Academic Summary of “Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office”
In the article “Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office,” clinical psychologist Lisa Damour explores how notions of confidence and competence can hold women back in the workplace. She does this by introducing shared concerns that others have had regarding their daughters’ confidence levels and school, and then provides suggestions as to how this confidence gap can be resolved.
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Fall 2023
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Position Paper + Public Remediation Project
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The Extent of Rationality: Reason and Perception in Edgeworth’s Belinda and Austen’s Emma
Michel Foucault wrote of “Reason as despotic enlightenment” (d’Entrèves 338), critiquing the way that Enlightenment principles perpetuate systems of institutional power and marginalization. He asks us “How is it that rationalization is conducive to a desire for power?” (343), a question which can be applied to criticism of the nineteenth-century novel and the rise of rational desire and domestic power.
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The Apollinian vs. the Dionysian in “Parturition”
Nietzsche describes the difference between the Apollonian and the Dionysian in The Birth of Tragedy with the words:
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The Uncanny in Puppetry
Throughout the short story “is your blood as red as this?”, Helen Oyeyemi revises the traditional “Pinocchio” fairytale in which puppets gain sentience, thereby constructing a mind-bending discussion of autonomy, ownership, and control. The narrative follows a young woman named Radha as she enrolls in a renowned school of puppetry with the hopes of wooing her idol Myrna Semyonova. Her acceptance comes as a result of the apprenticeship program spearheaded by Myrna and her peer Gustav Grimaldi.
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Consequences of the Human Mind: The Function of Humans, Animals, and Sexuality in D.H. Lawrence’s Poetry
Because of his upbringing in a time of industrialization, D.H. Lawrence’s poetry is heavily concerned with the interactions between humans and non-human nature. In Hugh Stevens’s essay “D.H. Lawrence: Organicism and the Modernist Novel,” Stevens describes Lawrence as an “ecological antimodernist, continuing a tradition of Romantic organicism which modernism often appears to leave behind” (Stevens 137).
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Storytelling as Healing in Richard Wagamese’s Medicine Walk
Healing, in its physical, metaphysical, and emotional forms, is perhaps one of the few universal postulations. Across a myriad of different and even opposing cultures, traditions, and religions, there is always healing, for the simple fact of life is that pain is part of it. Indeed, problem-solving is human nature, and when faced with even the greatest afflictions, humans learn to survive. Perhaps the oldest form of healing, surpassing in history any version of “modern medicine,” is storytelling, a practice with its origins in Native American healing traditions.
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Spring 2023
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Strategies for Bee Conservation
On What Species Should Our Bee Conservation Efforts be Focused?
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Rhetorical Analysis of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Speech “The Urgency of Intersectionality”
George Floyd, Freddie Gray, Daunte Wright, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner. You most likely recognize most, if not all of, these names. But what happens to our individual and collective memories when the victims of police brutality are women? Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights lawyer, critical race theorist, and minority advocate, noticed that despite Black women also being killed by police, the media (and so the populace) has focused primarily on Black male victims.
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