The source notes that it could also mean "a feminine, or a woman's word or expression- (Oxford English Dictionary 246). ... In addition to the Etymological Dictionary, the reference book called Origins, by Eric Partridge, states that the word "feminism, -ist, -ize, come, perhaps with French encouragement, from femin, and femina- ( Partridge 207). ... In the monthly magazine Christian Science Monitor, Marilyn Gardner uses the word as follows: "Daisy Hernandez, a recent college graduate who is co-editing a book on feminism by young women of color, also notes mixed signals- (Garnder 1) (It...

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Despite the difficulties that assumptions can produce, this posthumous book, studded with ideas like a little roast with truffles, will pleasurably provoke those who persevere. ... Chris Hann's earlier quoted article states: "He was a superb public speaker and debater, and also a gifted teacher, injecting occasional notes of melodrama into lectures that were delivered slowly, without notes." He also says: "Key points about contrasting styles of cognition were deftly summarized in a blackboard diagram of a "multi-periscoped submarine", an image that must be indelibly stamped on generat...

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Variations of pricing often stem from fetishism of the commodity, which is Marx's next major point in this book. ... However, Marx notes that humans are fallible, and will often place way too much worth or attention, or fetishize, certain commodities for rather arbitrary reasons. Marx notes that the main thing that gets fetishized in a capitalist economy is money, and that when people place too much importance on this, there becomes an imbalance in both the economy and the society as a whole (Marx, 1965). ... Published in 1848, this book features various theories that have been concluded ...

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Wright Mills talks about the sociological imagination between "personal troubles" and "the public issues of the social structure", in his book the sociological Imagination. ... Mills also notes that, often there is a debate about what that value really is and about what it is that really threatens it. ... Postman notes, even though new shows show us daily pieces of tragedy and brutality they are still seen more for amusement and pleasure. ...

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According to Jay Bolter David and Richard Grusin, in the intro of their book "The Double Logic of Remediation" we are living in a media-rich environment, and this environment will only become richer with time. ... It is worth noting that the greater our technology, the stronger and more awake our minds must be if we are to keep from being controlled by the hardware or the software that go into creating these other spaces and experiences. ... Jane McGonigal, in her book "Reality is Broken: How Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World" argues that there is a growing mass ...

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Title: An Investigation into Sexist Language. Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. One area that has remained resistant to change is language. While it is has been widely accepted that some aspects of language are clearly sexist, for example the use of "he" as a genderless pronoun (Cameron 1998, Wardaugh 1992, Pauwels 1998), there is still argument as to whether or n...

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The Ultimate Sacrifice "The idea of the ultimate sacrifice comes only with an idea of purity, through fatality" (Anderson, 144). What makes people willing to die for their countries? In his book Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson explores this question. Anderson believes the answer lays in...

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(NOTE: Upon my request for information regarding Asperger's Syndrome my school provided me with 3 photocopied articles which are not appropriately sourced. ... (Refer to school article 1) Observing his behaviour in relation to the above theory for identifying Asperger's Syndrome in school; I am able to note the following. ...

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With a picture book like essence, she will even occasionally plug a picture next to her text that visually describes her ideas. ... It is important to note that variances in textual characteristics are what make literature beautiful. ...

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Laclos makes no ambiguity to whom the book is referring, going as far as excluding all the novel's plot to two locations; Paris and the inside of the country house in which the majority of the action happens. ... Taking the novel as a social critique, the modern day reader appears to be a note to the waning importance of the Church in light of the impeding French Revolution whilst a contemporary reader might be less sympathetic to such a blasphemous portrayal of one of the Ancien regime's most powerful and influential institutions, especially in its formal role as the First Estate. ...

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The comic book character Superman is also an iconic cultural symbol, representing a heroic figure that has become the personification of strength. ... The interlinking threads that combine the past and present stories are masterfully woven by the use of background notes and reflections. ...

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Abstract Solomon Asch was a social psychologist that worked on issue of conformity. He worked in a lab and tested nine participants having one being a confederate, knowing when to say the wrong answer. They were shown multiple images of lines and were asked which one was different. Depending on the ...

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I am just a poor boy, Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. All lies and jest. Still, a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest. - Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer, 1970 Pudd'nhead Wilson & Those Extraordinary Sins Interpreting Mark Twain's work within our distinctly American cultural heritage has absorbed the careers of countless literary scholars. ...

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Introduction The liberals interpret and fundamentally believe that change must be devoid of any conflict to avoid disrupting the processes in society while the radicals believe otherwise and categorically state that change must be revolutionary especially that conflict is inherent in most capitalist...

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This book is a canonized text in sociology that still remains relevant in the study of suicide. ... Durkheim uses the army as an example, "Influenced by this predisposition," Durkheim notes "the soldier kills himself at the least disappointment, for the most futile reasons, for a refusal of leave, a reprimand an unjust punishment, a delay in promotion, a question of honor, a flush of momenta...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one....

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