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    Cartoons: Land of Imagination Just as Moses climbed Mount Sinai to receive the ten commands‚ the following are the ten laws that govern my most interesting place. 1. Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation. 2. Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly. 3. Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. 4. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories

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    Good morning‚ teacher and all of my fellow friends‚ today I am going to share about my imagination world. We usually had a lot of pictures and imaginations flying through our mind. Most of the time‚ I love to imagine too‚ although I am not such a creative thinking person. Now‚ let me share something about my imagination world. Sometimes‚ I prefer the colorful of magic in my mind. In my mind‚ a magical world should have fairies‚ spell casters‚ lots of colorful and beautiful spell above the air‚

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    Sociological Imagination Assignment According to Naiman‚ “the sociological imagination is the ability to go beyond personal issues we all experience and connect them to broader social structures”. (Naiman‚ 2012‚ p. 7) This implies that there a link between our individual experiences and society‚ which can ultimately enable us to create a more desirable world. In Frade’s journal he mentions that the sociological imagination “is that extraordinary “quality of mind” which enables us “to grasp the

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    Sociological imagination allows us to connect our problems with societal issues that we come across daily. (Mills‚ 1959) We have many issues in society such as‚ finding jobs or staying healthy. Staying unemployed caused health troubles such as stress‚ which I have experienced while seeking for a job. My issue finding a job had become a very serious subject in high school. Growing with a family who had been raised in a harsh environment is different than how I was raised. I had not been aware that

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    Sociological Imagination Sociological Imagination can be defined as the ability to notice a difference in people due to their social circumstances‚ how their “social norms‚” influence their lives. Sometimes these situations can lead to an outcome and it gives you an understanding as to why things happen the way they do. You understand what causes led to that specific outcome. Basically‚ you understand peoples lives because you can see how the outcome effects their lives and the people around

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    The social imagination is defined by Dalton as “the ability to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history” (Dalton‚ 2015). What does this mean? How can it be used? It is primarily used to provide a mechanism for a sociologist to analyze his or her perspective on a situation‚ see the situation from a differing point of view‚ and change his or her perspective. An important aspect of sociological imagination is to avoid routine purpose for activity. Why

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    Sociological Imagination Sociological Imagination is where biography and history meet. It is the ability to see the connections and differences between personal troubles and public issues. A personal trouble is a problem of one individual. A public issue is a problem among many people. One person losing their job is a personal trouble‚ but many people losing their job is a public issue. Personal troubles lead to public issues‚ and public issues lead to personal troubles. You need both historical

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    Wright Mills’ book‚ The Sociological Imagination‚ he creates a new academic discourse to discuss how society and the individual are intimately connected. The individual and the society in which the individual exists in are interdependent. For a layman’s example‚ a college student is an individual but an individual within a society of higher education‚ there is not one without the other. His sociological theory is referred to as the sociological imagination that allows us as individuals and a society

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    To begin chapter one of The Sociological Imagination‚ ‘The Promise’‚ Mills explains the state of the everyday man during the 1950s. He describes this state as one of both imprisonment and helplessness. On one hand‚ men are restrained by the habit of their own lives: they go to their job and are an operative‚ and then are a family-man once they arrive home. There are many restricted jobs that men carry-out‚ and a look at man’s everyday life shows that men cycle through these different jobs. However

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    People often blame themselves for crisis in their lives such as the loss of job or dropping out of school. How would a sociological imagination help them understand the larger social forces influencing these events? The sociological imagination helps us see that often times we are not usually in control of the major events in our life. It teaches us to look at the bigger picture when analyzing our problems. In many cases it is our culture that shapes the happenings in our life. Our culture influences

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