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Stereotyping Experiment: “A Class Divided” Summary and Analysis
A free online PBS documentary called A Class Divided takes a look at a two-day experiment conducted by a third-grade teacher, Jane Elliott, in Iowa. The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, Jane Elliott knew that merely telling and preaching to her third-graders against discrimination wasn’t enough. “The shooting of Martin Luther King…
Here’s how life could change in my city by the year 2030
Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city – or should I say, “our city”. I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes. It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything…
Journey Home by Yoshiko Uchida Book Review
Name of Book: Journey Home Author: Yoshiko Uchida Type of book: 1940s, WWII, Internment camp, getting on with life, survivors, for young adults Year it was published: 1978 Summary: World War II is raging. Yuki and her Japanese-American family are forced from their home in California and imprisoned in a US concentration camp called Topaz….
The Ethics of Fiction Writing
The first principle of the medical doctor’s Hippocratic oath is: above all, do no harm. And I think that applies to the fiction writer, too, presuming his subject is worthy of such caution. In fact, most book contracts from major publishers require a guarantee from the author that the prospective manuscript’s contents will not cause…
Evil Eye in the Mexican and Central American Culture
Belief in the evil eye, or mal de ojo, is a culture bound syndrome in traditional Mexican and Central American culture. According to the superstition, this illness results from the perception that some people possess innate strength, the power to harm those without this advantage. The weak included women, elderly, babies and young children, while…
Great American Essayists
Do you know that famous novelists and great thinkers found writing essays enjoyable? Of course, when modern students here the word ‘essay’, they immediately have an unpleasant association with a boring, standardized five-paragraph piece of writing on a theme which cannot inspire anyone. Yet, treasuries of the majority of great authors, including American authors, contain…
Intercultural Communication: High-and Low-Context Cultures
Anthropologist Edward Hall founded the field of intercultural communication in 1959 with his book The Silent Language. The book was originally intended for the general public, but it sparked academic research in intercultural communication and fueled interest in subjects like nonverbal communication, according to Keio Communication Review. Hall defines intercultural communication as a form of…
Stats roundup: coronavirus impact on marketing, ecommerce & advertising
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic is impacting every part of our lives, from the places we can go to the way we spend our time, to the priorities we have and the way we spend our money. Of course, this has wide-ranging ramifications for marketing, advertising and ecommerce – as well as a number of other…
Anti-Racism Defined
“Anti-racism is the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies and practices and attitudes, so that power is redistributed and shared equitably.” – NAC International Perspectives: Women and Global Solidarity Anti-racism examines the power imbalances between racialized people and non-racialized/white people. These imbalances play out in the form of…
