Contact

Native Americans Imagine aliens from another planet landing on earth. Imagine if the people of the land accepted them and taught them how to survive on earth, only for the aliens to take away the land. In “Native Americans: Contact and Conflict,” Native Americans wrote down their experiences, letting the reader get a different perspective on events and occurrences that the reader would not get from reading white colonist papers. The writings provide the viewer with understanding and knowledge…

Louis Pratt’s concept of a contact zone. The contact zone is where social spaces (i.e. cities) is in contact with two or more cultures that could clash and interact with each other through ideas, identity, class, culture and politics. The historical context can be oftenly seen in examples of high asymmetric powers that are prevalent. This was evident with the experiences of slavery and colonialism. Although the city of Montreal provides numerous examples of the contact zone, one particular…

Michelle Kulas, a writer for livestrong.com, pointed out that, “About 187,000...injuries require emergency medical care.” When kids play a contact sport, they are touching each other. They could be fighting for the ball or simply just pushing and shoving. Other kids choose to play a sport with little to no contact at all. Kids should not participate in contact sports under the age of 14 because of safety issues, their attitude, and being active. It has been claimed that when kids under 14 years…

in Ophthalmology major. My thesis research will be “Risk of Infection from Swimming with Contact Lens On.” Objective: The objective of this study is to know the risk of eye infection from swimming with contact lens on. Justification: Although the risks that are associated with extensive wearing of contact lenses are well known, there has not been a sufficient explanation of the cause of swimming with contact lens on increases the risk of infection. This research should be studied now because…

can be reduced are Equal status contact and the pursuit of common goals. Deutsch and Collins (1951) carried out an early study of equal status contact. They compared two kinds of housing projects, one of which was thoroughly integrated with blacks and whites who were assigned houses regardless of their race, and the other was segregated. The residents of both housing projects were intensively interviewed and it was found that both casual and neighbourly contact were greater in the…

Excuse me while I kindly blow your ''90's kids genders'' out of the water, unceremoniously bury it, and tap dance on its unmarked grave while singing a lovely tune. I have held my tongue this whole time and I feel that I can no longer sit by while this bombards my timeline; in doing so I have been a bystander to this hatefulness and I can not bring myself to be one anymore. Before you lot continue to run around judging people for their lives, which frankly you have no business doing, to begin…

What is contact theory? The contact theory is the belief that contact between individuals and groups can promote tolerance and acceptance by sharing a common space under certain conditions. There must be contact between people who are different such as race, gender, and ethnicity. Also, equal status must exist by individuals intermingling with each other. Individuals and groups should be working on common goals. Adequate resources are needed to prevent competition for resources among…

In the criminal justice system, such things as consensual contact, detention and probable cause are important to for law enforcement. To know the difference between each could be difference between enforcing the law and letting someone go. According to Robertson and Wallace, consensual contact is defined as when an individual is not detained by the police and the police have not had any manner recommend to that individual and is not free to end the encounter and withdraw from. There are two…

when in reality we just have to put ourselves out there and experience whatever we can. Mary Louise Pratt once spoke of contact zones, saying that “The idea of the contact zone is intended in part to contrast with ideas of community that underlie much of the thinking about language, communication, and culture that gets done in the academy.” Pratt is portraying the idea that contact zones are cultures clashing together and sometimes through transculturation these zones can be beneficial to the…

While reading Chapter 6, Contact with Other Children, I couldn’t help but laugh reading the part about siblings. My two sons are 10 and 4 almost 5 in May, years old. The book says that “constructive conflict with siblings help children recognize each other’s needs, wishes, and point of view, and it helps them learn how to fight, disagree, and compromise within the context of a safe, stable relationship” (Papalia, Martorell, 2015, p.184). Last night, a very vivid memory of a fight between my two…