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- 6761: Communication 2
- ... practices reconstruct resources. In this sense, practices consist in actions such as building a bridge, playing bridge, and seeking to bridge misunderstanding; resources comprise the images, symbols , and institutions that persons use to make their world meaningful. The discovery of communication must be a part of any comprehensive story of the twentieth century. Once keen intellects focused on communication itself, instead of using communication as a too familiar tool with which ... process of the creation and maintenance of social realities. By comparing the traditional concept of communication to the new one, we find that the traditional concept of communication holds that we exist in a material world, and we use communication to express our inner purpose , attitudes, or feelings, and to describe the events and objects of the external world. Communication works well to the extent that it accurately expresses inner feelings or external reality, and when it produces understanding between the speaker and the audience. The alternative view is that we consist of ...
- 6762: Buddhism 3
- BUDDHISM Buddhism is probably the most tolerant religion in the world, as its teachings can coexist with any other religion's. However, this is not a characteristic of other religions. The Buddhist teaching of God is neither agnostic nor vague, but clear and logical. Buddhism was ... According to custom, he married a young girl named Yasodhara at the age of sixteen. His father had ordered that he live a life of total seclusion, but one day Siddhartha ventured out into the world and was confronted with the harsh reality of life and universal suffering. At age twenty-nine, he left his kingdom and new-born son to lead a plain, reclusive life and determine a way to ... to follow a path of balance rather than extremism. He called this path the Middle Way. "Devotion to the pleasures of sense, a low practice of villagers, a practice unworthy, unprofitable, the way of the world [on one hand]; and [on the other] devotion to self- mortification, which is painful, unworthy and unprofitable. By avoiding these two extremes the Tathagata [or Buddha] has gained knowledge of that middle path which ...
- 6763: Inherit The Wind 2
- ... one thing that science hasn t been able to give them. Enter God, the means that mankind has clung to for purpose. If there isn t a God, does that mean that 95% of the world is suffering from some sort of mass dillusion? There may be a thousand arguments against there being a supreme being that we can think of, but it s all those reasons that we cannot think ... Yet the Church, like humanity, has the right to make a mistake and reassess their beliefs. It doesn t mean all they say is false, not at all! I couldn t imagine living in a world where God didn t exist -- I wouldn t want to. Turn around 360 degrees and you are back facing the same direction, now science lies in front of you where religion so recently resided. Politics ... profitable. In as sense, doing away with all pure research. In Inherit the Wind, Drummond replies sarcastically to this belief of Brady s that It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity. After all, what are we here for? To watch television, drink Coca-Cola and eat McDonald s? No! A ship in the harbor may be safe, but that ...
- 6764: Beautiful Blueberries (About Into The Wild)
- ... dessert with hippies, tramped through almost every western state, occasionally holding odd jobs. He also lived completely off the land in the Alaskan backcountry. McCandless' epic journey separated him from his parents and peers, a world of security and material excess, and a world "in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence". It was a journey that would have been a complete waste if it weren't for Jon Krakauer's book entitled Into ... an interest that bordered on obsession" until he finished writing the book. In this fierce passion, Krakauer is not only telling of McCandless' life but his own, and in the process trying to make a world of critics understand why he, McCandless, and countless others are drawn to a life of potentially suicidal adventure. This passion draws the reader in, spins them around and spits them back out into the ...
- 6765: Neil Young in Halifax
- ... me. I paid no attention to the idiots in front of me smoking pot or the guy who kept falling off his chair a few seat down. For the entire time I was in a world of my own. Just me and Neil. He didn't talk much. At one point he said into the mic "How ya doin'?" But that was pretty much it. He played a lot of songs ... I didn't know. But he played a lot of old songs too like "needle and the damage done" and "heart of gold" which were crowd pleasers. But when he played "rocking in the free world" I ran down to the front of the stage. I was about four feet away from Neil Young and this giant hand grabbed me from behind. That giant hand was attached to a giant security ... I said that my mom was holding on to my ticket and I ran from him before he decided whether he believed my story or not. When Neil was done with "rocking in the free world" they just went bananas for about two minutes. They would build up all this musical tension and then release it and build up this tension again that was just asking to be resolved. I ...
