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    Araby is a story about a young boy who has an intense attraction to this girl. He goes out of his way to watch her every morning‚ and eventually talks to her. She says how she wants to go to the bazaar but cannot due to the fact that she’s going away on some church related trip. He wants nothing more than to impress this girl so he offers to travel to the bazaar himself and get her something. His uncle is late returning home on the day the boy is to go shop‚ so the boy ends up having to pay more

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    Once it became the 18th century‚ the Unitarians and Universalists in New England‚ ended up contesting against the notion of predestination and believed that all individuals were capable of good deeds and were able to receive salvation. When they were able to preach the conception of salvation by free will‚ the preachers of the Second Great Awakening‚ promoted interest among Protestants in frontier revivals. The Methodist and Baptist‚ were able to gain a lot more followers which especially included

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    Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology‚ has a lot of similarities relating to the social aspects and their approaches. However‚ their sociological perspective is definitely what separates them both. Symbolic interactionism derived from the works of George Herbert Mead. Symbolic interactionism takes a minor view of society‚ it mainly focuses on a micro scale perspective of interactions‚ like when individuals are in small groups socializing with friends other than looking at things from a macro

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    Commercialism and materialism are major flaws inherent within modern society. Consequently‚ as satirical texts‚ Nick Hornby’s 1998 novel “About a Boy” and Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein’s episode of “The Simpsons: Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy” written in 1994 critique this. Both texts are used as vehicles to demonstrate to the audience the detrimental impacts that commercialism and materialism have on society‚ through the use of a range of textual and satirical techniques. Through the juxtaposition of

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    - structural symbolic conflict Power * “Power is the ability to get others to do what you want despite Opposition”-Max Weber * Types of power Physical control- coercion (threats‚ actual violence)‚ force; police or military. Symbolic Control- Manipulation‚ intimidation Rules of Conduct- channel behavior in desired patterns‚ rules. * Weber also considered power a way to influence social life. Legitimacy of Power - Authority: power that is considered legitimate‚ lawful‚

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    school and universities‚ healthcare‚ etc. It has its origins in the works of Emile Durkheim. Symbolic Interactionism: - As the name suggests‚ symbolic interactionism as a perspective in sociology‚ is the interaction and analysis between various members of a society with the help of specific symbols. These symbols could hold more than one meaning and could even be represented by language. Symbolic Interactionism originated with George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley. An issue of grave

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    of the human race is affected. In James Joyce’s “Araby” and John Updike’s “A & P” show different ways that the protagonists are affected but these acts are unrecognized by the recipients of their love. The authors manage to apply a tone‚ style and language that eases the reader’s thoughts into the same familiar situation of a crush. Joyce and Updike work with this familiar feeling and have the protagonists struggling over their actions. In “Araby” the protagonist travels to the bazaar wanting to

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    Australians and non indigenous Australians with the federal governments formal reconciliation policy in 1991. However the events of symbolic reconciliation play an equal part if not more significant part of this reconciliation process by bridging the ’gap’ between indigenous people and non indigenous people of Australia both in past and present times. Without these fundamental symbolic events of reconciliation it can be argued that the federal governments formal reconciliation policy and other practical reconciliation

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    The visual and symbolic details embeddedin each story‚ however‚ are highly concentrated‚ and each story culmi-nates in an epiphany. In Joycean terms‚ an epiphany is a momentwhen the essence of a character is revealed ‚ when all the forces thatbear on his life converge‚ and we can‚ in that instant‚ understand him.Each story in the collection is centered in an epiphany‚ and eachstory is concerned with some failure or deception‚ which results in re-alization and disillusionment. "Araby" follows this

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    despite its promises‚ its capacity and fulfillment are not absolute. Materialism‚ from the ancient day to the modern day‚ has an immense power and impact in human society. However‚ using a limited source to strive only results in constrained and conditional affection. Material possession is a limited source‚ once it exhausts‚ the affection earned would consequently fade away. For instance‚ Gatsby’s application of wealth‚ social image‚ and underworld power to buy Daisy’s love‚ as he longs to protect

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