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This paper examines the incident and approach to the matter of prejudice in children's literature. The paper discuss how this has been accomplished in Terry Pratchett's "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents" and Karen Levine's "Hana's Suitcase." The paper discusses the different ways in which these two authors approach prejudice and how difficult a topic it is to address in children's literature.

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"Dealing with Prejudice in Children's Literature This paper examines the incident and approach to the matter of prejudice in children's literature. Because this can be a difficult subject at any age level, dealing with it in children's literature can be especially difficult. Below, I will discuss how this has been accomplished in Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents and Karen Levine's Hana's Suitcase. Sometimes, addressing prejudice is done in a very straightforward fashion. Readers are never question the fact that prejudice is one of the primary themes of the work. This is the case in Hana's Suitcase. However, other writers approach the subject more subtly and less directly, preferring to dance around the matter with allusion and metaphor. This is Pratchett's approach in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rats."

Tags:children, literature, prejudice

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This paper provides a review of an article entitled "On Pride and Prejudice". The paper relates that the article deals with the book "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.

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"Few authors are associated as closely with their times as Jane Austen. Austen is well known for writing a number of books set in Regency (Georgian) English society. Her works provide a window into the lives and social customs of people living in Regency England. One of Austen's best known books is "Pride and Prejudice". "Pride and Prejudice" is the story of the small English village of Longbourn. In particular the story focuses on the lives of the Bennet family. The Bennet family is composed of the father Mr.Bennet, mother Mrs.Bennet and five daughters. The Daughters names are Lydia, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and..."

Tags:pride, prejudice, review

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This paper focuses on the question of whether prejudce, ethnocentrism, and even nationalism, are inevitable. The paper functioned as an assignment is for a first year anthropology or sociology course. THe question/topic was whether it was possible to make generalizations about the nature of culture free of ethnocentrism and prejudice. The argument that is made in the assignment is that it is not possible to make generalizations about the nature of culture that are free of ethnocentism and prejudice.

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"Culture is one of the most commonly used terms in anthropology and sociology. However, there is a great deal of disagreement about the nature of culture. Researchers even have difficulty in defining culture effectively. For example, in "Theories of Culture" Roger M Keesing argues, that the concept of culture currently has no meaning because definitions used to describe it are either too narrow or too broad(Keesing 1974: 73). Many researchers have tried to create definitions of culture that can take into consideration the diversity and complexity of human societies. For example, Keesing states, ..."

Tags:nationalism, prejudice, racism, bigotry

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This is a research proposal that designs a laboratory test to evaluate the degree of automatic prejudice experienced by participants. It seeks to introduce an intersectional approach to cognitive social research, by using three independent variables grouped by race, gender and age. It details methodology, materials, rationale, expected results and the goal of research.

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"This research proposal aims at exploring the link between categorization and prejudice within the social cognition perspective. Although much work has been done on exploring the link between categorization, or stereotyping, and prejudice, these research projects have tended to focus on only one aspect of social identity to the exclusion of other complexities (i.e. black person, instead of black, married, elderly female). This research proposal will aim to add more complexity to the field by utilizing a multiple, or intersectional,..."

Tags:prejudice, stereotyping, research

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The paper looks at how Jonathan Rauch, in his essay "In Defense of Prejudice," gives that view that we cannot and should not attempt to contain bigoted speech. Instead, the paper explains Rauch's view that we should allow ideas to compete freely since this is the only way in which we can have an intellectual advancement. The paper argues that in a pluralistic society we must accept that there will be unpopular ideas, and to attempt to regulate these ideas is "purism" and is doomed to failure.

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""The genius of intellectual pluralism lies in not doing away with prejudices and dogmas but in channeling them-making them socially productive by pitting prejudice against prejudice and dogma against dogma, exposing all to withering public criticism. What survives at the end of the day is our base of knowledge." - Jonathan Rauch. In his essay "In Defense of Prejudice" Jonathan Rauch does not "defend" bigotry or hate speech, but makes the argument that instead of trying to eliminate it we must accept the existence of unpopular opinions as a necessary part of a free society. To have cultural "pluralism" we must..."

Tags:bigoted, prejudice, plauralism

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This paper describes the emotional and mental growth of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, the protagonists in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." The author traces not only the development of their relationship, but how both characters had to change in order to overcome their own vanity and be able to love another. The paper includes a plot summary which explores Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy's transformation.

