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    In 1837‚ Horace Mann discontinued his political profession to become secretary of the Massachusetts State Legislature due to condition of the state’s public schools. He later told a speech to the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1848. He explains his opinions on the issues of education and the social class. His speeches specifically have information about the religious‚ intellectual‚ physical‚ moral and political aspects of education. One of his opinions is education needs flexibility to help students

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    The public education in American still resembles that described by Horace Mann in the late 1830s. Horace Mann wished to establish a state board of education and adequate tax support for public schools. He discouraged corporal punishment‚ believed education was a means of creating law-abiding citizens‚ and believed it would open doors for lower class children to be more successful than their parents were. Horace Mann was a lawyer and member of the state legislature. He proposed a state board of

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    Diaghilev created a revolution that changed dance history as we know it‚ with a new style of dance: expressive ballet. Whereas traditional ballet focuses mostly on technique and is designed to showcase each dancer’s idiosyncratic movement quality‚ Diaghilev’s dancers were encouraged to express more in their dancing. Choreographers were much more creative in amalgamating this expressiveness into their choreography‚ producing works that the audience fell in love with. Around this time‚ such works as

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    The Vagina Monologue was humorous and expressive video. It spoke on how a woman feels about her vagina‚ and what makes a vagina a vagina. Eve is the speaker. She starts off with listing the dubbed names of vagina. I feel this part is to help the audience understand that this is all about the vagina and that it goes by many names. Her first monologue was hair. It explain that this women did not like to shave the hair off her vagina because of the uncomfortable feeling she would get. Sometime in this

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    Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania‚ but he spent much of his youth in Iowa. He had become the director of the Mercantile Library in St. Louis in Missouri. Also he became an expert in exploration‚ be outdoors and to study nature was one of his greatest passions. Kephart was married very young‚ but her marriage turned out to be very unhappy. He began drinking‚ he lost his job and his wife left him. In the end he had a nervous breakdown. He decided to start over a new life. He wanted to

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    Two Opposite Perspectives of School In the article named “Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education” by Horace Mann‚ the author explains that school is an integral step to prepare for students to be aware of the responsibilities of becoming good citizens. On the other hand‚ the text “Against Schools” by John Taylor Gatto emphasizes that the role of the school system is not necessary in society since it forces students to go to school and sit around in classes for a certain amount of hours for

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    In Nacirema‚ Horace Miner uses satire and wordplay to teach us how easy it is to judge cultures that we don’t know much about. Miner is sneakily describing American culture‚ their entire way of life including both material and symbolic elements‚ the whole time77. Miner is trying to teach us that ethnocentrism‚ using your own culture as a standard to evaluate another‚ leads to the belief that other cultures are inferior78. Instead‚ we should be using cultural relativism‚ understanding other cultures

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    What about the time Horace Greeley was accused by Grant’s republicans of being a communist‚ free-lover and even a vegetarian. Well I suppose I can’t run for president since I’m a vegetarian‚ but anyways‚ these negative campaigns have become increasingly popular and to some

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    “Body Ritual Among The Nacirema” As I started to read “Body Ritual Among The Nacirema” by Horace Miner I was really confused. You told us that the homework was to write what was the real true meaning of this reading but I had to reread the pages over and over to find the true meaning to the reading that Horace Miner was talking about. It is a culture named Nacirema and that no one really know much about this culture. And also that they come from the east. He talks about the rituals they have

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    I admire the most are Horace Mann and Dorothea Dix‚ two extravagant reformers of the age of reform. First‚ about Horace Mann. Horace Mann‚ born in 1796 in Massachusetts‚ was an American educational reformer. He was born into poverty‚ and therefore had to self-educate himself. Horace was very interested in the advancement of education‚ and furthermore showed it in his college graduation speech. Horace not only spoke of his idea of change‚ he made actions toward it. Horace was a very diligent worker

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