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HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
History of Sexuality
History of Sexuality
What is the author's main argument (or arguments)?
In the article titled “is there a history of sexuality?” the main argument of the author David M. Halperin is that sex is a natural fact, which is grounded within the working of the human body and ...
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Investigating Sex
Investigating Sex
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Debates between sex researchers are very intense today. In few cases constructionism theories dominate over essentialism while in other cases it's vice versa. Constructionism is highly connected with experimental learning's and it's based on the epistemological theory of Jean Piaget. Essentialist's focus on reducing something to its ...
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Sealed Off
Sealed Off
Summary for the Work
The story takes place in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of the city during World War II. A tramcar stops when an air raid alarm bell sounds. The city comes to a standstill and the people on the tramcar wait. Two passengers, Lu Zongzhen, an ...
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OTHELLO
Othello
Othello
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The play “Othello”, written by William Shakespeare, is a Moor, which means one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century. Othello is the ideal example of a romantic catastrophe. ...
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Global Islamic Politics
Global Islamic Politics
The Arab Spring
The article here in reviews discusses the issue of how the Arab world is changing toward the better after the number of countries saw their dictator regimes being overthrown. Egypt and Libya are two such examples of the uprising and fight against oppression in ...
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Literature
Literature
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Robert Lynd and Helen Lynd were the famous American sociologists, because of their publication, “A Study in Contemporary American Culture “ (1929) and its report on employment, which study societal changes bring about by the Great Depression. Lynd was the pioneer in using the technique of cultural anthropology to the ...
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The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop
Central to our understanding of Bishop's work is our understanding of the tense moment when the poet turns her gaze from herself to the world. As she incorporated the natural world into her poetry, Bishop developed a voice that remains one of the most unique in American poetry. ...
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“Hills like white elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway employs a terse, laconic style—an economic use of words to create his version of reality. From mentors during his expatriate days in Paris, he learned the technique of repetition for effect and for creating realistic, penetrating images. He is also associated with ...
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“AIDS” by May Sarton
A long-lived contributor to feminist literature, the English-Belgian poet Eleanore Marie "May" Sarton produced diaries, essays, fiction, and verse for some 65 years. A Belgian by birth, she emigrated with her parents from Wondelgem at age two during World War I and grew up in Cambridge, ...
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The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Dave's character showed many different characteristics. All he thought about was being looked at as a man, and in his head becoming a man meant owning a gun. At the beginning of the story, Dave is mad at the white men that he ...