The idea of a contact zone and a community is distinct from one another‚ yet they can both be used to define the characteristics of the same group. Mary Louise Pratt believes that communities are often seen as the more dominant viewpoint to the general public but she also argues that we need to develop ways to understand the differences of culture and grasp the idea of transculturation through the contact zone. A single group should always be viewed from both community and contact zone points of view
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Contact Zones Within Collegiate Sports The definition of sports is physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. However to fully understand sports‚ especially collegiate sports‚ you must acknowledge the existence of contact zones. Contact zone is a term used to "refer to social spaces (teams) where cultures (players and coaches) meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in the contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power (coaches
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A contact zone is defined as “social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power‚ such as colonialism‚ slavery‚ or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today.”(Pratt) The definition makes it sound like a very advanced concept but in actuality it happens in everyday life. You come in contact with something new everyday‚ from meeting someone to accidently grabbing barbeque sauce when you always
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Mary Louise Pratt describes an authoethnography in her work‚ “Arts of the Contact Zone: A text in which people engage with representations other have made of them…Autoethnographic texts are representations that the so-defined others construct in response to or in dialogue with those texts (ethnographies)
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Kelly & Pratt (1992) – Purposes and paradigms of management accounting: beyond economic reductionism Introduction The paper suggests that management accounting is seen as fulfilling a multiplicity of purposes which can only be understood by analysing the actions of the management accounting actors involved. Background Management accounting grew out of cost accounting around 1950s. It was grounded in the neo-classical economical theory of the firm: if each firm acts to maximize its profitability
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Critical Thinking in the Combat Zone Critical Thinking in the Combat Zone The art of critical thinking is just that‚ an art. It comes with time‚ patience‚ and practice. Paul and Elder (2006) describe critical thinking as the art of thinking about thinking while thinking in order to make thinking better. It involves three interwoven phases: it analyzes thinking‚ it evaluates thinking‚ it improves thinking. At some time‚ all of us have done some sort critical thinking. It may have been
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Running Head: Criminal Law for Criminal Justice Unit 4 Project: Jack‚ Bert‚ and Pratt Criminal Law for Criminal Justice CJ230-01 In the situation to be discussed Jack tried to kill Bert but instead killed Pratt. He then tried again to kill Bert but his weapon suffered a malfunction and he got into his car‚ put the gun in the glove compartment and disappeared from the scene. After reading the textbook‚ I understood that an attempt is a failure‚ according to Professor George Fletcher. There
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Jack‚ Bert and Pratt Terence A. Whalen CJ230-03‚ Criminal Law for Criminal Justice October 18th‚ 2010 To research this scenario‚ One must look to the elements of Criminal Attempt-Murder. Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being with intention and malicious aforethought. (USLegal INC‚ 2010) Criminal Attempt requires three things; an intent or purpose to commit a particular crime‚ an overt act toward accomplishing that target crime‚ and a failure to complete the target crime
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simple imagery. Louise looks out the window and sees a beautiful spring scene‚ with merchants and peddlers working hard‚ and wildlife blooming and growing. She focuses on the “patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds” as she reminisces on her husband’s life. The focus on the blue patches rather than the clouds shows that Louise is being positive and looking on the lighter side of things. Looking at a better side is how one can come to find gain in loss‚ which Louise soon does. As
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Louise Bennett BIOGRAPHY September 7‚ 1919 – July 26‚ 2006 Louise Bennett was born in Kingston‚ Jamaica‚ and attended Ebenezer and Calabar Elementary Schools‚ St. Simon’s College‚ Excelsior College‚ and Friends College in Highgate‚ St Mary. She received a British Council scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art‚ where she studied in the late 1940s. On her return to Jamaica she taught drama to youth and adult groups both in social welfare agencies and for the University of the West
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