FORMS OF SUBSTRUCTURE Tutor: David Brooke Submission Date: 14 December 2012 FORMS OF SUBSTRUCTURE * Table of Contents Site 1 1 Site 2 2 Site 3 3 Precautionary actions and temporary works 4 1 Bibliography 5 * Site 1 Dry compact gravel‚ or gravel and sand subsoil’s are usually suitable for strip foundations. Mostly 700mm to 1000mm deep foundations are acceptable as long ground has suitable bearing capacity. If the water level is high than the bearing capacity will reduce
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Dana Phillips‚ who studies ecocriticism and American literature‚ employs his 2003 book The Truth of Ecology: Nature‚ Culture‚ and Literature in America as a critique of mainstream realist forms of ecocriticism. He places emphasis on the need for ecocriticism to be truly more interdisciplinary‚ and that ecocritics need to more fully incorporate the sciences‚ as well as the history and philosophy of those sciences. In its entirety the text suggests‚ in a somewhat defiant tone‚ how ecocriticism has
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Many feminists would say that religion (like the family and the welfare state...) is another site of patriarchy. It is a place where women are oppressed by men‚ and it serves to reproduce this oppression and spread it throughout the wider society. The Catholic Church is a favourite target. It is against women’s rights such as contraception‚ abortion‚ and divorce. It is headed and run exclusively by men. God is seen in male terms; Jesus is a man; and although there is great respect for the Virgin
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Idealist and Materialist Concepts of Culture in the Theorisations of Culture and Society Culture has evolved through time since the 18th century; from the pre-industrial era to the industrialised society. The concept of culture is not definite as it is used as a tool to understand culture as a signifying practice of representation within the context of social power (Barker 2008‚ p.38). Originally‚ ‘culture’ was connected to cultivation of crops but later progressed into a “cultured person”
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Social Stratification Sociologists look at stratification to study the reasons for social divisions in society and their effect. Sociologists speak of stratification as an analytical tool that helps one to understand society and explain the inequalities that arise within it. Class is a social stratum whose members share certain economic‚ social or cultural characteristics. Sociologists typically use a system of social stratification in the UK based on class. Britain is said to be an open class
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I choose to apply Marxist Criticism to this story because Dee is the perfect example of the capitalist superstructure that tries to suppress the society of its traditional values. Dee‚ at a young age has already subconsciously employed traits of capitalism in her‚ read to Mama and Maggie “forcing words‚ lies‚ other folks’ habits” that were considered unnecessary
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yet profound theoretical approaches: Marxism and Interactionism. Marxism is a philosophy that critiques class struggles under a capitalistic society. At the heart of this theory rests the Base-Superstructure Model in which everything can be explained in terms of economic relations. Society has an economic base upon which everything else is built and this hierarchical structure highlights the social injustices permeating in the modern
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Functionalism has given a useful understanding of society‚ despite its limitations. Functionalists describe society using an organic analogy; they say society is like a biological organism. Parsons found three similarities between society and an organism. System organisms such as the human body and society are both self-regulating and inter-related‚ independent parts fit together in fixed ways. In the body these are organs; in society they are institutions‚ such as family and education. Both organisms
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NATURAL LAW – DUTY TO OBEY UNJUST LAWS Important aspects of natural law can be traced back to Aristotle‚ Plato and the stories of Sophocles‚ Antigone & Oedipus. They offered arguments for the existence of a higher form of law‚ a set of standards against which existing legal norms can be compared and judged. Plato argued that individual objects (e.g. individual trees and chairs and individual instances of equality or beauty) were imperfect reflections or instances of an eternal Idea or Form
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Hegemony can be seen as the dissoluble unity between political leadership and moral and intellectual leadership. It is not a question of class alliances but the manifestation of a dialectical relationship between coercion‚ consent‚ force and persuasion.” Discuss this statement giving examples from Zimbabwe’s media terrain. BY BLESSING JONA In this presentation‚ this scholar seeks to solidify that indeed hegemony can be seen as the dissoluble unity between political‚ moral and intellectual
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