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    Federation (IAAF) and she was ordered to take a gender verification test. The IAAF wanted to determine if Semenya’s excess testosterone provided her with an unfair advantage. The question to be asking is how do science, sports, and ethics all intersect in Caster Semenya’s story. To start off, sex verification is a gray area and no easy answer exists. A spectrum of factors are relevant to the determination of the sex of a human being. Biology is the first factor to consider. There is the belief

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    The very first concept that stood out to me was the concept of meta discrimination. Reskin talks about how the segregation and “race-linked” disparities in schools, wage earnings, health care, and the criminal justice system. One the points that she made was about how this concept of meta discrimination, “discrimination profoundly helps to maintain racial disparities by suffusing the world we occupy, automatically affecting our beliefs and values about color and worthiness and shaping the distribution

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    How Do We Shape Warfare?

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    Is the study of amphibious warfare best seen as a subset of naval history? Or should it be an area of study unto itself that actually intersects the history of warfare at sea, on land, and most recently in the air? Why or why not? The discussion of amphibious warfare and its primacy in military history is rather ambiguous in the sense that the study of amphibious warfare is incongruous with the traditional scholarship of naval and land warfare. While the use of amphibious tactics dates back through

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    car, I had more freedom to get to places faster. This had nothing to do with my race, or class. Hard work was the key. But that is a whole other story. For this essay, I will attempt to answer this question. How does race and class in our country intersect with cars? I am not one to think about race, class, or stigma of riding the bus in America, which happens to be the title of the article I read. Amanda Hess who wrote “Race, Class, and Stigma of Riding the Bus in America”, asks a couple of questions

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    happen when we find an ideal leader that could make this happen. Believing that the economy would grow. Tangency of a line to a certain curve means that the line would never intersect the curve but only touches it at one point. Being tangent as a person indicates that we could be also see, feel, and relive events but never intersect it. Great leadership determines all that. The government needs someone who can touch every sector of it, without intersecting or

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    society “construct adolescent masculinity through idioms of sexuality”(4). Various aspects of the society like political system, race, stratification, and family help shape the minds of these teenagers. Many aspects of the society influence, and intersect with each other. Race, Power, Economics, and Stratification In River High, an American high school, stratification based on race and power relationships are obvious. Although this ethnography focuses on sex and gender issues, race and stratification

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    Comparing Two Identities

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    the two identities I've developed is the “friend” and “scholar” identity. They both are different but occasionally both personalities intersect each other. I am 18 years old so I haven’t developed certain identities because I am still growing in currently in the adolescence stage where my mind it's getting the sense of being more stabilize of being introduced to independence and you're starting to grasp the idea of what you like and don't like. In this phase, it’s hard at times because of the transition

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    I have noticed that I am already learning some skills necessary for operations research. This includes optimization in Calculus, which may be used for the purpose of creating efficient resource utilization. This intersects with the idea I encountered in economics that we must deal with having scarce resources. I am interested to learn of other ways math can be beneficial for the saving of resources and for the prevention of global

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    Readin Reading

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    I can not recall any memories before learning how to read. I feel like the moment that I learned to shape the world with my mouth and my mind, I was brought to consciousness. The earliest memories I have of enthusiastically reading mesh, and loop, and intertwine with each other. The sensations of thumbing through small wooden-like books of simple nursery rhymes, coincide with the clean scent of what libraries smell like. I remember the sunlight hitting the leather car seats as my dad drove me to

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    What Does It Means To Me

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    ‒ What is it? An imaginary sphere of infinite extent with the earth at its center and on which the stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies appear to be located. ‒ My comment? What does it mean to me? The stars occupy fixed positions on the surface of this 'celestial sphere', and the Earth rotates within it. This is obviously not the case in real life but it is a good model because this is pretty much how things look from our point of view. ‒ What is it? Angles and linear dimensions are measured

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