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The Third Sex

For centuries, although inaudible, there has been some talking about an intermediate sex, about people who were neither male nor female. The term of the third gender or sex delineates people who are characterized neither as men nor as women, a social category present in those societies who cognize three or more sexes. In diverse cultures or individuals, the third sex or gender may represent an intermediate state between men and women; a state of being together (the soul of a man in a woman's body), and a state of being neutral (neutrophil - neither man nor woman), the ability to change or cross gender, a category totally independent from men and women. Thousands of social schemes are implemented by governments, but they only refer to men and women and the third sex or gender is not part of them. This condition is a requirement for various state governments as well as an overview of the level of democracy and the recognition of human rights in these countries. Given the complex network of people and a significant number of eunuchs in the world, it is not possible to close our eyes and ignore their existence. It is necessarily required government's intervention through legislative reforms in recognition of eunuchs as equal citizens of the world. Gender studies comprehend a field of interdisciplinary research dealing with gender and the way how society, in time and in space, has interpreted and fed the differences between masculine and feminine genders, legitimizing not only inequality between men and women but denying the right of gays, transgenders, intersexes' citizenship et cetera. There are bisexual, or transgender, multi-sexual organisms where their dubious gender identity is essential for their survival. To utter such behaviors as unnatural ones, it means to ignore the reality of things, choosing to be against nature purposely, etc.
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The Use of Reference, Substitution, Ellipsis and Conjunction A Form and Function Process in EFL Written Discourse

This study analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively the cohesive devices used by undergraduate students in their argumentative essay. 45 essays statistically qualified as the corpus of the study. Halliday and Hasan (1976) concept of grammatical cohesion was used as framework for the analysis of the essays. Reference had the highest frequency which is 90.67% of the total cohesive devices with mean score 53.37. Conjunction occurred 326 times in the essays, which is 9.08% with mean score 5.34 while substitution was the least used type of cohesive device which is only 0.25%. The cohesive devices are not significantly correlated with the quality of the students' essay. The resulting r using Pearson r is -0.054 which is not significant at 05 level of significance. Based on the qualitative analysis, it was found out that certain cohesive types assisted the students in the argumentation process. For instance, the use of adversative conjunctions helped the students establish counterclaims. However, ‘but' is the most frequently used adversative conjunction by the students which may signify that their knowledge on the use of this kind of cohesive device is limited. There were instances where the students can use concessive like “yet or however” to establish stronger claims. Hence, qualitative analysis supports the concept of form and function. In the students' argumentative essays, certain forms were chosen over the others for specific purpose that supports the overall objective of an argumentative text.
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