She would take this stance because of the beliefs she expresses in her passage relating to the oppressive nature of imposing the English language on Chicano's. ... This component of the requirement presents the need for students to learn to write essays in a formal method with evidence supporting arguments. ... Furthermore the statement goes on to express the requirement for students to question the "conditioned nature- of their own beliefs about the world. ... She would find the requirement to be both objectionable and oppressive, because of her negative mind-set about being forced in...

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While looking at the way Hobbes' constructs his theories, we can look at the question of whether or not his bourgeois theories are a means for a sustainable and prosperous society. ... How can a society that has no moderation imposed upon its citizens and allows for this type of relentless competition possibly survive? ... When we look at Hobbes' laws with moderation in mind, we can see that this approach shows us a much more civilized bourgeois society in which we are not always at war with one another, but we are creating a society where those who have power are not constantly th...

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True to its roots as a Gothic novel, the atmosphere of The House of the Seven Gables broods with ambiguity and fear, with this uncertainty culminating in moments of heightened suspense. In these moments, author Nathaniel Hawthorne breeds tension with a terse syntactical style, igniting imagination with suggestive language, and frustrating the reader with a limited perspective. By presenting the reader with the anxious experience of extended mental uncertainty in a mode akin to realism, he calls into question the reader's ability to perceive their world with clarity and confidence, undermi...

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Foucault poses this question to refer to the problematic subjectivity of the modern man, as being inevitably affected by the great influence and omnipresence of ideology. ... With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... Foucault uses this model a...

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There has to be a set of moral and ethical standards that even our all knowing government can not supercede, otherwise how can any nation or let alone any state expect its citizens not to follow in its foot steps. ... However, these interpretations of various passages from the either the Bible or the Commandments are often quoted out of context which then corrupts the sympathetic attitude of Judaism and Christianity, in which they both clearly focuses on redemption and forgiveness, and urge humanity to be effective and just in dealing with crime and violence in society. ... Those who ...

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