but not to the extent that it should have. Women have faced various political problems in the United States. Women have been faced with two major political problems: an unbalanced representation of women in politics and various laws that restrict a woman’s right to make a decision regarding her own self. The feminist movement has helped these two political problems, but has not fully solved them because in the 21st century these issues are still currently present. The movement helped women have a better representation because it encouraged women to stand up and speak out against issues that they felt needed to be fixed. These women who stood up for their beliefs and demanded change are the reason that new policies came about. The unequal ratio of women to men in congress and politics still remains but to this day women are still slowly trying to gain political equality. This ties into laws that restrict a woman’s right because the majority of people voting on these laws are men; such as laws regarding abortion and birth control. Since these laws directly affect a woman and not necessarily men, it can be confusing to some as to why the group of people deciding these laws are mainly men. An example of this type of law that was controversial was the anti-abortion law that was put into place in various different U.S. states. The constitutionality of this law was eventually questioned when Roe v Wade occurred in 1973 in Texas. This case was about a pregnant woman who believed that…
In her article "To all the Girls I 've Rejected", Jenifer Delahunty Britz appeals to a broad audience primarily composed by current, future and pasted college students. Although not limited to these demographics, the article primarily aims to console people who have experienced a rejected application. In lieu of conversations about this very personal and sometimes troubling subject, Britz attempts to console and explain why these rejections happen so often to such great candidates. It 's clear…
This leads to the questions; what is the role of language and bias in shaping the neutrality of questions and thereby our acquisition of knowledge and to what extent is it possible to formulate a neutral question and thus acquire objective knowledge and truth? First of all, mathematics is often considered a neutral area of knowledge, as it is universal across cultures, and relies on preexisting frameworks built upon deductive reasoning, as opposed to frameworks built upon knowledge by…
particular reading I find no common correlation to the events in Ferguson, MO; however, the diagnoses of social psychology as emphasized by Emma Higgins is strangely so me. I have utterly been educated and reevaluated myself through Emma Higgins’s The Social Psychology of Ferguson. As accentuated by Higgins, “Let’s first look at some of the ways prejudices are perpetuated and affect our behavior.” A common misinterpretation in situations that we claim to find bias upon such as the events that…
states their prejudice, or lack thereof. There are strengths to this test but also weaknesses. Strengths include the clear range of prejudice that the person experiences. However, a weakness is the outside factors that influence this type of prejudice. An example is parents teaching their children to have a negative view of African Americans based on the parents already made bias. Implicit prejudice is an automatic response that is from an evaluation of someone. Many times it is an unconscious…
Mid-Term Exam 2016 The following are my written responses to the denoted questions for my mid-term exam in Professional Issues. Question 1: Here I will define “critical thinking” and discuss the impact of critical thinking by a physical therapist on “quality” and “value”, which are components of the updated vision 2020. Critical thinking is a purposefully refined and elevated mode of thinking wherein an individual asserts control over their own biases and innate tendencies, approaches…
As said by Al Franken the award winning American comedian “The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They 're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.” A strong media bias can be proven in the United States through, viewer distribution and viewers trust in different media sources, journalist ideologies, and issues focused on by the media. Biased meaning that the media reports on certain stories and events that favor their…
For the past few weeks, I have learned about the concept of critical thinking. Learning about what it is to be a critical thinker has led me to a path of self-actualization, for it has allowed me to embrace what I do not know and to strive for the understanding of the unknown. The course on critical thinking has allowed me to analyze what I stand for and to recognize, strengthen, and even change my views by taking all sides of an argument into consideration to reach a conclusion. One of the…
methods of thinking. Seeing that, McNeill states that this is the theory of human life (McNeill 77). A fact that is widely believed becomes a truth, impacting and perusing behaviour of beings. Similarly, this goes to show the flexibility and elasticity in the human race and society. Humans “change, adapt, and learn new ways of doing things” (McNeill 77) illustrating that behaviour can simply be persuade. Since one group is accustomed with their own beliefs, the beliefs of another group seems to…
art budget was cut or eliminated in many districts (Why the Arts Matter), technology has overrun our schools, and through it all gender bias still rules the classroom. The education system in American must change, but we need to get to the root of the problem, not just fix the symptoms. Education has been on a constant technical upgrade for many years. The use of technology has nearly taken over the classrooms with…