Post-colonialism is an ‘after the events’ analysis detailing the impacts of colonialism and imperialism‚ putting an emphasis on the voice of those who were colonized‚ yet also involving the voice of the colonisers. The 2009 South African‚ science-fiction‚ mock-documentary film ‘District 9’ is about an alien ship running out of fuel and becoming stranded over the city of Johannesburg. The extraterrestrials are forced to live in slum-like conditions and are not allowed the same rights as humans
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Notes on post-Fordism and postmodernism Post-Fordism and Postmoderism: Capitalism requires a large number of low-skilled workers willing to put up with alienating‚ repetitive work on mass production assembly lines. This system is often called Fordism because the Ford motor company was the first to introduce this. Bowles and Gintis’ correspondence principle states that school mirrors the work place‚ and see the mass education system as preparing pupils to accept this kind of work. Postmodernists argue
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In sociology‚ industrial society refers to a society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production‚ supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. Such a structure developed in the west in the period of time following the Industrial Revolution‚ and replaced the agrarian societies of the Pre-modern‚ Pre-industrial age. Industrial societies are generally mass societies‚ and may be succeeded by an Information society. They are often contrasted to with the traditional
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Introduction The world has witnessed an ongoing transformation involving the various changes regarding development approaches and classification of communities. Interestingly‚ this diversification of the world has started with the end of the World War II. This remarkable point indicates the first definition of ‘underdeveloped’ for the first time in the history. In Gustavo Esteva’s article‚ it is pointed out that dated from 1949‚the concept ‘underdeveloped’ commenced to take place in literature after
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Post-war and European Integration Europe in the period after 1945 has seen a significant‚ if progressively‚ shift towards cooperation over conflict. by the way in the wake of the Second World War‚ nations lay in tatters and the area was soon to be sectioned altogether in half with spheres of US and Soviet influence. Beginning with those nations to the west of the ‘Iron Curtain’‚ a new environment emerged in which leaders vowed never to allow such widespread destruction as occurred in the two
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1.What were the economic and political policies of the states in the post reconstruction south? Throughout the post reconstruction period‚ the Democratic party dominated in almost every political aspect and controlled most state and local government decisions. The debt and finances were a huge issue in post reconstruction politics due to the debt reaching close to 17 million dollars by the year 1875. The debt itself consisted of a variety of bonds issued during the Reconstruction period. The simplest
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Kurdish Iranians Mehdi Ghazinour1‚ Naser Mofidi1‚ Nader Esmail-Nasab2‚ Jörg Richter3 1 Department of Clinical Sciences‚ Division of Psychiatry‚ Umeå University‚ S-90187 Umeå‚ Sweden 2 Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences‚ Sanandaj‚ Iran 3 Centre of Child and Adolescent Mental Health‚ Regions South and East‚ P.O.Box 23 Tåsen‚ N-0801 Oslo‚ Norway Corresponding author: Prof. Dr. Jörg Richter Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health‚ Eastern
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Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome Are there truly side effects caused by tubal ligation? Candy Layne COM/220‚ Research Writing Instructor Amy McKenzie July 15‚ 2009 Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome Are there truly side effects caused by a tubal ligation? Ever heard of side effects from a simple surgery? How about the procedure causing harsh menstrual cycles? Thousands of women across the U.S. have had this surgery and have the same complaint. The surgery is a tubal
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Post Card Postcards is a poem‚ the last of the immigrant chronicles‚ written by Peter Skrzynecki. The immigrant Chronicles is a series of poems talking about Skrzynecki’s personal life and experiences of having parents who has emigrated from country under communist influence. This poem specifically talks about a postcard with an image of Warsaw‚ the largest town in Poland‚ printed on the front. It is an emotional poem which trigger different types of reactions at different stages of the poem
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Should We Become Post-human? The sole aim of the technological advancements in various domains has always been the simplification and betterment of our lives. Scientists‚ engineers and technicians spend their lives hypothesizing and experimenting in order to enhance all means of human life – whether in the medical‚ digital‚ electronic‚ or industrial fields – and make our lives easier to live. However‚ with the evolution of these advancements‚ a new view of life evolved as well. Scientists
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