Reflexive

Debating if a piece of text is literature or not is still a tricky topic in this day and age. The Oxford English Dictionary defines literature as “Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit” but to really define and classify a text as literature you need to delve deeper, ask more questions and do this with a completely unbiased and open mind. Perhaps no other authors work has been debated in this manner quite as much as Edgar Allan Poe. His short stories,…

1. INTRODUCTION Much has been said about Burawoy’s charismatic and intellectual gospel on the essence of Public Sociology as he appealed to his colleague for the adoption of the discipline in the Presidential address at the American Sociological Conference in 2004. To an extent, there seems to be some consensus on the grand mission of public sociology which is to enable Sociology become more active within the public sphere and contribute in the improving the human condition. However, certain…

He also uses this as a counter argument because he begins to contradict himself when he says “the fact that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes” (Bittman, 2011) because throughout the article he goes into detail explaining how eating fast food isn’t really cheaper and that buying groceries…

Paternalism in positive way Szasz and Hollender in 1956 explained two different models of paternalism that exist in the health care one is activity –passivity and other is guidance co –operated. Szasz and Hollender (1956) correlated the physician- patient relationship in activity –passivity model with the relationship between an infant and a parent and guidance co –operated model correlated with a parent and an adolescent child model. That is in activity- passivity model the physician took…

Ernest Hemmingway’s Up in Michigan tells the unfortunate story of Liz Coates, a waitress at a restaurant owned by D.J. Smith. Liz is infatuated with one of D.J. Smith’s regular customer, Jim Gilmore. He was the new blacksmith in town, who came to Hortons Bay from Canada. However, it was clear in the story that Liz’s affection for him is unrequited. Liz was obsessed with Jim as she constantly thinks of him and was smitten with everything that he does. Jim, on the other hand, barely notices her…

importantly, the individual portraits also showcase a fairly wide range of documentary modes and distributions of authorship and agency. The modes portrayed range from benign paternalism and fly-on-the-wall observation to more participatory and reflexive choices. At one point, one of the young documentarians actually decides to hand over the camera to his subject. For Mascaro, the interest in the film lies in being able to narrate, “the negotiations of the image the youngsters and their servants…

many things to consider and obviously this question needs to be answered instantly to really show my judgment is valid. The ability to make a good judgment call is our ability to critically reflect on the matters reflecting the pros and cons from reflexive…

Warner’s Publics and Counterpublics focuses on one key question: What is a public? According to Warner the concept of “public” is usually misunderstood. Warner states that everything has a public. Warner splits his discussion of public and counter publics into seven sections. Warner states that this kind of public that comes into being only in relation to texts and their circulation (like the public of this reflection). The seven sections include: 1. A public is self-organized. It exists just by…

With the increasing diversity in nowadays classroom, teachers are facing challenges when communicating with children with different cultural backgrounds, religious beliefs, learning preferences and developmental levels. Becoming a reflective practitioner is essential for a teacher to grow, expand and open up a wide range of possible choices and response to meet the needs of all students in a diverse classroom. A reflective practitioner refers to a teacher who actively engages in reflection…

Throughout this Core Friday Event, Tom had demonstrated us through the final cumulative essay of the ideas and expectations for this major final assignment. Core 1 Cumulative Essay is really a critical narrative that tells our story of Core 1. We need to look at four examples and make a critical narrative about them and thinking why these examples are chosen. We have to make an interdisciplinary connection, in terms of conceptual theme. A lot of cumulative essays begin with everything about…