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    Kant the Sublime

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    The Sublime In Lyotard’s reading Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime‚ he explains how critical thought exists within an infinite amount of creativity with no principles but in search of them. Lyotard understands the Kantian sublime as a way to comply with the standards that critically analyze postmodernism using deconstruction. Kant differentiated the sublime between the vastness and greatness and the dynamic sublime. The vastness sublime is so great we can’t just use our senses like we normally

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    intermarrying with Whites‚ owning homes‚ working in many occupations‚ getting an education‚ and living in certain parts of the city or entire cities. The Chinese basically had no other choice but to retreat into their own isolated communities. These first Chinatowns at least allowed them to make a living among themselves. This is where the stereotypical image of Chinese restaurants and laundry shops‚ Japanese gardeners and produce stands‚ and Korean grocery

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    Jacob Riis

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    Published in 1890 and sub-titled “Studies Among the Tenements of New York”‚ this book was written by Jacob Riis‚ a Danish immigrant‚ to expose the ill treatment of the tenement poor in New York City. The book grew out of both his personal experience in the neighborhoods he wrote about‚ and his work as a reporter for the New York Tribune‚ where he started working as a police reporter in 1877. He pioneered the use of flash photography‚ allowing him to capture and communicate in a very concrete way

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    Has Multiculturalism in Canada Lost Its Way? Now that multiculturalism has become a popular concept‚ it is time for us to add more meat to the bone and expand on what it means to Canada to be a multicultural society. While most Canadians highlight our multicultural character as a virtue‚ it continues to mean different things to different people.Multiculturalism is the recognition that while Canadians share equal rights and responsibilities‚ they come with diverse cultural backgrounds where each is

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    diving‚ Carpenter was sick of being “the pigs’ bitch”. She was exhausted‚ and the pigs were eating four full sized buckets of dumpster food a day. At this point foraging for them was a part-time job. Four nights a week Carpenter and Bill worked the Chinatown dumpers. One night a homeless man offered them an old dollar‚ because in his mind they were worse off than him. This shows how odd the couple must have looked in the trash. As bad as dumpster for pig chow was‚ it wasn’t the worse part. Carpenter

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    They can also see if it has been progressing in a positive way or a negative way and if something needs to be done about it. This can also lead to the creation of different programs or laws that can help people who are troubled with this situation. In the case of the United Kingdom‚ Cole (2015) states that racism is defined by the identity of the person‚ their ethnicity‚ race‚ nationality and religion they have. Cole (2015) stated that‚ in the school textbooks African people were racialized as aggressive

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    Criminally Famous Paths

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    Criminally Famous Paths Charles Manson‚ Theodore (Ted) Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer all have one thing in common: they all used to‚ or are still‚ suffering from antisocial personality disorder‚ commonly abbreviated as ASPD. Antisocial personality disorder is a type of long term mental condition in which a person’s ways of thinking‚ observing and taking part in situations and relating to others are‚ a lot of times‚ debilitated — and destructive. People with antisocial personality disorder typically have

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    New York City

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    Like many large cities‚ New York is divided and subdivided by its residents into various districts and quarters. The city’s five boroughs are actually different counties -- each one with independent local governments and cultures. Each borough has individual neighborhoods -- some of only a few blocks in size -- that have personalities lauded in music and movies. Where you live‚ work and play in New York says something to New Yorkers about who you are. The five boroughs are: Brooklyn Queens The Bronx

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    the publics attention rather than a simple individual. The first recorded murder was on August 9‚ 1969. Charles and four of his most “obedient” followers arrived to 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angles‚ which was Roman Polanski’s residence at the time. Polanski was away in Europe however his partner Sharon Tate became one of the victims that night. According to biography.com‚

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    Introduction For nearly two and a half years between 2008 and 2010‚ San Francisco‚ California was host to two parallel worlds. Simultaneous to the quotidian urbanity‚ a burgeoning venue for spatial and ludic interrogation intertwined itself with the city’s urban fabric. The evidence of this second world sprouted gradually: strange flyers on street corners advertising fantastical and unbelievable technologies‚ cryptic graffiti‚ and a pirate radio station that was only within range from the city’s

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