If you wish to clarify the concept for your students, you might prefer to help them âfeelâ what a âunit of analysisâ is, rather than give them a rhetorical explanation. As hinted by Simone de Beauvoir, in âThe Ethics of Ambiguityâ, the Bible offers a good example!
exâ¢erâ¢tion. 1. vigorous action or effort. 2. an effort: a great exertion to help others. 3. exercise, as of power or faculties. 4. an instance of this.
The Merriam-Websterâs Collegiate Dictionary defines âoppressionâ as unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power; it is a sense of being weighed down in body or mind; depression. When a person is oppressed they just canât seem to get up or get ahead, no matter what they do. This can apply to certain things in a personâs life, or their lives as a whole. There are multitudes of Christians, as well as those in the world being oppressed in some way or another.