In her book Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, bell hooks describes how she helps her students find their voice within her classroom.She discusses her use of authority to enable her students.For her, teacher authority is a necessary part of helping her students find their voices: Another important issue for me has been that each student participates in classroom discussion, that each student has a voice.This is a practice I think is important not because every student has something…

2015 Early Civilization All civilizations, whether old or new, strive for advancement. In order to advance, certain techniques and characteristics have to be combined and manipulated to achieve this progression. “A civilization is a complex culture in which large numbers of human beings share a variety of common elements.” Examples of these early civilizations that used similar characteristics to flourish were the Sumerians in Mesopotamia and the Egyptians in Egypt. A civilization is formed by…

the birth of civilizations. There were many ancient civilizations in the world like, India civilization, Chinese civilization, Middle East civilization, Mesopotamian civilization, Egyptian civilization, Greek civilization, Roman civilization and others which greatly contributed to the development of the world history. Each civilization had their own way to follow culture, religions, public life, economic life, and others. Therefore, in this paper, I will describe how Indian civilization, Egyptian…

must know the difference between talking and communicating. In Merriam-Websters online dictionary communication is defined as a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior. There are many strategies that a leader may focus on to ensure they are being effective. Below we discuss a few of these strategies and even a few common barriers as well. Knowing the Audience Knowing who you are talking to, your audience, could mean the…

Civilization, derived from the latin word “civis” meaning “citizen”, or simply someone who lives in a city. However, what is the difference between a group of people who live in a town and our modern concept of civilization. To find the answer to that question we can turn to the civilizations of ancient times. The beginning of civilization as we know it began in the Neolithic era. This era began with a very distinct change to the way of life, from the old way of migrating constantly to wherever…

Patricia Grace, a well-known Maori writer, wrote the story “A Way of Talking.” Grace was the first Maori woman to be published. She tends to write about the relationship between indigenous Maoris and new settlers from Europe and Australia in New Zealand. In the 19th Century, European and Australian people invaded New Zealand which was previously inhabited by Maori people. Maori culture struggles to be conserved as they make up merely eight percent of the population of New Zealand despite their original…

Islamic civilization can be seen in many different things, including religion, art and architecture, science and philosophy, and gender roles, which all show the ways that it contributed to not only the past society but today’s world as well. In four lectures at a public library, I will be describing Islamic civilization using the four topics previously mentioned along with some others. These lectures will describe the history of Islamic civilization, some major contributors to the civilization, and…

Conservatism, which fathered all other -ism's. While all three of these writers gave us so much, it is important to look back and and see not only where their ideas came from, but also how there were in some ways just different interpretations of the same thing, and where they were in stern disagreement. One of the most important arguments that these men debated is that of the origin of civilization. This argument is fundamental, because it gives a foundation of reasoning. Armed with reason, all these men needed…

Psych 253 Book Review: Talking to the Enemy Richard Marion In his book Talking to the Enemy (2010), Scott Atran uses his experiences in the countries often perceived as the origin of most global terrorist actions against the United States combined with scientific proof from a wide variety of sources to argue for new methods of understanding and stopping terrorism as it exists today. Though many examples and analyses of terrorist acts are examined in the book along with many different explanations…

One of the greatest ancient Mesoamerican civilizations lies right below modern day Mexico City. (Yellow,16) Legends have been told about the history of Mexico City, but not until recently was the great city of Tenochtitlan uncovered while construction workers were digging in Mexico City. There are very few physical remains of the ancient city today, but the history of this great civilization is still with us. This civilization was created by the Aztecs, who built their empire in 1325 AD. (Yellow…