...society that agree, disagree, or do not care for feminism, but that does not mean we have the right to offended or even put down anyone for having a different point of views on any matter in what others believe in. Many can say that after reading Rebecca Rubins’ article, “The Farce of Feminism”, can agree that women nowadays do not need any support groups. I strongly believe that women do need support groups in today’s society. Rubin’s talks about how she does not consider herself a feminist but she does support women. Society has changed feminism throughout the years, but I believe that the definition remains the same. I believe that Rubin proves a point, but she is confused because feminism is supporting women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. I do not agree nor disagree with Rubin’s thoughts and point of views. I strongly believe that people, in general, alter the definition of feminism and makes it their own. Rubins stated, “Women in this country are now on an entirely equal footing with men and are sometimes even given preferential treatment”, although this is true, there are still some parts nowadays in this country where women are still being mistreated and victimized just for the way they speak, dress and approach themselves. I know for a fact that us women are equal-footed as men, but we are in some cases we are, we are able to work and manage our own money, but women only make 78 cents for...
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...me to my personal interpretation. One could argue humans that lived during the Neanderthal period were similar to that of a weasel. Throughout time the mental capacity of the human has grown to be far more complex and sophisticated than earlier times. With that being said the weasel as we know acts off of pure instinct, whereas the human mind needs to process and articulate each move we make. People often search a definite answer on how to live their lives, as if there is a road map or instructions that will lead you to resolution. Actually, the truth is we, humans, are blessed with an ability that separates us from any other creature; the capacity to intelligently choose to live as we please, instead of how we were created to. I believe that in earlier times humans lived as Neanderthals and were definitely more like the weasel than they were different. Dillard alludes to us how the weasel acts and lives, when she notes “The weasel lives in necessity” (91). Similar to the weasel, back in those times humans only hunted out of necessity and for survival. Basically, these humans...
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...citizens are the key factors in this working. It should help improve the quality of life in the neighborhood. Community policing is supposed to benefit the police as well as the community. Its focus on them working together is geared toward creating a more positive vision of the police. As opposed to the “us against them mentality”, it’s more of a “we are in this together mentality”. In my neighborhood as well the surrounding geographic area that is manned by the N.Y.P.D. this doesn’t work. Our police agency has a bad reputation and very little trust from the communities. They appear to believe that the number of arrests they make will serve as a crime deterrent. They aren’t good with communicating with the citizens. They have an arrest now explain it to the judge later mentality. In smaller towns in the more rural parts of New York State this can work with the smaller police agencies, in an area where everyone knows each other so to speak. I personally don’t know nor do I recognize 90% of the residents of my building let alone the people in my neighborhood. I believe that in order for this to work the police have to be taught this mentality from the academy. The whole infrastructure of the agency needs to be changed. From the Police Commissioner, down to the local patrolman training would need to be implemented to reflect such change. Our police officers aren’t assigned to the same neighborhood often enough to create community relationships. That is...
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...Mob Mentality “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” - Friedrich Nietzsche When an individual states alone, he or she is competent, but as a throng, they are impote. According to WiseGeek.com, herd or mob mentality is “unique behavioral characteristics that emerge when people are in large groups” and can be negative. This phenomenon has been documented throughout history as revolutions, riots, and violence movements. Examples are the French Revolution, the Holocaust, and what happened in Ferguson, Missouri. In The Crucible playbook, mobs are implied between pieces of dialogue, but in the movie adaptation, it is demonstrates more clearly how the town people didn’t believe in witches from the beginning. The first example of herd mentality is when the girls, Parris, the Putnams, and Reverend Hale are in the attic looking at Betty. After Abigail said that one person was a witch, every girl instantly called out others. The movie shows this better than the book, because you can see that girls yelling frantically, and the smiles on their faces are creepy....
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...demography, geography, economics, psychology, linguistics, and art history. The journal gained most of its influence under the leadership of Fernand Braudel. Braudel's particular contribution to the Annales School is his “geo-historical structuralism”, this structuralism is a three-tiered conception of historical time: structure (long-term) at base, then conjuncture (medium-length units) and finally évènement (short-term or event). Braudel regards the évènement as having the least importance in understanding history. His denigration of the évènement came from his mistrust in traditional history, which just chronically records important events that took place. The traditional historians heavily rely on documentary authenticity as they believe that good historical documents are self-sufficient. Braudel, in contrast, does not only question the authenticity of documents, but also criticizes them for being short-sighted....
