attitudes and patterns of behavior in a given group. ’Norm’ refers to attitudes and behaviors that are considered normal‚ typical or average within that group.” (“Cultural norms: Definition & values - video & lesson transcript‚” 2003) After watching Ted speeches‚ I was shocked as to why I haven’t watched Ted Talks yet ! Listening to the different cultural norms‚ and stereotyping these women went through was interesting; and very much true as I was brought up in a traditional Indian family with traditional
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Primary Sources Primary sources are original records created at the time or after historical events occurred. Primary sources may include letters‚ manuscripts‚ diaries‚ journals‚ newspapers‚ speeches‚ interviews‚ memoirs‚ photographs‚ audio recordings‚ video recordings‚ research data‚ and objects or artifacts from the time in order for it to be considered reliable. These sources are raw materials that help interpret the past. Not every primary source is completely reliable‚ because they all are biased
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manuscript material * photographs‚ audio recordings‚ video recordings‚ films * journals‚ letters and diaries * speeches * scrapbooks * published books‚ newspapers and magazine clippings published at the time * government publications * oral histories * records of organizations * autobiographies and memoirs * printed ephemera * artifacts‚ e.g. clothing‚ costumes‚ furniture * research data‚ e.g. public opinion polls What is Secondary Sources? * Offer
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Communication Theory Final Exam 1) This semester in Communication Theory we have studied the difference between objectivist and interpretivist theories. Some differences between these two perspectives within the communication discipline would be objectivist theories take a scientific approach‚ conducting experiments‚ surveys and being quantitative‚ meaning that you can physically count the evidence. Scholars using the objectivistic approach attempt to be objective and use scientific characteristics
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make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go‚ even though the winds are strong. In the same way‚ the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. And the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness‚ corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire‚ for it is set on fire by hell itself. People can tame all kinds
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January 8‚ 2014 Week One Assignment Professor Gary Fuchs Week One Assignment There is not a single person who can say they have not learned from their mistakes or past experiences. When a child touches a hot stove and burns their hand‚ they quickly learn not to do it again and have a memory of experience that will help them make better choices in the future. This is probably why it is said “we get wiser as we get older”. The same concept can be applied to studying history
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benighted humanity‚ living in an underground cave‚ having their legs and necks chained and could only gaze at the wall before them‚ which like a screen that reflected the shadow of the artifacts carried by actors behind them. They believed what they saw is true although those were only the echoes of the artifacts that actors created. A few of them were freed and escaped from the cave; however‚ the sunlight was so bright that hurt these prisoners’ eyes‚ and then blinded their eyes. After a long journey
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BRITISH ABOLITIONISTS BY FREDD JONES APRIL 6‚ 2013 BRITISH ABOLITIONISTS In 1807‚ the British slave trade was abolished by parliament. Two hundred years later‚ Hollywood commemorated the event with the movie Amazing Grace. Like many historians‚ Hollywood told the story as if William Wilberforce was a one-man crew.1 In reality‚ there were thousands of heroes to this story‚ on both sides of the Atlantic. Slavery was a necessary evil in the minds of British and American
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done like the newest museum: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). In September of this year‚ the museum finally cut the red tape after breaking ground in 2012. This expansive museum contains nearly 37‚000 artifacts that various prominent figures and people from the African American culture donated to address the history of the American leg of the African diaspora. With an upwards of 700‚000 people obtaining passes to visit the museum before the end of 2016
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accomplishments from which Romans drew immense influence. The Romans picked up first on the Greek embrace of rhetoric‚ which became an educational standard‚ given that a man’s rhetoric‚ his ability to "push the buttons" of the subject audience by way of speeches‚ supplemented the man’s rise to political power. But as rhetoric began to diminish from Roman daily life following Rome’s imperialization‚ identical persuasive technique began to show itself in Roman literature. But Greek themes were just a backbone
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