Reciprocity

relationship model between producer and audiences. He critically points out that the relationship between media senders and receivers are also based on two competing ideology. On one side, the media audience’s ideology is based on the logical of reciprocity “gift culture.” On the other side, media company’s ideology is based on the logical of profit-driven commodity culture. ----Web 2.0 and Moral Economy Web 2.0 represents a new interactive digital era, where the Internet users, consumers, and…

Levinas writes, “I am responsible for the Other without waiting for reciprocity, even if I were to die for it. Reciprocity is her affair. It is precisely insofar as the relationship between the Other and me is not reciprocal that I am subjected to the Other; and I am ‘subject’ essentially in this sense. It is I who support all” (195). By completely…

The process of self-evaluation can be very hard to conduct, but it can result in significant benefits to an individual and the relationship. A high-qualityconnection can be ensured through completing a self-evaluation and implementing the findings from the self-evaluation (Wayment and Campbell 7). Every personal relationship such as marriage, friendship, spiritual relationship and intimate relationships require evaluation. Most often people realize that the concepts learnt from relationship…

The Geneva Protocol (Articles 2) dealt with the arbitral procedure and provided for the procedure, including the constitution of the Arbitration Tribunal, to be governed by the will of the parties and by the law of the country in whose territory the arbitration takes places. The Geneva protocol required each contracting state to .undertake to ensure the execution by its authorities and its accordance with the .provisions of its national laws of arbitral awards made in its own territory two…

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution lay out the framework for a representative government by the people, for the people where you were granted the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These documents sought to create a place free from persecution and to establish a place where the government represents the will of the people, for the betterment of the social good. The oppressive institution of slavery seeks to strip such freedoms from the individual to create a…

At the turn of the 20th century liberal democratic systems became a popular stronghold in the western world. Principally it was believed that such a system would fail, however a century later and liberal democracies arguably continue to grow. Professor and author John Rawls postulated in his book, Political Liberalism, a way to establish a set of foundations for social unity in such a democracy. He created and established various steps and thought processes that, in theory, would allow for an…

In Frans de Waal’s Ted Talk, “Moral Behavior in Animals” the speaker discusses the concept of morality that is prevalent in animals and how the morality has been tested and identified. First Waal introduces human morality by using an example of a painting by artist, Hieronymus Bosch, titled, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” which conveys an image of humanity prior to its potential downfall. From this painting, Waal contemplates if morality would exist in humans if they had not been interested in…

If you had been forced away from your family, community, and culture (as Native children were until the mid-1980s) how might you have turned out differently? What would you have missed learning without your personal cultural influences? The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830 to permit the elimination of Indian tribes to federal territory west of the Mississippi River. According to our text (McNamara & Burns) the government then held the belief that…

As the title suggests, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon refers to what lies beyond the eyes can perceive in a being. The movie illustrates characters that are relatable to self and Asian society. As we explore the Chinese ancestry in the class we watch the movie as a reflection of Confucianism and Taoism prevailing in traditions of China. The characters in the movie portray various attributes to paint the picture of China as a self-regulating society. As the movie begins, Li Mubai returns from…

food while the riches from gold fell into their hands. Because the Powhatans barely had enough to feed themselves, they no longer fed these colonists and the colonists responded by attempting to seize the crops themselves. Powhatans believed in reciprocity and continued to give the colonists crops in hopes of them giving support in return. Rather than support, another attempt to challenge the Powhatans came into effect which arised the first Anglo Powhatan War in 1610. The two sides and their…