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An Analysis Of Critical Thinking At A Liberal Arts College, Amy Goebel
An Analysis Of Critical Thinking At A Liberal Arts College, Amy Goebel
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
This study investigated the differences among first-year, sophomore, junior, and senior college students in critical thinking skills and dispositions as measured by the California Critical Thinking Skills Test and the California Critical Thinking dispositions Inventory. Tests were administered to college students from a small, private institution in a rural area of the Midwest enrolled in general education courses with a majority being first-year and senior students. Consistent with the hypothesis, critical thinking skills and dispositions differed significantly between first-year, sophomore, junior, and senior students. Scores on the two tests were significantly correlated with each other, and scores on the skills …
An Analysis Of Chicana Feminist Rhetoric As Exemplified By Cherrie Moraga, Heather M. Rogers
An Analysis Of Chicana Feminist Rhetoric As Exemplified By Cherrie Moraga, Heather M. Rogers
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
Cherrie Moraga, a Chicana lesbian feminist advocate, cannot completely identify with the Chicano movement, American's women's movement or the Gay/lesbian movements. Even within the Chicana movement, Moraga experience subjugation because of her sexual orientation. The majority of her work has focused on reassessing the role of Chicana, lesbian, and feminist ideology by concentrating on multiple identities and the confluence of oppressions. Moraga has exposed these layers of oppression by using them as the subject of her rhetoric. In her essay La Guera and her poem, Winter of Oppression 1982. Moraga takes the difficulty that multiple identities present and turns that …