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Since we discussed the issue of sex bias in medicine - and particularly in relation to heart attacks - I though folks would be interested in this recent study Women's Heart Symptoms Often Blamed on Stress.
Grade scale A 45-50; B 40-44; C 35-39; D 30-34
Rewrites if you received below an A (44 points or below)
Rewrites have the possibility of improving up to full points for the paper.
Due on Monday 10/20 for M/W and Tuesday 10/21 for T/R classes. You may also drop the rewrite off in my office in SS217.
You must attach the paper I graded to the rewrite.
Paper 1 is a "test" of your understanding of concepts and paradigms from Weeks 1 & 2 of the course. Regardless what topic or question you wrote on, the paper should significantly feature, and clearly use those concepts as they apply to your paper.
Tim Jacob Wise
Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., and has been called, "One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation," by best-selling author and professor Michael Eric Dyson, of Georgetown University. Wise has spoken in 48 states, and on over 400 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the Law Schools at Yale and Columbia, and has spoken to community groups around the nation. Wise has provided anti-racism training to teachers nationwide, and has trained physicians and medical industry professionals on how to combat racial inequities in health care. He has also trained corporate, government, entertainment, military and law enforcement officials on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions, and has served as a consultant for plaintiff's attorneys in federal discrimination cases in New York and Washington State.
Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White. A collection of his essays, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male, will be published in the Fall of 2008, and his fourth book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Race and Whiteness in the Age of Obama, will be released in Spring, 2009.
Wednesday, October 15 at 11 a.m.
Location: Sylvania Campus, PAC Auditorium
Tim Wise: Beyond Diversity
Beyond "Diversity": Challenging Racism in an Age of Backlash
Book signing to follow.
Contact: Multicultural Center at 503.977.4112
Thursday, October 16 at 11 a.m.
White Privilege: Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality
Location: Cascade Campus, MAHB 104 with overflow seating in CA TH 122
Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable yet scholarly, analytical, and accessible.
Contact: Kendi Esary at 503.978.5781
Saturday, October 18 at 9 a.m.
Location: Rock Creek Campus, Building 3, Forum
"Profiles in Distortion: Misusing Data to Justify Racism and Privilege"
Tim Wise, writer and activist
Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., having given lectures in 48 different states, and on over 400 college campuses. He has trained a multitude of teachers, corporate employees and law enforcement officers in methods for dismantling racism in their institutions.
Contact: Brenda Maldonado at 503-614-7279.
Stereograms are 3D images hidden within another picture. In order to view the 3-D images. They are a picture within a picture. Gazing at the picture we see an image or picture. However, if we look just right, we see a totally different picture emerge. These types of images are also sometimes called "magic eye."
Here are a couple of links to examples:
Welcome to Fall term and to Rowan Wolf's Sociology 204 Website!
I am looking forward to meeting you all and to having an exceptional start to the new school year. Please feel free to explore the site and resources available. You may access the syllabus and look it over. It indicates the required texts, course requirements and our schedule.
Students sometimes wonder what the difference is between anthropology and sociology. Here is one attempt at an explanation.
Anthropology is the study of humankind and its culture in the past, present and future. This broad definition allows students to study anthropology as a social science and to pursue specific areas of interest such as archaeology (human cultures in the past), cultural anthropology (the study of modern cultures), linguistic anthropology (language, its history and development) and physical anthropology (including evolution, paleoanthropology, primatology and forensic science).
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An excellent research paper by Kristy Reddick - Spring 2008
Throughout the countless wars of human history, rape and other forms of sexual violence have been perpetrated against citizens by advancing soldiers and occupational military forces. While in the past, rapes and other sexual aggressions have been considered as random occurrences taking place in the "fog of war", increasing evidence may prove to debunk this social myth, especially in cases of ethnic cleansing and genocide. The opportunistic rape and pillage of previous centuries has been replaced in modern conflict by rape used as an orchestrated combat tool, (Smith-Spark, 2008) used to humiliate and demoralize individuals and cause ruinous rifts between spouses, extended family members and whole communities.
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