Situated Knowledge and Power Essay #3 Michele Foucault said “modern forms of power are discursive and discreet.” He believed that power is crafted through language and the practices in which language is entrenched. Donna Haraway‚ like Foucault‚ thinks about power in a post-structuralist way‚ believing that it exist everywhere and shapes our reality. Both Foucault and Haraway see knowledge as a form of power‚ through knowledge institutions are able to control and define what truth is. Haraway
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WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on BUSINESS and ECONOMICS Elissaveta Gourova‚ Albena Antonova‚ Yanka Todorova Knowledge audit concepts‚ processes and practice ELISSAVETA GOUROVA Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics Sofia University 125‚ Tzarigradsko shosse Blvd.‚ bl. 2‚ Sofia BULGARIA elis@fmi.uni-sofia.bg http://www.fmi.uni-sofia.bg ALBENA ANTONOVA Centre for Information Society Technologies Sofia University 125‚ Tzarigradsko shosse Blvd. bl. 2 fl. 3 BULGARIA a_antonova@fmi.uni-sofia.bg http://www-it
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under analysis is an essay titled “Knowledge” written by G.N.M.Tyrrell. It is an example of the argumentative type of an essay‚ because the author introduces a problematic issue and tries to influence the reader’s attitude with the help of reasoning; nevertheless‚ it contains instances of narration which is resorted for providing a factual base. The writer aims to make the reader think of the impact of progress and evoke consciousness about the use of knowledge in him/her. To be as convincing
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T. Coraghessan Boyle uses irony in his short story Carnal Knowledge‚ which gives it a humorous tone. The way the narrator reacts to ironic events shapes our understanding of both him‚ and the meaning of the story as a whole; although humans can adapt to their surroundings to get want they want‚ they will always return to their original basic set of morals and standards. The first use of irony is arguably the most humorous‚ which foreshadows the ridiculousness of the narrators actions throughout
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find a balance in most cases. Thus‚ selection of knowledge or more specifically‚ how one presents the knowledge can be viewed as a choice problem‚ among degrees of varying accuracy and complexity. One must have the ability to judge and select the most effective presentation method in order to elicit a positive response from those listening. Especially in the areas of science and religion‚ it can be argued that in both cases‚ simplification of knowledge often leads to misinformation or less accurate
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Did you know that most people with Epilepsy can do the same things that people without Epilepsy can do? Knowledge and learning are very similar to each other. Knowledge and learning are different to everyone‚ but to me knowledge is being able to perform something well and learning about it through experience and learning is gaining skills through experience. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance in the brain. Not everyone is very familiar about
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MOOC: Before MOOC my knowledge of dementia was old because I have nursed for over thirty years and had not gained recent knowledge in this field‚ only through personal experience. Since 2008 I have worked on a private ward which includes a mixture of medical‚ surgical and palliative clients. Last year through Alzheimer’s WA I undertook the Dementia Champion course. The course provided a dementia file and instructed us on how to educate. The file emphasized that my knowledge base was absent across
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Components of a Knowledge Management System A Knowledge Management System (KMS) refers to either a technology-based or non-technical interconnected group of functions that have behaviour that enables or facilitates either (or a combination of) the discovery‚ capture‚ integration‚ sharing or delivery of the knowledge required by an organisation to meet its objectives. It can comprise a part of a Knowledge Management initiative or strategy to improve the utility of an organisation’s intellectual
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NVQ Floorcoverings Level 2 Unit ref QUA832 Knowledge Question Pack Date Unit Completed Unit Unit Title QCF 641 Conforming to General Health‚ Safety and Welfare in the Workplace QCF 642 Conforming to Productive Working Practices in the Workplace QCF 643 Moving‚ Handling and Storing Resources in the Workplace QCF 302 Setting Out for Laying Floorcovering in the Workplace QCF 303 QCF C03 Preparing Surfaces to Receive Floorcoverings in the Workplace. Developing
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spoken in the Northern Regions close to Spain. Similarly‚ Amazigh language gives rise to many dialects and sub dialects‚ specifically Tashelhit in the Souss Region‚ Tamazight in the High Atlas and Tarifit in the North. These regional dialects do not have definite boundaries (isoglosses) among them‚ but certainly overlap to form a dialect continuum. Moroccans speakers of all this disparity of dialects seem to reach a minimum of mutual intelligibility. In cases where they fail to‚ they resort to the
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