Patriotism‚ to me‚ simply means love for one’s country - a supportive‚ respectful love that is big enough‚ and secure enough‚ to also question‚ challenge‚ and face the shadows of the past or present‚ without fear of rupturing that deeper connection. If your love for country‚ like your love for a person‚ is based mostly on ideals and images‚ it is unstable and therefore needs to be rigidly defended. It may be loyal‚ but it isn’t wise. For me‚ healthy patriotism is somewhat like the healthy‚ intimate
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Creating‚ celebrating‚ and instrumentalising the online carnival Edited by David Kurt Herold and Peter Marolt Introduction Noise‚ spectacle‚ politics: carnival in Chinese cyberspace David Kurt Herold The Internet in China was developed at about the same time as the Internet in Europe and America‚ but its structures and set-up were quite different. During the late 1980s and early 1990s‚ academic institutions in China began to set up intranets on their campuses that were later connected
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Existence of youth culture There is debate within the scientific community about whether or not youth culture exists. Some researchers argue that youth’s values and morals are not distinct from those of their parents‚ which means that youth culture is not a separate culture. Others note that we must be cautious about extrapolating a current effect to other periods of history. Just because we see the presence of what seems to be a youth culture today does not mean that this phenomenon extends to
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How does the media affect peoples perception of body image? SOURCE 1 this website is a good source as it shows us that the average model is around 98% thinner than the average woman. Magazines‚ especially fashion ones‚ are full of pictures of unrealistic sized models‚ which can lower the self esteem of teenagers as it makes them belive that this it is healthy and normal to be a seze zero which it is not. SOURCE 2 social networks are one of the main body image influences as there are
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meaning of the word and all the subtle‚ nasty nuances associated with committing the act itself. What I cannot do‚ and to a lesser extent refuse to do‚ is accept how someone can graciously open their world to you like they’re opening a chest full of rare‚ precious treasures one day and the next‚ slam the lid down‚ smashing your fingers in the process‚ carelessly plucking you from it the next. That’s exactly what happened to me‚ and let me state for the record‚ I did nothing to deserve such harsh treatment
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in the day they used it as a good adjective in describing a person and how they were acting or feeling. As for society‚ throughout the centuries and time the word has started to evaporate the meaning of cheerful to something completely opposite of what it used to mean. As for gay meaning happy‚ it seems to no longer exist; today people will rarely say “Glen is having such a gay time on his vacation in Hawaii”. If anyone were to say that‚ it would give off negative or confusion to the person or people
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If children are to become educated‚ what must they learn‚ and why? Education’s objective is to help people to learn the concepts of socialisation and of citizenship into a society‚ ultimately preparing individuals for entry into the workforce. At the same time education fulfils a purely intrinsic need for edification. On every level the purpose of education is that each and every person—both within the collective whole of humanity and individually as a vitally necessary and fully whole and contributing
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You know the word "friendship" in English means what? In each of these letters contain meaning to create a beautiful friendship. Let’s discover! “F”Fun: Is that so much of fun and friends will bring you in this life. “R”Respect: Always respect each friendships. First on mutual respect and understanding that you respect their jhi also the respect you are yourself. “I”Interest: What happiness if you are interested friends. Inquire cordial words‚ the lines short mail‚ full of the letters or just a phone
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Culture Has Brought More Negative Impacts On The Malaysian Youth. Western culture is a body of knowledge derived from reason that began in Ancient Greece. There and in the Roman civilization it developed until the start of the Middle Ages when it largely vanished from Europe. During the Middle Ages‚ Western culture resided‚ instead‚ in the Arab / Persian world to a modest degree. Today‚ Western culture has at least some presence in nearly all nations of the world. It does not currently exist‚ however
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To what extent does online communication impact on our construction of social networks? Does the “virtual society” actually exist? The development of the means of communication through the internet leaded to partial replacement of direct interhuman relationships‚ so we frequently find us facing questions related to modern communication‚ the way that it affects our day to day life‚ and the way society tends to become digitalized one day at a time. Therefore‚ the concept of a virtual society
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