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Gender Boundaries in 'Howard's End', 2007.
This paper explores the issue of gender boundaries and male/female relationships in 'Howard's End ' by E.M. Forster and looks at the issues and tensions the characters face surrounding these boundaries and relationships.
2,361 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 116.95
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In this article, the writer notes that in 'Howards End', the sense of gender boundaries is so vividly written that one can not only gain an in depth understanding of this novel but also of the age. The writer discusses that the reader is introduced to an unfair society within England that holds so many flaws, yet the feminist political movement is identifiable throughout. The novel itself seems to be building up to some type of significant revolution or cultural change. It does this through the excellent creation of characters like Helen, Margaret and Mr Wilcox who represent figures within the social system. The writer notes that one can see the turbulent lives of these people gradually evolve through the three main families in this novel and not only by gender boundaries but also social class. The writer concludes that the events seem to signify a divided nation that shows a clash of interests, gender and class but ultimately something has to change.
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"A perfect example is when Helen visits the Wilcox's and brings into the family discussion the idea of equality. Her description and opinion of Mr Wilcox's response shows just how much she fits back into the mould of the 'perfect woman', maybe without even knowing it. The simple fact that she feels ashamed of voicing a perfectly reasonable idea is brilliant in showing just how controlled women of that time were. What is even more significant is that fact that Mr Wilcox is the one doing the controlling. The final parts of the novel are in a way very different to the beginning, as the women are presented as much more libertaed especially Helen. The novel may well be representing the progression of female equality which was taking place during that period. Helen is a romantic and spontaneous but these are arguably qualities that a woman were condemned to have. Margaret has broken through by using the gift of peacemaker that she so carefully uses to make other characters closer. Despite the original feelings of many of the Wilcox family such as Charles and Dolly, it is Margaret who has succeeded in getting Howard's End along with the respect of her husband. At the very end of the novel she appears to mirror the first Mrs Wilcox through her gained experience, giving the appearance of wisdom yet has developed a larger sense of self worth and independence."
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Boundaries of Literacy, 2005.
A discussion of the boundaries of literacy, as discussed in "Boundaries Cracked: Gendering Literacy, Empowering Women, Building Community", written by Jennifer Subban and Alma Young.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, AU$ 85.95
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This paper discusses the book "Boundaries Cracked: Gendering Literacy, Empowering Women, Building Community", written by Jennifer Subban and Alma Young. It discusses the issues related to in the literature of the fact that boundaries are formed for poor women in urban societies because of their inability to read and write, creating a manner of existence that restrains them from being able to achieve their goals.
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"Boundaries of Literacy Jennifer Subban and Alma Young write "Boundaries Cracked: Gendering Literacy, Empowering Women, Building Community". Within the literature the authors discuss the fact that boundaries are formed for poor women in urban societies because of their inability to read and write, creating a manner of existence that restrains them from being able to achieve their goals (Subban & Young 49). The inability to communicate through reading and writing, or to comprehend basic information that is dispersed throughout the social order confines them to their world of poverty because they are incapable of seeking help that requires filling out forms, applying for aid, or filling out job applications. Women must struggle to seek help that will provide them with literacy training in order to alter their lives and the existence of their children."
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Professional Boundaries, 2007.
This paper discusses the issue of rapport and professional boundaries within a counseling environment.
2,627 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 17 sources, MLA, AU$ 128.95
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In this article, the writer looks at the subject of professional boundaries within counseling. The writer notes that it is critically important that the counselor has the necessary clinical skills in order to assess and develop levels of rapport with the client that are of an adequate nature. The writer points out that the literature relating to the necessity of a balance between rapport and professional boundaries is sadly lacking. The writer concludes that research should be applied in this direction in order that the current knowledge base be refreshed and that any new findings might be added to this research.
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Introduction
Overview
Importance of Rapport to Counseling Relationship
Importance of Professional Boundaries to Counseling Relationship
Maintaining the Delicate Balance between Rapport and Professional Boundaries
Respectful Persistence
Current Research on Strategies and Interventions for Maintaining Rapport and Boundaries Simultaneously
Implications for Counselors: Rapport/Boundaries Imbalance
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"This is the client who has been forced to attend counseling and may prove difficult to work with in the early stages of counseling. This client is skeptical and has not acknowledged any need for change. The counselor must gain the client's respect and upon that basis establish trust with the client. Solution-focused strategies are considered effective and the counselor should outline the counseling process, identify what the counselor's role is, and outline the rights and duties belonging to the client and finally the counselor should state the outcomes expected from counseling therapy."
