He is a Sister: The Monstrous (De)Construction of the Sex/Gender Binary in Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory Vikki Winkler English 498: Honours Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jodey Castricano March 31‚ 2008 If it is appropriate to define “ideology” as that which constitutes social‚ cultural‚ and political order‚ then perhaps it can be said that as a genre‚ the Gothic paradoxically both challenges and reinforces the stability of these seemingly “fixed” structures and‚ similarly‚ that it both disturbs and
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ethics. 2) Yes‚ there ought to be ideological rules‚ because professions have ideologies (or at least they ought to have ideologies). For example‚ in medical ethics doctors must subscribe to an ideology that they will do no harm to a patient. That is why ethical physicians will not assist in administering the poisons in lethal injection executions‚ although they will certify that a condemned prisoner has died. This is an ideology that doctors must
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If the nation is lucky‚ this October will mark the beginning of the end of the tea party. The movement is suffering from extreme miscalculation and a foolish misreading of its opponents’ intentions. This‚ in turn‚ has created a moment of enlightenment‚ an opening to see things that were once missed. Many Republicans‚ of course‚ saw the disaster coming in advance of the shutdown. But they were terrified to take on a movement that is fortified by money‚ energy and the backing of a bloviating brigade
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all these reasons‚ if we want to understand how liberal democracies work‚ one must understand how a political party works. What is a political party? A political party is an organized association that brings together citizens united by a common ideology or philosophy‚ which she seeks fulfillment ‚ with the goal of conquest and exercise of power. This is an organization in the service of an idea. The political environment is not the same everywhere. It may give a different country to another characteristic
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are the traditional values of social order and morality‚ along with old-fashioned nationalism (Adams‚ 1993). “Religious fundamentalism may be heavily politicized and‚ conversely‚ it can adopt some of the characteristics of totalitarian ideologies” (Freeden‚ 2003). Fundamentalism is a main feature of the modern world. With it being a reaction to the secularization of the globe‚ as a moral protest to the modern values‚ it cannot be ignored. Several key characteristics of fundamentalism can
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Examine the different functions performed by the family for individuals and society Different groups of sociologists have devoted time in studying and analysing the family‚ however different types of sociologists share different views over the functions performed for individuals and society. Functionalist see society as an interrelated whole. To functionalists every institution in society performs one or more important functions or jobs and the sociologist has to determine what these functions
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The nation’s Socialist Left is hanging by their fingernails‚ and with the exception of the Obama personality cult they have been losing for years. The last thing they need to happen is an open discussion of their base ideology and how it’s been a failure everywhere it’s been tried. Leftist can’t even decide how to argue if they are Socialists or not. Some keep up the tired old “We’re not ideologues‚ we just want what is practical and what works”. While others have gone
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scripture.” I am here to prove that Sartre’s ideologies are crushed by the Islamic Monotheist perspective‚ and while it was neglected during his era‚ now the gradual success of his ideological planning prediction of “we shall have disposed of God as an out-of-date hypothesis which will die away quietly of itself” (Sartre)‚ and as this ideology stripped France from its Christian coating to a secular nationalistic one‚ the Islamic ideology crushes out the French ground with no control by its
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How would you account for changes in political cleavage structures and how does this impact on party systems? The fundamental nature of this essay is to look at the different explanations of the emergence and development of political cleavage structures and its impact on party systems in Western Europe. The party systems of the Western European states reflect both common lines of development of Western European history and country-specific characteristics of the progress of state and nation
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guide us from the level of god down to the state level‚ institutions level and finally the self level. The entire background of the ideology and the purpose for creating it must be clearly understood by an individual to internalise the spirits of Rukun Negara. Ideology means a scheme of ideas at the basic of a system. When we say that Rukun Negara is a national ideology it refers to the principles of “living policies” to be used as the peoples guide and actions. In other words Rukun Negara contains
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