Parallel postulate

He draws the parallels between the rise of ‘dude’ in 1980s and an increased production of films which targeted young audience. Such films (Fast Times at Ridgemont Hill 1982, Bill and Ted’s Exellent Adventure 1989, Clerk 1994, and Dude, Where’s My Car? 2000) all included…

Weber The Contribution of ‘the Protestant Ethic’ as Attributed to Weber’s Theories of Rationalisation The irresistible pull of rationalisation in the infant stages of modernity that coincided with the success of the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century, were pre-eminent social and economic changes that undoubtedly presented the need for society to cultivate the values of calculation and control that were cornerstones of the ‘Protestant ethic’. The work ethic of Calvinism, as argued by…

out? The question being posed in this book is about whether television is helping or harming our society as a whole. Dr. Postman readily argues that television is quickly eroding away at our way of communicating ideas. Throughout the book, he postulates the ways that television has taken speech and written word, shoved them aside, and replaced them with drama, spectacle, and amusement. 2. What is the primary method or approach used? Evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. Dr. Postman used…

information (Erickson 1). The prima facie principle of privacy regarding autonomy, states that we have the ability to make our own decisions and professionals respect for autonomy encompasses any and all affected. This principle parallels Kant’s Categorical Imperative postulate “treating others as ends in themselves and never as merely means” (book.) Patients have their own rational wills and contain the ability to make their own free decisions autonomously. The prima facie principles require…

Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas Aquinas, well-established theologians in the history of Christianity, aimed to probe the unexplored and insufficiently answered questions of their faith. In their arguments, presented in Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo and Aquinas’ Summa Theologia, each presents a desire to better understand his religion from within its own ideology. Aquinas and Anselm both rely on the premises of Christianity as the foundational support of their arguments, ruling out the possibility that…

Examining power relations are a fundamental requirement when discerning the affects of sport in particular social environments. As such, the use of sport as a means of social control for Aboriginal youth that targeted change in behaviour, destruction of culture, and reinforcement of Eurocentric values was not a mechanism confined to residential schools. Accordingly, the subsequent section will provide an examination of Aboriginal sport policy developments in Canada and sequentially analyze the…

if an individual has been denied housing for having a felony on record, that external punishment supplements his criminal status beyond his sentence. Herlitz expresses that “a sentence previously equivalent to punishment X, today is X+Y” Herlitz postulates in the article that if punishment is not consistent and proportional, it poses injustice towards…

Within Manuel Aguirre’s “Gothic Fiction and Folk-Narrative Structure: The Case of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” and A. A. Markley’s “Mary Shelley's ‘New Gothic’: Character Doubling and Social Critique in the Short Fiction.” we see the reevaluation of the presence of the gothic in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Gothic as both a genre and a form of literary narration and Shelley’s usage and possible manipulation of is pondered over in both article. Manuel Aguirre argues that Shelley’s Frankenstein…

He calls it a new freedom movement and then continues to draw a parallel between this movement, and the freedom movement in India led by Mahatma Gandhi. He is making an allusion to a historical figure and the events that caused India to gain independence. This causes the audience to subconsciously associate Rushdie’s…

Rehabilitation of the Soul: How Flannery O’Connor Uses the Concept of Disability in “The Lame Shall Enter First” In her short story, “The Lame Shall Enter First” Flannery O’Connor shares the tale of a self-righteous reformatory counselor, Sheppard, who forgoes the raising of his own son to embark on a quest to improve the life of a young miscreant, Rufus Johnson, who has a clubbed foot. Eventually after devoting all his time and effort to the saving of this young boy, Sheppard realizes the…