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" Elizabeth's dislike for Darcy is obviously grounded in his rejection of her soon after they first meet. Her vanity is hurt when she overhears him say that he would not dance with her because she is neither handsome nor interesting enough, and after that, she gradually grows more and more prejudiced against him until she lays as much guilt as possible on his account. Darcy on the other hand, is prejudiced against Elizabeth because of her family and her social inferiority but quite soon forms a very good opinion of her character. Both of their transformations begin after Darcy's first marriage proposal. Elizabeth indignantly refuses Darcy because she persuaded herself that he was the cause of her sister's separation from Bingley, and of all of Wickham's misfortunes. Darcy's honest confession of his own prejudice against her only enrages her more as she sees in them a token of his extreme vanity: "why [...] [did you choose] to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?"(Austen, 125) The confrontation brings to light all the hidden tensions between them, and the frustrations connected with their pride and their partial thinking. However, the letter that Elizabeth receives from Darcy the next day is the actual point where her transformation begins. She realizes how wrong she has been in her judgment of Darcy and how blinded by vanity, instead of being blinded by love: "She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd."(Austen, 129) The grounds of her preference for Wickham are now clearly revealed, as she herself realizes her prejudice against Darcy began with his rejection of her: "Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance..."(Austen, 130) The extent of the transformation that ensue is given by her realization that she had not known herself up to that moment, because she was completely blinded by her prejudice and her pride: "Till this moment I never knew myself."(Austen, 130) Step by step she tries to reconstruct her feelings for Wickham and the basis of her preference for him, but she discovers that she immediately believed the latter's false confessions only because she was ready to believe anything ill of the man who had humiliated her so on the night of the ball. Indeed, in her conversations with Wickham, Elizabeth was extremely superficial, appreciating him because of his pleasant manners and positive attitude towards her, and omitting any other considerations: "Elizabeth honoured him for such feelings, and thought him handsomer than ever as he expressed them."(Austen, 36) Elizabeth had been definitely wrong in her opinions of both Darcy and Wickham, but had been right about the other man who proposed to her, Mr. Collins. Her match with Collins would have helped the family's situation since he was supposed to inherit their property after Mr. Bennet's death, but Elizabeth dismisses the proposal immediately, being persuaded that neither of them would have been happy and that it would be a mistake: "You could not make _me_ happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so."(Austen, 89) In this episode, Elizabeth is true to her own feelings and unprejudiced. She is witty as usual, but honest and she demonstrates that she believes in marrying for love. This version of Elizabeth can be identified in many other episodes, but in none where Darcy is also involved. Although she is not prejudiced, she is still proud however and refuses to marry Collins also because he emphasizes that he is doing her a favor, just as Darcy will do later. The ultimate stage of her transformation begins when she is at Pemberly, and she sees Darcy again with the knowledge that she has misjudged him terribly. Meanwhile, she had also found out that he had been the secret benefactor of Lydia and Wickham by giving Wickham enough money to persuade him to marry Elizabeth's sister. When the servant at Pemberly talks about Darcy's character and good temper and sets him in an amiable light, Elizabeth realizes even more her former blindness. The servant emphasizes that she does not know a woman good enough to marry Darcy, and Lizzy begins to see Darcy for what he is: "I do not know who is good enough for him."(Austen, 178) The previous tensions between them which were created by their vanity, like in the episode of the ball when Darcy refuses to dance with Lizzy or that at Netherfield, when she refuses to dance with him, are transformed into a deep embarrassment in their meeting at Pemberly. Once they have put aside their vanities and prejudices, they can begin to like each other. Thus, Elizabeth and Darcy undergo important transformations in the novel, and learn how to put aside pride and prepossession when they judge other people. The greatest gain is the fact that they learn to love each other instead of loving only their own selves."

Tags:Jane, Austen, Pride, and, Prejudice, Victorian, literature

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This paper is a literary critique about the novel "Pride and Prejudice". It comments on the view of marriage as portrayed through the characters in the novel.

