Linguistic Society of America

governmental and societal expectations of the content matter and method in which students will be taught. Recent policies have pressured teachers into teaching by the test and lying to students to further brainwash them into thinking how mainstream society wants them to. Freire (2009) identified two methods of teaching; he identified the banking concept of education and also problem posing method of teaching. The banking method of educating involves teaching students by presenting a one-sided…

Columbus. However, what the poem does not mention is that is 1492, after sailing the ocean blue, Christopher Columbus committed genocide. After his arrival in their home country, Columbus wrought irreparable offences against native groups in the Americas, as the American Indian Movement (AIM) recounts, “Columbus was the beginning of the American holocaust, ethnic cleansing characterized by murder, torture, raping, pillaging, robbery, slavery, kidnapping, and forced removals of Indian people from…

Academics, historians and anthropologists have stated that the origins of Western tattooing can be traced back to the pre-European era in the South Pacific, as was recorded in Captain Cook’s journals of his encounters with Polynesian natives during the eighteenth century. This is echoed by Juliet Fleming (2000, p. 67) who wrote, “the word ‘tattoo’ made its first English appearance in James Cook’s account of his voyage to the Polynesian basin, published in London in 1769.” Similarly, Margo…

Ethnic Based Studies are Essential “Afrocentrism is not about sympathy or insult; it is about the proper presentation of factual information in multicultural society” (Molefi Asante). African American Studies and other Ethnic based disciplines will help education in this country. Opposing to Schlesinger’s “The Disunity of America” individuals who arrived from different nations to the “new world” did not melt into one new race. Wealth, the amount of land, and most importantly race of…

conquering influences in contrast to America where so many people from others countries have come to build a new life bring with them their music and dances which expands outside their cultural circle much more easily here. Dance in America has many influences from all around the world with some of these cultures keeping their dance forms pure, and some getting their dance transformed to create new dance forms. I also learned of the struggles people had to go through in America for dance to…

autobiographies, the lesson most evident that Douglass has learned is the power of literacy. However, living in America has sort of restricted him to the degree of what a black man should be knowledgeable on. Houston Baker has remarked, “the Narrative itself represents a public version of Douglass 's self already molded by white America, for the voice of the unwritten self, once it is subjected to the linguistic codes, literary…

the cosmetic BB cream. Young women, and men alike, are often pressured to conform to societal expectations due to strict standards on physical appearances. Would one lacking a bright, pearly complexion be considered “ugly” in the eyes of the Asian society? Beauty for the vain in Asia is primarily characterized by “white skin,” a narrowed attitude that weighs upon some people’s minds. “Whiteness”, the concept of unblemished and milky skin, is a key component that dictates the beauty standards of…

To the elites of any society that has existed in history, the anger and ire of the masses has always been a terrifying concept to ponder. From the Helot class of Sparta, peasant revolts in China, labor unions in England, and slave revolts in America, it has always been the prerogative for those in power to make sure any thoughts of challenge to the status quo was quickly put to rest. This view of those in power has remained unchanged, but the mechanisms used to achieve control and stability have…

of defining and explaining the universal dominance of men over women. Some theories from the textbook that care to explain this question are from some great sociological thinkers who are Rubin, Rosaldo, and Ortner. Rubin hypothesized that every society on earth contributes to the “sex/gender system” and in this system biological sex is transformed into asymmetrical gender statuses. Through these statuses social guidelines, like those regarding incest, are set in place and women in the end are…

brighter future. President Kennedy's vision of a new frontier personified a country famished for a new generation of leadership that would bring new opportunities for economic expansion and social development. Kennedy's time in office was semantically linguistic in communist state logic that…