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Deconstruction and Postcolonialism Theories Deconstruction
Pages: 4 Words: 1265

How Lois has coped with the event is important and this has defined the relationships that she has with her surroundings (the Oxford books 90).
If the short story by Margaret is decoded, it can be added here that the story is more about growing up and dealing with the traumas of life. Trauma is the main theme of the story itself. Trauma is the basis of failure in life being faced by Lois. There are two levels based on which the deconstruction within the story can be identified. The first level has been achieved by the author herself and the second level where the short story needs to be decoded itself (ilson 29).

In the case of the first level, at the level of the author, the effect of trauma in the life of an individual has been explained in terms of an ability of an individual to cope with…...

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Works Cited

Norris, Christop. Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, New Accents. Edition 3. Routledge, 2002.

The Oxford books. The Oxford book of adventure stories. Oxford University Press, 1995.

Wilson, Rose, Sharon. Margaret Atwood S. Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction, Volume 1 of Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction, Sharon Rose Wilson. Ohio State University Press, 2003.

Young, Robert. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

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Deconstruction of Leadership in Film
Pages: 5 Words: 1525

This exact statement no doubt describes the premise and situation in 12 Angry Men. Fonda's character works to secure justice for the accused man, regardless of whether the ultimate verdict will be guilty or not guilty. Fonda appears to be less concerned with the verdict than with whether or not the trial and jury deliberation is conducted fairly and thoroughly. Accordingly, Fonda exhibits the forensic rhetoric precisely in his efforts to persuade the other jurors to re-examine the case with an open mind.
In Dead Poets Society, Keating implements Aristotle's third rhetoric (ceremonial oratory display). Keating is nurturing and encouraging to the students, and clearly praises them for their efforts in studying and in simply surviving their adolescent lives. His positive influence over the boys in effect censures the strict militaristic attitudes the headmaster and other teachers wish to hold over the students. Accordingly, the use of the ceremonial oratory…...

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References

Aristotle. Rhetoric. Available from  http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.1.i.html 

Bennis, Warren G. (2003) on becoming a leader: the leadership classic. United States: Perseus Books Group.

Fonda, H. & Rose, R. (Producers), & Lumet, S. (Director). (1957). 12 angry men [Motion picture]. United States: United Artists Films.

Haft, S. (Producer) & Weir, P. (Director). (1997). Dead poet's society. [Motion picture]. United States: Touchstone Pictures.

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Deconstruction Architecture Has a Major
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French architect, Tschumi won the international competition for the planning of the Parc de la Villette that year. A graduate of the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, his career of dispersion or 'post-humanist' version of deconstruction has furthered the theoretical school of deconstruction architecture through attendant discursive projects outside of building construction.
Since the late twentieth century, Deconstruction's historical landmarks speckle urban metropolises across the globe. For instance, CCTV Building in Beijing, designed by Rem kolhaas, is a merit to the school. In the est, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Spain, designed by Frank Gehry, reveals cultural continuity of institutional deconstruction architecture. Retrospect on deconstructionist architecture has also wrought new priorities in sustainable building. The green construction market has prompted an increase in decentralized supplier relationships with building firms, as local, recyclable sources become more popular.

Theoretical Considerations

A general theory of Modernity in architecture is preface to the Deconstruction in French philosopher,…...

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Works Cited

Bradley, Guy, 2007. Building Deconstruction. Reed Construction Data 17 October 2007.

Ching, Francis, 2008. Building Construction Illustrated. New York: Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Derrida, Jacques, 1967. Of Grammatology. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1974.

Gournay, Isabelle, 2010. Tschumi, Bernard. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online.

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Deconstruction Louis Bogan Refers to
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Returning to the theme of freedom, the poet starts off the third stanza with a line about journeys and how women "wait" when they should embark. The line vaguely invokes Homer's Odyssey in which faithful wife Penelope waits twenty years for her husband to return home from his journeys after the Trojan War. Moreover, the poet builds up to a central nihilistic vision when she claims that women "use against themselves that benevolence / to which no man is a friend." No matter what a woman like Penelope does, her kindness is a product of constrictive social roles like marriage. Women restricted to conventional social roles must be "content...to eat dusty bread" while feeding their husbands the cream of the crops.
Women neglect themselves in their subservience to men, suggests the narrator. When "They cannot think of so many crops to a field," they overlook their own need for physical…...

