Essays on Binaries

Gloria E. Anzaldua, in “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” uses language and the way it is used to forge and assert identity as a way to discuss the racial tensions that come from the strict binaries expected by society. While this extends chiefly to issues of white/non-white, particularly through the regulation hegemonic American society places on the languages spoken within it, there are issues of rich/poor, male/female, and others that are defined and asserted through language. In this respect, Anzaldua argues that ‘linguistic terrorism’ is often used by those in power to limit the speech and power of ...

Introduction

Feminism refers to economic, political and cultural movement formed to establish and agitate for the equal protection as well as legal rights of all women. It involves the philosophies and sociological and political theories that have a bearing on issues of gender and gender differences. Feminism also involves the agitation for women’s interests and rights as well as movements that fight for gender equality. In addition to the vibrant campaigns for the legal rights of women, including the right to vote, to enter into contracts and to own property, the feminist movement is solely responsible for the paradigm ...

The Binary System is the simplest numeration of all positional number systems. The basic of this system is discovered by Gottfried Leibniz, who was also the co-creator of Calculus, in his work Explication de l'arithmétique binaire in 1679. In this work, he was trying to translate verbal statements into mathematical ones. Yi Jing, which was said to be created by the so-called Third millennium father of Chinese writing Fu Xi, depicts yin and yang. It was represented in binary, with yin as 0 and yang as 1, involving eight trigrams and sixty-four hexagrams. Leibniz’s works were ...

Executive Summary

The late king of Tonga once referred to education as a basket within a basket. This has been interpreted to mean the knowledge, skills, and values that we learn because of our various journeys and which are stored, interpreted, and shared within wider, all embracing cultural contexts which are defined by ourselves and others (Andreotti, 7). Through other eyes (TOE) is a free online study program that aims at educating teachers with a native / aboriginal view of worldwide issues. It emphasizes the importance of self-reflexivity and commitment with diverse worldviews in schools. TOE has four pillars; development, education, poverty and equality. Its ...

Arguably, the issue of religion has been controversial issues for a long time. The 9/11 attack raised a lot of issues on involvement of religion on issues of violence in the world. As a matter of fact, religion is more of a practice justifying the allegation that religion could be the cause of violence. According to Hector Alvalos’s, religion is one of the source of immorality in the world and should be extinguished. Based on this argument religion can be dangerous to society in terms of its influence on violence. The 9/11 attack has led to a new definition of religion, which has ...

1. As I understand it, social work is the pursuit of increased wellbeing for individuals and groups through direct and concerted intervention in a number of ways. The overall goal for someone in social work is to help combat social injustices and various inequalities in education, psychological awareness, and the like through determined effort and intervention on one's part (Agnew, 2004). This is typically performed through dedicated and complex interactions with those who require social work, and theories of human development and social systems and theory are used to investigate a client's social situation. After this analysis, strategies are decided ...

John Smith’s narrative contributed a great deal to Eurocentric standards for the American identity. In his narratives Smith focused more on the good side of Europe while referring to the Native American culture as barbaric. By definition, Eurocentric refers to focus on Europe and the Europeans. It is evident from his narrative that he was antiracists at both practical and conscious levels. He believed in the prominence of Europe and the Europeans. From his narrative, Smith talks of how vicious the people of Virginia were but also acknowledge the courtesy he received from the king’s son and daughter. ...