When Home on Break,you Hear a Friend Use Male-Generic Language

question 24

Essay

When home on break,you hear a friend use male-generic language.When you tell your friend it is sexist,your friend wants to know why.Based on what you have learned in this class,how might you explain to your friend that using such language is problematic?

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Definitions:

Hyperbola

A type of smooth curve lying in a plane, formed by intersecting a double cone; it has two disconnected branches.

Asymptotes

Lines that a graph of a function approaches but never touches, indicating direction of curves infinitely far away.

Hyperbola

A type of smooth curve lying in a plane, formed by the intersection of a double cone with a plane in such a way that both halves of the curve are mirror images of each other.

Graph

The visual representation of data or functions on a coordinate system, showing relationships between variables.