Word: instructions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Basic training speaks through a language of homophobia--destructive epithets about gays articulated for motivational or provocative ends, as well as a sexist and often racist rhetoric. The terror of being perceived as homosexual is used to scapegoat weaker members, and to instruct the rest as nonconformant with the desired image of power. And thus are reinscribed sexist machismo, racist intolerance, and hereterosexist assumption of the dominator--to excel in the military you must dominate the other side, conquer them. Misogyny persists with assertion of superiority and necessary justification of violence. Contrast this to the ambience of Robert Coles' "Literature...
...accommodate every possible viewpoint. Possible examples are when a speaker professes racial hatred, when the premise of the discussion is unfounded or irrelevant, or when the sponsors of the debate want to hold it at Harvard to lend credibility to their own political agenda, not to enlighten or instruct...
...year-old I know well seems to misinterpret his parents' preachments about the particularly addictive nature of cocaine to mean, choose prudently from the cornucopia of other drugs available at your local high school. How much easier the burden must be for a parent who can honestly instruct his children, "Don't tell me about peer pressure. Remember, I got through the '60s without drugs...
...even advanced the idea--that the Challenger explosion would become the national tragedy for a generation of Americans. People, they said, would always remember where they were when the heard the news, just as they did when they heard the news from Dallas. Stations dragged out psychologists to instruct parents how to deal with their traumatized children. It seemed as though there was a desire for the national bonding that the Kennedy tragedy brought...
Morris asked Sudduth to alert users about the virus and to instruct them how to contain it. Morris could not send the message out himself because his owncomputer at Cornell University, where he is agraduate student, had been one of the firstdisabled by the virus, Sudduth said...