Assignment: The Olivet Discourse The Olivet Discourse is the lengthy discussion on Mount of Olives Jesus had with the disciples, where He prophesied to them in detail, the signs of His coming and the end of the age. Olivet, or the Mount of Olives, is a ridge to the east of Jerusalem overlooking...
Texts show the discourses of the places and time in which they are written. Text on similar topics represent discourses in different or similar ways; this depends on the aim of the author The authors chose to privilege various representations of these discourses. The two texts All Quiet on the Western...
Angels, one is faced with a choice: either accept realism or conclude that consciousness is capable of intention, but only if The Moral Ambiguity of War is invalid. , a predominant concept is the distinction between within and without. Thus, Lobel uses the term 'realism' to denote the common ground between...
metonymy, it was investigated following kinds English-speaking speeches (on channels of distribution): printed and television. Analysis of political discourse requires a careful interpretation of the language that is used, as the language itself says a great deal about the ideologies involved and, nevertheless...
they generate considerable news coverage. Many people are not happy with the quality of information presented in the ads or the tone of political discourse. Many critics worry that the 30 second commercials may lead to campaigns that are overly negative. Looking at the campaign ads in this year’s presidential...
Actions by states and non-governmental organizations form a basis of public policy worldwide. The idea of human rights[8] suggests that "if the public discourse of peacetime global society can be said to have a common moral language, it is that of human rights." The strong claims made by the doctrine of human...
fortress. Some geopoliticians of post cold war era, assume that the old geopolitical ideas have inspired conflicts more than cooperation. So, why Glasner emphasized 'geography of peace' within the todays ideas of geopolitics. If the after math of the cold war does not mean a world free from tension and...
recently) cognitive linguistics. This study is an attempt to provide a comprehensive corpus-based account of inversion in written modern English within a discourse-functional framework. In particular, the analysis involves the discussion of three possible factors that might exert their influence on inverted...
different media corporations/providers. It will further address the impact of media globalisation on culture through examination of the two central discourses surrounding the cultural impact of media globalisation; homogenisation and hybridisation. The media and communications sector is perhaps the sector...
perspectives emerge from the colonial testimony of Third World countries and the discourses of “minorities” within the geopolitical divisions of East and West, North and South. They intervene in those ideological discourses of modernity that attempt to give a hegemonic “normality” to the uneven development...
individuals and their practises through living there lives. (Cited Goffman in Silva 2009) Foucault believes that social order is produced through discourse and the power of knowledge) in disciplining individuals. (Foucault cited in Silva 2009) These two theorist whilst asking the same question of how...
the construction of a hostile ‘Other’… in this case traditionally the global South[2]. Though neorealism may have suffered a hiatus in the post-Cold War era, I think, particularly post 9/11 that it has experienced somewhat of a comeback[3]. Whilst neorealism is not without its merits, indeed, it...
of socio-economic and institutionalised barriers. While it is acknowledged that Pluralisation pre-dates the Internet, this paper will critique the discourse of pluralisation with specific reference to the World Wide Web. Unlike newspapers, television, radio and magazines, the Internet was never designed...
middle of a long war that would not have a winner. As a extremely anti-communist country, the U.S. began to advise the communist government when France backed out of the war. After too many fallen soldiers, a draft was called, creating high attendance at universities for fear of going to war. Such a lottery...
order to meet these needs defines guides how a society will function and either prosper or vanish with time. Rousseau, through his discussion in “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”, sought to define a functioning society for human beings, as well as give light to the errors of societies. Like Locke...
versions are presented in a very similar format, and in all of them the sphere of work, as it has taken shape in the neo-capitalist global order…these discourses are presented not as ideological constructs but as practical solutions to common problems, endorsed by expert psychological truths about human nature...
the mighty and just United States government. Debates about the place of LGBT people in American society have become a constant feature of public discourse. Though much of the focus of recent debates has been on the right to marry, the struggle of homosexuals to serve openly in the United States military...
be familiar with some of the key issues raised in postcolonial discourse and be able to summarize some of the key critical concepts involved in the field. You should also have an understanding of the significance of postcolonial discourse as a way of thinking about cultural production and be able to apply...
In this article, we attempt to broaden this understanding of literacy and literacy teaching and learning to include negotiating a multiplicity of discourses. We seek to highlight two principal aspects of this multiplicity. First, we want to extend the idea and scope of literacy pedagogy to account for...
whether the news media exaggerates drug-related crime. This essay takes the position that the news media does exactly this as part of its role in the ‘war on drugs’. It is proposed that elements of the news media exaggerate the extent of drug-related crime by simply misleading its audience through unsubstantiated...
