God’s Children The term “Righteous Gentile” or “Righteous among the Nations” is used to name those non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The title is used informally as referring to anyone considered to be a savior of Jews‚ but it has an official role in the Israeli program of Holocaust remembrance‚ administered by Yad Vashem. The criteria established by Yad Vashem include the following: — “The rescuer ensured the survival of a Jew or Jews by extending aid to them
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WEEKS 1 & 2: THE CONCEPT OF COMMUNICATION The Basics of Communication Definitions of Communication Communication is basic to all human activities and very important for the success of individuals and organizations. To be able to communicate effectively‚ we must first understand what it is. Everybody communicates in one way or the other so the term “communication” is often taken for granted. A careful look at the process reveals how complex communication can be. As a result‚ it has been variously
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BACON AS A MORALIST: Bacon is certainly a moralist and he appears in that role in his essays. His essays abound in moral percepts. He lays down valuable guidelines for human conduct. He urges human beings to follow the right path in every field of life--- political‚ social‚ domestic‚ etc. The essay‚ Of Truth‚ is frankly didactic. The object of the writer is to instill into the minds of the readers a love of truth. A man’s mind‚ says he‚ should “turn upon the poles of truth.” All the reasoning
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The paradox of the righteous sinner: How does Dostoyevsky portray the contradictions of Sonya’s character? “On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly‚ as though in hesitation‚ towards K. Bridge”. Upon reading Dostoyevsky’s psychological drama ‘Crime and Punishment’‚ the reader is immediately plunged into the ambience of the city of St. Petersburg‚ in the year of 1866. We are introduced to a place‚ not only asphyxiating
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filled the lives of many in America‚ duringthe decade leading to the civil war‚ people turned to religion to attempt to reform everyday life. In the book Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz‚ the author attempts to bring together religious themes as well as worldly views in which those who are trying to reform appear as “at once religious moralist and social and cultural organizers” (Mintz XIX). In the book‚ Mintz starts describing the issues that threatened to break down the very fabric of the
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Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois and Jeffrey Schonberg is an ethnography on the community of homeless heroin injectors and crack smokers on Edgewater Boulevard in San Francisco‚ California. Their fieldnotes and photography offer intimate but grim glimpses into the lives of a population that are largely ignored. The homeless addicts are presented as humans with histories with a story worth telling‚ revealing accounts of abuse‚ trauma‚ violence‚ and family breakdown. Throughout the reading
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27th April 2017 In the 1980s‚ the social crisis of homelessness has prevailed in the United States. As the homeless population climbed rapidly‚ the public-health problem was concerned. In Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg’s photo-ethnography‚ “Righteous Dopefiend‚” these two anthropologists followed the daily lives of several heroin addicts living under Edgewater Boulevard‚ a homeless community in San Francisco for over 10 years. Through the unbiased‚ documentary-style of research on this homeless
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Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg‚ authors of Righteous Dopefiend (2009) excellently depicted the lives of homeless drug addicts in San Francisco’s Edgewater Boulevard community through the twelve-year study they conducted. Throughout the novel the reader can effortlessly grasp the sense of importance of the moral economy of sharing within the Edgewater Boulevard community. The moral economy of sharing played an instrumental role among the Edgewater Boulevard residents‚ as it was a crucial component
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Moralists and Modernizers Social reformers never want for work. The need to reform various aspects of human society is as old as human society. Indeed‚ in many cultures‚ the two preeminent myths are some variety of The Creation and The Fall. This is no doubt to explain two of the most pervasive facts of human life--the mysterious fact that we are here and the confounding fact that we are very flawed creatures indeed. The impulse to reform‚ then‚ along with the need‚ is ancient‚ and the idea of
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Jane Austen as a moralist or a realist It is a mistake to see Austen as either a moralist or a realist? No‚ I think these are wholly appropriate and instructive ways of reading her work‚ as long as we keep in mind the fact that they do not exhaust the possibilities of meaning generated by a text like Pride and Prejudice. We need to remember Bakhtin ’s view of the novel form‚ deriving from its origins in popular‚ comic‚ anti-establishment traditions‚ as essentially self-questioning and protean. In
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