The document discusses different types of feminism and provides examples. It defines active feminism as taking actions to promote change, while passive feminism involves agreeing with feminist ideals but not taking action. The author considers themselves a passive feminist for agreeing that signs should be gender-neutral but not working to change any signs. Most people today are said to be passive feminists for voicing small support but no broad actions. Some celebrities voice support online but do little else to create change, making them passive rather than active feminists.

1. Passive Feminist
The dictionary tells us that feminist are women fighting for political, social, and personal equality. The dictionary however, is not always correct
because anyone in society, whether young or old, man or woman, can be a feminist. What makes a person an active feminist, a passive feminist or if
they are solely against feminism? Many people have passively agreed with feminist ideals without realizing they are doing so. I can say I am a passive
feminist because I disagree with construction signs indicating men working when woman may also be working at the same construction site, but have
never created action to change the name of the signs indicating construction. I have no problem associating myself as a passive feminist because I
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Anthony and Disney I placed Anthony as an active feminist and Disney as a passive feminist. When I look at America today, I would place a
majority of men and woman under the passive feminist category. I feel a majority of people fall into those ideals because there are small
arguments regarding feminist issues, but no action is taken on a broader scale to promote change. When I think of a feminist I think of someone
such as Susan B. Anthony, who did something regarding women's rights and made a positive change within society. In today's society, technology
regulates much of our daily life and technology is where people go to voice their opinions about feminist ideals. Often times, celebrities will tweet
about how woman can stand alone from men and how woman should not be sent home for what they wear because it could distract a male
classmate. Those tweets circulate for a while but are soon forgotten. Those celebrities who type those messages are not an active feminist, they are
simply an American utilizing their right of freedom of press under the First Amendment. Anyone can be a feminist, but to be a feminist he or she
needs to do more than tweet to create change. Circulating the idea is a minimal step, one needs to advocate the issue on a more public level to create
change for woman and therefore be considered an active feminist. Some celebrities often argue for woman having more equality with men and their
ideals follow feminist's ideals, but they deny ever associating themselves with the word. These people feel that if they say they are a feminist than, they
are saying that woman are better and more superior then men. These celebrities are acting as passive feminist who are voicing their opinions about
subjects related to the matter but doing nothing more to create change. In another sense some celebrities are active feminist and want to promote
change but will still deny associating themselves with the name. People feel that if they
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2. Passive Voice With Diction
The author opens the last paragraph of the excerpt with a sentence written in passive voice not only to contrast with the active voice that characterizes
the remainder of the passage, but also to encourage the reader to pay special attention to the subject that appears at the end of the sentence – the
"emotional upheaval." The word "upheaval" makes the reader understand the power of the movement on campus – a movement powerful enough to
uproot ingrained racial attitudes. Other words would not have evoked the same response in the reader. By combining her use of the passive voice with
diction, the author heavily emphasizes and indirectly praises the intellectual discourses that took place at Yale instead of public demonstrations. This
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A final example of the author's use of literary devices to evoke a reader response is in the extended alliteration between "dorm...dining" and
"cultural...colors....conversations." This repetition of similar sounds create a sense of continuity for the reader, which further emphasizes the harmony
of the Yale debates and leaves the reader with positive emotions as the passage
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3. The Passive Voice Essay
The Passive Voice
The English language has two voices––the active and the passive. The active voice and the passive voice differ in that a passive verb phrase has an
additional auxiliary BE followed by an EN participle. In a sense, the English passive is "inflexible" when compared to the passive formation of other
languages. For example, some languages use word order, verb inflections, and impersonal constructions to form the passive voice. In their book, The
Grammar Book: ESL/EFL Teacher's Course, Celce–Murcia and Larson–Freeman demonstrate how the Bantu passive voice differs from the English
passive voice. "Kingarwanda, a Bantu language, can make even a locative phrase the subject of the passive as in On the bus was eaten a...show more
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In order to better understand the usage rules of the English passive voice, it is necessary to begin by examining the most common grammatical function
order of English sentences, subject–verb–object.
Active and passive sentences
Subject–verb–object (S–V–O) is the basic structure of English sentences and defines the grammatical function order of active voice sentences. For
example, I can handle Mary is a sentence in the active voice which demonstrates the S–V–O pattern. However, S–V–O is not the only sentence pattern
of the English language; object–verb–subject (O–V–S) is an alternative pattern. For example, Mary, I can handle produces an O–V–S pattern.
In addition to the grammatical function of a sentence such as subject, verb, and object, each noun phrase in a sentence has a semantic role. Semantic
roles are discussed in Finegan and Besnier's chapter on semantics (171). Several of the semantic roles Finegan and Besnier list are: agent, patient,
experiencer, instrument, and locative (200). Therefore, when taking the sentence Americans join Chinese in their morning from the New York Times
Editorial Corpus, one can label Americans the agent, the responsible initiator of the action.
The above sentence, Americans join Chinese in their morning, has two focus positions, a main focus position and a secondary focus position. The
main focus is on

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5. Passive Euthanasia
James Rachel, Active and Passive Euthanasia
Given that there are those who suffer from illness are in great pain and death is the only option to relieve it, how can it be immoral to help them?
How can it be immoral to help someone scientifically knowing that there is no way for them to get better, knowing each day they are in even more
pain, it would not be immoral to help them relieve the pain by ending their life. Referring to animals, most people who see an animal suffering and
know for a fact that the animal would no longer survive, humanely choose to end the animal's life. To people, killing an animal is much less value than
killing a human being. However, it is still the same concept of ending one's life by killing them with a lethal...show more content...
Also, a doctor may refuse treatment if it is unnecessary and believes it may cause even more damage to one's health. Letting "a patient die who was
suffering from a routinely curable illness, the doctor would certainly be to blame for what he had done, just as he would be to blame if he had
needlessly killed the patient'(pg. 220). Lastly, a person chooses not to receive treatment and consents to not receive treatment would also be morally
allowed. James Rachel concludes that there is no difference between active and passive euthanasia. One is not morally better than the other. The
"doctor who gives the patient with cancer a lethal injection has himself caused his patient's death; whereas if he merely ceases treatment, the cancer is
the cause of death"(pg.220). Both situations ending in death. Active Euthanasia is generally seen as more wrong to others because they believe that
killing is morally wrong. If a person is dying and they have nothing but to suffer until they pass, it would be morally right to give them a lethal dose. If
someone had the option to die painlessly, wouldn't it be morally right to endorse it so that the person would no longer suffer. For instance, if an infant
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6. Passive Definition
1. A passive–aggressive person can be annoying at times. They constantly live in a push–pull manner and they do not state what they want but instead
they expect people to know what those needs are. Also, they rarely state their opinions, but we have to figure what their opinions are. For example, my
sister, she is a passive–aggressive person when it comes to choosing restaurants to eat at or what food to eat. She will always say "up to you" but
when I say A she will sigh or look mad. When she does that, I know that she doesn't like my choice. Passive–aggressive could actually destroys the
interpersonal relationship. All relationships with a person who is passive aggressive will become confusing, discouraging, and dysfunctional. I think it
affects
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