...From the 16th well into the 19th century, respectable wealth in England was accumulated primarily through the ownership of land. The land would be leased to tenants for farming, and the landowning families would live entirely off of the income generated by these leases. The families owning the largest of these hereditary estates, which varied in size but averaged about 10,000 acres, drew incomes sufficient to construct great parks and manors, purchase fashionable goods, retain servants and livery (horses and carriages), and meet other expenses related to keeping a country home. The most prosperous landowners also kept a town home in London, the social and political center of England, and lived there during the social season, January through July. The oldest, though not necessarily the wealthiest, of these families may have had some claim to nobility with inherited titles that gave “precedence,” or a higher rank at social functions in town or country. The term “aristocracy” referred somewhat more ambiguously to any keepers of London town homes whose social and political connections bought them seats in Parliament or influence in the royal court. In Pride and Prejudice, the Bennets are, like Jane Austen herself, members of an educated upper middle class known as the “gentry” or the “landed gentry.” Considered socially eligible to mix with the landowning aristocracy, but quite a step beneath them in wealth, resources and precedence, the landed gentry included country squires, military...
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...appear to be much more prejudice and stereotypical of how Christian Americans and Arab-Muslims are viewed. We had many similar views as far as Christian Americans. However we had some desriptors in the “Both Groups” category with similar views as far as both Christian Americans and Arab-Muslims being family orientated, modest dressed, law abidin, sexist, flexible moral values, patriarchal society, religious content in education, devout and feminist. Our differences were many as my participant obviously has less predjudice views than I do. It's quite interesting in camparing our views as they match with what we have been accustom to in our lives. My participant was raised in a town that had a vast majority of ethnic groups where as I was raised in a small suburb mainly consisting of the Caucasion race. This just proves to me that what I have learned in this class, which is just how much stereotypes are unreliable generalizations and that predjudice is a form of absolute ignorance. The true facts about Arab-Muslims are that they are goverened by Qur'an and they are fanatically religious. A true facts about Christian Americans is that they are more open to political environment of both sexes. I believe a false statement of my participants is the fact that she views Arab-Muslims as having flexible moral values. I think the average American's perception of Christian American's is very similar in regards to politics, family values and traditions. However I believe...
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...Associate Program Material Stereotypes and Prejudice Worksheet Please complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |African Ammerican good at |African American good at dancing |Good at work | | |athletics | | | |Gender |Men can’t cook |Women too sensitive for business |Men like sports more | |Disability |Weak |Defenseless |Vulnerable | https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid Part II Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use. What are the positive aspects of stereotypes, if any? In stereotyping in a positive way could...
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...geographic origin, disability, education, and skills characteristics. (“ U.S. Department of the Interior”, ios.doi.gov.) Diversity is valued because it helps one to respect and appreciate the fact that not one person is the same and there are differences that lie within each individual, in regard to the above named categories. 2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is, “belief in the intrinsic superiorty of the nation, culture, or group to which one belongs, often accompanied by feelings of dislike for other groups”. (The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition, 2013) Ethnocentrism can be detrimental to a society because it can lead to predjudice toward a different culture, or even racism, if one does not respect and appreciate another’s way of living. 3. Define emigration and immigration. Emigration is when someone leaves a country to go and settle in another one. Many people want to emigrate when they feel there is no quality of life in their current homeland. Immigration is when someone comes to a new country with the intent to reside as a permanent resident. “During the great wave of immigration between 1880 and 1924, over 25 million Europeans immigrated to the United States. (Vocabulary.com, 2013) 4. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified? Some ways groups of people are identified are by racial group, ethnic group, religious group, and...
