The feminist agenda
What issues seem to define the feminist agenda and what advances and changes in society have contributed to successful achievements in these areas?
sociology
Practicing a religious belief
In 1996 the U.S. Congress passed the Female Genital Mutilation Act, which, among other things, criminalizes circumcision of females under 18, requires federal health agencies to educate immigrants on health risks, and impose economic sanctions on countries that fail to take steps to prevent practices. While many Americans are in agreement with the law, do …
Multiculturalism and diversity
Should we continue to further multiculturalism and diversity in our society? Why or why not?
Equality & Discrimination
Read Zack’s, “White Privilege, Black Rights” and answer the following questions:
The Pastoral Clinic
In the introduction to The Pastoral Clinic, Angela Garcia writes, “A central theme in this book is how loss and mourning provide more than a metaphor for heroin addiction: they trace a kind of chronology, a temporality of it. They even provide a constitutive power for it (Garcia 2010:7)… Ultimately, my goal is to show …
Aging and Finances
Focuses on the ability to provide fordaily needs • What kind of work did/do you do? Are you still working?• How do/did you prepare to have your financial needs met?• Do you have enough income to meet your needs?• Is there anything else you would like to say about aging?
Innocence Is Irrelevant
In the article “Innocence Is Irrelevant” from the September 2017 issue of The Atlantic, Emily Yoffee wrote: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy acknowledged this reality in 2012, writing for the majority in Missouri v. Frye, a case that helped establish the right to competent counsel for defendants who are offered a plea bargain. Quoting a …
The ideology of “possessive individualism”.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/edufiles.org/970799949_support_Possessive_Individualism_cig0vRmoHgtOG48.pdf?response-content-disposition=filename%3DPossessive_Individualism.pdf&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJSBH2MC2JCUOGNGQ%2F20231105%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20231105T021917Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=0ed125e38b6401233bcbbcac3b09f437752d78e09cd0bc3bafd1d0653eb3043aDraw upon Leslie’s lecture to explain the ideology of “possessive individualism”. How does understanding possessive individualism help explaina) liberalism’s relation to racial capitalism?b) how both liberalism and racial capitalism require inequality and may lead to “organized abandonment”? (In answering a and b, you may also draw from other readings for the first two weeks of …
The Arthurian Essay
The Literary Works: –“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight“ –“Morte D’Arthur” –Bb notes and board notes Select one of the three topics described below. 1. The Pattern in the Powerful Females. One of the striking features in the two Arthurian stories we have read is that all the female characters in …
Hypothesis test study
Describe a hypothesis test study that would help your work or conclusions in some way. Describe what variable would be tested and what would be your guess of the value of that variable. Then include how the result, if the null were rejected or not, might change your conclusions or actions in some way.
