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Stigma Goffman’s Stigma (1963) outlines that if the stigmatised person actively and consciously realigns themselves with society, discredited identity is redeemed. Once Horsley learnt that rule breaking and deviant behaviour received attention (Shahrad 2010), he continued to engage in nonconformist acts to support his narcissistic identity. Horsley made failed attempts at rehabilitation, but was unable to go through the mortification of the self process that Goffman outlines (1961, 1963) because…

as a linguistic phenomenon that a word, phrase or clause can have more than one possible interpretation. It is thus an attribute of any idea or statement whose intended meaning cannot be definitively resolved according to a rule or process with a finite number of steps. In ambiguity, specific and distinct interpretations are permitted (although some may not be immediately obvious), whereas with information that is vague,…

The Western Intellectual Tradition by J. Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish examines different European/American historical periods from the year 1500 to 1900. It focuses on the great thinkers and philosophers from those times, as well as certain historical periods that are considered significant. This essay focuses on chapters 2, 10, 15, 21, and 23. They are about the city-states of Italy, the Royal society, Montesquieu, Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution, and Edmund Burke respectively.…

The verificationist theory of meaning asserts that a statement’s meaning and whether it is meaningful or not lies in its method of confirmation or disconfirmation. This is a compelling, yet inadequate, theory. In this paper I will focus on exploring and explaining how this theory proves problematic. I will claim that this theory is immediately inadequate, since many sentences have no method of verification, based purely on content. If this were the case it would mean that outside of a scientific…

Authorship and Date Throughout the Book of Proverbs, comprised mostly of parables and poetry, one can truly comprehend the wisdom God gave to his people. In the beginning of Proverbs, readers are introduced to “Proverbs of Solomon son of David, King of Israel.” (Estes 213) This gives the initial impression that King Solomon wrote the book of Proverbs, however, scholars discovered that it was in Jewish tradition that the book was edited by “the men of Hezekiah” (Estes 213). Many academics have…

Far from being exhausted, Marxism is still very young, almost in its infancy; it has scarcely begun to develop. It remains, therefore, the philosophy of our time. We cannot go beyond it because we have not gone beyond the circumstances which engender it. J.P. SARTRE, Search for a method (NY 1968) p. 29 Introduction Living in times which Francis Fukuyama famously described as the ‘end of history’, when the last great bastions of communism fell together with the Berlin wall more than 20 years…

WESTERGAARD’S SOLUTION FOR SIF The set of equations given by Westergaard for the stress field is: σxx = Re Z – yImZ ’ σyy = Re Z + yImZ ’ τxy = -yRe Z ’ where Z=σ_(∞^.)/√((1-〖(a/z)〗^2 ) Z'=(-σ_(∞^.) a^2)/(z^3 [〖(1-(a/z)^2]〗^(3/2) ) For y = 0, σyy = σ_(∞^.)/√((1-〖(a/x)〗^2 ) IRWIN’S NEAR…

Of all the means through which humans perceive the world, sight is perhaps the most important. It is our primary means of understanding the physical nature of our surroundings, both immediate and distant. It is only natural that the great thinkers of antiquity were curious about the nature of vision, and inseparably, that of light itself. In the manner characteristic of ancient science, many common ideas about optics were “hit or miss”, so to speak. Certain Greek thinkers had hypotheses about…

Every November 1st, the people of Mexico gather to celebrate the lives of their deceased loved ones on a holiday called Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Part of the celebration is partaking in observing the annual migrations of the monarch butterfly, as they are said to be the souls of the deceased revisiting the earth because they always mysteriously appear on the same day every year, the Day of the Dead (“Dia de los Muertos”). However, in 2013, the butterflies did not arrive, only…

means that it is acceptable to simply use resources up until there is little left, and then repeat that process endlessly with all the worlds’ resources. This way of thinking matches up with Cafaro’s greed and gluttony vice examples. If a society is set on continuing to live their unsustainable way of life in both a greedy and gluttonous way then resources like the forests are doomed to disappear. This mentallity will hurt forests because it will encourage deforestation to try to find more oil…