Binary option

October 14th, 2016 was an exciting day for baseball fans in Toronto, Ontario. The Toronto Blue Jays prepared to face off against Cleveland in the American League Championship Series. Catch anything out of sorts about that last sentence (specifically relating to the teams)? Read it one more time. The full name of the team the Cleveland Indians was purposefully left out. The Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, Jerry Howarth, also uses selective vocabulary like this. Howarth’s protest efforts…

Kate is a heterosexual, college-educated, affluent, white woman with a successful husband, and vast talent as a pianist. However, the film, You’re Not You, focuses on Kate’s growing disability due to ALS. Opposite Kate is her new caretaker, Bec; a lower-class, non-disabled, white woman with a seemingly heterosexual, but free-spirited, sexuality (Wolfe). Despite the intersectionalities of both Kate and Bec’s lives being evident in the film, You’re Not You focuses heavily on disability and…

Introduction The individuals that make up the workforce have evolved greatly over the last few decades. This includes how they work, where they work, and who they work for. The unique developing labor force is also growing at a rapid pace. According to a report by Emergent Research and MBO Partners, there are approximately 30 million full-time and part-time independent workers in the “gig economy” (Gillespie, 2016). The gig economy is an environment where temporary positions are common and…

Veena, a Hijra in Bangalore stated at a public meeting, “I am a Transgender, a woman, Dalit, sex worker, socialist and poor. I am all of these things and much more. And I fight to build up a world where I will be accepted for everything I am.” Exclusion happens at every level of societal space, especially when in the country like India, people can be easily marginalised on the basis of caste, class, gender, sexuality, region, religion, culture etc. The entire process of social exclusion or…

Ignorance Broken. Alone. While I may not have thought these words exactly at the time, they perfectly describe what I felt in middle school, junior high, and most of high school. Everyone around me constantly talked about their boyfriends and girlfriends, that one hot celebrity, who they had crushes on, their first kiss. I was never interested in any of these. By sixth grade, I was probably the only girl who hadn’t had a boyfriend, even if most elementary “relationships” only lasted a week. I…

political, social and psychological oppression of women. Also, male experience is seen as the universal experience because of stereotypical gender roles. Then, Deconstructive Criticism is also how we view language systematically, such as through binary oppositions (you need “light” to understand “dark”) and through internal contradictions. Not every word is concrete or has a definite meaning,…

format that can be transferable ‘Both distributions use Debian’s deb package format and package management tools (APT and Ubuntu Software Center)(Wikipedia Encyclopedia, Ubuntu (Operating system), n.d).’.Because of this, these two does not need to be binary compatible to each other but, in few cases, to use the source in Ubuntu from deb packages, needs to be rebuilt. Before they release the package, they try to merge with Ubuntu-specific…

In his 2014 text, John W. Santrock defines the “Early Childhood” stage of development, as the period of development in a child from 2 to 6 years, marked by its extreme increase in self-sufficiency and the child’s ability to care for themselves, which is due to the refining of the child’s motor skills throughout this stage. During this time, children begin to develop school readiness skills, taught by their parents or in their respective preschools. These skills include, but are not limited to,…

In an average day, a person can make nearly 35,000 different decisions, both conscious and subconsciously. The process of which these decisions are made can sometimes be complex and sometimes simple, depending on the severity of the results. However, many times, such choices can slip away, taken from a person’s control due to outside influences and societal pressures. Within the novel Age of Innocence, social conventions and adherences to the norm are what dictate daily decisions for those who…

The world today is increasingly dependent on science and technology (S&T) and the question of gender and S&T becomes even more pertinent. We not only require people to contribute to the growth of S&T, we require that they understand the impact of S&T on our lives and use its products effectively. That worldwide there is a trend of fewer women participating in the growth of S&T is worrisome, as it prevents inclusive perspectives. Education is viewed as a panacea for the imbalances and a…