In the wake of the Civil War and the major improvements in the lives of African Americans during Reconstruction that followed‚ America saw its inequitable treatment of minorities shift from African Americans to Asian immigrants. To clarify‚ African Americans were still subject to much racial terrorism and many civil rights abuses‚ but they had recently gained major legislative victories with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment in 1868 that had helped to ensure their legal citizenship
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Ethical Egosim and Sentiment: Examing Decision-Making in the Grey Area If there were one particular ethical theory that would universally fit all situations‚ ethics would be an open/shut case. However‚ that simply isn’t how ethical theories work. While‚ some may have significantly more merit than others on a scale of universal application‚ there are some situations where relativism comes into play when deciphering which theory best suits a given situation. The relativism referred to here is of
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B. Issues in Sentiment Analysis Before exploring Sentiment Analysis in depth we need to understand following issues in Sentiment analysis: 1) A sentence containing sentiment words may not express any sentiment.‚ e.g.‚ “Can you tell me which Sony camera is good?” such sentence contain the sentiment word “good”‚ but neither expresses a positive or negative opinion on any specific camera. 2) A positive or negative sentiment word may have opposite orientations in different
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A Declaration of Sentiments‚ and the Texas Declaration of Independence Comparative analysis - American Declaration of Independence 1) So apt and eloquent was Thomas Jefferson’s expressive writing in the Declaration of Independence that many others have come to use his document as a template for iterating declaratory appeals of their own. In the case of The Declaration of Sentiments‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton is seen to use Jefferson’s declaration as both inspiration‚ and archetype for her own
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Name: Elaine Tsui Class: B2 Supervisor: Mrs. Tirhas Subject: Independent Research Essay Submission date: 03 July 2012 (T3W2 Tuesday) Title: Discuss the anti-feminist portrayal of the female characters in the Monk written by Mathew Gregory Lewis. Discuss the anti-feminist portrayal of the female characters in the Monk written by Mathew Gregory Lewis. The Monk by Mathew Gregory Lewis is a Gothic novel published in 1796. His novel follows the dark descent of the monastery’s abbot‚ Ambrosio
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Compare & Contrast In 1848‚ Cady Stanton gave her ‘Declaration of Sentiments‚’ pleading for the right to vote and fair treatment to be given to women‚ which was promised already in 1776. While the country was still young‚ John Adam’s wife‚ Abigail wrote him a letter requesting the rights of women be included in the document he was having written. This was the Declaration of Independence. Both of these selections have a common goal: they are being written with the purpose to gain women more rights
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Many of us would find our emotions to play a vital role in our moral and ethical values. Perhaps this is because it is with our emotions that we are able to sense something is wrong‚ such as in the case of sympathizing for a person who is passing through a hard time due to a bad action which occurred. We know that action is wrong because we empathize and sympathize with the person and as a result associate a negative emotion with that action. Another example would be feeling anger towards a character
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avoid ethnocentric interpretations. These methods may include‚ but are not limited to‚ surveys‚ interviews with individuals and participant observation. In the novel Veiled Sentiments author and anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod describes her experience in the Bedouin community by saying “in a
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younha Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments is an ethnography on the Bedouin tribes of Egypt‚near the Western Desert and Libyan border. Abu-Lughod did her fieldwork between 1978 and1980‚ and lived with a host family in a particular Awlad ‘Ali (Bedouin) community.Theanthropologist had initially planned to study “the patterning and meaning of interpersonalrelations‚ in particular between men and women.” (25) However‚ Abu-Lughod soon discoveredthe prevalence of informal poetry performances by many
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anthropologists provide a unique and informative perspective on the social issues they study are: Looking at the circumstances through a participant perspective (avoiding ethnocentrism)‚ historical context‚ and concept of culture. In both Veiled Sentiments and In Search of Respect the authors actually experienced living in the culture of both places and developed relationships with the people they met. They were able to develop a point of view that no one would be able to without actually experiencing
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