The Praxis

Individual Assignment – Question 3 Paulo Freire is widely renowned for his thought provoking insights in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. This publication places a strong focus on relationships between oppressors and the oppressed, as well as the importance of education as a means for social and political change. Hierarchy and oppressive behaviors are commonly present in educational settings, specifically among teacher-student relationships. This paper will examine how the teacher-student…

Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward undertake the task of compiling leadership skills that will prepare leaders to become more effective. The authors establish a foundational understanding of leadership. Additionally, they argue that there are five levels of influence for leaders to ascend in order to acquire greater influence. Thus, by integrating the foundational leadership skills, a leader is able to navigate through each level of influence in becoming a transformational leader. What A Leader…

In March 2003, American and British powers attacked Iraq with the goal to oust the administration of the despot Saddam Hussein, and the Gulf War ejects. The innumerable military troops and a great many writers from all around the globe, plunge upon the locale to secure potential news scope. "Truth at last thinks that its way to individuals' eyes and ears and hearts". This is the sentence, articulated by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and is heard halfway through "Control Room" Jahane…

Karen Andrade WGSS 496 Feminist Community Praxis April 8, 2015 Essay #1 According to Rebecca Solnit, “Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply, rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth- and in our minds, where it all begins and ends” (110). Solnit is trying to convey in her book Men Explain Things to Me the struggles women and feminist have gone through and are going through in a…

While it’s always existed just like the other two, those that experience fatphobia generally do so on another praxis of oppression as well. For most, it’s classism as poor or working class individuals, like the proles of 1984. For a lot of others, it colors the sexism or racism they already receive. Like these other –isms, it would be easy to dismiss its presence…

Women in The Workplace Women are faced with a wide number of dilemmas that may be considered as minor setbacks to men. Women are stereotyped as weak, sensitive, submissive, shy, but being a housewife is at the top of the list. When women show that they are not those things, most men may feel like their manhood/authority is being threatened. Scholarly Sources According to Muara Mills (2014), “gender perspective suggests that individuals’ perceptions are largely influenced by cultural meanings…

Proposed Introduction: In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea (WSS) author Jean Rhys offer the readers a piece of literature that demarcates - within the development of its characters, their narrational perspectives, and the tactful discursive constructions of the former and the latter- an evaluative analysis of western colonial ontology, its epistemological premises, and the experiences of subjectivities that are defined, and reproduced, by these ontological and epistemological formulations. Bertha…

Abstract First Responders often face life and death situations. The public expectation is that when they arrive on scene these men and women will be able to take quick action and resolve the issue at hand. More often than not First Responders are armed with little or no information prior to arriving at a scene. Once there they take fast and reasonable steps to control the situation. However, the public sometimes do not understand the outcome of such calls. The reality is that a person might die…

“criteria” (p. 239) set to get to remedial programming in light of the fact that they have a tendency to fit in with a remedial sub-gathering characterized actuarial as exhibiting high dangers of recidivism. Subsequently, the current danger based praxis renders native guilty parties right to gain entrance to restorative programming rather indeterminate. Through the programs that are being provided in the correctional facilities they are contributing to the one major reaction and that…

Since its publication in 1985, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has been used as political inspiration for the feminist movement. After the 2016 election, which ushered in Republican majorities in the House and Senate as well as the election of Republican Donald Trump to the presidency, The Handmaid’s Tale has seen an increase in sales and the character of the Handmaid has resurfaced as an image of feminist resistance to anti-choice legislation. Despite the fact that this image is highly…