Word: oppressor
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...landscape of the Southwest and a talent for conveying a sense of rootlessness and change. Where Legends works less well is in the concept of the character Red. He is not only supposed to be a father figure to Tom, but to personify the white man as oppressor-a heavy burden for a broncobuster. Millar catches both the affection and the antagonism between him and Tom, but too little passion is generated when they clash. Understated and controlled, the movie would have been better if Millar had allowed more than an edge of anger. Moments that ought to have been...
...makes no sense. Hope when you have known the seamy, brutal underside of a church that stirs the hearts of millions [Christianity], or when you have begun to understand the claim of a Jew dying in the Warsaw ghetto that he would be the oppressed rather than the oppressor if the choice were to be made...
...Nature has been the oppressor," observes Michael Lewis. Women's role as caretaker "was the evolutionary result of their biological role in birth and feeding." The baby bottle has freed women from some of the tasks of that role, but, says University of Michigan Psychologist Judith Bardwick, "the major responsibility for child rearing is the woman's, even in the Soviet Union, the Israeli kibbutz, Scandinavia and mainland China...
...that his life is governed by the same natural laws as all other events in the universe. Freire senses the oneness a peasant feels with the land that gives him life and the sensitive balance with nature that the peasant must live by in the face of a greedy oppressor. Rather than using this solidarity with the world in helping the peasant come to an understanding of the greediness and exploitation of human and natural resources by his oppressor. Freire tries to divorce the peasant from his union with his land and force him to adopt the Western perception...
Heavily influenced by Hegel and Marx, Freire sees social reality as a dialectical process. All people can be divided into two groups, the oppressors and the oppressed, each group essential for the other's existence. An ability to see all people and actions as being with one or against one, as wearing white or black hats with no shades of grey allowed, is a useful political tool in clearly defining the enemy that must be attacked. But it also denies the basic humanity that even the oppressors can process. Freire rejects liberal or progressive reforms initiated by seemingly well-meaning...