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...even understands anymore. Teeth fly, blood sprays the walls like a fresh coat of crimson paint, over causes that will soon be long forgotten. The minds of the fans are stolen by this mentality that forms in the group. Innocent bystanders get wrapped up into these rioting mobs and police are left to wonder who is responsible...
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...Essay on gun control in the US According to the non-profit project the Gun Violence Archive, 12,562 people died from injuries caused by firearms in 2014 alone. The total number of incidents with guns are astonishing 51,763 according to the same source. The massive number of crimes committed with guns is a major concern for the large nation. Especially the increasing number of school shootings have caused a new wave in the debate of enforcing a more strict policy on firearms. This debate has been taking place since the Columbine Massacre and even though school shootings have become more frequent during the last decade no action to enact a more strict policy on firearms have been taken. The question is why ? Among many other gun crimes, school shootings in America are getting more frequent and have become a major concern for the entire American population, who have split into two groups; those who wish to ban the easy access to guns, and those who come to feel even more strongly about the right to carry firearms when witnessing these tragedies. In 2014 there were 36 school shootings while there in 2013 were 25. This comes to show that the number of shootings have increased. The lacking actions on creating more gun control have become a concern for many who wish to end these increasing numbers of school shootings, while others remain convinced that owning a gun is the only way to protect themselves from those crimes. These two very different ways of looking at the problem is...
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...In most cultures, there is a cultural accepted norm in regards to parental feeding. Most parents believe that pressuring their child to eat and regulating their diet is proactive, when in reality it usually does more harm than good. Even though parents may have good intentions in pressuring their child to eat and restricting their diet, it can be counterproductive and actually impact the child negatively. In a study concentrating on a bunch of 5-year-old girls pressured to eat fruit and vegetables, it was shown that it led to a decrease in the consumption of such foods. According to Birch, even though the enforcement of such practices can make them eat more vegetables in the short run, in the long run, it can have negative effects on the diet of children by decreasing their desire to eat such foods. In fact, those practices can be so detrimental on children that it can actually increase their preferences towards high-fat and energy-dense foods and decrease their acceptance to eating a variety of foods and affect their energy regulation intake by decreasing their “responsiveness to internal cues of hunger and satiety.” Most parents believe that children need help in deciding upon food choices, however, this is actually far from the case. Infants and young children are able to self-regulate total energy caloric intake. They know how to satiate their hunger perfectly...
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...In Stamford Connecticut 1692 a crisis broke out, a seventeen-year-old maid servant began to have intense fits and terrors claiming she was bewitched. Katherine Branch, the young maid servant for Daniel and Abigail Wescot continued to have intense fits and episodes. Young Katherine during many of her fits would suddenly collapse, cry out she was being poked and pinched by invisible creatures and also cry in a helpless terror. As the fits continued to happen they increasingly became worse and drew the attention of neighbors and townsfolk. Neighbors of the Wescot’s came to visit their home to see Katherine’s fits for themselves, many of the neighbors were trivial to believe if the maid servant was truly bewitched or simply putting on a show to avoid her work. Many of the neighbors watched and preformed tests to asses if the maid servant’s fits were super natural, natural or fake. Neighbors were...
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...Russia There are several topics in the text where I do agree with the author’s opinion and where I have a different point of view. Geographical position and climate. I do believe that the mentality of the nation as such is forming from the ancient times. As it is stated in the text, unfriendly climate and huge territories forced the people who lived on nowadays Russia’s territory to merge into big groups and help each other simply because it was not possible to survive by little with cooperation. At that time collectivism started to form. In the period of Russian Monarchy people used to form little provinces with its own rulers (knyaz’) who were obeying the King. This is connected with the table shown in the text, but in those times, the King was the government. The same scheme worked in Soviet times as well. People obeying and questioning governmental decisions’ in order to achieve the goal set by the Leader of the country. To my opinion, these events not only formed collectivism, pessimism in Russian mentality as well as corruption and angriness towards foreigners, but it formed the understanding of governmental structure. It’s only my subjective opinion, but I do believe that only names and faces change but nothing in the political system of the country changed since the King times. Russian mentality due to historical events unconsciously percept authoritative leader to be the best person to rule country. Values Regarding the foreigners, it’s hard to say...
