Third Crusade

Farmer uses this notion in order to explain the difference between how people live in different parts of the world, particularly Third and First World countries. Structural violence is something that is can be difficult to contain or confront because it is so complex and deeply ingrained in our world 's structures that it quickly gets dismissed as just being "the way the world works…

positive effects outweighs the negative effects that comes along with it. It has widely helped many countries, especially third world countries. I understand why people view globalization in a negative manner, but the world is not perfect, you cannot have something that is completely good. From my point of view, which might be biased because I come from a third world country,…

“What’s the difference between here—America—and Vietnam?” I received this question every time someone found out that I was born and raised in Vietnam. Before I came to America, I lived in a Communist country that controlled almost every aspect of your life. I had to go to a state approved school—which my family had to pay for—that propagated a lot of media that shows America as an evil country. I grew up in an environment where your future occupation is usually the occupation of your father or…

The woman pictured is very skinny and very hollow-cheeked. At one glance, the viewer can tell she’s from a third world country. You could almost say she’s skin and bones. Her clothes are also loosely hanging off of her body to emphasize how malnourished she is. Authors depicting a third world country grieved by starvation commonly use techniques like these to tug at the viewer’s emotions. The tool works to make them feel empathetic, and it also…

Desires are one of the main causes of pain and happiness. In the article Transgender Identities: within and beyond the constraints of heteronormativity, Angie Fee conceptualizes desires to often be shaped and laid out as a path to follow but are mediated by the limitations of the design (265). The biological sex that is determined at birth does not always correspond with the gender it is designated to. In the movie Laurence Anyways, Laurence was a man about thirty years old when she finally…

The Hunger Games is based on a dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. The novel tackles severe issues such as poverty, starvation, oppression and the effects of war among others. The citizens starvation and the scarcity of resources that they are suffering from, both in and outside the arena, creates an atmosphere of weakness that the main characters try to conquer during their fight of survival. After the novel's success in the market, the film was released in 2012 and was…

abuse of Intellectual property rights. Nike starts with a design for a shoe or product. This product design is immediately brought to lawyers and the lawyers go through the process of patenting the design. Once the design is patented, Nike goes to a third world country and sells its design in a bidding process to a factory that will use the least amount of labor and production costs. This free market competition is fierce because of the Nike brand Most importantly, Nike never sells the designs…

In Leslie Feinbergs’s Stone Butch Blues the main character Jess struggles with many obstacles throughout her life, the hardest one being her inner conflict of who she was and who she wanted to be. Her gender identity, which is a person’s gendered sense of self, was not the same as her gender comportment or gender expression. In Threshold Concepts gender comportment/expression is defined as “bodily actions such as how we use our voices, cross our legs, hold our heads, wear our clothes, dance…

elementary. For my internship, I am in a first-grade classroom, so I decided to observe a second-grade classroom as it would be a good opportunity to see how wide the gap of only one year would be with students. I also visited a gifted and talented third-grade classroom and a Special education resource class. From my day observing different classrooms I learned that techniques and strategies change to accommodate each individual child. In the second-grade classroom, I observed how the teacher…

Meat was once a necessity, yet over time consumption has now come to represent the meal of the elite. Meat was once required to provide energy to the high activity of our ancestors, yet through the development of agriculture and nutrition, we no longer require it. Yet even though meat is not a necessity, we still desire it, and place a price on different styles of meat. Meat holds power, being seen as a luxury item staple of the first world. Not all parts of the animal that the meat was taken…