Betsy Ross While most people admire the ones who wrote the Declaration of Independence‚ the ones who flew in space‚ and the ones who fought in wars‚ but one person outshined the rest of them. That person was Betsy Ross. Without Betsy Ross we would not have the amazing American Flag that we have today. She was born Elizabeth Griscom in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania‚ to Samuel and Rebecca James Griscom. Betsy went to a Quaker public school. For eight hours a day‚ Betsy was
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Betsy Ross Made Me Love to Read I guess I shouldn’t say Betsy Ross made me love to read; I should say Betsy Ross opened my eyes to a whole new world. When I was in the third grade‚ we were assigned a book report on any biography of our choosing. “Great!” I thought. “Now I have to read some boring book!” I was not thrilled with this assignment‚ but I was a good student and usually did what I was told. Biographies for third graders were not like the biographies most people think
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11/19/2012 Gendered Self From January‚ 1991‚ the day I was born‚ I have been given a status‚ class‚ and expectation from both my family and the society. A status that was obtains involuntarily at birth‚ as a son of a Cambodian’s governor‚ and the only male in family after my dad. It was determined that my sex‚ the biological distinction between male and female‚ was male. From that moment‚ my parents used my gender‚ personal traits of the society to determined how they going to raise me. Expectation
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Agree or Disagree: Crime is gendered. Explain your answer. Crime is most certainly gendered; meaning it has biased toward the male or female sex. An explanation for this can come from an understanding about which crimes are likely to be associated with men and which are more likely to be associated with women. There are certain crimes where women have little or no involvement most of the time. For example‚ men tend to be victims of violent crimes. This is a statement proven by sources such
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Catherine‚ Quilted Apparel and Gender Identity). Such forming of identity amongst young children‚ sometimes leads them into role confusion and an identity crisis. At an age where a child is trying to figure out who they are‚ the unbeknownst forcing of gendered clothing creates a paradigm in which the child may feel as if they must coherently follow‚ or face ridiculing if they do not. The academic sources used were beneficial to the topic of women’s bodies begin regulated through feminine clothing and
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Nadia Deeb 310203597 5. Is genocide gendered and how important is gender to our understanding of the phenomenon? What is the justification for rape being categorised now as a technique of genocide? Genocide is gendered and gender is extremely important to our understanding of genocide. Connections
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The announcement of Betsy DeVos to serve as commencement speaker at Bethune-Cookman University aroused many emotions. Understandably‚ a university president should be able to invite the U.S. Secretary of Education to speak to their students on graduation day‚ but this is different. This is beyond political ideology or educational philosophy. The anger that is shown towards this announcement is for the blatant disregard to learn our history and support national policy that will support and enhance
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Article 7 Gendered Media: The Influence of Media on Views of Gender Julia T. Wood Department of Communication‚ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill times more often than ones about women (“Study Reports Sex Bias‚” 1989)‚ media misrepresent actual proportions of men and women in the population. This constant distortion tempts us to believe that there really are more men than women and‚ further‚ that men are the cultural standard. THEMES IN MEDIA Of the many influences on how we view
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never experienced this type of male domination‚ she agrees that violence has always been apparent in the lives of females and its effects on the female both physically and mentally are detrimental. Joanna Harris writes in one of her sections of “Gendered Intersections: An Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies” about violence against women. She writes‚ “It is seen as ‘essential to the struggle to restore dignity to disempowered women’ and ‘necessary conditions to self-empowerment in a socio-economic
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Elisabeth Griscom Ross‚ also known as Betsy Ross‚ they think of the woman who came up with the design for and then sewed the first American flag. Many Americans believe that she sewed the first American flag under the direction of President George Washington‚ but historians are now saying this is likely untrue and was made up by her grandson over one hundred years after the first flag was sewn. Since this story is likely untrue should Americans still revere Betsy Ross as a significant hero of the Revolutionary
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