Pierre Trudeau

In James Loewen’s excerpt “The Land of Opportunity “the author discusses middle-class students not knowing anything about how class structure works or how it is changed over time (Loewen 201). In “Do Schools Kill Creativity,” Sir Kenneth Robinson discusses how we are all born with natural capacities for creativity and the systems of mass education tend to suppress them (). That the present education system we now implement is not the failsafe system we think it is. Both narratives tried to…

The social power of Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus can simply be described as a manifested system of tastes where our actions are guided by structure but individuals have the agency or “freewill” to make our own choices. Consciously and unconsciously, we as individuals internalize elements for our social distinctions, dispositions, and an ideology that is going through a constant dialectical battle between structure and agency. “The way society gets inside of us” essentially depicts Bourdieu’s…

The world encompasses many different cultures, which governs way of living. Culture is defined as the characteristics that mutually make up societies or groups of people identified by beliefs, behaviours and customs. Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social reproduction formed from culture studies created the concept cultural capital. Divided into three types of cultural capital aspects embodied, objectified and institutionalised state all contributing to shaping lifestyles and individuals. Presence,…

Scholars such as Annette Lareau and Jessica McCrory Calarco have identified the role of parent’s transmission of cultural capital onto their children and the impact of such on educational success. While it is possible for first-generation college students to come from a high income family, it is unlikely that their adolescent education parallels that of continuing-generation students. As stated by Dumais, “the acquisition of cultural capital and subsequent access to academic rewards depend upon…

I am currently majoring in computer science engineering. It is a field that is reasonably racially diverse but completely dominated by males. In my Computer Science 205 class, there is a total of 5 girls including myself and 30 males. This creates for an interesting class dynamic that I was not aware of until recently. When you walk into the class, all the female students are sitting on one side and the male students are on the other. This means that unless our teacher picks the groups for us,…

was nothing the doctors could do to help. They told you that you only had 2 years to live and that they were extremely sorry. This is what would happen to every single cancer patient if Marie Curie never researched radioactivity. Marie Curie and Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898, Marie then further researched it and discovered the benefits and disadvantages of it. Thanks to Currie radioactivity is now frequently used to treat cancer and has the potential to save lives. Marie Currie was…

Kingship is present throughout both The Cid and Cinna, reflecting French absolutism very well in both of the plays. While this idea of absolutism in France could be considered tyrannical, the King usually had good intentions with his rulings and ideas, which those ideas were what became laws. Absolutism, defined as “a type of national monarchy in which the monarch has great power and tends to be looked up to with awe and reverence. In spite of the name, the power of the monarch is limited by…

Parental involvement has been an ongoing topic for many parents, teachers, schools, and stakeholders. The lack of parental involvement has impacted students’ academic achievements. Furthermore, the involvement within special education parents have decreased once children have entered middle school. This is a problem that sometime feels there is no simple solution. Researcher shows that having the involvement of special education parents demonstrate an improvement in the outcomes for special…

would go on to marry and start families of their own. Both scientists had love and support from their families, however, Marie had more of a hands-on support from her husband Pierre Curie. “Marie and Pierre Curie were dedicated scientists and completely devoted to one another. At first, they worked on separate projects…. Pierre put aside his own work to help Marie with her exploration of radioactivity” (Biography.com). However, the love and support from their spouses came after their journeys of…

Weekly Reflection Book # 3: On Bourdieu As I continue reading Bourdieu's Language and Symbolic Power, I am able to achieve a better understanding of his vision about the language differences between the bourgeois and the peasants, and how these differences have been sustained, by the dominant classes, to maintain power distinctions. A particular term called my attention, neutralizing distance (p. 85), which is used by Bourdieu to define how the bourgeoisie use their language to maintain…