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    the touch of a single click a picture is taken and forever revitalized. Photography takes the essence of memory and seals it into the history of those involved in the process. Susan Sontag’s didactic text “On Photography” digs deep into the meaning of photography and claims that it has unlimited power within modern society. Her exclamation that “cameras are fantasy-machines” exerts the idea that photography brings the world closer together‚ yet seems so distant as if it were all but an illusion.

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    Assess the contribution of Marxism to our understanding of families and households (24 marks) Marxists see all society’s institutions as helping to maintain class inequality and Capitalism. Therefore‚ the main contribution of Marxism to families and households has been to explain how the family functions to maintain the interests of the bourgeoisie‚ and maintain the Capitalist system. Marxists’ contributions have drawn much criticism from New Right and Functionalist sociologists‚ who question

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    Our Filipino Values: A Connotation to the World What are Filipino values? What is distinctly Filipino in our value system? The Filipino value system arises from our culture or way of life‚ our distinctive way of becoming human in this particular place and time. We speak of Filipino values in a fourfold sense. First‚ although mankind shares universal human values‚ it is obvious that certain values take on for us a distinctively Filipino flavor. The Greek ideal of moderation or meden agan‚ the

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    English 222 5/6/2013 Collection report The Limit of Desired Knowledge The fact that we are born without a choice‚ that we are expected to rise into being from a one celled organism to man without any external doubts is a perpetual theme to existence. Doubt is a threat‚ a precarious uncertainty that looms over every deed‚ making the daily reality of one persons life unreal. Sources of information‚ like the media‚ can make your head spin with fear‚ giving the viewer a

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    Lange and today I will be talking about the art of photography through my experiences as a documentary photographer. To you‚ photos are a way to capture memories and to store them away. For me‚ my “photography takes an instant out of time‚ altering life by holding it still” and it finds beauty in places that most people do not look. My current field of photography‚ social documentary‚ is a developing art form also known as concerned photography. I am committed to documenting the lives of people

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    In the book Limits Without Power by Andrew Bacevich‚ Bacevich starts off his introduction with a precursor of United States history starting with the cold war till 9/11 where we as Americans has changed. Bacevich then compares the past United States with the current United States. Bacevich thesis in the book is “Rather than insisting that the world accommodate the United States‚ Americans need to reassert control over their own destiny‚ ending their condition of dependency and abandoning their imperial

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    Rights and Limits (title) A. License to Jugaad (sub title) As between you and Jugaad‚ you own the content and all other information related to your products or services‚ that you submit or post and you are permitting Jugaad non-exclusive license for right to use‚ copy‚ modification‚ deal out‚ publish‚ and process‚ information and content that you are providing through our services‚ without any further agreement‚ notice and/or reimbursement to you or others. These rights are limited as mentioned below:

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    One hundred and ninety years ago‚ a French lithographer by the name Nicéphore Niépce successfully took the world’s first surviving photograph. Soon after‚ others found ways to improve the techniques used for photography and pictures of people‚ places‚ and events were taken for publishing and safekeeping. Many of the images captured from the past are often reproduced and used to create and illustrate history in ways that words cannot. Let’s say a man takes a photograph of the construction of a house

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    Jinho Jang To what extent should there be limits on scientific research? 1. Topoi A. Cause and Effect: a. means/end: Is science means to what? b. assumptions and antecedents: what does precede scientific research? c. Implications and Consequences: what will follow from ethically unhealthy scientific research? B. Contrast: a. Tension/opposition: what is the tension existing between ethics and scientific research? b. contradictions: What is the contradiction between preserving ethics

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    d) Assess the contribution of Marxism to our understanding of the role of education
Marxists. the Functionalist view that industrial capitalist societies are meritocracies and that every ones’ position in society is based on talent and hard work. Bowles and Gintis suggest ideas for why this is the case. They bases their theory around the idea of education being an ideological state apparatus. Bowles and Gintis’ theory is based on the ‘long shadow of work’ and the legitimating of inequality.
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