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Weber And Rationalisation
Number of Words: 1289 / Number of Pages: 5
... all other forms of organisation and thought. Beginning to form a stranglehold on all sectors of Western society.
Denying the possibility of developmental laws in sociology, Weber essentially presented rationalisation as the master trend of Western capitalist society. Rationalisation is the process whereby every area of human relationships is subject to calculation and administration. While Marxists have noted the prominence of rational calculation in factory discipline and the labour process, Weber detected rationalisation in all social spheres - politics, religion, economic organisation, university ...
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Education 2
Number of Words: 1856 / Number of Pages: 7
... to Kennell and Klaus in their book Parent-Infant Bonding, there is a possessiveness and an appetite in it.
Some argue that attachment is one qualitative feature of the emotional tie to the partner. The operationalization of the construct (attachment) to determine the presence or absence has to be done by some measure of the interaction between partners. Joe Mercer’s Mothers' Responses to Their Infants with Defects says, “The mother either responds to her infant’s cries with affectionate behaviors and evokes the infants interactions to suggest the infant is a central part of her l ...
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Casinos
Number of Words: 1220 / Number of Pages: 5
... City, over 900 of the 2100 small businesses there closed and the number of local restaurants was reduced from 243 to 146. Richard Byron, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, describes gambling expenditures as Money Extracted From Other Consumer Spending. When come into a small community such as Atlantic City or Biloxi the people living in that community start to go there for entertainment instead of movie theaters, restaurants and other places they used to go to before. In 1994, more people went to the than went to major league baseball parks and more money was spent on than books, a ...
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Sport Psychology
Number of Words: 4060 / Number of Pages: 15
... cul-ture and society across the globe. In the western and eastern worlds
alike, sport and lei-sure continue to support huge industries and take up
massive amounts of individual time, effort, money, energy, and emotion. Within
the media, competitive sport has gotten enor-mous attention and despite this,
the public's appetite for more sport never is stated. "It has been estimated
that around two thirds of all newspaper readers in Great Britain first turn to
the sports pages when they pick up their daily paper." (Butt, 1987:65) When one
con-siders the number of people who actually engage in sport or ...
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A Dependent Generation
Number of Words: 756 / Number of Pages: 3
... with their professors. E-mail has become the most efficient way by which teachers and students interact. However, one can argue that e-mail is an artificial substitute for student-teacher contact. After all we did come to college to get an education from superior individuals in their subject area. E-mail seems to defeat the purpose of this idea because anyone can e-mail, but, not everybody can go to a world renowned professors office and have a conversation about the material being discussed in class. Sometimes, entire classes are on a web page. These students need not even go to class, because ...
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Chaos In King Lear - As Reflec
Number of Words: 928 / Number of Pages: 4
... yet nature finds
itself scourged by the sequent events.
(Act 1, Sc. 2, 109 - 113)
This is proclaimed by Gloucester as he is told by Edmund of Edgar’s supposedly treacherous plot to remove him from power. Gloucester’s trust in Edgar faltered as a result of Lear’s irrational banishment of Cordelia and Kent, coupled with recent anomalies in the heavens. Gloucester believed that Lear’s actions also came as a result of the star’s unusual behaviour. Edmund, the treacherous and bastard son of Gloucester, exploits Gloucester’s blind believe in the stars in his p ...
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Visual Perception
Number of Words: 1233 / Number of Pages: 5
... organisation occurs when one groups the basic elements of the sensory world into the coherant objects that one perceives. Perception is therefore a process through which the brain makes sense of incoming stimuli.
The process of perception is an interactive yet separate process from sensation, however, it is sometimes difficult to separate the two processes. The main difference is that sensation is where our sense organs first encounter raw stimuli. Perception is the process by which the stimuli are interpreted, analysed, and integrated with other sensory information.
An experience from ev ...
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Plato And Love
Number of Words: 1971 / Number of Pages: 8
... society. The Symposium outlines the different popular views about love during Plato’s time. Plato intentionally portrays some as ignorant and others as valid thoughts on the phenomenon of love. Within the discourse, the speakers told of the characteristics of the gods related to love as a definition of what love is. Within each of the lectures given, Plato injected certain messages he sought to relay about love and its effect on people.
The speeches started with Phaedrus who stated many of the powers of love. He spoke about honor between someone and their beloved as a great virtue in a ...
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The Running Of The Bulls
Number of Words: 894 / Number of Pages: 4
... pen.
"Of San Fermin we ask, as our protector, to bless us and safely guide us in
this run."
Before the race begins, chaos is formed. People are up and about
as early as 6:30, trying to find that perfect seat for the viewing of the
bull run. The race starts at exactly 8:00 am every morning during the
annual festivals that are celebrated from the 7th - 14th of July. All of
the spectators must stay behind a double-fencing along the route. One of
the most practical reasons for this is, that the runners have the space to
jump over the fence should they need to. The bulls are let loose from the
Rochape ...
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Who Is Raising The Chindren
Number of Words: 488 / Number of Pages: 2
... any generation before it. In order to achieve higher ratings and a larger audience, television is pushing the limits of behavior and morality. When children are left with television as their main influence, a child does
not receive a proper sense of reality. The examples of adult behavior they see are distorted. Violent behavior, disrespect for others, and authority are glamorized by the entertainment directed toward youth. Television is a convenient way to keep a child busy, but without a parent around to monitor what is being watched, it can be the most
negative influence a child has.
Parents a ...
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