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Deconstruction California Students Protest Education
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Although the police must suppress the violence of some demonstrators, they are not necessarily personally opposed to the demonstration's goals. Furthermore, many of the police officers may once have been students themselves, not so long ago.
The students are portrayed as acting in a way that is injurious to the campus community and to the community at large -- by disrupting classes, for example, and blocking state highways. However, they are a part of the community the police are sworn to protect. The police actions may also be designed to protect the demonstrating students just as much as other members of the community, although the article suggests that the outside world must be protected from the students.

Republicans vs. Democrats

Republicans are portrayed as being more supportive of the reductions than Democrats, although both parties are struggling with the need to make budget cuts. The Republican governor is said to reject the…...

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Black Power Deconstruction of Carmichael's
Pages: 5 Words: 1936


Sociological Theory

In sociological terms we could refer to the sociology of knowledge and the view that reality is socially constructed. This theoretical perspective explores the relativity of social knowledge and the way that knowledge is formed and structured in society. Berger and Luckmann's work entitled The social construction of reality: A treatise in the sociology of knowledge (1966) could be applied to this speech in that it provides insight into the relative perceptions of social reality.

The work by Berger and Luckmann enabled a more speculative and open discussion of the ways in which "natural" aspects of life are seen to be in reality socially determined and constructed. More importantly this theoretical stance investigated the was that these 'realities' are shaped and formed by institutional structures and education etc. We could apply such an analysis to the deconstruction of white hegemonic structures in society that perpetuate a biased view of race…...

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References

Biography: Stokely Carmichael. Retrieved from  http://www.answers.com/topic/stokely -carmichael

Gallagher V. ( 2001) Black Power in Berkeley: Postmodern Constructions in the Rhetoric of Stokely Carmichael. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 87 (2), pp. 144-157.

Stokely Carmichael: Black Power. Retrieved from http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/stokelycarmichaelblackpower.html

Turock, B. (2001). Women and Leadership. Journal of Library Administration, 32(3-4), pp. 115-137.

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Deconstruction Post Modern Criticism of the Great Gatsby
Pages: 2 Words: 741

Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby examines the concept of the American Dream, understood by the protagonist Nick Carraway as the pursuit of success and individuality. The character of Gatsby is the embodiment of the Dream, and his death is symbolic of the death of the dream itself. Gatsby's death arose from his hollow pursuit of Daisy, and Carraway likens this to the death of the American dream as it had been corrupted into the pursuit of wealth for its sake. The conclusion mirrors the views expressed at the outset of the novel about the garishness of the newly-rich in West Egg.

The Great Gatsby reflects a view of the American Dream as told through the white male experience of the day. This framing allows Fitzgerald to focus on the finer details of wealth and success. From the outset of the story, Nick Carraway expresses scorn for the manner in…...

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Working with Common Core
Pages: 4 Words: 1274

Deconstruction of a Standard Abstract
The purpose of this deconstruction of a standard exercise was to unpack a standard, examine it critically and identify the key words to help determine the level of cognitive demand (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy). A review of the standard as a whole was conducted to identify the type of achievement target. The standard selected was the 9th Grade Mathematics Common Core Standard CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.IC.A.1. The achievement target for the standard was understanding (comprehension) and therefore the lesson targets focused on weighting the different cognitive demands according to the place in the process of understanding at which they occurred. This paper provides a Deconstructing a Standard Table and a Reflection of the process overall—including my reaction to the process, identification of specific professional development that may be needed in my building, and my role as a leader.
Keywords: common core standards, math standards, understanding 9th grade math
Background/introduction to the table
The…...

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Postmodernist Literature Discuss the Representation
Pages: 9 Words: 3083

Yarbrough quotes Ihab Hassan, who describes postmodernism as the "literature of silence" in that it "communicates only with itself," a reference that initially astounds the rational mind. Then, reading further in Yarbrough, Hassan is quoted as saying the term postmodernism applies to "a world caught between fragments and wholes, terror and totalitarianism of every kind."
In Vonnegut's novel, characters reflect the deconstruction of American society in the 1950s, during the period of paranoia dominated by U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy's fascist-like search for "communist sympathizers," which created terror and loathing and reflected how morally shallow yet potent the hammer of temporary totalitarian authority can be.

On page 96, Chapter 44, it is revealed that Horlick Minton had once been fired by the State Department for allegedly being "soft on communism" - but the only "real evidence" used to justify his dismissal, his wife announced, was a letter she wrote to the New…...

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Works Cited

Artson, Bradley Shavit. Synagogues as Centers for Social Justice, University of Judaism. Available at http://judaism.uj.edu/content/contentunit/asp?CID=1526&u=5403&t=0.

