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    The title of this book is ‘Hatchet’, written by Gary Paulsen, and this book has received “Newberry Honor Book” award. It was published in 1987 and named “the bestselling classic survival story”. The genre of the book is coming-of-age adventure novel. Children aged 10 to 15 will enjoy reading it very much. In the beginning, the story takes place in the small airport in Hampton, New York, where the main character is from, and later in the Canadian woods by the lake. The story is about a teenager…

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    Background People’s productive activity is inseparably linked with the transformation of energy; substance and information flows in order to obtain the necessary products of labor. At the same time, there is always the possibility of emergency release of energy contained in techno-social systems due to its entropic properties. Such an inevitable attribute of production activity is usually correlated with technology and is called a danger (technogenic by source). Safety is then understood as the…

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    Gender is “a constructed and contingent set of assumptions about female and male roles” (Oosterveld 56). The term gender in today's society is a very important and relevant topic. Our “polished society” (Wollstonecraft 656) has created a “binary system” (Corwin) where boys and girls are pushed to play a specific role in society. Slage says that gender is “essentially a performance” and that “we not only carry out but we also observe these ‘performances’ every minute of the day” (Slage).…

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    Gender identity: refers to the gender to which persons feel they belong, which may or may not be the same as the sex they were assigned at birth. It refers to each person's deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender and includes the personal sense of body and other expressions, such as dress, speech and mannerisms. Transgender: is an umbrella term which is often used to describe a wide range of identities and experiences; it usually refers to persons who have a gender identity…

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    Neologism, Margaret Atwood’s brilliantly applied technique used as a interwoven blanket of words throughout the novel , Handmaid’s Tale, goes a far way in laying the foundations for the totalitarian social system to be acceptable as a normal way of thinking. Being that totalitarianism is defined as , ‘ a governing system in which a ruling elite holds all the power and controls all aspects of society,” it makes sense that one of the first steps to make it easier to rule, or control women and to…

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    When determining what color outfit to buy a newborn, one must color code according to the gender; pink for girls and blue for boys. If one stops to think, one wonders about the origin of this distinction; it must lie in the gender. According to her book, Gender Troubles, Judith Butler defines gender as a cultural construct with defining features that must be followed, which is distinct from sex, a biological attribute. Consideration toward such "consequences", must be acknowledged, such as…

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    CHAPTER 1: 1.0 Introduction The gender division of labour varies significantly across societies. In some cultures women can actively participate in working outside of the secure area which is their home, while in other society, women is been put into their specific tasks that connected according to their gender lines where women tend to remain inside the home and do not participate in activities outside of the domestic situation. Gender roles and stereotypes is not a new issue in the world…

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    Masculinity In Macbeth

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    In the tragedy of “Macbeth”, Shakespeare explores and challenges the idea of traditional gender roles where the female characters are seen with the strong masculine traits, whilst the men are seen to have more of the feminine traits. One of society's typical gender norms is that men are essentially the strength of the family, whilst the women are more of the caring role and often times labelled as emotional and inferior. Within the first few acts of the play, Lady Macbeth is introduced and…

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    Age Group Case Study

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    AGE GROUP There is no specific recommendation on the age group. However the employee must be of 18 years of age and less than 50 years of age. DESIGNATION Most of the employees are having a lower rank designation that needs to handle operational issues such as cooking, taking orders, delivery. Nine persons will be as ground staff who will perform job of customer service and food preparation, two as supervisors and one as store manager. Back office will have one manager, two assistant for…

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    A cultural encounter is the interaction of one or more culture with another culture. Culture encounter is not only a condition related to nationality or ethnicity, but it could also be an interaction between two members of any two groups with different norms, such as men and women. The interactions of people from different cultures require the understanding and respect of people’s beliefs, the way they live life and to discover new things about their world and cultures. However, culture…

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