Earth’s Rotation Earth ’s rotation is the rotation of the solid Earth around its own axis. The Earth rotates from the west towards the east. As viewed from the North Star or polestar Polaris‚ the Earth turns counter-clockwise. The North Pole‚ also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole‚ is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth ’s axis of rotation meets its surface. This point is distinct from the Earth ’s North Magnetic Pole. The South Pole is the other point
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When the things you own end up owning you: Politics‚ Religion and the Revolution of Values Every major faith tradition and spiritual practice on earth teaches about the wisdom of moderation and balance between the material and the immaterial worlds. Many theist and non-theists religions alike have warned of the dangers of excess‚ extravagance‚ and unrestrained desire. Buddha called greed a defilement of the mind. Jesus declared that it was more likely for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than
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(1) Franz Uri Boas: Born July 9‚ 1858‚ died December 21‚ 1942 was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the Father of American Anthropology. He contributed in one of the most popular ideologies of scientific racism‚ the idea that race is a biological concept and that human behavior is best understood through the typology of biological characteristics which he aground breaking studies of skeletal anatomy he showed that cranial shape and size was
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An Introduction to Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides “I was born twice; first‚ as a baby girl… and then again‚ as a teenage boy.” (Middlesex‚ 3) From just its opening line‚ Jeffrey Eugenides’s sophomore novel‚ Middlesex‚ provides an interesting paradox. The book’s title instantly suggests a biological ‘in-between’ of literally being of a middle-sex‚ whereas the opening line introduces the issues of gender‚ birth and self as a binary of being one or the other. This juxtaposition poses an intriguing
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Conrad‚ as above detailed - bought forward the base understanding that medicalization is the medical manipulation of deviant behaviors and daily life events. Irving Zola elaborates further‚ claiming that these manipulations are used to benefit individuals or groups of individuals in more than just physiological ways by aiding wider social or political agendas and expectations into what is deemed acceptable [Zola‚ 1972]. This concept can be used to explain the surge in the number of different diagnosed
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Main Points Subjectivity is commonsense notions of individual cultural identities produced through discourses and ideologies not essential or permanent ex. When we experience the lack in our identity‚ we search for something or someone that will “complete us”‚ so our identity is always changing. We want to be someone‚ so we intimate his/her hair style. produced and made meaningful within a culture Mirror stage is children recognize not only myself but also
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other characters‚ like Mickey Mouse. A criticism of implanting controls‚ such as surveillance and constant instructions in the environment in Disney World‚ is that “control becomes consensual”. The visitors being controlled are happily collaborating. Foucault suggests “the controlled become the source of their own control” (Shearing and Stenning‚
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Victorian England Notes: * Many people born in the Victorian age were both factually uninformed and emotionally frigid about sexual matters. * French scholar Michel Foucault who argued that sex was not censored but subject to obsessive discussion as a central discourse of power‚ bent on regulation rather than suppression. This helps explain why sexuality looms so large in art and medicine‚ for example‚ as well as in studies of the Victorian age. * The public discussion of sexual matters
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Celeste Ng (1980- )‚ born in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania‚ is regarded as one of the most potential Chinese American writers in contemporary America. Her debut novel Everything I Never Told You‚ published on June 26‚ 2014‚ has gained extensive attention from all over the world. Set in 1970s in a small town named Middlewood‚ the novel tells a tragic story of an interracial family. Focusing on the issues of race‚ gender and parent-child relationship‚ the novel reflects the writer’s concern about the social
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and the Others‚ Longman‚ Harlow. Farrell‚ M (1976) Northern Ireland: The Orange State‚ Pluto Press‚ London. Foucault‚ M (1991) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison‚ Penguin‚ Harmondsworth. Hewitt‚ C. (1985) ’Catholic grievances and violence in Northern Ireland ’‚ British Journal of Sociology‚ Vol.36‚ No.1‚ pp.102-5‚ 1985. Hindess‚ B (1996) Discourses of Power: From Hobbes to Foucault‚ Blackwell‚ Oxford. Morgan et al (1996) Family Connections: An Introduction to Family Studies‚ Polity Press
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