For much of this year, Clinton has spoken with ease — and little controversy — about female empowerment. At Tina Brown’s ‘Women in the World’ conference in April, Clinton declared that the “double standard” for women was “alive and well.” In countless public appearances, she has opened up about how that standard played out in […]
The People
In order to understand the Malheur occupation that is happening right now from the occupier’s point of view, I looked into the way that they use the phrase “the people.” A lot of the stances that they are upholding are rooted in a history that closely follows the use of specific words. Such words include […]
Mindful of Malheur
Here is a quick mind-map as we analyze the actors of the Malheur occupation and the theories/big words within in. Certain big words and ideas are used by or to describe different sets of actors in this situation. The occupier’s big words include, but are not limited to: martyr, the people, rights, liberty, property, patriot, constitution, […]
Big Results
On Tuesday we all came together again to create a collection of big words for some of the analysis that we did last week. Our class list of big words was narrowed down to five big words: purity, techno-optimism, enviro-efficiency, apocalyptic, ecomodernist. I only used questions related to values, so my two words (Classic Hero and […]
Big Numbers Making Big Words
This week we have been using SPSS to analyze the statistics from an “EcoTypes” survey that was created last semester with my ENVS 220 class, as well as data from an international environmental survey from 2010. For the EcoTypes data, I ran correlations between answers to specific questions. Using the questions with the highest correlations, […]
But What About Big Words?
Starting on factor analysis today, especially combined with the “big green words” and “factor analysis” readings that we have been doing recently made it clear that when we use big words we also have to ask: so what? Why should anyone care about one big word more than another? What gives any of the “big […]
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