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Roles, Responsibilities and Boundaries Of The Teacher, 2008.
This is a report that sets out to define, describe and explore the general responsibilities and boundaries of teachers.
1,321 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 71.95
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The report focuses on the responsibilities of teachers and the various methods used to educate, motivate and stimulate students. It looks at a combination of roles to stimulate learning, such as being a guide, mentor and role model. It also comments on specific responsibilities and on the boundaries that must be set with regard to the teacher-student relationship.
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Introduction
Role of Teacher
Responsibilities
Boundaries
5. Conclusions
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"The role of the teacher also embraces an awareness of the different theories of learning in order to help inform their own practice. Reece and Walker (2003) refer to the main theoretical branches of how people learn - behaviorist, humanistic and cognitivism and suggests that teachers should not stick to just one model but be adaptable and decide which model might best suit their student as well as integrating different aspects of these models at different times for different subjects and for different learning styles."
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Boundaries in Maghribi, 2002.
Discusses the problems arising from unclear boundaries in Maghribi, including identity problems within the nation.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 71.95
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Many underdeveloped countries have problems with boundaries that cause problems with the leaders, economy and people. Identity and attachments of regions are important in every country and countries such as Maghribi with unclear boundaries suffer from identity problems.
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Racial Boundaries in Public Education, 2006.
A look at the various solutions applied in an attempt to remove the boundaries between the races in public education.
3,582 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 161.95
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This paper begins with a general overview of the African-American experience beginning with the era of slavery and ending in present times. The paper discusses the persistent problem in public education regarding racial boundaries. The paper looks at the various measures that have been attempted in an effort to eliminate these boundaries and explains some of the advantages and disadvantages of these measures.
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"Over 50% of Blacks settled in the eastern part of the District or in Prince George's County, while the majority in the Western part in Montgomery County and the suburbs of Virginia are predominantly white (Turner and Hayes 1997). Furthermore, more than half or 52% of the total increase in the suburban black population happened between 1980 and 1990 in Prince George's County, reflecting the huge expansion of the African American population inside and outside of the Beltway. The poor blacks, however, did not fully benefit from or share in the growing suburbanization of Washington's African American population, with the majority of poor African Americans in the District and a quarter of them living in very high levels and conditions of poverty (Turner and Hayes)."
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"Open Boundaries", 2002.
A review of Sherman and Schultz's "Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation Through Complexity".
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 100.95
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This paper assesses the views put forth by Sherman and Schultz in "Open Boundaries". There will be a strong emphasis on the areas of business organizational theory within the modern world. The research style utilized by Sherman and Schultz will also be examined in terms of its effectiveness and consistency in presenting the materials. A personal response to the book will conclude this paper.
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"Migrant Women: Crossing Boundaries and Changing Identities", 2005.
A review of the book "Migrant Women: Crossing Boundaries and Changing Identities" by Gina Buijs.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 42.95
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This paper comments on the introduction written by Gina Buijs to the book "Migrant Women: Crossing Boundaries and Changing Identities" and specifically on the subject of gender differences among migrants showing that the different experiences of women have been ignored and that this new research means to correct this failure, noting some of the different ways women experience migration.
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"Gina Buijs in the Introduction to the book Migrant Women: Crossing Boundaries and Changing Identities, makes several comments about how discussions of migration leave women out of the equation or only include them as dependents of the males. This is clearly an overstatement, for much of the discussion of migration simply refers to the number of people migrating and does not make any distinction for gender or even age. Buijs's discussion is actually more focused than this and refers to the women featured in the book that follows, and for that particular population her comments have resonance. When extended to the entire world of migrants, though, many of her comments are questionable."
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?The Boundaries of Blackness".
This paper reviews Cathy J. Cohen's ?The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics?, which discusses the debate regarding the absence of a strong African-American vote.
1,820 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 94.95
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This paper explains that Cohen challenges the notion of a cohesive African-American vote by noting that African-Americans failed to become a strong political force because their political, business, and church leaders focus on imbibing the values of mainstream, middle-class America. The author points out that Cohen argues that, despite the growing threat of AIDS, African-American leadership failed to galvanize the population around this issue, which affects African-Americans as a group, despite categorical differences. The paper states that the Cohen believes that the attitudes of black leaders resulted in a secondary marginalization of gays and lesbians, who, due to their race and sexual orientation, remained among the most disenfranchised citizens.
