Potter 1 Rebecca Potter Gray Section 4975 12 May 2015 Primary Source Analysis on The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique is the title of a book written by Betty Friedan who has also founded The National Organization for Women (NOW) to help US women gain equal rights. She describes the "Feminine Mystique" as the heightened awareness of the expectations of women and how each woman has to fit a certain role as a little girl‚ an uneducated and unemployed teenager‚ and finally as a wife and mother
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1. In his essay‚ “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness‚” Mark Granovetter reintroduces Karl Polanyi’s idea of embeddedness and discusses how embeddedness‚ as a more descriptive and accurate tool‚ should be implemented in the study of economic action and behavior. Granovetter first discusses how neoclassical economists and modern sociologists misinterpret economic action and behavior. He explains that economists tend to “undersocialize” economic action while sociologists
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Memory In the “Gettysburg Address” and the lecture “Hope‚ Despair and Memory” the topic of memory is touched upon. Memory is an essential part of our existence‚ but is all of it necessary? While it is true that‚ “Without memory‚ our existence would be barren and opaque‚”(from “Hope‚ Despair and Memory”) do all memories provide enough benefit to us to warrant their existence? If you could erase some of your most difficult memories‚ would you do it? While I do see value in some painful memories‚ for
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|Details |Due |Points | |Objectives |Identify examples of bias‚ rhetorical devices‚ argumentation‚ and effective counterarguments. | | | | |Complete a research plan based on a chosen topic. |
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c It is Morally Ethical to Discriminate against Homosexuals The legal battle in the fight of gay rights tests the application of the fourteenth amendment’s equal protection clause that states “No state shall …deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws (CITE). Our country was founded on the principle that all people should be treated equally. Everyone should be guaranteed the same freedoms and rights no matter what gender‚ ethnicity or sexual orientation. One group
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those who are overweight have a higher mortality rate. It is then that Hiempel presents the main element of his article by challenging this conception‚ saying that the obesity issue may not be as bad as it has been made out to be. He supports his counterargument by giving evidence suggesting that those who are obese have higher amounts of nutrients that helpful in surgery situations rather than harmful. Circling back to his main claim‚ Hiempel examines the ineffective aspects of dieting‚ prevention recommendations
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Madelyn Deal Ethics from a Global Perspective Dr. Robert Scott 27 April 2017 Chinese Foot Binding For many years‚ Chinese foot binding was a way to show that a woman was wealthy and beautiful. If you did not bind your feet‚ then you were a poor‚ hard-working woman who had slim chances of getting married. Women had to go through this painful experience for years‚ just to show that they were among the elite. Foot binding was a very agonizing experience for girls just to have a good chance of marriage;
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Evolution‚ Creationism‚ Both‚ or Neither in Schools? In “One Side Can Be Wrong‚” Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne argue that teaching creationism along side evolution does not make sense‚ and that creationism has no business being in the science classes. Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne are evolutionary biologists at Oxford University and the University of Chicago. They published this essay in the Guardian in September 2005‚ seeking to appeal to middle-aged parents. They argue that creationism
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Applied Eugenics by P. Popenoe and R.H. Johnson The Argument: The main focus of the article Applied Eugenics‚ written by P. Popenoe and R.H. Johnson‚ is that it would be detrimental to the American gene pool to allow foreigners to immigrate to Unites States soil. This article identifies that‚ in 1918‚ there were approximately “14‚000‚000 foreign-born persons‚ together with other millions of the sons and daughters of foreigners who although born on American soil have as yet been little assimilated
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Success is something that everyone aims to achieve‚ though it may mean different things to different people. The factors that contribute to success include hard work‚ endurance‚ and‚ according to Angela Duckworth‚ most of all‚ grit. Duckworth is a psychologist who defines grit as a combination of passion and perseverance (Duckworth 8). She believes this trait to be the most important‚ one that indicates the effort a person will put into their goals‚ how much they are willing to endure‚ and how successful
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