and the Pioneers. Our explorations‚ though‚ seemed to have less system than the historic kind: Something usually came up along the way. Say we began to cross one of the little creeks plentiful in the second-growth forests we frequented and found that all the creek’s moisture had somehow become a shell of milk-white ice about eight inches above the now-dry bed. No other kind of ice is as satisfying to break. The search for the true meridian would be postponed while we spent the afternoon breaking the
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The essay take the F by Ian Frazier is about his experience living in Brooklyn and that people that live there. People that live in Brooklyn don’t describe where they live in terms of direction like east or north but rather they refer to their neighborhoods and the subway lines that are nearest to them. He talks about the F train that he rode in and out of Manhattan and that diversity of the people who are riding the train. He mentions three classes that are classified as upper‚ middle‚ and low class
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“Take the F” by Ian Frazier In the essay "Take the F" by Ian Frazier he writes about the experiences he had living in Brooklyn. He talks about a lot of topics such as city life‚ diversity‚ travel. He shares his moments while he was in Brooklyn. In the essay he talks about the people he was surrounded by‚ the things he did and places
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In the essay “In praise of margins‚” Ian Frazier explains the importance of having marginal activities. He describes these activities as something you do with no purpose‚ where you are free to let your mind run wild. Sometimes marginality is tangible in the sense you can actually create something while doing a marginal activity. Frazier’s marginal place as a child was eh woods. There he and his friends would pretend to be explores and try out odd ideas. Odd ideas that later they would come to realize
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Technology & Society (HUM110-80) CONSUMING KIDS Summary on Article‚ "Pubic Attitudes Toward the Youth Marketing Industry & Its Impact on Children" "Few public opinion polls exist concerning the burgeoning youth marketing industry. We therefore conducted an online survey of 978 U.S. residents in the Spring of 2004. Results suggest that a large majority of respondents believe: a) that the youth marketing industry is harmful to children and has questionable ethical practices: b)
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Patriotism is an essentially emotional support for the nation‚ the homeland. It is not intended to have a rational foundation: soldiers do not fight for a country because it produces more cement than the enemy‚ but because it is their country. Their patriotism pre-supposes its existence — but not everyone agrees with that. Some Islamists‚ for instance‚ reject the legitimacy of the nation-state as such‚ and despise patriotism as un-Islamic. The loyalty of the Muslim‚ they say‚ can only be to the Ummah
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In Ian Frazier’s “In Praise of Margins”‚ Frazier emphasizes the importance of engaging in “marginal” activities. He does not like the negative connotation that the word “marginal” has been given. It’s negative connotation comes from the thought that it describes things that have close to‚ or no purpose. All activities start out as having no purpose to them always end up having a deeper meaning to them in the end. Activities such as traveling‚ playing basketball‚ and exploring the woods in “In Praise
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CONSUMING CULTURES: GLOBALISATION AND LOCAL LIVES A book by Jeremy Seabrook * Author: Jeremy Seabrook * Publisher: Earthcare Books * Famous Works: Children Of Other Worlds and Travels in the Skin Trade * Other Information: Apart from being a writer‚ he has also worked as a journalist‚ teacher‚ playwright‚ social worker and a lecturer * Book Dissection: 4 parts and 15 chapters Synopsis: In the book‚ Jeremy Seabrook talks about the impact of Globalization all around and he
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Postprocessual archaeology developed out of Processual archaeology in the 1990s and was championed by Ian Hodder. Postprocessualism is one of the most commonly used approaches to archaeology used today. It developed‚ much like Processualism‚ out of criticisms about how archaeology was being practiced at the time. In this instance it was a result of criticisms of Processual archaeology. Hodder argues that Processualism is flawed and to correct it we need to integrate parts of previous practices‚
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In Ian Frazier’s essay‚ “In Praise of Margins”‚ the author talks about his childhood life and how he had “margins” where he and his friends would do things and nothing would matter because they wouldn’t care. “Marginal” thought is valuable because it allows adults to use their imagination. His purpose is to try new activities without shame; it’s the spur of the moment that defines margin. I think his view about marginal activity is comprehensive and relatable. When we think of margins‚ we think
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