...Analysis of ’Baby Storm’s mom on gender, parenting and the media’ The text is an article written by Kathy Witterick and printed in The Ottawa Citizen on the 28th of may 2011. The dominating language function is the expressive one, and the primary message of the article is to correct the media’s misinterpretations of Kathy and her husband’s attitude to child rearing. The article was written as a result of the media’s unusually large interest not just to express the family’s opinions in general. Therefore Witterick’s receivers are the people who read about her family in the first place. The article is written in long sentences with a fairly complicated language. The language function is not directive, because the sender, Kathy Witterick, is not trying to make her receivers change their way of raising children, though obviously, she believes it would be the wisest thing to do. Nor is it informative because Witterick does not make use of statistics or hard facts, and it is not written in a formal vocabulary. Witterick uses a metaphor on page 3, line 32, ‘In my heart of hearts, I squirm when my son picks a dress from the rack…’ to let the receivers know it is not an all together easy decision to let her son wear whatever he likes, (though, she knows it is the right thing to do). The figurative language, the extensive use of adjectives and the strongly positively/negatively connoting words all point to the expressive language function, and the fact that it is an argumentative...
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...A Comparison of Markov Based Logistic Model Determining the Risk Factors of Health Conditions for Old Aged American People By ASEK MD. SUZAUDDIN Abstract: Markov model are expedient and very serviceable method for analyzing longitudinal or categorical data. This method play an important role in various fields to explain the dependence pattern of a time series over a period of time and to predict the future course of process behavior by its investigative and prognostic power. Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) data, an ongoing longitudinal survey that interviews a national sample of persons born between the years 1931 and 1941at two year intervalsWe discussed two discrete time markov models proposed by Muenz-Rubinstein and Azzalini respectively for the HRS dataset and fit this two models considering health conditions as a dependent variable. We also estimate the efficiency for the two fitted model and compare the models on the basis of the results. This study fits the two models and compare them on the basis of their efficiencies. In here we fit those models for the Health conditions of the old peoples and obtain the efficiencies for both models and found that the estimate of Azzalini’s model is more efficient than that of Muenz-Rubinstein model. 1. Introduction Longitudinal data...
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...sector educational materials and conducts training for stakeholders, provides guidance and assistance to our Administrative Judges who conduct hearings on EEO complaints, and adjudicates appeals from administrative decisions made by federal agencies on EEO complaints. Problem Types of resolutions to be put in the law for different types of discriminations reported by people who do not have equal employment opportunities under the government. Qualitative research method Secondary research with the data from US government collected in the past few years i.e. we take the whole data in the website and based on the population segments considered by us filter the data and then consider suitable sample for our analysis. We would like to concentrate on major discriminations and maybe gender wise discriminations also and thus these factors can also be...
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...Mapping the Modern “An argumentative essay on ‘Gender’ through comparison and contrast of the views of authorities who are postmodern practitioners” Introduction Defining postmodernism as well as gender is an extremely difficult task if not impossible. This essay is an argument on the two postmodernist’s concept on ‘Gender’. This essay argues posing foucauldian postmodernism of Judith Butler against Baudrillardean post modernism of Arthur and Marilouse Kroker with analysis on both their ideas on gender including sex and sexuality. This essay also argues that these two approaches are fully flawed for a number of important reasons. This essay offered an argument on the ideas of two of the most prominent postmodernists in the field of ‘Gender’ including sex and sexuality namely Judith Bultler and Discussion Postmodernism of Judith Butler Judith Butler is one among the most influential proponent of postmodern practitioner of gender including sex and sexuality. In Gender Trouble It is stated that identity of gender constitutes the very expressions which are its results and does not go beyond the expressions of gender. Butler does not consider gender as an appropriate social as well as natural expressions of a sexed body, but it is a fluid identity which is always in a deferral state ad does not exist fully at any given point of time (Norris, 2010). She does not believe in the notion of a stable and essential identity of gender manifesting itself by way of external activities...
