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  1. Sep 2013
    1. Very good, Callicles; but will he answer our questions? for I want to hear from him what is the nature of his art, and what it is which he professes and teaches

      Socrates wants ask Gorgias questions about rhetoric.

  2. Aug 2013
    1. I want to know how this stigma developed. Why can we look at a person with a broken arm or chicken pox and wince when we do, but then carry on with our lives when, on the flipside, someone mentions that they have a psychological disorder of some sort causes us to look at them with big eyes and then scoot away?
    1. Is Alexander arguing that African American women are defined more by their race than by their gender, whereas white women are defined more by their gender than their race?

      Why does Alexander suggest this? How might this approach affect the history of Women?

    2. When Castañeda talks about how women of color are ignored, I wonder if there's a detriment of calling all women that aren't white women of color. Wouldn't that lead to lumping them all together, making stereotypes about them, and ignoring the vast diversity in that group? Just like the experiences of white women can be different from those of women of color, can't the same be said for Hispanic women, Asian women, and black women since they also all have different experiences.

      Discuss.

    3. What I do not understand is what she means by women of color writers looking to "third world liberation movements" for some aspect of history to write on.

      So, what is Castaneda referring to here?

    4. As a women and gender studies major and a Hispanic woman, I find myself realizing more and more that most of my classes only assign one class to talk about women of color. I wish to understand more why we still ignore women of color when talking in the context of women's history and how we would fix this problem.

      Why is this and how might we fix it?

    5. I wonder how this idea that ‘wages define real work’ applies to today’s society in regards to pay inequality among different races and genders.

      Can we think of examples from today of the impact of this distinction?