Milestone three: A Letter from the Future – What’s oppression?

For this milestone undertaking, you may be requested to outline oppression and apply this definition to real-world experiences. You’ll write a letter to your self as a child.  Realizing what you recognize now, and what we’ve got been discussing and studying about in school, educate your youthful self. Write your former self a letter utilizing the next immediate:

  1. After finishing your dialogue task, take into consideration what oppression is and what Frye and Younger’s two approaches have in frequent with respect to how they outline oppression. Write a letter to your future self that responds to the next immediate:
    1. Within the first paragraph/part, outline oppression on your youthful self by summarizing the 2 theories we examined (Iris Marion Younger’s essay “5 Faces of Oppression” and Marilyn Frye’s essay “Oppression”).
    1. Within the second paragraph/part, clarify how sexism and racism are two various kinds of oppression by describing them when it comes to the definition of oppression you’ve got established within the first paragraph. Develop on this by describing:
      1. What do racism and sexism have in frequent with each other?
      1. How do they differ from each other?
      1. Briefly describe how racism and/or sexism happens on a neighborhood, nationwide, and world stage. Make sure you embody these concerns. 
    1. Within the third paragraph/part, clarify how types of oppression resembling racism and sexism violate Kantian (categorical imperatives), Aristotelian (advantage ethics), and Millsian principle (the best happiness precept).  You don’t have to debate each facet of every thinker’s theories.  However you will need to talk about the central ideas inside their theories.
  2. Make sure you observe the letter format from Purdue OWL:  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/653/01/  
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