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...The concepts encapsulated within the term ‘queer’, according to Corber and Valocchi, are those which define the “identities and practices that foreground the instability inherent in the supposedly stable relationship between anatomical sex, gender, and sexual desire” (2003: 1). In other words, Queer Theory attempts to illustrate that these things do not always align in predetermined and/or normative ways, and it is perhaps misguided to assume that they should. Corber and Valocchi refer to this notion in their suggestion that Queer Theory focuses on forms of sexuality which fall ‘outside’ of the typical binaries (2003:1). Queer writer Annemarie Jagose states the Queer Theory works to destabilise the belief in ‘natural’ sexuality by exposing the incoherencies that occur within the varying relationships of sex, gender, and sexuality (1996: 3). By having an analytical framework which includes numerous modes of sex/gender/sexuality combinations, such as cross-dressing, sadomasochism, and androgyny, Queer Theory acts in critical relation to the hegemonic social norms through which traditional sexual identities are governed and accepted (Weed and Schor, 1997: vii). Theorist David Halperin (1997) suggests that numerous varying degrees of difference and interpretation exist within any given from of sexuality - for example, there exist both feminine male homosexuals and masculine male homosexuals, and so on. Related to this is one Queer Theory’s central claims, which wishes to state...
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...Bodies: Regulation And Subversion A Closer Look At Judith Bulter’s Drag Philosophy. Binita Kakati S133CGS09 IVth Semester Assignment submitted To Bindu K.C. for the course Bodies Department of Gender Studies School of Human Studies Ambedkar University, Delhi 25. March-2015 In this paper I wish to discuss Susan Bordo’s work to emphasise on the point of the body being a locus of societal control. The body being constructed, regulated and impressed upon by society putting to question the entire idea of ‘agency’. I discuss that in order to look at Judith Butler’s ideas on ‘drag’ and its possibility of subversion. At the time drag emerged, it was taken as a symbol of feminism...
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...society. Farmer analyzes the poverty from an elite’s perspective, while supplying sufficient details on the gender roles among the poor and the social classes among society that separated the poor from the rich. Such factors not only played a major role in forming their social standing and networks available to them, but also affected the altruistic assistance by those in power that...
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...Butler attempts to analyze the normative heterosexuality. He points out that disciplinary social rules force us to conform to a hegemonic, heterosexual identity. Butler sates that a selective reading of structuralism, psychoanalytic and feminist accounts enforce gender identities within a heterosexual frame. Butler reports that feminists have alternatives to the pre-patriarchal culture. They use this as a model to base a new society. If patriarchy has a beginning, it can also have an end. Therefore, accounts of the original transformation of sex into gender have proven useful to feminists. Cramer discus ideologies of gender, race, and class and states that these themes linked to sexual morality. Cramer analyzes Sex and the City, stating that it has an interesting paradox between the single life and the hunt for marriage. Cramer also reports on Queer life, saying that this show revolves around the idea that friendships are...
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...DISCUSS FIVE FACTORS OF INEQUALITY IN OUR SOCIETY. Gender refers to socially constructed roles and responsibilities of women and men. The difference in roles and responsibilities among women and men stems from our families, societies and culture. The concept of gender includes our expectations about the characteristics, attitudes and behaviours of women and men, and is vital in facilitating gender analysis. The different roles, rights and resources that both the genders have in society are important determinants of the nature and scope of their inequality and poverty. Inequality in access to resources between women and men is most common in Poor and developing countries. Gender inequality refers to inequality in conditions among women and men for realizing their full human rights. It refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. It arises from differences in socially constructed gender roles as well as biologically through chromosomes, brain structure, and hormonal differences. Gender systems are often dichotomous and hierarchical; gender binary systems may reflect the inequalities that manifest in numerous dimensions of daily life. Gender inequality stems from distinctions, whether empirically grounded or socially constructed. There are factors that influence gender inequality in our society. Some of these factors are...
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...41 Media 43 Introduction The Walt Disney Company’s cultural products have been a great influence on popular culture since the 1930s and an inspiration for generations all over the world ever since. For many, including myself, the Princes, Princesses and fantastical creatures of Disney’s animated fairy tales have become symbols of their youth. Seeing the films gives rise to a feeling of nostalgia, they become a memento of one’s childhood world. But what kind of world is this? What kind of realities do Disney’s fantastical representations construct? In my thesis, I will analyze a specific element of Disney films: gender roles constructed through the representation of femininity in their animated features. I will study how this representation changes over time: has Disney’s highly criticized construction of gender roles changed over time, and if so, what realities do contemporary Disney discourses construct? I propose to research how femininity is represented in Walt Disney‘s animated features, how this representation changes over time and what kind of effects this has on the...
