New Technologies and Alienation: S ome Critical Reflections1 Douglas Kellner (http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/) "Human beings make their own history‚ but not under circumstances of their own choosing." Karl Marx "They who control the Microscopick‚ control the World." Thomas Pynchon The developing countries are currently undergoing a perhaps unprecedented technological revolution that has given new credence and life to the concept of alienation after a period of relative decline
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Aesthetic of Hunger Glauber Rocha Leaving aside the type of informative introduction which characterizes discussions about Latin America‚ I prefer to situate the relation between our culture and civilized culture in term less reduced than those which characterize the European observer’s analysis. While Latin America bemoans its general wretchedness‚ the foreign interlocutor cultivates a taste for this wretchedness not as a tragic symptom‚ but rather as simple formal information for his field
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/WHAT IS HISTORY WHAT IS HISTORY? E. H. Carr Edward Hallett Carr was born in 1892 and educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School‚ London‚ end Trinity College‚ Cambridge. He joined the Foreign Office in 1916‚ and‚ after numerous jobs in and connected with the F.O. at home and abroad‚ he resigned in 1936‚ and became Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University College of Wales‚ Aberystwyth. He was Assistant Editor of The Times from 1941 a‚ 1946‚ Tutor In Politics at Balliol
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1. Introduction 3 2. Early History 6 The Greek and Roman Eras: 50 B.C.-A.D. 500 6 The Middle Ages: 500-1500 6 The Renaissance: 1500-1650 7 The Rise of Puritanism and John Locke: Late 1600s 8 3. Beginning of Children’s Literature: Late 1700s 10 4. Fairy and Folk Tales 12 The Golden Age of Children’s Literature: Late 1800s 12 5. Victorian Children’s Literature 16 6. Contemporary Children’s Literature 18 6. Analysis of Harry Potters’ series 21 7. Conclusion 30 8. Summary 31 Children’s Literature Definitions
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Nineteenth century English literature is remarkable both for high artistic achievement and for variety. The greatest literary movement of its earlier period was that of romanticism. It was born in the atmosphere of the violent economic and political turmoil that marked the last decades of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th century. The outburst of political activity brought on by the Great French Revolution of 1789‚ the bitter wars with Napoleon’s France that ravaged Europe for almost 25
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The Remnant and the Adventist Church Ángel Manuel Rodríguez The Remnant in Contemporary Adventist ThinkingI. IntroductionThe concept of the remnant is very dear to Adventists and has played a significant role in our self-understanding‚ in our mission and in our message. There is an almost unconscious feeling among us that if we lose the idea of the remnant we would lose‚ as a church‚ our purpose‚ our reason for existence. The conviction that there is a particular divine reason for our presence in
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JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY VOLUME 20‚ NUMBER 4‚ WINTER 1993 0263-323X Marx and Law ANDREW VINCENT* There is no sense in which Marx can be described as just a legal theorist. He did not write any systematic works on legal science or jurisprudence; however‚ his observations on law are both immensely penetrating and contain an extremely subtle interweaving of philosophical‚ political‚ economic‚ and legal strands. Marx was also at the centre of many crucial intellectual and political debates
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Abolitionist favors the abolition of a practice or institution‚ esp. capital punishment or (formerly) slavery Abstract art Generally representational‚ but greatly simplified and or geometrified. In common usage as it is applied to modern twentieth-century art‚ an abstract work implies considerable simplification‚ distortion‚ and often a geometrification of forms. Nevertheless‚ most twentieth-century art is still representational‚ in that one can recognize figures derived from the natural world
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The Rise and Fall of the Indigenous Business Development Center (IBDC) in Zimbabwe. Tamuka Charles Chirimambowa Submitted in Partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economic History and Development. University of KwaZulu-Natal. Durban‚ 2006. Abstract Economic reform has become one of the major necessities of post-colonial African states‚ given years of slavery‚ apartheid‚ colonialism and underdevelopment. Many scholars have argued that
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The Marketing Review‚ 2002‚ 2‚ 319-355 www.themarketingreview.com Pachauri Moneesha Pachauri1 Nottingham University Business School Consumer Behaviour: a Literature Review In order to develop a framework for the study consumer behaviour it is helpful to begin by considering the evolution of the field of consumer research and the different paradigms of thought that have influenced the discipline. As described in this article‚ a set of dimensions can be identified in the literature‚ which can be
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