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"Cohen begins by dispelling the notion of a politically-cohesive African American community, one wherein race supposedly overrides differences spawned by class, gender or even ethnicity. Instead, she maintains that this cohesion is ?being challenged and sometimes replaced by cross-cutting issues and crises rooted in or built on the often hidden differences, cleavages, or fault lines of marginal communities? (9). There is thus no strong ?black vote,? because the African American community is highly fragmented and factionalized."
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Michael Jordan: Overcoming Racial Boundaries, 2000.
A look at Michael Jordan and his impact on the world of racial inequality.
4,900 words (approx. 19.6 pages), 12 sources, AU$ 200.95
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A look at how Michael Jordan was able to transgress racial boundaries and still succeed. The author looks at Michael Jordan's career, his struggle against accusations and his contributions to the world of basketball and racial separation. The author makes use of Bob Green's Rebound: "The Odyssey of Michael Jordan" and Charles Barkley's "Michael".
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"For 13 brilliant seasons Michael Jordan danced the dance of greatness across hardwood floors of basketball arenas from New York to Los Angeles to Barcelona and Paris. With a warrior's heart and an artist's grace, Jordan long ago transcended the sport to become one of the 20th century's global icons, as well as transgressing racial boundaries and becoming ?a catalyst in our ingoing racial healing?. Michael Jordan represents the high mark on the evolutionary chart of basketball greatness. He was able to evolve not only basketball, but also people?s mindsets of African-Americans."
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The Bonds and Boundaries of Whiteness, 2002.
A look at how some "white races" viewed other "white races" as inferior.
1,520 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 81.95
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According to the Teutonic Origins supporter?s point of view, the bonds of whiteness became limited to only those of the ?superior? Saxon, Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-American, bloodlines of their Teutonic forefathers; everyone else is outside the boundary. This paper discusses how the acceptance of Social Darwinism only allowed the Teutonic Origins Theory to take root more easily. It explains, however, that the theory has no historical nor scientific evidence to back it up and, thus, is invalid; the similarity between the Irish and the ?Teutonic races? ?ensured that Anglo-Americans would rarely be able to use ethnicity to structure society in a way that would guarantee their cultural, political, and economic dominance.?
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"Racism evolved in the United States during the antebellum period. It moved past the feelings of superiority over and against blacks by whites. Racism spread to the white population, instigating a conflict between certain white races. Social and scientific theorists in Europe and in America began discussing the Teutonic Origins Theory, a racist idea that declared the white races of ancient German tribal descent superior to other whites not of this ancestry, as well as all non-white people. Social Darwinism, the application of Charles Darwin?s ?survival of the fittest? theory to society, allowed the Teutonic Origins Theory to take root. When this theory had taken root, racism towards immigrants, especially the Irish, began to define the bonds and boundaries of whiteness in America."
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"Edgewalkers: Defusing Cultural Boundaries On The New Global Frontier", 2002.
A critique of Nina Boyd Krebs' book.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, AU$ 38.95
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Critique of Nina Boyd Krebs' book. Her thesis that the USA is undergoing a profound cultural crisis. Mainstream versus alternative ethnic, social or spiritual groups. Variety of individual experience. The paradox of multiple identities, and walking the edge between two cultures. Analysis of edgewalking and personal narratives of edgewalkers.
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"This research reviews the book Edgewalkers by Nina Boyd Krebs. Edgewalkers is Krebs's response to what she perceives as a profound cultural crisis in the United States. She refers to the "morass" of an American experience in which the dominant, or mainstream culture, seems capable of literally swallowing up the myriad individual cultures that contribute to it; the melting pot theory is one aspect of this (15f). But she takes the view that acknowledgment and even nurturing of the individual cultures of discrete contribution to the "pot" is a meaningful possibility, not least because the image of the pot has the effect of limiting outlook and perspective of the realities of lived culture. In order to establish a context for such acknowledgment and nurture, Krebs pursued the personal narratives of a number of people whom she describes as ..."
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Breaking the Boundaries of Structured Society, 2001.
A look at structure versus chaos in the Africa of Joseph Conrad's novella, "Heart of Darkness".
965 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 55.95
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This paper explores the weaknesses inherent in the structure of imperialistic society and the internal conflict between nature and society in Conrad?s novella. The paper concludes that chaos, darkness and destruction are, in effect, direct results of this structured order, for they lead to an imbalance in man's nature that leads to inner conflict, confusion and turmoil.