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"19th century England had serious social problems from the heyday of Royalty and Nobility. One of the most significant of these was the tendency to marry for money. A person sought a partner based on the dowry receivable and their allowance. This process went both ways: a beautiful woman might be able to snag a rich husband, or a charring and handsome man could woo a rich young girl. In these marriages, money was the only consideration. Love was left out, with the thought that it would develop as the years went by. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen comments that marriage in her time is a financial contract, where love is strictly a matter of chance. This is clearly evident from the very first line of the novel: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" (Austen, 1). "

Tags:austen, jane, love, marriage, money, prejudice, pride, view

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This is an insightful essay dealing with the impact of World War Two on two communities, which contain Japanese Canadians and Americans. The two novels, "Obasan" and "Snow Falling on Cedars", show the prejudice and racism of the Second World War, as well as the paranoia of the white community. The essay describes the impacts of the war, and also contrasts how memories and emotions of war can be suppressed by silence or resurfaced in everyday life. This essay shows both effects using the two novels to show the various outcomes.

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"Many memorable events in people's lives have the power to affect their memories, emotions, and relationships later in life. These events may be positive or negative and are dealt with in various ways, such as silence, anger, denial or confrontation. In "Snow Falling on Cedars", by David Guterson, and "Obasan", by Joy Kogawa, the event of World War II creates lasting impressions on all the characters, which are evident even many years later in both plots. In "Snow Falling on Cedars", a man named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged for the murder of a well-liked fisherman. While he and others are on the stand, memories of World War II surface, revealing a complex plot containing separated lovers, a battle for land, and the island's always present, racism. In Kogawa's novel, a schoolteacher named Naomi Nakane visits her Aunt Obasan because her uncle has passed away. During the visit she remembers her family's separation and relocation during World War II through the reading of diaries, and eventually learns the details of her mother's demise after thirty years. Both novels deal with the prejudice toward the Japanese in North America during the Second World War, as well as show the lasting effects that war leaves on its survivor."

Tags:guterson, japanese, kogawa, asian, prejudice, racism, relocation, unfairness, memory, emotion

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This is a fake study written in APA format that concludes that one's level of prejudice affects the extent to which one will have their behavior affected by subliminal racial priming. This conclusion contrasts with Devine's theory of activated stereotypes and falls in line with several real studies that are cited in this paper. This paper has extensive introduction, method, results and discussion sections as well as a full reference section. It also includes some of the "materials" supposedly used during the experiment. The conclusion is hardly controversial and the results are consistent with results that have been found in similar experiments that were actually carried out.

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"While society continues to become less overtly racist and prejudiced in general (Dovidio & Gaertner, 1998), the relationship between stereotypes and behavior remains an important focus of social psychology. This is especially true given the results of several different lines of research over the last 15 years that suggest that stereotypes wield a covert, but strong power to affect behavior even in people who do not endorse - even in those who strongly deny - the validity of the stereotypes (Fazio, Jackson, Dunton & Williams, 1995; Devine, 1989). The true force of stereotypes is even more alarming based on research that shows how easily stereotypes can be activated in a wide variety of situations (e.g., Bargh, Chen & Burrows, 1996; Colcombe, 2001; Devine, 1989; Fazio et al, 1995; Lepore & Brown, 1997)."

Tags:activation, ambady, bargh, behavior, devine, fazio, performance, prejudice, priming, psychology, race, racial, social, stereotype, subliminal

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This paper examines the role of women in 19th century England as presented in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." The paper defines these roles as mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, housekeepers, matchmakers, imperious controllers, and practical acceptors of their lot. These women fit into the picture Austen paints of middle class social life in England at the beginning of the 19th century. The paper further suggests that Austen is poking fun at and mildly criticizing some of the ideas expressed about what women are and should be.

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"The role of the economy and its effects on women's roles is introduced from the very first lines of the novel. Austen says, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife...[and]...he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other" (Austen 1) of the daughters of the neighborhood. Economy and financial matters is an appropriate way to begin the novel because it addresses a central problem for the main characters and for women in general in the early 19th century. Ownership at the beginning of the 19th century was denied to women. According to The Historical Context of Pride and Prejudice, "titles and property usually passed along a male line. Women were usually left something in securities, but such inheritances were often pittances that would not comfortably provide for a woman. While women of the highest classes managed to keep more control of their money and thus of their lives, women of the gentry, with few acceptable job options, had to secure their livelihood by marrying a man of means" (Shepherd xii). The five daughters of the Bennett household are of marriageable or near marriageable age and they are highly motivated to marry because of their financial condition. The fact that their father's estate is entailed away on their nearest male relative, Mr. Collins, will make their situation desperate upon the death of their father. Women could not own property, so they fell under the protection of a father and then a husband. Certainly, poverty and homelessness is not a romantic reason for matrimony, but it is a strong practical inducement to wed."

Tags:Jane, Austen, Pride and Prejudice, literature