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...STUDENT ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION Fabio Pagnotta Mat:-093579 Mohammad Amran Hossain Mat:-093192 Department of Computer science, University of Camerino Advanced Database In this project, we use a data set about Portuguese student on two courses ( Mathematics and Portuguese ) which was collected and analysed by Paulo Cortez and Alice Silva, University of Minho,Portugal. Our work intends to approach student addiction on alcohol in secondary level using business intelligence (BI) and Data Mining (DM) techniques. The result shows that a good predictive accuracy can be achieved, provided that addiction of alcohol can impact to the student performance. In addition,the result also provides the correlation between alcohol usage and the social, gender and study time attributes for each student. As a direct outcome of our project, more efficient prediction tools can be developed in order to pay more attention to the student and share how the alcohol impact so badly in his life. Introduction Alcohol had lots of bad impact in our life. Drinking too much on a single occasion or over time can take a serious toll on our health. If who drinks alcohol it’s likely...
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...our readings so far in Marxist, cultural, and gender theory, I think historians, have struggled with the relationship between social structures (class, symbolic systems, language, gender, etc.) and individuals. The struggles stem from our understanding of the world, society, and life experiences. Throughout history, what we know is primarily based on theories and knowledge created historically and predominately by men of certain nationalities and economic status. History, like society, has been male-dominated and culturally distinct theorizing and knowledge has excluded women and other groups from traditional theorizing and knowledge building methods. When used in research, methods, and action, such theories and understanding ignored...
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...Movement The United States LGBTQ+ community has long been a marginalized group who has struggled greatly with discrimination, bigotry, and institutional homophobia. While there are still advancements that must be made in order for full liberation of LGBTQ+ individuals to be achieved, the LGBTQ+ community has made critical and significant strides in terms of institutional and social liberation over the past few decades. These accomplishments would not have been possible without the tireless efforts of LGBTQ+ activists and the gay rights movement. LGBTQ+ activism and the gay rights movement have been responsible for massive political change, and has influenced the ways in which marginalized groups organize. In her analysis, Sociopolitical Antecedents to Stonewall: Analysis of Origins of the Gay Rights Movement in the United States, Cynthia Cannon Poindexter examines how prior uprisings set the model and paved the way for the use of community organizing as a means for combating injustice. Specifically she identifies the historical, political, psychological and social influences that led to the Stonewall Riots, which are largely regarded as the spawn of the gay rights movement. Poindexter, in her examination of gay history, argues that the Stonewall Riots were not actually the beginning of the movement; rather, she suggests that they were an integral turning-point in a long struggle towards gay rights. Furthermore, she describes the sociopolitical model that was utilized during this...
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...Carter, C. (2011) “Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond,” in Ross, K. (ed) The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN-10: 1444338544; 365-82. ISBN-13: 978-1444338546 Sex/Gender and the Media From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond Cynthia Carter Introduction In the early years of second-wave western feminism, many gender researchers and feminist scholars distinguished between the notion of sex, defined as biological differences between male and female, and ‘sex roles,’ referring to certain behaviors and characteristics attributed to each sex that was a social construction. The resulting media research centered on images of women in the media (much less emphasis was placed on men) in order to draw attention to inequities in their portrayal in relation to men (in quantitative terms as well as in terms of the use of stereotypes). Since the 1970s, however, the scope of social constructionism has greatly expanded in feminist theory. Some suggest that the distinction between the biological and the social has, as a result, eroded to such an extent that it is no longer possible to understand the difference, while others question the need for this distinction. For instance, in queer and transgender theory and feminist cultural studies, theorists have sought to make strange the ‘sex/gender’ distinction. The key argument made is that biology is no less a cultural construct than gender socialization into masculinity...
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...Directions: There are a total of 21 questions on this exam. Each question has one correct answer choice unless otherwise noted. Please mark your answer choice by circling the letter corresponding to your answer choice. In a 2007 study published in Health Affairs1, researchers report the results of a study examining the association between mortality and hospital quality performance measures in a sample of Medicare patients admitted for certain conditions. As per the authors: “The Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) program gives us the opportunity to systematically monitor the quality of hospital care nationwide. To gauge the importance of the HQA indicators, we examined the relationship between hospitals’ performance on HQA quality indicators and mortality for Medicare enrollees admitted for acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and pneumonia.” Exhibit 3 below shows the resulting adjusted odds ratios of mortality for three separate HQA measures. The three measures are for AMI (acute myocardial infarction), CHF (congestive heart failure), and pneumonia. Each of these three measures was categorized into quartiles: the 1st quartile category includes the lowest 25% of the values, and the 4th quartile contains the largest 25% of the values. The reference for the above comparisons is the 4th quartile of the relevant performance measure reflected in the column title. 1 Jha A, et al .The Inverse Relationship Between Mortality Rates And Performance In The Hospital...
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