Pratt 1
Pratt 2
Pratt 3
Anzaldua/Freire
Rodriguez/TOEFL
100
struggle with or work hard to overcome
What is grapple?
100
a handwritten document
What is a manuscript?
100
someone who partakes in something
What is a participant?
100
to control or domesticate
What is tame?
100
the state of being tired
What is fatigue?
200
overcome and take control of a place/people
What is conquer?
200
shocked
What is stunned?
200
consequences of an unpleasant event
What is aftermath?
200
the intrinsic nature of something, the core
What is essence?
200
very dry
What is arid?
300
Roman citizens sat according to their social ________________, with the ruler at the top and the peasants at the bottom.
What is hiearchy?
300
She was a great interior designer because she understood the __________ components of a room and how everything she wanted to include could fit perfectly.
What is spatial?
300
I went to a Business Strategies ____________ and attended lectures and workshops by others in my field.
What is a conference?
300
The boss ____________ her employee when she found him messaging on facebook rather than working.
What is reprimanded?
300
I _________ whenever I think of ghosts.
What is shudder?
400
Fever and sweats are ______ symptoms of the disease and emerge in the first two weeks.
What is incipient?
400
One by one, his ___________ supporters started to oppose him.
What is erstwhile?
400
Learning Spanish and making Spanish friends quickly aided in my _________________ into Spanish culture.
What is assimilation?
400
The ruler's __________ approach to governing stripped away individual action and rights.
What is paternalistic?
400
It was an __________ comment and wasn't meant to be offensive at all.
What is innocuous?
500
"While subordinate peoples do not usually control what emanates from the dominant culture, they do determine to varying extents what gets absorbed into their own and what it gets used for" (Pratt 323).
Dominated cultures are exposed to different cultural componants of their oppressors, but they have a choice what and how to absorb that influence.
500
"The depictions resemble European manners and customs description, but also reproduce the meticulous detail with which knowledge in Inca society was stored on quipus and in the oral memories of elders" (Pratt 319).
The pictures had a European style. On the other hand, they showed how detailed and exact the Incas own history was recorded, via handwriting and memory.
500
"Throughout his preadolescent years, baseball history was Sam's luminous point of contact with grown-ups, his lifeline to caring" (Pratt 318)
Baseball connected Sam to adults and fostered his curiousity about the world around him.
500
For activists to “use banking educational methods in the pursuit of liberation...would only negate that pursuit” (Freire 221).
Using the banking concept to relay information about opening minds and encouraging critical thought would be hypocritical and unaffective.
500
“And, unlike many middle-class children, [the scholarship boy] goes home and sees in his parents a way of life not only different but starkly opposed to that of the classroom” (Rodriguez 340).
The home life and school life of a scholarship are in conflict with each other. This personal dilema is very different from a lot of students who come from middle-class families.
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