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Power Discourse Theory Power Knowledge Production Language
1,291 wordsIn a world of delusions, illusions, allusions and virtual realities, but also of constructed realities and of deconstructed textual ities, the means of representation, the signs, have dissolved in the ongoing process of infinite symbiosis. The crisis of representation is the apprehension of a world in which the signs have lost their power to represent anything. Where is the structural foundation of text in a network of hypertextuality, exactly what is this structural ground for postmodernism to ...
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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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Slaughterhouse Five Of Time
1,091 wordsMany writers in history have written science fiction novels and had great success with them, but only a few have been as enduring over time as Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five is a personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut's experiences as a scout in World War Two, his capture and becoming a prisoner of war, and his witnessing of the fire bombing of Dresden in February of 1945 (the greatest man-caused massacre in history). The novel is about the life and times of a World W...
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American Psycho Commodity Fetishism And Social Reification
1,046 words... ion as I saw it, colossal and jagged (360) With its fragmented formal style and its endless citations of brands by which everything and everyone is identified characters almost absent beneath their Armani suits, and beyond conversations about restaurants, American Psycho may well be read as description of a society that has arrived at the conclusion of a Marxist logic of commodity fetishism as developed by a logic of social reification. This logic as expanded in Georg Lukacs essay Reificatio...
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Read And Write Disk Space
1,169 words... ems you will often encounter data that is in EBCDIC. This Character code will be displayed when data is being transferred between PCs, the characters will be printed to the screen as the data arrives at the receiving terminal. Memory requirements To output an image on a display the computer must have a video card that has memory on it, the memory is where whatever is to be displayed is stored. The larger the resolution of the picture to be displayed, the more memory is required. The memory t...
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Impact Of Nursing Models In A Professional Setting
2,759 wordsIMPACT OF NURSING MODELS IN A PROFESSIONAL SETTING INTRODUCTION People of all ages and life circumstances are bringing to nurses increased numbers of complaints about being depressed. Nursing practitioners in diverse settings are well aware of this increase. The growing incidence of depression is often attributed to factors in contemporary society such as depersonalization, loss of the capacity to trust, interpersonal destructiveness in transitory but intense relationships, and a loss of control...
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Mass Customization Mass Marketing
1,648 wordsI. Introduction 1. The difference in marketing strategies: a. the traditional approach of mass marketing; b. the new trend towards micro marketing. II. Main Part 1. The impact and the implementation of the new tendency in marketing: a. the impact on the economy; b. the impact on media providers; c. mass customization; d. advertising on the Web, niche publications; e. permission marketing. III. Conclusion 1. The future of niche marketing. Marketing Strategy Everything is binding in the world. Wit...
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Feet Per Second Blood Vessels
1,014 wordsGunshot Wounds The handgun is the primary weapon in law enforcement. It is the one weapon any officer or agent can be expected to have available whenever needed. Its purpose is to apply deadly force to not only protect the life of the officer and the lives of others, but to prevent serious physical harm to them as well. When an officer shoots a subject, it is done with the explicit intention of immediately incapacitating that subject in order to stop the subject poses. Immediate incapacitation i...
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Quot And Quot Hours A Week
1,541 wordsThe official working week is being reduced to 35 hours a week. In most countries in the world, it is limited to 45 hours a week. The trend during the last century seems to be unequivocal: less work, more play. Yet, what may be true for blue collar workers or state employees? is not necessarily so for white collar members of the liberal professions. It is not rare for these people? lawyers, accountants, consultants, managers, academics? to put in 80 hour weeks. The phenomenon is so widespread and...
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Desert Tortoise Habitat Desert Tortoises Terrain
251 wordsDesert tortoises are found on flats, alluvial fans, bahamas and rocky terrain. Historically, flat terrain has lent itself to human. Skewing population estimates towards this gentler terrain. But evidence exists that desert tortoises also frequent Rocky slopes, perhaps for protection from the desert heat. Soil friability, or its tendency to break apart, is another indicator of Tortoise habitat. Desert tortoises need soils they are capable of digging into for burrows. Plant species also play a maj...
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Trust Fund Mass Media
1,536 wordsIn Debating Democracy's The Media: Vast Wasteland or New Frontier? Jarol Manheim and Douglas Rushkoff present opposing views of the media. Both authors raise the questions of what the media represents and what messages the media tries to send to the public. Is the medias coverage of events just for entertainment value or do the reports have political content and value? Are the viewers capable of distinguishing between the medias glitz and the real facts? Do different sources of the media system ...
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T S Eliot Sylvia Plath
1,690 wordsContemporary British and American Poetry Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of areas of study including art, music, film, literature, communications, fashion and technology. Postmodernism followed modernism, which is the movement in visual arts, music, literature, and drama which rejected the old Victorian standards of how art should be made, consumed, and what it should mean. In the period of high modernism, from around 1910 to 1930 the major...
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Hours A Week Leisure Time
1,538 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The official working week is being reduced to 35 hours a week. In most countries in the world, it is limited to 45 hours a week. The trend during the last century seems to be unequivocal: less work, more play. Yet, what may be true for blue collar workers or state employees? is not necessarily so for white collar members of the liberal professions. It is not rare for these people? lawyers, accountants, consultants, manag...
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