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Stream Of Consciousness Change The World
1,187 words... earing no necessary relationship to everyday living. The following statement describes how the audience comprehended the film, their subconscious were provoked and liberated and the only way they could deal with the marvelous was to attack the film and its creators. Andre Brenton (1896 - 1966), was a French poet and critic, a leader of the surrealistic movement. He was born in Tinchebray, Orne Department, studied medicine, and worked in psychiatric wards in World War I. Later, as a writer in...
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Day To Day Part Of Life
1,057 wordster> What constitutes the 'tribulations of the self' in contemporary society, according to Anthony Giddens? Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer. This essay will seek an explanation of what constitutes the 'tribulations of the self' according to Anthony Giddens (1991). In the first part of this paper, I discuss some central ways language has been viewed focusing the review on social constructivist writings as well as those stemming from the study of human development. In the seco...
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Socio Economic Change After World War I
1,681 wordsMany social, political and economic problems plagued the world at the end of World War I, leading people to search for alternative solutions. Coincidently as the war ended, Fascism was introduced to the masses. Fascism was everything the people looked for and wanted. It placed an emphasis on the nation as the center and regulator for all history and life, and on the indisputable authority of the leader behind whom the people were expected to form an unbreakable unity. (Britannica. com, 2. 10. 01...
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Artificial Intelligence Virtual Reality
1,440 wordsThe Matrix is a postmodern film about life in the year 2199. The word matrix in terms of computers is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, an interconnected array of diodes, cores, or other circuit elements that has a number of inputs and outputs and somewhat resembles a lattice or grid in its circuit design or physical construction. The film questions whether or not we live in reality or we live in a virtual world. The film claims that we (the human race) live inside our minds and that ...
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Great Leap Forward Republic Of China
1,469 wordsThe Peoples Republic of China is rich in cultural and natural diversity. and is listed by biologists as a 'mega diversity country'. Since 1950, when China embraced modernity, the forests have been indiscriminately felled reducing forest cover. This has threatened biodiversity, causing drastic declines of mammal and bird counts, recurrent flooding and erosion, and recurrent snow disasters. These not only threaten global climate, but undermine the livelihood of the local people and great loss of l...
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Point Of View Marx And Weber
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Historical Materialism Dominant Culture
1,222 wordsSecondly, and related, Williams was keen to articulate the ways in which our lived experiences, in their richness of detail, are seldom recognised in what he called the official languages of modernity. He believed that the work of the long revolution was to give voice to, and make hegemonic, those human experiences which are altered, squeezed out and made silent in the official languages of modernity. Attending to these political tasks of our everyday life involves great honesty and great braver...
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Marxism And Literature Liminal Ity Williams
1,069 wordsA limen is, of course, literally a threshold. A pilgrimage centre, from the standpoint of the believing actor, also represents a threshold, a place and moment in and out of time, and such an actor - as the evidence of many pilgrims of many religions attests - hopes to have there direct experience of the sacred, invisible or supernatural order, either in the material aspect of miraculous healing or in the immaterial aspect of inward transformation of spirit or personality. Turner discovered that ...
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Objective Reality Existential Mode
1,646 wordsDiscuss Bauman (1) Since the end of WWII, many people become disillusioned with the traditional view of history as the process of continuous progress. The positivism, as philosophical method, began to lose its appeal even before this. It was becoming obvious for many philosophers that human behavior cannot simply be defined by economical factors, as Marxism suggests, and neither can we think of such behavior as being exclusively motivated by ethical considerations. This coincided with the emerge...
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Anti Social Behavior Allowed To Marry
1,108 wordsAn Argument Against Same Sex Marriage (1) We live in time when many socio-political policies in Western countries are being based on the principle of metaphysical insanity. The legalization of same-sex marriages in Americas progressive states, such as Massachusetts, can serve as a good example. People, who promote this practice, as such that help establishing social tolerance, do not understand the social function of marriage. The reason why men and women get married is to legitimize their sexua...
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Walpole Ch 1 Castle Of Otranto Gothic
840 wordsThe Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole tried to blend the wildness and imagination of the old romances with the new genre fiction, and invented the Gothic novel the Castle of Otranto. Gothic, by definition, is a genre of literature characterized by a brooding, gloomy setting, and mysterious or violent events. In 1809 Gothic novels were very popular. This quote from The Castle of Otranto is a good example of it: Theodore at length determined to repair to the forest that Matilda had pointed out to h...
