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In this reflection, I combine the content of the two classes last week. First, I will give my reply to several questions that posted by the discussion leaders. Secondly, I summarize and present my thoughts to several discussion topics in class. And finally, I would like to posit my questions to Marx, Marxists, or Post-Marxist. For the class on Tuesday, one question we discussed was about the differences between money as capital and money as mere money. My own answer to this is that Marx…

confront its history. A notable example of this challenge is Germany after the events of World War II and the Holocaust. For German society, the current prevailing attitude is that a nation can only truly reckon with the past if they understand it. Das Boot is the perfect cultural representation of the idea that the only way Germany will be able to look to the future is through acknowledgement and realistic portrayal of the past. The modern confrontation with Germany’s Nazi past, like many…

The purpose of this review is to discuss the literature on national physical literacy interventions aimed at youth. The first section will address the definition of physical literacy (PL) and its philosophical roots, and the second section will develop the use of PL to guide several national sport and athletic performance development programs in youths, particularly in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom (UK). The final two sections provide a summary of evidence related to physical…

According to Marx there are always two things going on simultaneously in the capitalist mode of production. There are three different duality components. The first component, the duality of use value and value is where the rest of the components derive from. Use value is the intrinsic component to a commodity that it has been predisposed to. It is a qualitative value because it consists of the specific qualities that the commodity has and since each commodity has different use-values one…

Figure 1 below illustrates the predicted route of the track as identified during the least cost paths analysis. The four parts of the route are shown: Punakiki to the ventilation shaft; shaft to the mine portal (lookout point); portal to the amenities area; and the ventilation shaft to Blackball. The results clearly illustrate it is possible to use cost paths modelling to identify a track. However, further assessment will be necessary around the aesthetic value of the track, to assess whether it…

Published in Vanity Fair, in the October 2016 edition, Kohler showcases an advertisement of their faucet collection. The advertisement features a woman sitting on a table in a dim room. The headline of the newspaper, titled “Wanted” is partially noticeable. A police officer, blurred in the foreground, holds a newspaper under his crossed arms. The part of the newspaper that is visible is an image of a woman that appears to be the woman sitting on the table. In the center of the table lies a…

Karl Marx, a theorist who examined the societal values and orders, ultimately came to the conclusion that human history was composed of a level of struggles between different classes. The main motivator for humans is “historical materialism” which is associated with wealth, gain, and resources. Marx believed that when factories were created with no progress and investment, the workers just ended up getting poorer and poorer until there was no incentive to work. To fix this problem, Marx came up…

I am against human experimentation. Many human experiments are psychological, though some are physical, both usually causing damage to the body and/or state of mind. My first point being the Stanford Prisoner experiment that took place in 1973. Psychiatrist, Philip Zimbardo chose 24 out of 75 undergraduates and randomly assigned them roles as guards and prisoners in a mock prison on campus. They adapted to their roles within a manner of days,1/3 of the 'guards' began to show agressive and…

Cloudy Judgment In 1971, Professor Phillip Zimbardo Ph.D. from Stanford University devised an experiment to test the willingness of people to conform to social roles in a simulated environment (McLeod, S. A. 2016). There were tons of applications the research team had to sort through settling on 24 college students who were broken up into two groups. The prison guard group who had no formal training on how to work as a prison guard or utilize law enforcement tactics, and the prisoner group. The…

If I was a guard, I believe that I would have become a guard who is oppressive, but not to the point of physically injuring the inmate. I believe that I would adopt a behavior of oppressing the inmates because I would be fearful that the inmates would feel power in numbers against me without my constant threats, but I would recognize that my role as a guard is not real, thus I would not physically abuse the inmates. However, I am unsure whether if my idealistic morals will still remain intact…