Download or read book Only Words written by Catharine A. MacKinnon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacKinnon contends that pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and racial hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such.
Download or read book Only Words written by Catharine A. MacKinnon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When is rape not a crime? When it's pornography--or so First Amendment law seems to say: in film, a rape becomes "free speech." Pornography, Catharine MacKinnon contends, is neither speech nor free. Pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such. Only Words is a powerful indictment of a legal system at odds with itself, its First Amendment promoting the very inequalities its Fourteenth Amendment is supposed to end. In the bold and compelling style that has made her one of our most provocative legal critics, MacKinnon depicts a society caught in a vicious hypocrisy. Words that offer bribes or fix prices or segregate facilities are treated by law as acts, but words and pictures that victimize and target on the basis of race and sex are not. Pornography--an act of sexual domination reproduced in the viewing--is protected by law in the name of "the free and open exchange of ideas." But the proper concern of law, MacKinnon says, is not what speech says, but what it does. What the "speech" of pornography and of racial and sexual harassment and hate propaganda does is promote and enact the power of one social group over another. Cutting with surgical deftness through cases of harassment in the workplace and on college campuses, through First Amendment cases involving Nazis, Klansmen, and pornographers, MacKinnon shows that as long as discriminatory practices are protected as free speech, equality will be only a word.
Download or read book Only Words written by Maggie Caldwell and published by Skye Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-12 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty short stories and poems written by the author over the years.
Download or read book The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering written by Jeffrey Rotter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A darkly comic, wildly original novel of a family in flight from the law, set in a near-future American dystopia, a tender-hearted A Clockwork Orange. In an America of the semi-distant future, human knowledge has reverted to a pre-Copernican state. Science and religion are diminished to fairy tales, and Earth once again occupies the lonely center of the universe, the stars and planets mere etchings on the glass globe that encases it. But when an ancient bunker containing a perfectly preserved space vehicle is discovered beneath the ruins of Cape Canaveral, it has the power to turn this retrograde world inside out. Enter the miscreant Van Zandt clan, whose run-ins with the law leave them with a no-win choice: test-pilot the spacecraft together as a family, or be sent separately to prison for life. Their decision leads to some freakish slapstick, one nasty bonfire, and a dissolute trek across the ass-end of an all-too-familiar America. As told to his daughter by Rowan, the Van Zandt son who flees the ashes of his family in search of a new one, the story is a darkly comic road trip that pits the simple hell of solitude against the messy consolations of togetherness. Uniquely tying the dark-comic futures of Kurt Vonnegut to the absurdist, slow-cooked wit of Charles Portis, The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering is an indelible vision of a future in which we might one day live. "--
Download or read book It s Only Words written by Bill Cariad and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of short stories, verse, and so-named 'Flash Fiction' for the male or female reader who enjoys variety. Topical themes covered by the short stories range from Crime drama (from differing perspectives) Satire (you may even think you recognize a character or two!) and Comedy pieces doing their best to raise a smile or a chuckle. So if you would like to know what might have happened to a pacifist during the first world war, then there's a story here for you. If you want to find out how a man called Malone deals with his unfaithful wife, there's a story here for you. If you want to visit a coward's grave (with a difference) you can do so within these pages. If the spiritual world interests you, then hopefully you will find something positive to take from 'It's Only Words', the short story bearing the title which has been given to this collection. As for the versed work within this collection, the author has again ranged across a multi-coloured palate of subject matter. He has written to amuse you or stimulate you, or even move you if he has caught you at a time when a particular piece may resonate within you as you read.
Download or read book It s Only Words written by Keith Mcclean and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature is the world for sixty-year-old Robert Montgomery. A high school English teacher for more than thirty years, this Brooklyn reader and book lover believes his life has had meaning. But it hasn't been without struggle-especially with the women in his life.Robert Montgomery grew up in post-war England with a promiscuous mother who struggled to conform to the buttoned-up society in which she lived. Kathleen, the woman he marries when he moves to America, suffers severe bouts of depression and dies before her time. Robert's younger sister, Elizabeth, follows him to America to put order back in his life, but later feels her position is threatened. His daughter, Emily, loses herself in her career, only to discover that the diversion is not enough and that she must face what plagues her. In order to make sense of his own life, Robert begins to write, blurring the lines between fiction and nonfiction.Delving into the realms of depression and mental illness, "It's Only Words" explores the fears of an uncertain future and the effects of one life on that of another.
