Paradox

In the first chapter of this book, Bohm discusses the differences between “making something in common” and “to create something in common”. This is his first of many examples of subtle changes in definitions of words and ideas. In this example, to make something in common is similar to a procedure. There is already an outline on how something is done. To create something in common is a new interpretation between what is said and what is understood. For example, if two people are having a…

Central relational paradox is a term that was created by Miller and Stiver in 1997 (Jordan, 2010). When the person feels that they are going into condemned isolation and they are unwilling to make social connections due to vulnerability they are in the process of relational paradox. The person will purposefully use traits of disconnections to keep to themselves avoiding making connections with other…

album before going on their indefinite hiatus. “I Want to Write You a Song” is written for the comfort of fans and includes a paradox, imagery, symbolism along other poetic elements and can be analyzed with a biographical criticism. Firstly, this song has a lot imagery making…

Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home is a work that founded on conflicts and paradoxes between outward appearance and meaning. Even the title Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic appears incomprehensible. The phrase “Fun Home” all the same for first Family funeral home, that evidently is not something, a number of us would consider being fun. We tend to contemplate the phase “Fun Home” in relevancy the family’s actual house; it is clear that their family life is not notably fun with its upsides of…

the chain imagery for her daughter. Indicative of the larger paradox of a virtuous enslaved woman, Jacob’s use of both fighting and feeding into a form of submissiveness allows her to paint the image of a slave woman as one who wishes to be thought of as womanly, being appeal to reach the ideas of the cult of domesticity, but also fighting for her freedom at the same time. Jacob’s “mortification” at an “obligation” demonstrates this paradox. The “dual consciousness” of a slave woman also refers…

In communicating their beliefs about nature and man’s connection with the natural world, transcendental writers employ rhetoric full of personified natural elements and extended metaphors connecting the natural world to man’s own personal experiences. One of the most clear demonstrations of this technique occurs in Thoreau's “Brute Neighbors” as the author personifies the ants and the loon to equate their value to that humans. In observation of the loon, Thoreau writes, “This was his…

The U.S. Census Bureau always keeps track of their statistics, whether they’re a female, male, working, or non-working, they always keep track of people. One surprising thing that they keep track of is Health Insurance; health insurance is very important in the United States. If we compare health insurance from the 1950’s to now we will notice that health insurance has changed greatly. Back in the day, health insurance wasn’t so much in demand as it is now (Getzen, 2013). In 2014, it was…

probability theory, the birthday paradox concerns the probability that, in a set of randomly chosen people, some pair of them will have the same birthday. By the pigeonhole principle,…

as a transitional object. A nostalgic speaker of a language may not be entitled to the traditional sense of freedom, yet s/he is liberated in the freedom of paradox. As Winnicott notes, “the essential feature in the concept of transitional objects and phenomena … is the paradox, and the acceptance of the paradox” (119). The freedom of paradox defies standard ways to perceive space and time. If the past is a dream, nebulous and enigmatic, history is a nostalgia that attempts to interpret the…

Furthermore, despite the fact that hegemonic masculinity has positioned itself to be above other forms of masculinities and femininities (Howson 2006), it is not the most common form of masculinity. This is shown by Connell and Messerschmidt (2005, p. 832), who suggests that hegemonic masculinity is not statistically normal, with only a handful of men practicing it. Even with that fact, hegemonic masculinity is still normative (Connel & Messerschmidt 2005, p. 832). Donaldson (1993, p. 645) and…