- 6766: Music Censorship
- ... Love will rip off her bra for the audience to marvel and glorify at her action (Bernstein 95). She acts in such a fashion because she is insane and wants to prove it to the world, where as Billy Joe just performs naked for the shock value and the love of hearing tabloids and gossip. Both performers of past and present conducted strange acts on stage for the shock value and ... could at least put blame where blame is due, the law enforcement agencies. The arrests of Tu Pac Shakur, Snoop Doggy Dog, and Flavor Flav show what little effect rap actually has in the real world (Leland 64). These people should be the classic American success story: young unknown men, who through a lot of hard work and talent, rose to be the millionaire with the mansion on the hill. Ironically ... but then evolved into something else (Leland 64). Also, he feels that we should acknowledge the "obvious" correlations between the constant, negative, violent messages that are being put out by rap and violence in the world (Leland 64). He realizes that some people take the rap they listen to very seriously and just wants to warn people of why and how these boys can sing about such violence and destruction. ...
- 6767: 1984: Summary
- ... league. The public continued having sex as it was the will of the Party that people must reproduce. The degradation of sex also kept the married and unmarried alike brimming with energy for hate week, war marches and other fascist public activities which the people had to attend. A specific example of the degradation of sex in Winston's life was the account he made in his journal of his wife ... was doing was immoral. His troubling conscience drove him to record his feelings in his illegal journal as part of his personal rebellion. The ultimate deception that the Party perpetrated on the people was the war the Party staged against it's own citizens using a created villain named Goldstein.( It's interesting that this Jewish name was given to a villain in this novel written in 1947 by a Party modelled after Hitler's fascist Germany ). To keep it's economy going Oceania had to be in a constant state of war thus the Party's creation of Goldstein. This character broadcasted "criminal" thoughts for two minutes each day and enraged the citizens to the point that they gladly went to war. The Partys goal was ...
- 6768: "A Man for All Seasons": Common Attitude
- ... If we should bump into one another, recognize me." (p. 94-95) The common man's words are true not only to the time of Thomas More, but as well throughout history. Many in the world today follow the same philosophy that the common man states at the end of the play. Most people would rather avoid the troubles caused by being an individual. However, there are a few, such as ... More, who follow their conscience, who are willing to take on the extra stresses that come with being one's own person. The statement made by the common man, although practiced by many in the world today, is the wrong way to think. The man says to survive in the world one must leave behind their morals, and to forget their conscience. While this may lead to temporary happiness in life, it may lead to eternal punishment after death. In the modern world, this philosophy ...
- 6769: 1984: Summary
- ... league. The public continued having sex as it was the will of the Party that people must reproduce. The degradation of sex also kept the married and unmarried alike brimming with energy for hate week, war marches and other fascist public activities which the people had to attend. A specific example of the degradation of sex in Winston's life was the account he made in his journal of his wife ... was doing was immoral. His troubling conscience drove him to record his feelings in his illegal journal as part of his personal rebellion. The ultimate deception that the Party perpetrated on the people was the war the Party staged against it's own citizens using a created villain named Goldstein.( It's interesting that this Jewish name was given to a villain in this novel written in 1947 by a Party modelled after Hitler's fascist Germany ). To keep it's economy going Oceania had to be in a constant state of war thus the Party's creation of Goldstein. This character broadcasted "criminal" thoughts for two minutes each day and enraged the citizens to the point that they gladly went to war. The Partys goal was ...
- 6770: An Attempt At Understanding Dreams
- ... the chance of having to write a paper for Psychology 201 (especially that I hardly write papers because I'm an Engineering major), and I almost instantly knew that I was going to explore the world of dreams and the process of dreaming. Before I go any further though, I think I know from the start that no matter how much material I gather or people I interview, I will not ... also four other periods of non-REM (NREM) sleep. During those periods the brain is very relaxed, and the dreams that we have are not really dreams, but rather thoughts and stimuli from the outside world. This means that our senses are operating normally and we can hear different noises around us, and our brain is thinking. This is the time when several great inventors solved their problems and discovered solutions ... to test the reality of the dream, and by testing the environment to see if you are awake or dreaming. Some people achieve very high levels of lucidity where they can create their own dream world in the dream, take any actions, and live any fantasies that they can imagine. However, some people would argue that it is nicer to just experience the dream as it comes, without being able ...
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