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Late 20 Th Century Blade Runner
1,985 wordsThe Postmodern Condition in Film: Blade-runner and Matrix" 6 "Early in the 21 st Century, The Tyrell corporation advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a Replicant. The Blade Runner "Welcome to the desert of the real. " - Morpheus, The Matrix Blade runner speaks about the XXI century Los Angeles with rain, mist, and fog swirl about titanic structures built upon the ruins of the city, as mammoth space machines walk heavily about promoting...
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Sao Paulo Wage Labor
2,018 wordsAugust 10, 2000 The sound of soft rain on the window pane woke me up today, a ahhhh, August in Sao Paulo... After a strong cup of Brazilian coffee, I made my way to Parque Ibirapuera to see the Mostra do Redescobrimento exhibit that commemorates 500 years of Brazilian history since the Portuguese arrival. Redescobrimento I wonder if this rediscovery is intended to overturn the power relations of the first discovery? I keep asking myself, what does the re-discovery reveal and re-veil? I spent mos...
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Ku Klux Klan 18 Th Amendment
880 wordsDuring the period of the 1920 s, American lifestyle was transforming into a new modern development. The modern development met against a series of spirited and, at times, effective rebellions. The tension between new and changing attitudes, and traditional values and nostalgia, was manifested in tense cultural conflicts. The modernizing currents and tension between the old versus new ideals were most apparent in the areas of religion, race / ethnic , and women. All met with harsh criticism, oppo...
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Economic Freedom Democratic Society
2,217 wordsHow Fascism And Democracy INTRODUCTION How is it that in a country such as the United States, with a population of 260 million, people generally embrace the democratic way? What would drive millions of people to follow a fascist dictator? No one can answer these questions with absolute certainty. They are both complicated and yet very simple. In its crudest formulation, when a collective has the same belief system, then an ideology is formed. People have always tried to understand what factors, ...
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Recognition And Wish Fulfillment People
792 wordsIs there such a thing as sovereignty of the people? Hegel, born in 1770 was living in a period where modernity began. He was greatly influenced by such leaders like Napoleon. The basic idea behind modernity is a society, which is non-hierarchal and liberated. Hegel puts a great deal of influence on the individual, on the social aspect of the human and man s need for recognition. Furthermore he maintains that we are governed by reason. He believes in dealing with political issues in a practical, ...
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T S Eliot Stanza The Speaker
1,314 wordsPrayer for Tradition &# 9; In the poem A Song for Simeon, T. S. Eliot uses ambiguity and religious allusion to convey decay and death of the old order to make room for modernity. Examining the imagery in the poem and the tone used allows for a better idea of what the speakers attitude is toward these changes, and perhaps a hint of how the author himself feels. The view the speaker takes toward the changes he believes are to come is one of fear. He feels threatened by the thought of the way of li...
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Setting Sun Modern World
1,416 wordsClose inspection of The Setting Sun by Data Osamu allows one to see a particular family battle changing times that are affecting a whole nation of people. Paralleled in many ways by the authors own reality, we see how this deep message is more than just a fiction story. As a nation, Japan had just surrendered to the U. S. ending their participation in WWII. With the end of this battle, a new one on the home front began. In a sense, the tradition of Japan died with the war; there is a definite pa...
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Avant Garde Modern Art
467 wordsModernist Art in Europe 1910 - 25 by Robert l. Herbert Herbert? s thesis of his essay is to investigate the arrival of the machine and modern art and its complexities. During WWI, modernist painting and sculpture paid major attention to machinery, science and industry. Modern art during that time has become a central factor in our culture due to its dominance in public art, museums, media and literature. Herbert brings in background information and stated the avant-garde of Pizarro, van Gogh, Mo...
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Love For God Religious Community
1,302 wordsThe exponential growth of the Cyber society and Cyber culture within the Internet has not gone unnoticed by the? religious community. ? As I write, church web sites are being published and electronic prayer groups zip by in modems and wire networks across the globe. Even isolated monasteries like the Monastery of the Christ in the Desert (see sidebar) are able to send their Benedictine messages from their cloister in New Mexico. New age religions also use the [virtual] soil of the Internet as th...
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