Bellow, Saul. 1964. Herzog, The Viking Press, New York.

Ellison, Ralph. 1952. Invisible Man, Random House, New York

James, Fredrick. 1991. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Duke

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Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Pages: 3 Words: 906

Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
Deconstructing the meaning of "death" in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"

As a method of literary analysis, deconstruction seeks to generate layers of meanings that are both latent and manifest within a literary work. More often, it is through deconstruction that leads the reader to identify a specific theme found in a work. Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" provides symbolic meanings that provide the readers with awareness about the state of gender equality that was yet to be fully recognized in Chopin's society (during the 19th century).

In this paper, the researcher seeks to create a literary analysis using the method of deconstruction, wherein a particularly striking word found within the literary text was taken, and themes and discussion of the word's relation to the story and its characters are generated. One primary emergent theme that prevails throughout the story is…...

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Work cited

Chopin, K. (1894). "The story of an hour." Available at: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/chopin.html.

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Transpersonal Knowing Authentic Knowing Is
Pages: 3 Words: 1303


In the mystical experience, for example, we turn our attention away from the reality of everyday life and focus on the reality of the sacred realm. The experience causes us to radically deconstruct our old beliefs, attitudes and positions and construct new frames of reference for how we define and describe reality. With each new frame of reference comes a new view of a "bottom line," that is, of what the ultimate reality is. Nelson argues there is no bottom line or ultimate human reality but an unending series of new views. ealization of this involves a process of "unknowing," in which the individual eventually reaches a point in which "The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me...one vision or seeing, and one knowing and loving" (Eckhart quoted in Nelson, 2000, p. 76).

The sense of spiritual connectedness that ultimately comes from deconstruction…...

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References

Nelson, P.L. (2000). Mystical experience and radical deconstruction: Through the ontological looking glass. In Transpersonal Knowing: Exploring the Horizon of Consciousness. Eds. Hart, Nelson & Puhakka.

New York: State University of New York Press.

Puhakka, K. (2000). An invitation to authentic knowing. In Transpersonal Knowing: Exploring the Horizon of Consciousness. Eds. Hart, Nelson & Puhakka. New York: State University of New York Press.

Rothberg, D. (2000). Spiritual inquiry. In Transpersonal Knowing: Exploring the Horizon of Consciousness. Eds. Hart, Nelson & Puhakka.

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Empire and Race
Pages: 6 Words: 2101

narrative analysis of historical content, themes, patterns, and events related to "race and empire in U.S. History. For this reason, six books have been considered. The paper will cover the narrative analysis of historical content related to race and empire in U.S. History, summary of the chronological themes, and the strengths and weaknesses for each book.
Manifest destinies: the making of the Mexican-American race

Narrative Analysis

The key to the approach of Gomez is the thought that Mexican-Americans do not from ethnicity, in fact a race. The difference lies in societal construction. Rather than having inborn worth, race is history reliant and given meaning by social processes, institutions, and persons. In the view of Gomez, the identity of Mexican-American is a result of social attitudes and legal definitions during the era, after the war between U.S. And Mexico. In fact, for Mexicans, there was no proper racial model[footnoteRef:1]. [1: Gomez, Laura E.…...

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8. Hardy, T.J.. Race as an Aspect of the U.S.-Australian Alliance in World War II. (Diplomatic History, 2013)

9. Mora, A.P.. Jose Angel Hernandez. Mexican-American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. (The American Historical Review, 118(3), 818-819., 2013)

10. Guyotte, R.L., & Posadas, B.M.. Filipinos and Filipino Americans, 1870 -- 1940. Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration, 347, 2013

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Butoh Dance Butoh Is a
Pages: 8 Words: 2187

Their primary aim was to destabilize existing orders and this is what they accomplished with arts forms such as butoh. "Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention, and ceremonial" (Turner 1969, 94).
Hijikata, the man responsible for creating Butoh, also upheld Artaudian views on life and humanity. Keeping in view the traditional Japanese thinking of a connection between nature and man, Hijikata incorporated it in butoh movements. However he focused more on nature's darker side believing that, "the dirty is beautiful and the beautiful is dirty, and [life] cycles between them forever" (Kurihara 1997, 38). Hijikata, just like Artaud, forced the viewers to pay closer attention to the side of life that they had usually ignored. He believed that it is due to a break between man and the darker side of life that we suffered…...

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References

Artaud, a. "To Have Done with the Judgment of God, a radio play (1947)." In (S. Sontag, ed.) Antonin Artaud: selected writings. Berkeley etc.: University of California Press, 1988: 570-1.

