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    Drag Racing Drag racing is a form of racing in which two cars line up at the same place, and race each other down a straight track. The first one to cross the finish line wins. Starting If you want to start drag racing, which I personally think is very hard, you’ve got to have some money. Things you’ll need are a trailer, some options of different kinds of trailers are an open trailer, (about $2,500), or an enclosed trailer, (about $5,000), or if you have more than one car that you want to take

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    Chicks (2004). All of these films are examples of socially accepted drag. Drag can come in two forms. Number 1 being actors dressing up as women for a certain role in a film or play and number 2, drag shows usually consisting of an array of songs and the artist lip-synching along whilst dancing, people do this simply to entertain. Only one of these are accepted into our social lives and I ask why? In the middle of December 2016, 2 drag queens were attacked as they walked home from a nightclub in Austin

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    culture” in New York City “and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it” (Livingston). It was Livingston’s investigation that affirmed the link I was uncovering between the gender performance popularly described as drag and spirit possession. The act of men embodying women through physical appearances and gendered behaviors, traces back to Ancient Rome and “classical Chinese theatre,” where women were prohibited from performing on stage. In Native American culture

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    Observation Essay The High Heel Drag Race: Victor Turner I went into the High Heel Drag Race having no idea what to expect. Although I was somewhat familiar with drag, I’d never been to a show before, and what I saw was an incredibly lively and enthusiastic celebration of sexuality and sensuality. I felt like I was part of something unique and closed-off, that and that anything was allowed in spirit of the performance. My observations that evening have led me to view the whole experience through

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    Technology involves using tools to solve problems. From the perspective of a teacher, technology helps present information to students. A smart board or a Promethean board is a form of technology that helps present materials during a lesson. Students with visual impairments and visual learners benefit from the usage of smart boards and Promethean boards. For example, while doing observations for a second-grade class I noticed a teacher using an electronic version of their math textbook. Students

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    The Pioneers and Cars With the popularity of movies like The Fast and the Furious and its sequel Too Fast Too Furious, import car culture has now become mainstream. What had started out as a small subset of Southern California car culture has quickly become part of American culture. In the same way hot rodding of the 50s and muscle cars of the 60s was a cultural lifestyle of the youths of that era, the import scene is now the new car culture of our generation. Car culture runs deeply in

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    The Stonewall Rebellion or Stonewall Riots was a series of violent riots that took place between gay and trans activists, drag queens, and other patrons of The Stonewall Inn against the police after a raid had been carried out by the Sixth Precinct police. The days and rebellions that followed are monumental moments in LGBT and World history. For New York’s gay and trans communities the 1960’s marks a turning point in their history; Sodomy had been reduced to a misdemeanour, with a maximum sentence

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    TRANSlucent; Discrimination Against the Transgender Community in the 1960’s The term transgender is used to define individuals who do not identify with the sex that they were assigned at birth. For example, if a person who is born female decides later on in her life that she would like to identify as a man, that person would identify as a trans-man, and would most-likely use the pronouns “he” or “him” when describing himself. In the late 1950’s to mid-1960’s, the transgender community faced discrimination

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    Butler crafts her theory of drag for two main purposes in her essay “Imitation and Gender Insubordination.” First, the drag queen demonstrates that femininity is not necessarily natural to a woman, but rather the “effect” of certain behaviors and practices. This observation aims to discuss how gender identity is socially established. Further, the drag queen illustrates an obvious clash between sex (maleness) and the gender (femaleness). This aims to unearth the idea that ‘true’ genders do not exists

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    h e w o r l d o f d r a g r a c i n g The world of drag racing is exiting. It is fun to learn and watch. They use co2, like co2, like real co2. The co2 help hem move. “most commonly ¼ mile (1,320 ft (402 m)), with a shorter 3/16 mile 10 feet (1,000 ft (305 m)) becoming increasingly popular, as it has become the standard for nitromethane-powered Top Fuel dragsters and funny cars where some major bracket races and other sanctioning bodies have adopted it as the standard, while 660 ft (201

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