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    The role of women in European society was they were to be the household doing women like things, bear children and many would say that women were the opposite of men in every way and were not to have men like qualities and should to be very matronly and do things they believe a woman should do. There are many different types of views of women and some humanist views were from people such as Baldassare Castiglione and Raphael who was a painter. Castiglione was a humanist scholar and diplomat…

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    Muslims of Australia has been saying that ‘as a result of media bias, they are vilified in society as “terrorists”, and discriminated in the workplace’ (Kabir, 2006). As many other countries around the world wanting to strive, Australia is also working on being a country where it is an ideal for multicultural people…

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    Many news sources covered gun violence and potential gun policies in the wake of the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon. Each news outlet that covered the issue did it in a slightly different way, and in many cases with some bias. This bias can be caused by a variety of factors, such as the outlet’s target audience, who sponsors the outlet, and even the author’s socioeconomic background. The Washington Post is one of the most well respected news sources in world on both the Internet…

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    In the pursuit of knowledge, it is the knower who seeks information. How a person sees and comprehends this knowledge is adjusted when by society, and potentially a location. Each “knower” is different; some people can have multiple perspectives or perhaps a person could have an open mind. In my current status, I would have to agree with this statement because sometimes the perspective we have clouds our ability to understand different topics. Perspective helps us understand certain things due…

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    cognizant of the fact that other perspectives do exist besides their own, no matter how strongly they may feel, and that those different views, when considered with one’s own personal knowledge, can lead to the creation of a knowledge network in which bias and personal opinions can be diminished somewhat. This leads to greater fulfillment in the pursuit of knowledge, as all the different aspects of a specific piece of knowledge which exist and its repercussions in the global community are…

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    completely wrong. There is an issue with this idealized world, and it leaves us susceptible to one of the most common and powerful biases: the confirmation bias. The confirmation bias is the “tendency to interpret new information so that it becomes compatible with our existing theories beliefs and convictions” (Dobelli 19). You succumb to this bias whenever you disregard information that contradicts your established beliefs. Thus, to protect your beliefs, you simply disregard contradictory…

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    and accountability policy development and implementation (GAO, 2006; Zehr, 2006; Abedi, 2004; Crawford, 2002). There are several major concerns of English language proficiency assessments, first and foremost is the test validity, second the cultural bias of the assessments, third the nonstandard administration and fourth the assessment does not pair with…

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    Izzie Case Reflection Paper 1. In working with the family system, point out ways that you could assist in diminishing the following (oppression, marginalization, alienation, privilege and power)? Engaging diversity and recognizing difference in social work practice is key to diminishing oppression, marginalization and alienation. This is because diversity plays a major role in shaping the human experience, as well as in forming identity. Diversity itself is a complex issue that is affected by…

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    Thin-Slicing In 1984

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    I Wished It Was Over In A Blink Quite possibly the worst book I have read. This is coming from a girl who reads over a 100 books a year for the last six years that makes this serious. Malcolm Gladwell’s writing in this book was boring; there was nothing to break up the never ending word vomit. In the book it says the two main concepts are judgment and understanding, which I see it may be a wonky route to get there, and I may have had to pull over multiple times for a nap. However, I got what…

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    Each source reveals bias through either the author’s claims, the evidence used in the author’s claims or through the author's ways of persuading the audience to either be in support of the transgender bathroom bill or to be against it. I would say that the interpretation of misinformation comes from both the reader and the writer because the writer may inform the audience of their own viewpoint along with facts and the reader would be the one that would have their own way of interpreting the…

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