Artaud, a. (1964) Le Theater et son Double. Paris: Gallimard.

Artaud, a. (1996) Oeuvres Completes XII 218. Quoted in Virmaux, a. & O., Antonin Artaud, Qui tes-vous? Lyon: La Manufacture.

Artaud, a. (1996) Oeuvres Completes XV 341. Quoted in Virmaux, a. & O., Antonin Artaud, Qui tes-vous? Lyon: La Manufacture.

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Politics of Difference in Nursing
Pages: 20 Words: 5961

But the real world was a whole and perfect entity." (Philosophy Is a Way of Life)
The theory of dualism and its implications in term ethics and politics can be derived from the following concise but insightful analysis.

A dualistic view of reality understands there to be two (thus dualism) levels of existence. The top level... is ultimate reality, and consists of ideas, such as truth, beauty, goodness, justice, perfection. In other words, the ultimate reality is non-corporeal, or non-physical. It is the level of spirit and deity. The lower level is the physical world which in which we live. It is the opposite of ultimate reality, thus it is not real in the sense that it is not ultimate. It contains the imperfect physical manifestations of the ideas that exist in the perfect plane, so by definition it is characterized by falsehood, ugliness, evil, injustice, imperfection.

Bratcher D.)

Note that the separation…...

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References

Allen DG. (2006) Whiteness and difference in nursing. Nurs Philos. 7(2):65-78. Bratcher D. Body and Soul. Greek and Hebraic Tensions in Scripture: Thoughts on the Di-/Trichotomous Debate. Retrieved July 19, 2008, at http://www.cresourcei.org/bodysoul.html

Chadwick, Henry. (1984) Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition:

Studies in Justin, Clement, and Origen. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Engebretson, Joan.(2002) Hands-on: The persistent metaphor in nursing.

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Pessoa the Philosophies Embodied in
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" (Gibbs 226) Alvardo de Campos is a naval engineer by profession and while his earlier writings are positive, his work develops characteristics of existential angst. Furthermore, what is intriguing is that all of these fictive authors created by Pessoa interact with one another and even translate each other's works. (Gibbs 226)
One critic notes that "Fernando Pessoa invented at least 72 fictive identities. "His jostling aliases...expressed his belief that the individual subject -- the core of European thought -- is an illusion." (Gray 52) This view goes to the heart of the matter, as will be discussed in the following sections of this paper; namely that the creation of these fictive identities emphasizes and highlights the modern crisis of identity and the existential and postmodern view that the self as a coherent and continuous entity is an illusion. The following extract emphasizes this central point and also allows for reflection…...

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Bibliography

Cravens, Gwyneth. "Past Present." The Nation 13 Nov. 1989: 574+. Questia. Web. 22 July 2012.

Cullenberg, Stephen, Jack Amariglio, and David F. Ruccio. Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge. London: Routledge, 2001.

Gabriel, Markus. "The Art of Skepticism and the Skepticism of Art." Philosophy Today 53.1 (2009): 58+. Questia. Web. 22 July 2012.

Gibbs, Raymond W. Intentions in the Experience of Meaning. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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How can the real estate sector effectively embrace circular economy principles in its lifecycle assessments?
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Embracing Circular Economy Principles in Real Estate Lifecycle Assessments
The real estate sector plays a significant role in shaping the built environment and its associated resource consumption. By adopting circular economy principles, the industry can minimize environmental impact, reduce waste, and enhance sustainability throughout the real estate lifecycle.
1. Design and Construction
Material Selection: Opt for sustainable materials with low embodied carbon, recycled content, and durability.
Waste Reduction: Implement construction waste management plans to minimize landfill disposal and promote reuse and recycling.
Prefabrication: Embrace prefabrication methods to reduce onsite waste, improve material efficiency, and enhance construction quality.
2. Operation and Maintenance
Energy Efficiency:....

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I\'m looking for a unique and fresh essay topic on essay academic text. Any ideas that stand out?
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Topic 1: The Discursive Construction of Authority in Academic Writing

Explore how academic writing establishes and maintains its authority through linguistic devices such as jargon, hedging, and citation practices. Discuss the implications for knowledge production and dissemination in academia, as well as the potential for marginalized voices to be excluded or silenced.

Topic 2: The Aesthetics of Academic Texts: Beyond Clarity and Objectivity

Examine the aesthetic dimensions of academic writing, considering how factors such as structure, language, and visual elements contribute to the impact and reception of scholarly works. Argue that aesthetics plays a significant role in shaping the reader's experience, engagement, and....

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