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I am at UCBA to pursue my degree in Nursing. I decided to choose this section at this time of day because I can actually focus more and not sleep! I am from Cincinnati, OH. My major is Nursing. I am also a person who thrives on being challenged and I always have new goalsContinue reading “CL 1/16”

Prompt 1. The activities of the individuals discussed in Plessy V Ferguson match Swales’s benchmarks for a discourse community because of the way the decision in the Civil Rights Cases made it increasingly difficult to depend on written law to guarantee equal rights for freedmen. Also that the way Discourse communities is extravagantly emphasized throughoutContinue reading “CL 2/18”

Samuel George Morton was an empiricist of polygeny. Morton describes how the 600 skulls are extraordinary and that the collection by itself only could mean a trip to Africa. Morton’s summary chart on page 82 was about the skull measures because he measured their capacity. In this section, this is what his argument was basedContinue reading “HW 2/20”

Strivings of the Negro People William E.B DuBois established himself as the foremost African American intellectual of the Twentieth century. A Founder of NAACP Du Bois became a spokesperson for a more assertive stance from blacks. Du Bois describes “double consciousness”, the sense of identity thrust upon black Americans living in a world in whichContinue reading “HW 2/25”

The gap for Frederick Hoffman’s ‘Race Amalgamation’ is that he is writing about the segregation issues between whites and blacks down south. Hoffman wants the readers to feel if what he says about having babies with women of other races is horrifying because that is what he led me to believe. The writer’s thesis statementContinue reading “CL 2/20”

PVF Frederick Ludwig Hoffman was an industrial worker back in 1884. He based most of his statistical analysis on the data produced by social science research. Late 19th century saw the rise of the professional social sciences, such as sociology, economics, political science, and anthropology, all of which established their credentials by relying on detailedContinue reading “HW 2/18”

Swales’s article sucks because of lack of such interest. Talks about the same topic throughout the entire paper. The reader wouldn’t be able to understand Swales’s depth of writing because of the way he goes through the essay very quickly. What I think Swales sees as the gap in the conversation he’s

PVF William J Cruikshank was in a group known as White League where they killed 69-100 blacks in Louisiana. A campaigning was held to keep blacks from being a part of political processes. The important parts of the 13th and 14th amendments were stressed during the above situation. This occurred obviously during the time ofContinue reading “HW 2/13”

The Mismeasure of Man begins with the introduction of an argument called biological determinism. Different groups of races and sexes arise from different distinctions in society. The determinists in the book decided to invoke science as objective knowledge, which is free from social and political taint, according to the reading. You can tell that thisContinue reading “HW 2/11”

In The Mismeasure of Man, why isn’t Biological Determinism clearly defined to the point where it can be put into an actual explanation? Gould defines biological determinism by same social norms and different social groups. Two major sources of data that have supported the theme known as biological determinism is psychological testing and the ideaContinue reading “CL 2/13”