Sphere

Mother Jones’ quote “women don’t have careers…they have jobs” refers to the previous role women held in the private and public sphere. The private sphere suggests home life while public is the workforce. The historically typical view of a middle class woman was in the home as a housewife and mother. It was the responsibility of the husband to have a career and provide financial support to the family as the ‘breadwinner.’ When a woman had to enter the workforce as a second income for her family,…

Foucault was after the concept of a “pure community” he found the existence of a whole set of techniques and institutions for measuring and supervising abnormal beings, as well as bringing into play the disciplinary mechanisms created by fear. All modern mechanisms for controlling abnormal individuals derive from these. Sao Foucault’s overall thoughts on this concept maybe similar to that of the Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, a building with a tower at the center from which it is possible to see…

Last summer I partnered with another educator from my school to craft a multisession mini course for Math for America. The course met over a three month period and focussed on teaching educators from the Metro New York area about the symmetries of a sphere using an ancient japanese art form called Temari. I used our organization’s shared digital message board called the small world network to post and share an overview of our course in the spring course catalog and invited 15-20 teachers to sign…

which is innovative and different. In Tree Rings there are no cars, because cars make massive amounts of pollution that dismantle the worlds environmental state. So to replace cars, they have Segway's and gyro spheres. Segway's and gyro spheres produce virtually no pollution at all. Gyro spheres don’t need roads, they can go absolutely anywhere. When…

person’s private and public identity is the popularity of social networking sites. Internet users voluntarily participate in the public sphere, by using social media sites as a platform to inform people and/or be informed by others. Users of the internet are usually home in their private sphere, while on the internet interacting in the extremely public sphere. The usage of electronic devices, such as smart phones, has provided people from all over the world with the ability to access numerous…

Secularity in France targets the public sphere, the treatment of religious symbolism in French law raises issues of how the maintenance of secularity should go about in a nation, forcibly removing ‘visible religion’ from the public sphere, implies a lack of pluralism in a nation, laïcité then could be considered relatively undemocratic. What exactly was meant by ‘ostentatious’ is a matter of much debate, to what extent must a symbol of religious affiliation be ‘ostentatious’. This year, a 15…

Economic Position of Women in Norway and Pakistan Many countries thorough the world, have developed ways to incorporate women into society. Countries started naming women as inferior and that their responsibilities where private sphere, along with men are more capable to do better things such as anything that has to deal outside the house. As years were passing women knew that it was unfair, and not right for the government and the rest of the people, especially men to ignore their voices.…

Professor of political science Robert. B. Thigpen (1960) explains that in Walzer’s spheres of justice, principles of justice must be formed on a mutual understanding between the right and the left. He states that this is necessary in order to ensure that these principles of justice are regarded as “specific enough to guide behaviour and…

The current standard for the kilogram is the International Prototype Kilogram. The International Prototype Kilogram, also known as Le Grand K, is a platinum-iridium bar made in the 1880’s. This official Kilogram is kept in a vault in Paris under two glass domes. The reason it is under 2 glass domes it to prevent dust from obstructing from the weight of the Kilogram. However according to Sandia National Laboratories, a government organization under the Department of Energy, “Of the seven units of…

Exercise 2: Observing Bacteria Cultures in Yogurt Firstly, we created an incubator using a Styrofoam cooler with a removable lid and a small hole in the top which was used for placing a 7 watt light bulb in order to maintain a Microbe growing temperature of 35-37° Celsius. We also monitored the temperature with the use of a thermometer. A teaspoon of yogurt was then placed into a clean plastic container with lid. The container was then placed in the Styrofoam incubator, which was not…