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...In Jane Austen’s lifetime she completed six novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Throughout Austen’s writing she draws her readers in with the interesting characters. Austen makes her readers fall in love with the characters. She makes the characters seem as if they dislike or feel awkward towards each other, but in then end fall in love. Austen captures her reader’s attentions with her vivid writing. You can clearly see a mental picture between the characters conversations. Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility portray the main romantic characters sympathetically and vividly, leading the reader to connect with the characters fully. In Pride and Prejudice, the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth appears to be conflicting. In the movie Darcy insults Elizabeth at the first ball by saying, “she is tolerable, not handsome enough to tempt me.”(--) That hurt Elizabeth’s feelings and made her dislike Darcy. At Netherfield, Darcy, Elizabeth, and Caroline are talking about ideal qualities of a wife, and Caroline, with Darcy’s agreement, says, “A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved” (------). To a modern reader, this seems like an unreasonable amount of qualities to possess in an...
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...If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine O, Mother Earth by Ernesto P. Santiago O, Mother Earth, O, Mother Earth, you’re so rich, with butterflies’ songs and full of olden lullabies, sung by mountains and valleys while rivers keep flowing through the ever-changing seasons of life. Youspeak the language I hardly know, but...
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...Culture is the aquired knowledge that people use to interpret, experience, and generate social behavior. Culture is learned by viewing beliefs and customs within the culture and we extrapolate meaning systems by observing what people do, what they say, and the artifacts people use. In class, we studied Peru's culture through college students at USIL, a university in Lima. We were able to talk to them through video,e-mail, and chat discussion. My partner was Fiorella and from her I learned many things about her culture: College life, family tradition, religion, meaning of life, stereoytpes, and predjudices. From talking to Fiorella, I found that some things about the university in Lima were similar and some were different to the college life here in Greenville, North Carolina. On our first linking day I was able to chat with Fiorella about college. Most students live close to the university or about fifteen to twenty minutes away with their parents. I found out that have the same break between classes as we do here at East Carolina University. From when class ends, Lima students are given ten minutes to get from class to class just like here. From chatting with Fiorella and her classmates, a majority of the students were majoring in tourism and business management. Lima has started to attract more tourist which has increased the country's income, so tourism and like hotel management have been considered demanding jobs. Along with college, comes parties...
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...would be abused and attacked by the white aggressers, who would be shocked by the students presence. They knew that they had to look like the bigger more sensible person in the situation, so they turned the other cheek to their hecklers, did their homework, read books, and adheared to a strict dress code. After the first sit-in, people's reactions were a mix of shock and amusement, many believed the sits ins would be ac passing fad. Many of the local buisnesses said they would close down before serving blacks. The sit ins continued each week on a saturday, many of the students were arrested by police, but the students saw this as something to be celebrated, as the unjustified arrests would bring attention to their cause, and expose the predjudice police force. At the sits ins, there were leaders and observes, observes had emergency numbers and pockets full of change, ready to call ambulances if need be. At each sit in, as one group of protesters were arrested, more took there place. Mass arrests took place and the fight for desegregation caught the attention of all members of the black community and national television. The students in the jail, stayed there, even though they had broken no laws. Black lawyers joined the cause and agreed to help free the peaceful students. One of the black lawyers, who assited the students, had his house bombed. This violent attack gave the students the upper hand, as it stressed the importance of their cause, and their peacful ways made the...
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...The Plessy Vs. Ferguson court case was an unjust and predjudice trial. An African American man who sat in the first-class section of a train on June 7, 1892 was asked to be seated in the Jim Crow Cars although he had already bought a first-class ticket. After refusing peacefully, Plessy was arrested and trial was set for five months later. The case ultimately moved up to the United States Supreme Court. Plessy Vs. Ferguson hearing would “challenge the definition of race itself” and eventually the case was overturned in 1954. The United States Supreme Court’s ruling was an unjustified verdict based on relativism and deontological ethics. Homer Plessy boarded a train that was on it’s way to Covington, Louisiana. He bought a first-class train ticket and was well dressed, but he was not accepted into first class because he was an African American. The train conductor, John J. Dowling asked Plessy if he was in the proper coach not because of his train ticket but because of his race which wasn’t easily seen. Plessy was so...
