Douglas Hofstadter

to her because of people thinking men are superior to women. The language that we use today does not help the fact that men think that either. People do however think language is not that important but instead lets try working on other inequality issues. “But the words we use can also reinforce current realities when they are sexist (or racist or heterosexist)”(300). Kleinman writes. Our choice of words will shape how we think whether is positive or negative. Words make you think different for example if someone congratulates you by saying “you did well” or someone saying “Great job you did very well” chances are you will react better to the second one. Same as calling a guy a “boy” or a “man”. A philosopher by the name Douglas R. Hofstadter did a study in 1986. In this study instead of saying freshman, chairman, and things like that he had people say white at the end instead of man. In his study “people of color would hear ‘all whites are created equal’ and be expected to feel included”(300). Kleinman claims that some women wish to be a part of “the higher-status group: men”(300). People say women are apart of everything but if they truly were then we would have more words to make women feel like they actually were apart of things. Nowadays women go around calling themselves girls instead of women. One reason for this could be that they want to feel young and when they hear woman it makes them feel old. A guy in one of Kleinman’s class was in a frat that…

This discussion is another predominantly narrative historical review of prohibition. He provides the initial and most complete review of the progressive era and the political forces leading up to the ratification of the 18th amendment. In his publication he clearly defines prohibition as part of the Progressive movement. (REF) Hofstadter provides detailed links of political relationships and social reformist of the era. Further discussions on the need for social stability with political power…

The TV show I will be exploring in detail is the Big Bang Theory. This is a popular American sitcom produced by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. It is currently on its tenth season and has been renewed for another two seasons on CBS. According to the Big Bang Theory fansite (2007-2017), The Pilot was first released on September 24, 2007. This show focuses on the daily lives of two geeky physicists named Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter. Their introverted lives change when the attractive, social…

For example, the males in The Big Bang Theory are all scientists. Leonard Hofstadter is an experimental physicist at Caltech in Pasadena, Sheldon Cooper works as a theoretical physicist at Caltech, Howard Wolowitz works as an aerospace engineer and former NASA astronaut at Caltech in Pasadena, and Raj Koothrappali is an Indian-born astrophysicist who lives in Pasadena and works at Caltech. Unfortunately, one of the main women characters in The Big Bang Theory is another story. Penny is a…

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Big Bang Theory on television. Those thirty minute airings had my whole living room roaring. We loved how awkward Sheldon was and how Leonard was always chasing pretty Penny. It was not until recently that I have noticed how misogyny is portrayed throughout the show. As I watch the episodes back I still laugh: however, I cannot help but to realize how the women, in particular Penny and Amy, are characterized throughout each episode. For those who are not familiar, The Big Bang Theory is an…

The Big Bang Theory: A View on the Modern “Nerdist” The Big Bang Theory is an extremely successful sitcom that airs Monday nights on CBS. It involves love, drama, comedy and many other elements into a single format. Some of the main characters are Leonard, Sheldon, Penny, Howard, Rajesh, Bernadette, and Amy. One of the reasons I am researching The Big Bang Theory or “TBBT” is because it is one of the most watched, successful, and highest rated sitcoms of all time. According to Winston, as of…

Sheldon Cooper Sheldon Cooper, or Shelly as his friends and family sometimes refer to him as, is a character on the television series The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon Cooper is a senior theoretical physicist at CalTech where he works with his roommate, Leonard Hofstadter. Sheldon has many things that seems odd about him. Some of the things that are a little different that he does is that he must knock 3 times of his neighbor Penny’s door. He does not quite understand sarcasm when it is spoken to…

Many things happened during the Progressive Era, and of course everyone is going to have their point of view on them. Zinn went really into detail about every single topic that he talked about, Foner on the other hand sort of skimmed through the topics but still covered them. Zinn loved to talk about the radicals during this time period as where I feel that Foner seemed to talk more from an outsiders view as where Zinn sort of tried to get us to see where the socialist and radicals were coming…

The Lincoln-Douglas debates, also known as the Great Debates of 1858, were a series of seven debates between two politicians running for the senate seat of the state of Illinois. The politicians were the republican nominee, Abraham Lincoln, and the democratic nominee, incumbent Stephen Douglas. The debates covered a series of topics, the most pertinent being the issue of slavery and its expansion into the newer western territories. The idea of the debates came forth after both Lincoln and…