Week+5+Discussion+Questions

Discussion Questions for 9-29-11 //Rod K. Taylor// //Zak Aldukhayil// //Ziyad Alkhalifah// //Muhammad Alatrash// //Alex Wang// > **a**- What is the act done by one to become man or woman? Is one born gay or does he/she have to "act" and do certain things to change from heterosexual to homosexual? > **b**-In the first quote the authors say : Act leads to Fact. In the second quote they say: we don't get to choose! Hence, no action is done!?? just the fact that you are who you are?? How do we reconcile between the two quotes? >
 * Differences**
 * 1) "one is not born a man or woman or homosexual, one becomes.....only in the context of performing or not performing certain acts." Nealon & Giroux (188). The authors also say that the status of facts is always beholden to certain acts and NOT vice versa. "..gender and sexuality-is that they represent sites where we DON'T get to choose" Nealon & Giroux (201).
 * 1) Nealon and Giroux state in the gender section, “that biology is used as a warrant for the strict determination and limitation of social roles.” Does biology have an impact on the roles of gender in society, or it the perception of gender roles a social construct instead of a biological construct?
 * 2) The three eminent figures of stream of conscious, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, share the same-sex sexual orientation. Do you think that their appliance of stream of consciousness narrative mode is an inevitable “performative” action of homos? Or it is a sheer coincidence? Does their sexual orientation make their works different? If so, in what way?
 * Agency **
 * 1) Logically, society only produces obedience. Taking the Arab spring as an example, Arab writers didn't have the freedom of speech, now the only thing they write about is freedom and democracy. Don't you think that by oppression and injustice that instead of obedience, societies create resistance? The human nature can only tolerate so much!
 * 2) Chomsky argues that "as long as the individual faces the television tube alone, freedom poses no threat to privilege." Do you think we live in a world where agency is actually doing a greater disservice to our political or cultural life than before?
 * 1) Logically, society only produces obedience. Taking the Arab spring as an example, Arab writers didn't have the freedom of speech, now the only thing they write about is freedom and democracy. Don't you think that by oppression and injustice that instead of obedience, societies create resistance? The human nature can only tolerate so much!
 * 2) Chomsky argues that "as long as the individual faces the television tube alone, freedom poses no threat to privilege." Do you think we live in a world where agency is actually doing a greater disservice to our political or cultural life than before?
 * 1) Logically, society only produces obedience. Taking the Arab spring as an example, Arab writers didn't have the freedom of speech, now the only thing they write about is freedom and democracy. Don't you think that by oppression and injustice that instead of obedience, societies create resistance? The human nature can only tolerate so much!
 * 2) Chomsky argues that "as long as the individual faces the television tube alone, freedom poses no threat to privilege." Do you think we live in a world where agency is actually doing a greater disservice to our political or cultural life than before?