Lying to Live The Discourses of Treason and Resistance were between two sides of the spectrum. The Government’s Discourse on Treason, which is the attacking side, consisted of Sir Edward Coke’s “From Speech at the trial of Father Henry Garnet” (1606); Sir Edward Coke played the role of an interrogator...
the issue of war. The songs were considered by the public as anti-war songs this was the case of “Masters of War” (Dylan, 1963, USA). However, Dylan never meant to make an anti-war song; as he referred in an interview to the USAToday newspaper “Supposed to be a pacifistic song against war. It's not an...
tabula rasa discourse shape adult perceptions of childhood? In what ways does it differ from other discourses of childhood? Discourse is a concept that is used extensively in the work of Social Constructionists when discussing childhood. I intend to give an explanation of what a discourse is and how...
best to re-examine the texts and the environment in which they were written. Let us get a few fundamental facts clear. Nowhere in The Prince or The Discourses does Machiavelli explicitly make morality or ethics his concern. Nor does he openly eschew it. Only one specific ethical system, the Christian ethic...
all writing may be "propaganda.” “Wellek's views are influenced by propaganda as a problem in the function of literature in the period after World War I, when the partisanship and political engagement of writers were linked to social movements, and questions of ethics and belief in literary interpretation...
Essay The Festive Drama club A Discourse community is group of communicators with a common goal or interest that adopt certain ways to communicate with each other and also with the society. Discussion of this topic reminds me of “The Festive Drama Club” which I joined five years ago. This is basically...
of trade, especially of finished goods. Mercantilism dominated Western European economic policy and discourse from the 16th to late-18th centuries.[1] Mercantilism was a cause of frequent European wars and also motivated colonial expansion. Mercantilist theory varied in sophistication from one writer...
February,25/2009 Background Many of African states experienced and are experiencing horrific civil wars particularly since the end of cold war. Except Somalia, which itself is categorised as a “failed state” by the academic community, all most all African states are composed...
time, and many Virginians lost their lives. In Document A, A Discourse on the Plantation of Virginia, George Percy explains the challenges Virginians suffered: “Our men were destroyed with cruel diseases as swelling, burning fevers, and by wars, and some departed suddenly, but for the most part they died...
a long and contested history both in the context of issues and topics selected for study and in the focus of its policy practices provisions and discourses. Task 2. Explain what you understand by the ‘mutual constitution’ of personal lives and social policy. (150-200). Mutual constitution of ‘the...
Some pitfalls of doing qualitative discourse analysis Definitional problems Let me save you a great deal of time. There is no correct definition of discourse, only useful and not so useful ones! At the end of the day you will be attracted to the type of Discourse Analysis (DA) that ‘works’ for you...
her discography so far is already a life time achievement, with her last two albums Badu manages to surpass herself. New Amerykah Part 1 (4th World War) and Part 2 (Return of the Ankh) take the listener on an incredible auditory journey; the lack of wider success can only be explained with the notion...
by a national government, for example by North Korea against the South”. The book gained prominence because it suggested — contrary to the US-led discourse of the time (and, arguably, continuing) — that “there is little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, or any one of the...
religion in America. Participants became passionately and emotionally involved in their religion, rather than passively listening to intellectual discourse in a detached manner. The Awakening played a major role in the lives of women, especially, though rarely were they allowed to preach or take public...
|At the end of the course students are |Listening for main ideas |identifying salient points, discourse markers, |Examples of spoken discourse: | |(7 hours) |able to listen effectively to various |Listening for supporting details ...
the world finding avenues to assert themselves over regimes and governments appearing to be biased, corrupt or authoritarian. Since the Second World War there have been concerted efforts by the international community and countries around the world to create a more democratic world order to establish...
end of the Cold War and the collapse of the former USSR that led to a serious questioning of the suzerainty of the nation state. Some would place political globalization to the birth of the new world order with the setting of an international institutions after the Second World War. However, the post...
had won a prize for an article he wrote on “Whether the arts and sciences had improved or corrupted the morals and mankind.” His work was entitled; Discourse on the Arts and Science. This took place in 1750 and made Rousseau a renowned author as it won the Academy’s award. His essay was broadly viewed and...
DISCOURSE AND GENRE: THE ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURE AND PATTERN OF JOURNAL ARTICLE IN CONAPLIN 6 I. INTRODUCTION The demand for scholars to publish journal-article is increased due to the need to develop education quality in Indonesia. In the era knowledge and globalization, the ability to write scientifically...
the world such as communism, anarchy, democracy, and a monarchy. There were few governments that worked, while many others were overthrown or went to war like Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship. There were many famous philosophers in the mid 1700s such as Lao-Tzu, Rousseau, and Machiavelli. What does society...
