...be of movement each day. I am Feminism, the advocacy aiming to define and defend equal rights for women. In addition, I am seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. Over decades, there have been movements for women to have the same rights as men. Many advocates say feminism is important, because it is equal across all spectrums of race, class, sex, and sexuality. It will always be a movement for particularly women, but it seems to expand across time. In this present day in age, society has evolved across time, and media has made some differences in advertisements, TV shows and films. On the contrary, there are events that still appear on the web, social media and within music, specifically. For example, I was surfing the web, and ran across different artist. Some statements made were about women empowerment, body image/politics and sexual objectification, specifically the artist Beyoncé. The purpose of this essay is to discuss how Beyoncé’s song Flawless depicts feminism as well as redefining beauty. To accomplish this purpose, first I will discuss Beyoncé’s song flawless. Second, I will compare feminism to Beyoncé’s lyrics of the song flawless. Finally, I will summarize and give scholarly insight and implications on future pop culture. Beyoncé is a multi-talented performer and a superstar to millions of fans across the world. She is an African American, female and feminist. Across time, Beyoncé has been on a movement to find...
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...Bell Hook's article, Moving Beyond Pain, displays a different point of view of Beyoncé's latest album, Lemonade, beyond popular culture's current understanding. Released in 2016, Lemonade was seen as a tribute for empowering black women everywhere. Was Beyoncé's intentions to claim feminism if she displays acts of violence throughout the album's music videos? On twitter for a month all I would see is the iconic scene of her in a yellow dress with a baseball bat violently smashing through a car windows. A feminist is defined as an equality among both sexes. If Beyoncé's goal was to specifically achieve power for females by demonstrating acts of violence, she cannot claim this album to be devoted to feminism. Hooks identifies Beyoncé's contradiction...
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...I do believe that feminism has an "image problem." According to all of the women that I've talked to who don't identity as a feminist but hold feminist beliefs, there is clearly negativity surrounding feminism. I think the primary reasons for this image problem is that feminism is inherently subversive. Although wanting equality today seems like a given, gender equality used to be a radical stance--one that was continually disputed and argued against, as seen in the need for Mary Wollstonecraft's book discussed in Feminism (in a nutshell). Keeping that in mind, historically, why then would people--especially men--want to support feminism when their power, worldview, and privilege would be challenged? By portraying feminism as something irrational, overly-emotional, or unreasonable, people could avoid any critical thinking about the sociology behind their actions and society and continue to perpetuate those negative stereotypes....
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...Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement: The Triple Constraints of Gender, Race, and Class,” by Bernice McNair Barnett, Barnett explores the intersectionality of race, gender, and class and its effects on African American women and their unique experience in the Civil Rights Movement. During the Civil Rights Movements, women were allowed to participate, and they even played essential roles that helped to further the movement. From helping to organize the famous Bus Boycott, raising money, and initiating protests, black women in the Civil Rights Movement had a significant hand in creating one of the social movements. However, because of their gender, African American women weren’t allowed to receive any recognition for...
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...thousands tuning into radio stations, tv shows, music apps, and much more. As the Women’s Rights movement gains support every day, many artists have promoted this theme whether it is during their performances, lyrics, albums, clothing, or posters. Beyoncé protests the Women’s Rights movement in her music,...
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...throughout history, women have issues with gaining equality and equal rights. Woemn had their first real movement in 1848 (Bolden 33). Eventually, politics and power in the White House got involved, a.k.a. Eleanor Roosevelt, our 32nd first lady ("Eleanor Roosevelt and the Women's Movement."). She dealt with feminist issues such as abuse and the inequality of women, and the rights of other minorities such as black and hispanic people. Now, in the present, social media is the biggest platform for feminist icons like Beyonce, or Emma Watson, to be loud and proud about their beliefs. “Twitter has played a big role amplifying women’s voices online.” (Groetzinger). Twitter, a very popular social media, is one of the largest platforms, next to...
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...Ziding Wang The development of gender equality 1. Introduction Over the past decades, the relationships between women and men and their lives have dramatically changed. In many parts of the world, women still have fewer rights including poor level of education, less income that men and less power of decision making. Unfortunately, this is true, despite the fact that women’s role in children upbringing, food producing and family income is inestimable. Gender equality is not only about being fair to both women and men, but is also means that they should have the same status in society. It also means that they have equal rights and opportunities on the way to their success and can equally contribute to all spheres of live: political and economic. With the promoting of scientific advancement, Japan seems to fall behind with gender equality. Only about 14 percent of female professionals has been trained in mathematics, science and engineering. According to data obtained, most of female scientists merely underestimate themselves when competing with their male colleagues (sciencemag.org). Unequal pay and unequal respect towards working women dispel the myth about gender equality (shriverreport.org). In general, the level of women’s wage is 2/3 of that of the men. Gender inequality in payment is a direct violation of the principle of equal pay for equal work. Almost in all sectors of the economy women take low-paying positions. During all these year we another...