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...As Obama Gets Older… As Obama Gets Older… Disengagement theory– This involves when an older person withdraws themselves from involvement in social interaction.The disengagement theory states that as you get older you naturally withdraw from others. Sometimes it can happen because as you get older you have less opportuinities to do things such as go out and socialise. Also another reason people disengage is because they cannot physically go out and do things due to their health. People tend to not only engage less with friends and distant relatives and more with closer relatives. Older people start to become more individualised and less bothered by the expectations of others and how they think or feel about them. In 1961 Cumming and Henry, two theorists that brought forward this theory both argued that it was and important process for older people to go through and that it was a natural part of ageing. They believed that as people grow older they start to withdraw due to the less opportuinities that they can take part in. In 1974 Bromley accepted this theory and believed that even if someone tries to fight the process of disengagement it is bound to happen at some point whether it is earlier or later on in their lives. He also said that people disengage because they do not have the physical and mental resources they had when they were younger. He believed that disengagement could happen...
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...The Stanford Prison Experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life. Subjects were randomly assigned to play the role of "prisoner" or "guard". Those assigned to play the role of guard were given sticks and sunglasses; those assigned to play the prisoner role were arrested by the Palo Alto police department, deloused, forced to wear chains and prison garments, and transported to the basement of the Stanford psychology department, which had been converted into a sort of jail. What was the lesson learned from Zimbardo’s (1971) Stanford Prison experiment about the influence of social roles on an individual’s behavior? Several of the guards became progressively more sadistic — particularly at night when they thought the cameras were off, despite being picked by chance out of the same pool as the prisoners. The experiment very quickly got out of hand. A riot broke out on day two. One prisoner developed a psychosomatic rash all over his body upon finding out that his "parole" had been turned down. After only 6 days (of a planned two weeks), the experiment was shut down, for fear that one of the prisoners would be seriously hurt. Although the intent of the experiment was to examine captivity, its result has been used to demonstrate the impressionability and obedience of people when provided with a legitimizing ideology and social and institutional support. It is also used to illustrate cognitive...
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...Unit 4 Development through the Life Stages P1- describe physical, intellectual, emotional and social development for each of the life stages of an individual Infancy Physically: at around nine months after A baby being conceived the child would be born. The child a new born baby wouldn’t have been able to digest food other then breast mill or a substitute. The child wouldn’t have been able to hear everything as a baby’s brain isn’t fully developed at this life stage. The child would have been able to tell the difference between the way things taste and the way their mother smelt. A baby is born with various temporary and primitives reflexes some of these are: A new-born baby will turn their heads towards any touch on the cheek. This is called the rooting reflex and helps the baby to get the nipple or bottle into their mouth to feed. If you place a finger in a baby palm, they will grasp your finger tightly. This reflex is called the grasp reflex. If a baby is startled, this could be by a loud noise, they will throw their hands and arms outwards, arching the back and straightening their back this is called the startle reflex. If a new-born baby is held upright with their feet touching the ground, they will make movements as if their attempting to walk. This is called the walking reflex. A child would have the physical ability to recognise and interact with people. The child would have preferred to listen to other peoples voices; this would have been...
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...Civil Procedure Outline Chapter 1: An Introduction to American Courts Chapter 2: A Description of the Litigation Process and Sources of Procedural Law Chapter 3: Diversity Jurisdiction in the Federal Courts I. Introduction: II. State Citizenship of Individuals: The Domicile Test 1. Common Law concept of Domicile: a. Residence with the intent to remain “indefinitely.” b. Has been used for several purposes. For example: to determine the power to exercise personal jurisdiction over a person, to grant a divorce, to impose a tax or to determine the persons entitled to inherit property. 2. Losing and gaining a domicile: a person does not lose her old domicile until she acquires a new one, that is, until she hoes to another state wit the intent to reside indefinitely in the new state. (Examples on pg 45-46). 3. Meaning of “indefinite intent: often, courts state that it is enough that the party “intends to make the new state his home and that he has no present intention of going elsewhere [to live].” 4. Alternative formulation of the domicile test: to establish a domicile of choice a person generally must be physically present at the location and intend to make that place his home “for the time at least.” 5. The date for determining diversity: parties must be diverse on the day the complaint is filed, even if the parties were not diverse at the time of the events giving rise to the claim. ...
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