tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84562616999212561482024-03-08T01:43:48.164-08:00Student of Gender and Society Fall 2012Jefrey De La Cruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11762750719900413753noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456261699921256148.post-40588440553875250922012-10-11T00:16:00.002-07:002012-10-11T00:16:39.556-07:00Why not treat each other like bro's<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b> <br /> </b>As I was reading Yamato's piece I encountered myself in a position that I've been through so many times specially when I moved here to this country I felt people looked at me with ignorance because of the place I work they are use to see people "like them" you know as Yamato refers in page 29, the "bad whites" Yamato also specify the form of power that runs the show here is the power to intimidate, the power to take away the most live the quickest, and back it up with legal and "divine" sanction, is the very bottom line, is the very bottom line. Everyone should equal in all sense and not be looking different, it should be an honor to say what you are and to what ethnic race you are coming from like me, I am Dominican and I feel proud of being a <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Latino</span>. What are you?<br />
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The fact that I do not care what you are in terms of nationality etc... really touch me because we can make a better world together or we may not, but we live in the same world what makes a person better than the other one in an unprofessional situation in this century for God sake. People have to adapt like or not that we live in a society which has many diversities of race, religion and culture, also if that is not your culture why would take a chance and make an opinion of what they are practicing? leave them is them world and you will not change it. Is someone with me? </div>
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Jefrey De La Cruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11762750719900413753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456261699921256148.post-15181298497580599752012-09-30T22:28:00.002-07:002012-09-30T22:38:24.353-07:00For your taste, We have a menu<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<b> </b>The definition of Rich of <a href="http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism/a/compulsory_hetero.htm">Compulsory Heterosexuality</a> right how Rich is explaining to us in this complex text is that Lesbian existence suggests both the fact of the historical presence of lesbians and our continuing creation of the meaning of that existence. The term <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian">lesbian</a> continuum to include a range through each woman's life and throughout history of woman identified experience. not simply the fact that a woman has had or consciously desired genital sexual experience with another woman.</div>
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As my beliefs against of what Rich is saying is that sometimes you do not choose your lesbianism, I believe is something that you develop and have to let it be for the reason that you won't have the same appreciation towards a person you are dating being in a heterosexual partner but then you have this strange feelings towards a person from your own sex, its like putting an engine in a new car; nothing its better than that.</div>
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<b> </b>Rich also points to the history of Lesbians. She points that Lesbians have been historically deprived of a political existence through "inclusion" as female versions of male homosexuality. To equate lesbian existence with male homosexuality because each is stigmatized is to erase female reality once again. My point of view here is you gotta love who love and always be yourself and if that makes you lesbian let it be.</div>
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Jefrey De La Cruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11762750719900413753noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456261699921256148.post-83924573812187032292012-09-23T21:22:00.002-07:002012-09-23T21:22:40.724-07:00Get paid as you deserve! <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I was reading the article <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2007/08/a_new_american_dream_1.html">"A New American Dream?</a> based on the book "The Epic of America" by James Truslow, caught my attention because it really says why our ancestors came to this country, looking for that big treasure called "America". It really concerns me how now a days we still not having the same equal rights as anyone else, women does not get paid as they deserve to in some industries.Truslow, one of its many quotes says:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As I've been working in a part-time job usually you see your boss working overtime and you ask yourself: why many of the part-time jobs does not give them employees benefits, at least have insurance coverage because what about if one co-worker is pregnant and is having contractions because of the baby, but if this girl lose her child because she tripped and fell, she got a big percentage that she will lose her baby. We need at least to get paid the minimum wage and up but how? if the person who is working won't leave its job because there is no job out there that you can choose from.<a href="http://cwcs.ysu.edu/resources/wage-theft-resources">http://cwcs.ysu.edu/resources/wage-theft-resources</a></span></div>
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Jefrey De La Cruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11762750719900413753noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456261699921256148.post-86698674664618154762012-09-15T08:06:00.000-07:002012-09-16T18:15:12.757-07:00Hatred and Solutions: Nothing gets done with magic<div><br />
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Schlossberg</a> presents his case that young Americans should cast
their votes for President Obama this fall. Published on the same day it was
widely reported that the national debt had hit $16 trillion, his piece is as
ill-timed as it is unconvincing.<br /><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In search of speak to and for his generation, he
characterizes Obama as "our biggest ally in Washington." He lack of
care, of course, to recount the severe realities of the Obama economy. Instead,
his message rests on the fragile concept that we should hang on a little bit
longer because enduring change takes time <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/11/opinion/schriver-schlossberg-rebuttal/index.html">don't vote for Obama Sep 11 2012</a>.<br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there's more than meets to the eye to the president's self-proclaimed achievements. While his allies may credit his health care law with allowing members of my generation to stay on our parents' health care until we're in our mid-20s, the real question is, why can't we find jobs in the first place? Obama regards students as beneficiaries of his achievements. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/04/opinion/schlossberg-young-voters-obama/index.html">Schlossberg </a>praises the president's "insistence on keeping student interest rates low," but that hasn't kept student loan debt from reaching record levels.</span></span><br />
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</div>Jefrey De La Cruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11762750719900413753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456261699921256148.post-67190111571294342842012-09-13T12:38:00.001-07:002012-09-13T12:38:02.735-07:00Class of 9/13/2012 <div><p>Opresso<b>r</b><b> synonyms; reduced, immobilize, pressure, misused, repels/attracts, mold/press. </b>Is it a female thing to cry? </p>
</div>Jefrey De La Cruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11762750719900413753noreply@blogger.com3Henry Barnard School, Providence41.841476 -71.46385tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456261699921256148.post-57360463334982015902012-09-09T15:13:00.001-07:002012-09-09T15:13:50.461-07:00Yes, They Will<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Marilyn Frye argues that the term Oppression should not be one of the women issues in which is identified as discriminatory. Marilyn Frye also points that women just do "women jobs" and get paid less money, <a href="http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/womeninbusinessnew1/a/women-profits.htm">argument that is true </a>and its seem day by day by oppressors in which determines some type of monarchy, I call it monarchy because it is not fair that a "human being" have being suffering for so long and no one have change that. Marilyn Frye is one of the minimum who has fight for this, writing this protestants essays so women can feel they are not alone in the battle. Will Marilyn Frye change the mind of the "Oppressors"?</div>
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Jefrey De La Cruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11762750719900413753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456261699921256148.post-27534793823011353942012-09-03T01:37:00.001-07:002012-09-03T01:48:34.630-07:00Feminism and its followers<b>Lisa Maria Hogeland </b><br />
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Lisa Maria Hogeland established in her text "Fear of Feminism" that Feminism requires an expansion of the self, which means in certain definitions that a human and it can be anyone, have to have the characteristics to fight themselves and I mean by this that some type of motivation it is influencing you towards any circumstances you are passing through.This is one of the point from the video clip "One Women One Vote".</div>
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Jefrey De La Cruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11762750719900413753noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456261699921256148.post-10788511169401182202012-08-28T20:05:00.003-07:002012-08-28T20:05:33.007-07:00Introduction as a studentHi, my name is Jefrey De La Cruz same you met in our first day of class. I am originally from D.R or Dominican Republic, I am starting my first year of class as a freshman here in Rhode Island and it has been a privilege to be in this class because I think I will be comfortable getting through this course as a group of student who interact in a class that I feel that is strong in terms of the society. I have been in this country for 2 years and I often struggle with the language but I just go through it. I work in a fast-food restaurant chain, I would be glad to see one of you there.Well, its been a pleasure to talk about me, I hope to heard from you guys. Thanks. <br />
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