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...characterized by the redstockings movement and feminism in general. Now in the 21st century the world is finally starting to meet the demands of the feminists. In her article “The End of Men” from July/August 2010 in ‘The Atlantic’ Hanna Rosin addresses how the world is adjusting to the wave of dominating feminists, and how a matriarchy could be starting to occur. But could this change in the end be “The End of Men”? Rosin sets of her article with statistical facts stating that for every 2 men that achieves a college education, 3 women achieve the same. She uses these facts to prove with logos that equality for women is actually starting to come through, after saying this she asks the rhetorical question: “But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women?”(p.1 ,ll 4-5). This rhetorical question could have been the question in Rosin’s head that made her write this article, because the article keeps coming back to this issue. By putting this rhetorical somewhat provoking statement in the beginning of the article, she also catches the reader and set the agenda for the article. Moving on she introduces the reader to the male chauvinist Ronald Ericsson. As Rosin states, Ericsson was the biologist that figured out how to isolate the male chromosome in semen, making it possible only to spawn boys. The fact that Ericsson on top of this discovery was a radical male chauvinist, had feminists worrying that they were headed...
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...Benny Lemaster WGGS 305 11 February 2016 Unit 1 Paper Having to define what it means to be Queer or Feminist is full of such significant detail, that before I had once overlooked. What deserves to be referenced as Queer art and or Feminist art? This ignites so many questions, that revolve around who that consumer may be. For each of us being consider Queer or Feminist may require a changed definition. For myself, Queer/Feminist arts boldly holds a variety of meaning. It is a way of life, a practice of immunity of limitation towards a performance of foreign approach without any structure of policing. The simplistic nature of Queer and or Feminist art can be easily over processed or over complicated. Asking yourself to climb out from under oneself understandably can be much easier said than done, but in this reality we have the control to loose control. Depart ways with once was and embrace the now. Queer and or Feminist art embarks on a journey of exploration to exhume these buried desires we all have that we have been ordered to mask. When we try to examine what is art we are in essence examining a part of ourselves within. Trying to grasp the meaning of a particular performance whether it be music, film, canvas, etc. is a movement of transition that purposely directs us on path of self recognition. Art can be utilized as a tool to dismember the inner most workings of oneself. With this new enlightenment we piece ourselves back together with new adjustments because we have...
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...Brian Grazer’s Curiosity Conversations: A List Since the late 1970s, Brian Grazer has been meeting with people from diverse backgrounds to have open-ended conversations about their lives and work. Below, in alphabetical order, is a list of many of the people Brian has had curiosity conversations with. It is as comprehensive as memory and records permit; please forgive any omissions. Brian has spoken to so many people over thirty-five years and explored so many topics that it would be impossible to have included accounts of all of them. But each of the conversations provided the inspiration for the discussions of creativity and storytelling in this book, and in rian’s work. B 50 Cent: musician, actor, entrepreneur Joan Abrahamson: president of the research and education nonprofit Jefferson Institute, MacArthur Fellowship recipient Paul Neal “Red” Adair: oil-well firefighter, innovator in extinguishing oil-well blowouts in Kuwait 1 Roger Ailes: president of Fox News Channel Doug Aitken: multimedia artist Muhammad Ali: professional heavyweight boxer, three-time World Heavyweight Champion John Allman: neuroscientist, expert on human cognition Gloria Allred: civil rights attorney Brad Anderson: former CEO of Best Buy Chris Anderson: curator of TED conferences Philip Anschutz: entrepreneur, cofounder of Major League Soccer, investor in multiple professional sports teams David Ansen: former senior entertainment editor at Newsweek ...
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...Learning with Cases INTRODUCTION The case study method of teaching used in management education is quite different from most of the methods of teaching used at the school and undergraduate course levels. Unlike traditional lecture-based teaching where student participation in the classroom is minimal, the case method is an active learning method, which requires participation and involvement from the student in the classroom. For students who have been exposed only to the traditional teaching methods, this calls for a major change in their approach to learning. This introduction is intended to provide students with some basic information about the case method, and guidelines about what they must do to gain the maximum benefit from the method. We begin by taking a brief look at what case studies are, and how they are used in the classroom. Then we discuss what the student needs to do to prepare for a class, and what she can expect during the case discussion. We also explain how student performance is evaluated in a case study based course. Finally, we describe the benefits a student of management can expect to gain through the use of the case method. WHAT IS A CASE STUDY? There is no universally accepted definition for a case study, and the case method means different things to different people. Consequently, all case studies are not structured similarly, and variations abound in terms of style, structure and approach. Case material ranges from small caselets (a few paragraphs...
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...updated: April 26, 2016 Logical Reasoning Bradley H. Dowden Philosophy Department California State University Sacramento Sacramento, CA 95819 USA ii iii Preface Copyright © 2011-14 by Bradley H. Dowden This book Logical Reasoning by Bradley H. Dowden is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. That is, you are free to share, copy, distribute, store, and transmit all or any part of the work under the following conditions: (1) Attribution You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author, namely by citing his name, the book title, and the relevant page numbers (but not in any way that suggests that the book Logical Reasoning or its author endorse you or your use of the work). (2) Noncommercial You may not use this work for commercial purposes (for example, by inserting passages into a book that is sold to students). (3) No Derivative Works You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. An earlier version of the book was published by Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California USA in 1993 with ISBN number 0-534-17688-7. When Wadsworth decided no longer to print the book, they returned their publishing rights to the original author, Bradley Dowden. The current version has been significantly revised. If you would like to suggest changes to the text, the author would appreciate your writing to him at dowden@csus.edu. iv Praise Comments on the earlier 1993 edition...
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