JPS124 Manga and Japanese Contemporary Culture Individual Essay Hoi Chung Fok (James) 44677472 Due Date: 20rd November‚ 2015 Word Count (include references):1653 Cuteness and Kawaii essentially means childlike; it celebrates sweet‚ adorable‚ innocent‚ pure‚ simple‚ genuine‚ gentle‚ vulnerable‚ weak and inexperienced social behavior and physical appearance. (Kinsella‚ 1995) The word Kawaii was first appeared in the book - Konjaku Monogatari Shyu in the 12 century Heian period
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In many cases‚ serial killers began their lives as remotely normal human beings. Most‚ however‚ have detectable characteristics of murderers before they hit puberty. Otis O’toole‚ for example‚ started a neighbourhood fire when he was six. George Adorno was even younger when he first displayed his pyromaniac tendencies by setting fire to his own sister when he was four. Along with pyromaniac behavior‚ other often-cited warning signs are enuresis (bed-wetting) and cruelty toward animals. Often‚ serial
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Many individuals will enter the profession of social work because they are simply interested in ‘helping people’. This pretext however is not as straightforward as it sounds. Some may be motivated by a mission of working against child problems such as child abuse hence choosing the direct path of social work which involves strategies such as counselling‚ case management or the dispensing of emergency assistance‚ whilst others may still hold ideals of ‘changing the world’ thus choosing a more indirect
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The 1976 film‚ “Network” beautifully illustrates the connections between society and the media that we choose to consume. The film is centered around the fictional television network UBS (short for Union Broadcasting System’s). It details the fall‚ rise‚ and fall of a long-term anchor of the network; all while showing the audience the inner-workings of a major media conglomerate. We see executives choose profit over morals and human decency‚ as well as‚ the mental stress that individuals in the entertainment
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THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY As a scientific discipline‚ social psychology is only a bit older than one hundred years‚ with most of the growth occurring during the past five decades (McGarty & Haslam‚ 1997). By most standards‚ social psychology is a relatively young science. In discussing the discipline’s history‚ it should be noted that there are two social psychologies‚ one in psychology and the other in sociology‚ with the larger of the two being the psychological branch (Jones‚ 1998)
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Thinking Sociologically From: Will Keenan Social Conflict Perspective Discussion Themes: Conflict: Positive & Negative Aspects Is society inherently‚ inevitably and universally ‘conflictual’? 1. When is conflict ever productive of social benefits? 2. Identify areas of social conflict that have wider ethical significance. Further Readings Follow-Up: Articles by: David F. Walsh Structure/Agency‚ pp. 8-33; Fran Tonkiss continuity/Change‚ pp. 34-48; and Don Slater
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Gospel According to The Simpsons: Bigger and possibly even better’ (Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press‚ 2007)‚ p. 6. [ 9 ]. Lisa’s Sax‚ 3G02‚ writ. by Al Jean & Mike Reiss‚ dir. by Dominic Polcino (Fox Broadcasting‚ 19 October 1997). [ 10 ]. T.W Adorno‚ ‘How to look at television’‚ The Quarterly of film radio and television‚ 8.3 (1954)‚ 213-235 (p. 221) [ 11 ]
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Effects of Popular Music in Advertising on Attention and IVIemory DAVID ALLAN Saint Joseph ’s University dallan@sju.edu This study examines the effects of popuiar music in advertising to determine both the theoreticai (the effect of popular music on the processing of advertising messages) and practicai (the design of more effective advertisements using popuiar music) impiications. An experiment is reported that tested the effects of three integrations of popuiar music in advertising: originai
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Zizek: Risk Society “So‚ instead of celebrating the new freedoms and responsibilities brought about by the ‘second modernity’‚ it is much more crucial to focus on what remains the same in this global fluidity and reflexivity‚ on what serves as the very motor of this fluidity: the inexorable logic of capital. The spectral presence of Capital is the figure of the big Other which not only remains operative when all the traditional embodiments of the symbolic big Other disintegrate‚ but even directly
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early 1970’s through the Frankfurt School‚ in Germany. This institution was referred to as the Institute of Social Research at the University of Frankfurt‚ Germany. The early Neo-Marxists from that school were Max Horkheimer‚ Herbert Marcuse‚ Theodor Adorno and Leo Lowenthal among others. Max Horkheimer referred to this new strain of Marxism as Critical Theory in 1937; it is a social theory oriented towards critiquing and changing society as a whole‚ in contrast to the traditional Marxist
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