Download or read book It S Only Words written by J.E Bostock and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of poems and short stories. Some were easy to write like memoirs; others took a lot of hard work. It may seem something of a weird collection, but its just the way the authors mind works. The title says it all.
Download or read book Just Words written by John M. Conley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it “just words” when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it “just words” when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power. John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, Just Words seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law. As the only study of its type, the book is the definitive treatment of the topic and will be welcomed by students and specialists alike. This third edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on nonverbal, or “multimodal,” communication in legal settings and law, language, and race.
Download or read book If Only Words Could Breathe written by Jazz G. Sethi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt something so deep that it scared you? Have you ever felt so drowned in emotion that it drained you? Have you ever faced something so real that it forever changed you? This book is a collection of those moments, thoughts, poetry, musings and observations that are woven into an unconscious, yet hugely familiar narrative. In these words, you will find your moments of fear, expressions of joy, teardrops of truth, questions of curiosity and reflections on love. If only words could breathe, they would have this to say.
Download or read book Infinite Learning Diversity written by Tony McCaffrey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-12 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are schools smart enough to detect the cognitive diversity of students? In this book we will discuss a framework that will help teachers identify the talents of their students.
Download or read book Jesus Words Only Or Was Paul the Apostle Jesus Condemns in Revelation 2 written by Douglas J. Del Tondo and published by Infinity. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wittgenstein s Investigations 1 133 written by Andrew Lugg and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Writing to Learn Academic Words written by Breno B. Silva and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the importance of English academic vocabulary for success at university and explores written tasks as effective pedagogical tools to promote the acquisition of academic words. The book reviews germane and recent SLA, psycholinguistic, corpus linguistics, and L2 writing research to underscore the challenges associated with the learning of academic words. Then, it reports on three empirical studies conducted in the Polish context. The first study develops a reliable tool to assess the knowledge of academic vocabulary of undergraduate learners. The second and third studies investigate the learning of academic words after the writing of sentences and argumentative essays, and discuss the role of cognition as a mediator of such learning. The book also provides an accessible introduction to linear mixed-effect models, a powerful, reliable, and flexible statistical technique that has been gaining popularity among SLA and psycholinguistics researchers.
Download or read book The Themes of Quine s Philosophy written by Edward Becker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willard Van Orman Quine's work revolutionized the fields of epistemology, semantics and ontology. At the heart of his philosophy are several interconnected doctrines: his rejection of conventionalism and of the linguistic doctrine of logical and mathematical truth, his rejection of the analytic/synthetic distinction, his thesis of the indeterminacy of translation and his thesis of the inscrutability of reference. In this book Edward Becker sets out to interpret and explain these doctrines. He offers detailed analyses of the relevant texts, discusses Quine's views on meaning, reference and knowledge, and shows how Quine's views developed over the years. He also proposes a new version of the linguistic doctrine of logical truth, and a new way of rehabilitating analyticity. His rich exploration of Quine's thought will interest all those seeking to understand and evaluate the work of one of the most important philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century.
Download or read book A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period written by Henry Sweet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Sweet's work on the sounds of English was first published in 1874, and in this revised version in 1888. Originally intended as a monograph on two sounds only, it ended up as a much broader book, including an investigation of dialects and medieval and modern English sounds.
Download or read book OLYMPIAD EHF CYBER ACTIVITY BOOK CLASS 7 8 written by Dr. Sandeep Ahlawat and published by EHF Learning Media Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activity Book for International Cyber Olympiad (ICO) & other National/International Olympiads/Talent Search Exams based on CBSE, ICSE, GCSE, State Board syllabus &NCF (NCERT).
Download or read book The Philosophy of Parochialism written by Radomir Konstantinovic and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in English--an essay with important insights on the sources of totalitarianism, intolerance, and racism
