French Third Republic

The woman pictured is very skinny and very hollow-cheeked. At one glance, the viewer can tell she’s from a third world country. You could almost say she’s skin and bones. Her clothes are also loosely hanging off of her body to emphasize how malnourished she is. Authors depicting a third world country grieved by starvation commonly use techniques like these to tug at the viewer’s emotions. The tool works to make them feel empathetic, and it also…

Desires are one of the main causes of pain and happiness. In the article Transgender Identities: within and beyond the constraints of heteronormativity, Angie Fee conceptualizes desires to often be shaped and laid out as a path to follow but are mediated by the limitations of the design (265). The biological sex that is determined at birth does not always correspond with the gender it is designated to. In the movie Laurence Anyways, Laurence was a man about thirty years old when she finally…

The Hunger Games is based on a dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. The novel tackles severe issues such as poverty, starvation, oppression and the effects of war among others. The citizens starvation and the scarcity of resources that they are suffering from, both in and outside the arena, creates an atmosphere of weakness that the main characters try to conquer during their fight of survival. After the novel's success in the market, the film was released in 2012 and was…

abuse of Intellectual property rights. Nike starts with a design for a shoe or product. This product design is immediately brought to lawyers and the lawyers go through the process of patenting the design. Once the design is patented, Nike goes to a third world country and sells its design in a bidding process to a factory that will use the least amount of labor and production costs. This free market competition is fierce because of the Nike brand Most importantly, Nike never sells the designs…

In Leslie Feinbergs’s Stone Butch Blues the main character Jess struggles with many obstacles throughout her life, the hardest one being her inner conflict of who she was and who she wanted to be. Her gender identity, which is a person’s gendered sense of self, was not the same as her gender comportment or gender expression. In Threshold Concepts gender comportment/expression is defined as “bodily actions such as how we use our voices, cross our legs, hold our heads, wear our clothes, dance…

elementary. For my internship, I am in a first-grade classroom, so I decided to observe a second-grade classroom as it would be a good opportunity to see how wide the gap of only one year would be with students. I also visited a gifted and talented third-grade classroom and a Special education resource class. From my day observing different classrooms I learned that techniques and strategies change to accommodate each individual child. In the second-grade classroom, I observed how the teacher…

Meat was once a necessity, yet over time consumption has now come to represent the meal of the elite. Meat was once required to provide energy to the high activity of our ancestors, yet through the development of agriculture and nutrition, we no longer require it. Yet even though meat is not a necessity, we still desire it, and place a price on different styles of meat. Meat holds power, being seen as a luxury item staple of the first world. Not all parts of the animal that the meat was taken…

the most pervasive effects of development’ . Escobar argues similarly to Said’s analysis of the Orient and Mohanty’s analysis of the colonialist subject, the production of development discourse under unequal power relations creates an image of the “Third World” which homogenises and universalises…

Multicultural Education Autobiography and Reflection Throughout the entire course, as a class we have covered a variety of different topics ranging from ethnicity to gender and sexual orientation. Some of the topics covered in our class were easier to discuss while being able to express our own thoughts. Other topics were topics that we had been aware of, yet we did not feel so comfortable discussing because as humans we tend to care what others might think of us when we speak up. For example,…

How much do changes in the structures of families in Australia reflect changing attitudes to gender roles and sexuality? Modern times has seen the change of family structures shift into a more fluid dimension. Changes in family structures significantly reflect changes in gender roles and sexuality resulting in creating a path to complete equality and allowing a normalisation of all couples. Australia is beginning to officially recognise sexual or gender diverse people with protection laws and…