English studies

As I respond to this essay, I will focus on why we, as society, must look at gender through the eyes of race and racism. I will do this by explaining the concept of intersectionality and its effect on gender oppression. Before I explain how different racial groups experience gender oppression, we must first understand intersectionality. According to Patricia Hill Collins, intersectionality is described as the combination of factors such as: race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic class, and…

indicates that students get a lot of homework, but homework is needed to improve grades. The author's solution is unrealistic. Although many students wish homework is banned, homework is beneficial. I think homework gives students the opportunity to study and review material covered in the classroom. Abeles imply that homework should be banned. A better solution is to decrease the workload for students. In past experience, I would get a ton of work in a week and another week I would get…

Edward Said’s book Orientalism challenges a vast amount of scholars and their work on the Orient. Said discusses the knowledge and power, the separation of the West and East, and the obsession with the Orient. In his works he analyzes many scholars, political leaders, and military leaders justify his argument. Because Said’s work attacked years of scholarly work done by what he calls Orientalist, he received many criticisms, which would then tear apart his book just as he did. One of the larger…

Through this summer Program, I have learned a lot of study skills to prepare myself for this fall semester. In order for me to be successful in class, I must take these five study skills I learned during the summer. The first and the most important skill I learned is time management. I knew since middle school to keep track of time, but I never took it seriously. The reason why I didn 't take it seriously was that my days were already structured and organized. When I began five weeks ago, I…

In relevance to the indicated answerable clinical question from the case study, several articles present strong arguments supporting changing IVC’s to when clinically indicated versus routinely. Although current guidelines recommend the routine change of IVC’s within the clinical setting, this is not supported by recent data…

authoritarian regime somehow marked Martín Barbero’s intellectual trajectory (Marroquín, 2015). Nevertheless, it was Colombia and his scholar experience in this country which has definitely shaped Martín-Barbero’s intellectual concerns. After his graduate studies, the philosopher came back to Cali, Colombia, in 1975, and he contributed there to launch the School of Social Communication in the Universidad del Valle. Actually, he was its chair until 1995. According to Martín-Barbero, this was a…

concepts by providing important background information on theatre and how gender hierarchies worked within it. Annotated Bibliography Bird, Kym. Redressing the Past: The Politics of Early English-Canadian Women 's Drama, 1880-1920. Montreal: McGill-Queen 's UP, 2004. Print. This book explains Kim Bird 's study of the male centred focus in theatre and drama. The arguments presented by Bird focus from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, around the same time when women…

This quarter has been very eye opening and a new way to think of learning English and language arts. I found out that I've been able to grasp ideas easier and that I have a handle on the way I discover ideas effectively and efficiently. I started out the quarter not being able to comprehend ideas coherently into one thought and I struggled with that throughout the poem and the hard moments essay, but writing this it has been much easier to think of and communicate my ideas through writing and…

terms for the potential of her imposing subversion over the sexual and gender norms to bring out a feasible “end of normal” entirely. Halberstam explicates that the end of normal is about the changing of social norms and this is important to gender studies and feminism because they have changed to new ideas being considered such as Lady Gaga, SpongeBob, and drag feminism. Lady Gaga is one of the new waves of feminism approaching. The idea of this recent wave is gaga goes wild. Gaga goes wild…

gender segregated fields. Women tend to major in fields like education, psychology, and English which don’t pay as well as men dominated STEM fields. One way to fix the pay gap is to interest more females in STEM fields. It may be an unwritten rule that these majors are for men, but it is time for this rule to be broken. There is no reason for someone to choose a major based on their…