The following is a conversation between Socrates‚ who has mysteriously appeared in Philadelphia on November 9th‚ 2016‚ and Vivian Beck‚ a pro-choice woman among the crowd. The crowd chants outside to protest the election of Donald Trump‚ a republican candidate‚ as the President of the United States. Trump’s policies on defunding Planned Parenthood‚ overturning Roe v‚ Wade‚ and returning abortion laws to the state‚ has caused outrage from both pro-choice men and women. Tonight‚ they are protesting
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Attitudes toward Risk and the Risk-Return Paradox: Prospect Theory Explanations Author(s): Avi Fiegenbaum and Howard Thomas Source: The Academy of Management Journal‚ Vol. 31‚ No. 1 (Mar.‚ 1988)‚ pp. 85-106 Published by: Academy of Management Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/256499 Accessed: 09-05-2015 03:52 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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Risk This assignment will critically evaluate theories of risk‚ and consider the approaches to practice for the role of a local authority social worker in the identification‚ assessment and management of risk of social work with children‚ young people and families. There will be consideration given to the impact of social work practice on service users and carers including my understanding of anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice. The idiom ‘damned if you do and damned if you don’t’
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MODERNITY AND WEST: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. Modernity and West are two closely tied terms. We often even use these as synonyms; in place of one or the other. The reason why these two words are so closely related is that modernity is part of the new identity that the West built for itself after having found the Americas. In sociology‚ the first and foremost clues of modernity are found in Europe‚ and it has been seen that modernity developed under the banner of Europe all along‚ therefore‚ it is
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------------------------------------------------- Positive discrimination towards women in society is justified. No because… Discrimination is never ’positive’. In a civilized society‚ it is not exceptable to treat people differently‚ on the basis of gender. Furthermore‚ the claim of women having a "disadvantaged status" is preposterous. A quick examination of our laws and societal practices shows that women have an incredibly advantaged status. They are not required to register for the draft[1]
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Postmodernity: A Break from Modernity Postmodern is a complex term with multiple usages. As a consequence‚ it is open to conflation and confusion. The “post” in postmodern is not definitive and it’s up to the writers to clarify their particular usage. (Gibbins & Reimer‚ 1996‚ p. 8) As such‚ the meaning of “post” in this paper refers a “break from”‚ “opposition to”‚ “difference to and from” and a response to”. Works of Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill; Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault
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Modernity in the Indian sense is‚ in any case‚ a command from the West. India did not get enough time to develop an indigenous idea of modernity because of the intervention of colonialism. At the time of Independence‚ urban India had inherited a rather basic problem: this was a contradiction between imposed modernity and age-old traditional values. There were‚ as a consequence‚ three options for the average Indian urban man: whether to embrace the Western model of modernity; or to go back‚ if possible
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Friedrich Goerdeler and Ludwig Beck played very important roles in the Resistance because of their prominent positions. Goerdeler was a Mayor of Leipzig in the Third Reich‚ and Beck was a Colonel General in the Army Chief of Staff. The two worked together for the same cause‚ but each had their viewpoints on the war. The rearmament of Germany was a surprising detail that the League of Nations overlooked in their appeasement towards Germany. Colonel General Ludwig Beck was not against rearmament‚ but
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JMJ Marist Brothers Notren Dame of Marbel University Alunan Avenue T’boli Culture and the Threat of Modernity In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement In Philosophy of Culture (Philo152) Presented to: Rev.Fr. Ramil Nerio Instructor Presented by: Kelvin C. Callejo AB-Philosophy March 2011 Table of Contents Title Page Table of Contents Introduction Review of Related Literature I. The Philippine Tribe II. The Philippine Native T’boli Culture a. Infrastructure b. Social
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What is the Beck Anxiety Inventory The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)‚ created by Dr. Aaron T. Beck and other colleagues‚ is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory that is used for measuring the severity of an individual’sanxiety. The BAI consists of twenty-one questions about how the subject has been feeling in the last month‚ expressed as common symptoms of anxiety (such as numbness and tingling‚ sweating not due to heat‚ and fear of the worst happening). It is designed for an age
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