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"As Marlow proceeds further into the interior of Africa on his "mission", it becomes obvious to the reader that this mission is not one of spiritualism, but instead one of materialism. It is, in effect, part of a network of British imperialistic conquest that, under the cover of Christian missionary work, involves stripping the continent of Africa of its resources of ivory through the use of force and the enslavement of the continent's native people. The fact that Marlow continues to view his journey as noble and justifiable in spite of the increasing incidents of horror and brutality that he witnesses is exemplary of the blinded attitude of imperialism, an attitude that was deeply rooted in centuries of social conditioning and the righteousness of social order. Marlow persists in his selective view of his mission even as he himself becomes acclimated and begins to participate in acts of brutality, but over time the disguise wears thin and results in an inner turmoil and conflict that ultimately reveals the destructiveness and evil inherent in man's self-made hierarchy."
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Freedom of Speech Boundaries, 2001.
Focus on speech codes on college campuses to control speech demeaning to any group. Discusses legal history, pro & con arguments. Concludes codes to control "hate speech" not a good idea.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 63.95
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"Americans value the freedom of speech assured them in the U.S. Constitution, but they also seem to accept that there are some boundaries to freedom of speech, though what those boundaries are is controversial and may shift over time. One issue of free speech today is described under the title "Political Correctness," or "PC." It is defined as efforts by certain political groups, primarily those on the left, to enforce some form of speech code in order to control speech to ban any term or phrase that might be considered demeaning to any group in society, so-called "hate speech." One of the problems with these efforts is the vagueness of the terms used to define it--what is "demeaning," and how is it to be decided when a given phrase is demeaning or not? Richard Goldstein writes ..."
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Boundaries of Free Speech, 2004.
A look at whether campus speech codes are the right way to address the problem of hate speech, or if such speech codes violate free speech to such a degree that they should not be adopted.
2,510 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 14 sources, MLA, AU$ 123.95
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This paper asserts campus speech codes are the wrong way to address the problem of hate speech, especially because they exist in a academic setting where freedom of speech should be better understood. The paper concludes that curbing the speech of those who would curb our speech is never the answer. The only way to transform minds is to challenge the ideas behind the hate speech directly through dialogue.
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"Americans value the freedom of speech assured them in the U.S. Constitution, but they also seem to accept that there are some boundaries to freedom of speech, though what those boundaries are is controversial and may shift over time. One issue of free speech today is described under the title "Political Correctness," or "PC." It is defined as efforts by certain political groups to enforce some form of speech code in order to control speech and ban any term or phrase that might be considered demeaning to any group in society, so-called "hate speech." One of the problems with these efforts is the vagueness of the terms used to define it--what is "demeaning," and how is it to be decided when a given phrase is demeaning or not? In his chapter, "Hate Speech, Free Speech, and the Unspoken," from the anthology Signs of Life, Richard Goldstein writes, The perception of crisis is why hate speech has become a divisive issue among progressives. The distressing force of the current backlash against hard-won minority rights creates a fundamental conflict between our commitment to free expression and our desire to protect and preserve the victims of abuse. The result is an aching uncertainty about where to draw the line. (412) The question, then, is whether campus speech codes are the right way to address the problem of hate speech, or if such speech codes violate free speech to such a degree that they should not be adopted."
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"Howard's End", 2003.
An examination of the importance of gender issues in E.M Foster's "Howard?s End".
1,390 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 75.95
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This paper discusses how E.M Foster's novel, "Howard?s End", is an attempt to debunk the gender roles of his era. It explains how this novel is considered to be the best of the author's work as a symbolic exploration of the social, economic, and philosophical forces in England in the first half of the 20th century. Foster uses three English families of different classes to explore the competing ideals of materialism, intellectualism, and aspiration. It shows how Foster, through the depiction of the female characters, claims that gender is a social creation and that gender roles are relative to each period and can be studied in their historical context.
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"How do we conceive of ourselves as embodied beings? How do we come to have a realization of our gendered existence? These are some of the most significant questions in human history. Today scholars and historians believe that gender identity does not exist as primordially and externally fixated but is invented, created, resisted and subverted the fulcrum of multiple identities. So enmeshed is gender in this axis that differences such as race, class, caste and community may be steeped in and spoke through the language of sexual difference. Thus the question of invention of identity is also a question of power wherein gender becomes the signifier of power differences. Gender differences are not modern phenomena it has existed in ancient times and throughout history, the sexual differences were common in Roman, Greek and Egyptian civilization. Even in the mythic stories of Gilgamesh, Norse myths, Code of Hammarabi, Egyptians stories, Iliad, Homer, Arabian Nights and many more depict the sexual differences. Men and women are presented in different ways, assigned different roles and have specific characters."
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