For Teh Win! An Essay on English influence on Swedish E-discourse Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Theoretical Background 3 2.1 Definitions: 3 2.2 Previous research 6 2.2.1 Ljung (1985) and (1988) 6 2.2.2 Chrystal (1988) - Engelskan i svensk dagspress 7 2.2.3...
Student ID: 14032570 Word Count: 2490 What are the linguistic indicators of disabling discourse? Define each indicator; then exemplify, and apply it, using any oral or written text(s) of your choice. 1‘A disabled person is a person with impairment who experiences some form of disability.’ The...
remission from temporal penalties for all his sins; if he died in battle he would earn remission of his sins.” This religious ideology was reflected in the war cry of the early Crusades: Deus lo volt! (God wills it!). But in modern era we don’t get to see terrorism on the name of Christianity anymore. ISLAM- ...
It was these tenets that moved Cronkite to broadcast his famous 1968 editorial condemning the role of the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. It was said that President Lyndon B. Johnson felt that if he lost Cronkite, he had lost America. Less than a few months after the broadcast, President...
impact upon colonized non-whites of the world, seeking to do so merely through a historical analysis and approach rooted in an understanding of pre-World War II viewpoints and theory would be a highly ineffective approach towards delineating this key research question. This is of course due to the fact that...
reinscribes white, heterosexuality within a dominant logic of stylized brutality and male bonding that appears predicated on the need to denigrate and wage war against all that is feminine. Thus, white working class and middle class men are allowed to see themselves as oppressed and lacking because their masculinity...
century played the significant and rather specific role, basing on the peculiarities of relations between masters and slaves, on the details of the Civil War, and on the features of the abolitionist movement. The principles of slavery depended on the ideology of racism and the masters’ fear of the possible...
shown that while armed intervention can be very effective the success of such action is highly unpredictable. When the United States entered World War II to help defeat Hitler, it was of course, successful. Conversely, Vietnam, an eight-year long experiment in failed guerilla warfare, lead us to a...
the psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier in Boston. During the Algerian War of Independence, Derrida asked to teach soldiers' children in lieu of military service, teaching French and English from 1957 to 1959. Following the war, from 1960 to 1964, Derrida taught philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he...
types of toys that are given to boys are all indicative and symbolic of strength and courage, almost war-like in some fashion (Henslin, 124). Women are thus peace makers and lovers as opposed to war-mongers and fighters. Henslin also explores the affectation that boys are not afraid. Given that boys...
employment relationship. The history of human resource management The development of personnel management is linked to post-Second World War government economic policies (Keynesianism) and the introduction of employment law, government intervention in the workplace (for example training),...
artistic styles helped the masses find a place within an oppressive political and spiritual order that marks society in the wake of horrific religious wars, in spectacular society similar cultural features, acquired through the consumption of commodity-symbols, now serve as the main elements relied upon...
modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, and it was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. If we take 1792, when war and nationhood were first expressly linked and mutually energized on the battlefield of Valmy,1 as symbolizing their birth, we might take 1992 as symbolizing...
to have little effect, but only a few studies have examined its effects. Further, coherence may be difficult to define and measure objectively. • Discourse markers—Words and phrases that signal the relationship between adjacent propositions and the overall structure of the passage improve comprehension...
boundaries.” In this regard anime is perhaps the ideal aesthetic product for contemporary period, at the forefront of creating an alternative cultural discourse that goes beyond traditional categories of “native” or “international” to participate in what may well be a genuinely new form of global culture. ...
been somewhat flippant in their discourse. As Dirlik, Healy and Knight (1997) have argued: " The approach [in scholarship on Mao] frequently encountered is a rather complacent empiricism, one which assumes the construction of Mao and his thought within discourse to be a largely unproblematic exercise...
Within many nations political debates rage over the denial or abuse of human rights. Even in prosperous, democratic countries like Canada much public discourse is phrased in the rhetoric of rights. Legal documents to protect human rights have proliferated in Canada, culminating in the 1982 entrenchment of...
CULTURAL INFLUENCES: Explain how culture has influenced the following "quirky" aspects of our society throughout the decades: __A. -SLANG TALK / Discourse, Social, and Conversational Contexts of Slang Speaking: Slang (informal popular sayings and words), emerged from a particular era or generation's...
partly confirmed by the rather precarious state of post-war fiction in most of the countries that had built, until World War Two, a fairly solid national narrative tradition. A certain tameness characterized, in the first decades after the war, the fictional output of such countries as England, France...
particular society. One of the main events in the twentieth century that are influenced by stereotypes is the Holocaust tragedy that occurred in World War II. The Holocaust was the destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis through an officially sanctioned, government-ordered, systematic plan of mass...