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You Talkin To Me? (read with a NYC accent) Somehow, someway, before I was born, before my existence was even a concept, before fate found it’s stepping stone, Walt Whitman was thinking of me. He was dreaming of all of us; the people he would never meet, the people who may never know his name, the people of the past, present, and future. Few evidence can be found that Whitman had any clairvoyant powers, yet he seemed to know what to look for, when thinking, dreaming, and wishing for the future…

In The Communist Manifesto the proletarians are defined as “the modern workers”(68), it does not make any distinction about the sex of the worker. In fact, The Communist Manifesto also uses male and female pronouns throughout the book. This suggests that Marx and Engels supported women’s rights and equality. This was a major paradigm shift at that time because in many countries women were not granted the right to vote until the mid-1900’s. The Communist Manifesto…

In English, there is no adequately humanizing yet universal pronoun for a genderless baby. There is no general reference to common humanity; in order to speak comfortably, one automatically must yield to the partitions of him, of her, of gender. For that reason Society becomes instantly enraged and discernible when…

verse,” so everyone knew where his foundation was for making the point. While preaching, he used words that everyone could understand, and if he did use a larger word that some people did not know, he explained what it meant. He used personal pronouns when he was telling a story. For example, “When I was little, my parents would ask us about the highs and lows of our day. Did any of your parents do that?” With each biblical example, he presented an analogy that could tell the audience how…

This paper examines the effect of colonialism in Dangerembga’s Nervous Condition. It attempts to investigate the negative and positive effects of imperialism on Dangerebga’s fictional characters and by extension the Zimbabwean society, using the postcolonial critical approach. The work contends that Nervous Conditions is Dangerembga’s attempt to record history for society and not a gender centred work even as the present study distances from it. Introduction Dangerembga’s Nervous Conditions…

Journal 3: The Legacy of Oppression My third journal for reflection stays focused on the Legacy of Oppression presentation and how this information has helped me to better understand myself and to empathize with my clients more effectively. By addressing the current social issues involving the Transgender community and their use of public bathrooms of their choice, one can see the effects that the lack of power or the systemic oppression has on an individual’s and/or the transgender…

The Clerk’s Tale is Chaucer’s exaggerated version of Petrarch’s or based his on the original by Boccaccio. It exaggerates that of an abusive relationship in marriage during the medieval times. There is a tyrant and a victim and Chaucer does everything he can to distinguish between the two and get the readers to …. Chaucer’s Clerk made terrorising an explicit motive for Walter’s tests, he also makes the torment the explicit effect experienced by Griselda. Chaucer has Griselda describe Walter’s…

abundant, ranging from “chairman” to “fireman”. According to Gygax, Gabriel, Sarrasin, Oakhill, & Garnham, 2008; Hamilton, 1988; Moulton, Robinson, & Elias,1978; Ng, 1990; Stahlberg, Sczesny & Braun, 2001, people have a strong tendency to imagine male pronoun referents whenever masculine generic language is mentioned. Thus, there is no denying that the very first images associated with these words abovementioned are likely to men. Goddard and Patterson share the same way of thinking, deeming…

Herculine Barbin is a memoir of an intersexed individual who struggles to gain acceptance from themselves and other people. They grow up as a woman and use feminine pronouns while living in an all-female space most of their life. Once Herculine hits puberty, they stand out from the other women, with the lack of menstruation and breasts and apparent facial hair. In Riki Wilchin’s Queer Theory, Gender Theory and Iain Moreland’s “What Can Queer Theory Do for Intersex?” both discuss how surgery…

Every day, thousands of young people across the country, if not more than that, live in constant fear of being hated for who they are. Students walk into schools afraid of being attacked, verbally and physically, by fellow students and possibly even bullied by their teachers. Some of these youth are even told by their families that to be who they are, they would be unwelcome in their own homes. Still more are unable to speak up for themselves in fear of these things, and must disguise themselves…