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...different ethnic groups that have to face discrimination. Author-Title: Bharati Mukherjee’s American Dreamer urges that we must be alert to the dangers of an “us” vs “them” mentality. Thesis: This world is full of different people with different mentalities; everyone has different way of thinking and different way of looking at things. The quote used in the essay is making people aware of the wrong mentality that is happening in today’s society, if we take a close look at this kind of mentality we would find out that the mentality is separating “us” from others based on cultural differences, religion, and language. Paragraph 1: Topic Sentence: Mukherjee...
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...In Stamford Connecticut 1692 a crisis broke out, a seventeen-year-old maid servant began to have intense fits and terrors claiming she was bewitched. Katherine Branch, the young maid servant for Daniel and Abigail Wescot continued to have intense fits and episodes. Young Katherine during many of her fits would suddenly collapse, cry out she was being poked and pinched by invisible creatures and also cry in a helpless terror. As the fits continued to happen they increasingly became worse and drew the attention of neighbors and townsfolk. Neighbors of the Wescot’s came to visit their home to see Katherine’s fits for themselves, many of the neighbors were trivial to believe if the maid servant was truly bewitched or simply putting on a show to avoid her work. Many of the neighbors watched and preformed tests to asses if the maid servant’s fits were super natural, natural or fake. Neighbors were...
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...There ae several examples in the bible that display the “us versus them” mentality. Sadly, many Christians criticize what the bible say and pamper the world’s perspective, which ultimately creates an “us versus them” situation. In 1 John 4:5-6 states “They are of the world. Therefore, they speak as of the world, and the world hears. We are of God he who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. In this scripture, I believe the apostle John was exemplifying an example of the “us versus them” mentality. According to the textbook out-group homogeneity is “The perception that individuals in the out group are more similar to each other than they really are, as well as more similar than the members of the in-group are” (Aronson,...
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...and talents. Some of us have the ability to sing, dance or play an instrument. Some of us are gifted with a natural instinct to help and encourage people through tuff times. Others are gifted with the natural ability to light up a room with charisma or cause people to burst with laughter at an instant. Regardless of background, pedigree or age I believe we all have gifts from God. These gifts were given to us to use for the exhortation of God and the building of his kingdom. Unfortunately we still have a major problem with getting people to lend their gifts to the house of God. Many people just don’t have an interest, or feel compelled to serve. They often times come to church year after year and do nothing. They have no interest what-so-ever to serve or assist in any capacity or manner within the ministry. No matter how many times we announce the need for ushers, greeters, children’s church teachers, camp counselors or choir members they have no desire to serve, even though they thoroughly enjoy the benefits of those ministries themselves. Someone once said people come to church with a SERVE-US mentality instead of a SERVICE mentality. This statement is truly echoed and brought to life when people are selecting churches in this modern day climate. People are no longer concerned about the mission of the church, the goals or the church or the history of the church they are only concerned about what that particular church can do for them personally. Rarely do you see people who...
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...our life to be; I always wanted to become a mother. I just never imagined being stared in the face with the reality of motherhood at a young age. I was 18 when I found out I was pregnant. Although I was very nervous I knew this was what I was supposed to do with my life. Fast forward to almost three years later, many aspects of my life has changed by having a child but I believe the aspects that have changed the most have been my spirituality, my mentality and my physical appearance. Spirituality was the first part of me to change during my transition into motherhood. I have always had a strong spiritual background- catholic school from kindergarten to second grade, night time religion classes from third to eighth grade, church every Sunday, praying with my family, etc. -but my belief in God wasn’t nearly as strong as it is now. I was in the hospital ready to give birth when my spirituality was brought to a higher level than it ever was. I recited the saying “this too shall pass” during times that I didn’t think I could take anymore. My spirituality was also stronger when I was told that I had to go in for an emergency cesarean section, where I had my 9lb 12oz healthy baby boy and hemorrhaged, requiring many transfusions and extra surgery. This trying moment in my life reminded me to bring back my belief in God and in prayer. Therefore, making my spirituality the first change to happen during my first moments of motherhood. The next part of me to change when I became a mother...
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