of production‚ standardised and commercialised for the sole intention of making a profit. It also indicates that large media corporations that control the means of production and circulation of ideas can ultimately influence societys ideologies. Theodor Adorno‚ Max Horkheimer‚ Herbert Marcuse‚ Walter Benjamin coined the term culture industry to signify the process of the industrialisation of mass-produced culture and the commercial imperatives that drove the system. The commodities of the culture
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The independent institute Frankfurt School was founded by Jewish intellectuals‚ Theodor Adorno‚ Max Horkheimer and Herbert Macuse within a Nazi empowered Germany in 1923. After relocating to various parts of America‚ gaining exposure from Los Angeles and Hollywood lifestyle‚ the school returned. They took a great concern in the analysis of popular culture and the Culture Industry that had affected Germany in the 1940s. Although these changes reshaped a nation over 70 years ago‚ Frankfurt School’s
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Psychology is the investigation of the mind and how it processes and directs our thoughts‚ actions and conceptions. However‚ in 1879 Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany. Nevertheless‚ the origins of psychology go all the way back thousands of years starting with the early Greeks. This foundation is closely connected to biology and philosophy; and especially the subfields of physiology which is the study of the roles of living things and epistemology
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Woman of Enlightment: Sarah Margaret Fuller Most people have learned of the Transcendental period through their time spent in American Literature in High School‚ but it was more than a period for literature‚ it was also a period of philosophy. The Transcendental period took place in the nineteenth century that taught abstract and Spiritual matters were more real than what was seen by the natural eye. It was based off of Romanticism in Europe during the eighteenth century and Plato’s idealism. Transcendentalists
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The social practices of the society living in an age of consumer culture was characterised by its leisure time which found expression in a number of Manet’s paintings such as‚ Music at the Tuileries‚ 1862‚ that denotes a social gathering at a garden‚ the painting shows a homogenous class as one can conclude by their postures‚ attire‚ etc. The faces despite their visibility remain indiscernible. This anonymity of faces is seen in another painting titled The Masked Ball at the Opera‚ which again denotes
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Gesellschaftskritik in Effi Briest Ehe (Zwangsehe): * Der Autor kritisiert die Zwangsehen im Allgemeinen; er gibt die Zweifel der Effi aber auch die Argumente der Mutter realitätsgetreu wieder * Mutter manipuliert Effi: „kluge Effi soll heiraten“‚ weil sie keinen besseren finden kann -> „Mann von Charakter“‚ „Stellung“ und „gute Sitten“‚ sie wird viel erreichen in kurzer Zeit (Geld‚ Stellung...) * Effi zweifelt an ihren Gefühlen‚ sie kennt den Mann gar nicht‚ den sie heiraten sollte:
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more than 150 yrs. to fully appreciate the discoveries of Hooke and Leeuwenhoek. In 1838‚ the German botanist Matthias Schleiden concluded that cells compose not only the stems and roots but every part of a plant. A year later‚ the German zoologist Theodor Shwann made the same claim about animals. And in 1858‚ a German physician Rudolph Virchow observed that cells come only from other cells. The observations of Shleiden‚ Shwann‚ and Virchow form what is known today as the cell theory. The cell theory
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Chapter 13 Study Questions Spring 2014 Using the Figure‚ match the following: 1) Innervates the superior oblique muscle. 2) Longest cranial nerve. 3) Damage to this nerve would cause dizziness‚ nausea‚ and loss of balance. 4) Involved in movement of the digestive tract. 5) Damage to this nerve would cause difficulty in speech and swallowing‚ but no effect on visceral organs. 6) Damage to this nerve would keep the eye from rotating inferolaterally. Using the Figure‚ identify the following
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Problem Set 1 Solutions: Chapters 1 1 Cell sizes: E. coli is a cylindrical bacteria with 1 M wide and 2 M long. Liver cells are approximately spherical with a diameter of 20 M. Plant palisade cells are cylinders 20 M wide and 35 M long. A) Calculate the volumes of each cells? A) Since E.Coli is cylindrical Volume of a cylinder = r2h‚ where r is half of bacterial width/diameter = 1M/2 = 0.5M and h is the length of the bacteria
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Term 1 - Summative Assessment Science (Theory) Question Paper Set - 1 Time: 3 to 3 ½ hours Max. Marks: 80 Instructions: 1. The question paper consists of two sections‚ A and B. You are to attempt both the sections. 2. All questions are compulsory. 3. There is no overall choice. However‚ internal choice has been provided in all the three questions of five marks each. You have to attempt only one option in each question. 4. All questions in Section A and all questions in Section B are to
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