Imagined Communities The concept of nationalism‚ according to Benedict Anderson‚ has never been deeply discussed. There has never been a great thinker treating this concept as thoroughly as other concepts. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism” or “liberalism”‚ but to relate it with “kinship” and “religion” in order to understand the similarity that groups of people have and why the territory that they live help one understand the borders that we
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1. Benedict Anderson/Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism: 1983 (Revised 2006)/Brooklyn‚ New York 2. What is the central theme – the topic – of the reading? “The reading is about....” Anderson articulates that a nation is an “imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (6). People will not meet every person in their community and nationalism has been proven to be hard to define. The people from the same community will
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just confirms the conformist message that class is fixed and shouldn’t be fluid. Discuss. In Pygmalion‚ the time era is Edwardian‚ and class can be seen as both fixed and fluid. We can see that Shaw’s intentions are clear‚ underlying the play‚ Shaw’s message is clear that the class system is flawed‚ and that Eliza’s uprising proves this through her strong‚ subversive attitude. An example of Shaw suggesting that class is fluid in Pygmalion is through Doolittle’s interaction with Higgins. When Doolittle
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1. Jamaal L. Shields 2. Reading #11: “The Code of the Street” by Elijah Anderson 3. The argument Elijah Anderson is trying to make is that the behavior of the children today is greatly influenced by the street culture. In this street culture‚ he describes it as being violent when they’re faced with impersonal attacks and any type of disrespect shown. 4. I think this course reading fits with two course concepts from the lectures in class and the textbook. The first concept would be ethnography
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As soon as I walked through the front doors of Anderson High School‚ I knew my feelings and thoughts would fly around all over the place. It was almost like my stomach was turned completely inside out and all I could do was stare as people of all kind wandered to their first class. I did not know where to begin looking; I had just been here five days ago but my mind went blank as soon as I stepped foot inside. Eventually the school bell made a noise almost similar to something you might hear in
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• Purpose in mind Albert Lau feels that national history is established with a particular intention. The nature of this purpose could either be in a nation’s effort to foster a sense of belonging or even identify amongst its citizens or the state’s means to nation-building. In the context of Singapore‚ the perspective in which the Singapore Story‚ the official national history‚ is written is one which can be used in achieved in its “agenda of nation-building”. • Shaper of national identity
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Alhajri Fahad Who has never used a phone during class time or driving? Almost everyone including me have done this before but my question is; is it necessary to use the phone even if we are really busy? The addition of using phone becomes a very common among teens those days in the whole world and becomes a serious problem that needs to be focused on. There are two things that must be focused and discussed; which are the addition of using phone and the solution of it. First of all
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I learned from the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson that friendship is tender and brutal event. When Melinda loses all her friends at a party just before she starts high school due to a grave of misunderstanding‚ she’s forced to reevaluate the nature of friendship. This story teaches me that friendship can change overtime and people can change too. This proves that you should trust no one because one day people can hurt you and let you down without knowing the true part of the story. In
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“Fear is a chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with a release of chemicals.” (Layton‚ 2010) Fear is a response given out from the brain. The brain is part of the Central Nervous System. It has many different parts that work together to do day to day things‚ even when you sleep. Fear is an emotion that the brain signals out in case of any potential danger. (Serendip‚ 2002) There will be an outside stimulus that we are afraid of. Fear maybe different‚ but the
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1. PEOPLE WILL FEEL AWKWARD‚ILL –AT-EASE AND SELF-CONSCIOUS :- Whenever we ask people to do things differently‚ you disrupt their habitual ways of doing things. This tends to make people feel awkward or uncomfortable as they struggle to eliminate the old responses and learn the new. 2. PEOPLE INITIALLY FOCUS ON WHAT THEY HAVE TO GIVE UP:- Even for positive changes such as promotions‚ or those that result in more autonomy or authority‚ people will concentrate on what they will be losing.
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