention to something’s
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Consciousness Odds are that you have‚ at one point or another‚ experienced oppression. Odds are also that you have been the oppressor at times‚ whether you’ve realized it or not. Pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire‚ does a clever and fantastic way of explaining how we’ve come to the duality of being both the oppressed and oppressor and how we can break away from it‚ as humanly as possible. In the attempt to break way from what we’ve been constructed to be‚ one most be conscious. Conscious
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Consciousness Physical….Or Not???? The statements “I have a guilty conscious” and “My conscious eating me alive” are phrases that have been giving physical meaning by everyday people. What has not been given merit is the imaginable state of consciousness or ones conscious. Are the statements true or just simply a saying with no meaning? For starters consciousness is a mystical network. It has several different extraordinary characters. One David Chalmers says it has a “unified and a differentiated
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Consciousness Consciousness can be defined as awareness of the outside world and of one’s own thoughts‚ feelings‚ perceptions and other mental processes. A person’s consciousness state is constantly changing. When the changes are particularly noticeable‚ they are called altered states of consciousness. Examples of altered states include sleep‚ hypnosis‚ meditation and some drug-induced conditions. Sleep is an active and complex state. Differing levels of consciousness are described as variations
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Elements for comparison and contrast Payne & Gainey text Tsui text Description in my own words Evidence from the text (include direct quotes and page numbers) Description in my own words Evidence from the text (include direct quotes and page numbers) Explicit meaning The goal of the article is to provide instructors with a variety of strategies for engaging students to participate in classroom controversial discussions and enhancing their critical thinking skills at the collegiate
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The Alberta Journal of Educational Research Vol. 54‚ No. 3‚ Fall 2008‚ 272-282 Erica Neegan Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto Constructing My Cultural Identity: A Reflection on the Contradictions‚ Dilemmas‚ and Reality This article provides a critical reflective analysis of my life growing up in Jamaica where I attended colonial school‚ to making the transition to high school in the Canadian context. I examine the elements that have influenced my cultural/racial
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Assessment Title: Assignment 1: How much freedom do individuals really have in the creation of their identities? Critically discuss by drawing on the theories and concepts of Interpretivist sociology (such as the work of Erving Goffman and ethnomethodology) and one of the following: 1) Michel Foucault (Post-structuralism) 2) Pierre Bourdieu (Structuralism) Assessment Task: A 3500 word assignment which meets learning outcomes: 1 & 3. Number of Words: 3816/3500. Pages: 20. In sociology
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