Rationalization is the action of attempting to explain or justify behavior or an attitude with logical reasons, even if these are not appropriate. It is a process of change by which a society goes through. In rational ways of thinking we’re talking about calculation, specifically we’re trying to calculate what is the most efficient way to do something. We have to put facts before our emotions, beliefs and traditions. Max Weber pioneered and presented the idea of rationalization. For Weber,...
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Homelessness is a huge issue that seems to go unnoticed on the grounds. Los Angeles, California positions in as the second biggest city in the United States. It is home to 3.8 billion individuals, including numerous renowned motion picture stars. Known for being one of the sunniest and most traveler cognizant urban areas, Los Angeles offers numerous attractions for guests (issue of vagrancy). They hold numerous games scenes also, including the Staples Center, which houses the L.A. Lakers and many...
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The geology of Dubai which is mostly desert have created difficulties and challenges throughout Dubai’s transformation from a desert to high-rise skyscrapers. An example of skyscraper in Dubai is the Burj Khalifa also the tallest building in the world at height of 2,717 ft. This research paper will be about desert geology of Dubai and how civil engineers around the world have overcome the challenges to construct the Burj Khalifa. Dubai is in the eastern geologically stable Arabian plate, thus...
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Sunshine, palm trees, beautiful beaches, girls with bikinis, and boys standing on the surfboards…all these elements could constitute a typical picture of the attractive beach. For a long time, Los Angeles not only attracts people with its world-class film-making factory Hollywood, but also bring in tourists with its ‘coastal paradise’ (Kun, 185). However, the life to a resident in Los Angeles is not as light as the seaside heaven that has been advertised through media all over the world. There...
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In the United States, citizens take their credit scores seriously since they can affect how they live their lives. They show the creditworthiness of people to lenders who then decide if these banks or credit card companies should provide people with loans if needed for purchases. In China, the government takes these scores more vigorously and instead of taking out loans, these scores are decided based on the honesty and integrity of their citizens. If a citizen is behaving correctly...
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Today’s most discussed topic all over the world is the fact that UK will possibly leave the EU. On Thursday 23 June 2016 a referendum was held in order to come to a decision if the UK should remain a member of EU and more than 30 million people have voted. Brexit was originally planned to happen on 29 March 2019. That took place two years later when Prime Minister, Theresa May, set off Article 50 and started with the...
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Nowadays one of the most highlighted topics for Bangladesh is blue economy. Blue economy refers to the economic activity based on maritime resources. The blue economy is the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improve livelihoods, and jobs while preserving the health of ocean ecosystem (WB). Blue Economy was considered at the RIO+20 UNITED NATION conference on sustainable development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2012. The sea is the best sources of energy utilization. Now...
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Greece currently stands as the 51st largest economy in the world and are well known for their rocky economic history. Since joining the European Union (EU) in 1981, Greece had a steadily rising GDP, reaching its peak in 2008 at 354.5 billion USD (World Bank, 2019). However, in 2009 the country’s economy took a turn for the worst; declaring that 13.9 percent of its GDP would be deficit which is well over the EU’s maximum of 3%. From then onwards...
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In the Tourism Review 2018, tour and activity operators were asked to consider implementing sustainable initiatives in their own tour company. A sustain majority 91.3% of participants inserted yes. In the tourism industry eco-friendly tourism is becoming one of the largest, a key element in the understanding the tourism industry is to recognize and deal with the change in the global trends of behavioral, environmental and technological factors. The trends fall under neath these factors which include: social, political, environment,...
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This essay sets out to determine that the rise in populism is the most troubling ongoing challenge to the current world order. This essay will endeavor to place elitism as instrumental in fueling this rise in populism, by first clarifying how the prevalence of elitism in world politics has exacerbated inequality in recent years, then explaining how inequality is the root cause of the rise in populism. For clarity’s sake, the essay will focus mostly on the UK. In 1939,...
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Arguments for War on Obesity Obesity has become a major problem in the United States. (Welcome 2019). Obesity can cause a wide range of health problems. Obesity can affect all age ranges from infancy all the way to the elderly. Obesity can be a result of many different factors. I’m personally a part of the obese population. I also have my own theory on how I became obese. There are also ways to prevent obesity and ways to overcome obesity....
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One of the main problems that many people looking for higher education stress about is the cost of the degree or the student loans that they will have to pay back, which will cause many people to not continue their higher studies. So here comes online education with a solution that could satisfy a large number of people, distance learning tuitions are far less expensive than traditional on-campus learning, and this is for many reasons. On the first hand, according...
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Introduction “Teachers' recognition of the multimodal practices available to children through their homes, communities and popular culture enriches and extends the possibilities for literacy teaching” (Martello, 2007). In this modern technological world, there have been significant changes occurring where children are exposed to an abundance of literacy experiences, well before they enter school. Children’s experience of literacies is shaped by their personal, social, and cultural factors. Although some would argue Martello’s statement is entirely correct; educators can have a positive...
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Introduction The discovery of science started to happen from the discovery of atoms and metals throughout the human genomic mapping. Observations started about 500 BC when the Mesopotamians were explaining that earth is the centerpiece of the universe and everything revolves around it. The great Greeks were the first people to observe and explain the theory behind the nature of science, such as the Pythagoras theorem. It was also them that came up with the understanding that earth and everything...
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For nationalism to prosper, clearly the United States needed to demonstrate its test effectively. The War of 1812 was one demonstrating ground. More noteworthy than a strategic accomplishment against Britain was the marvelous ascent in the national economy, started by populace increment, regional acquisitions, and mechanical changes in transportation and industry. The unfaltering aggregation of influence to the focal government to the detriment of the states was likened to the development of America. Nationalism suggested the denigration of sectionalism and...
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1. Compare and contrast, evaluate and critique, the use and effect of archival footage in the nonfiction films we have studied across weeks 9-14. “I am not your Negro” vs. “Chisholm ‘72” Beyond the presentation of archival documentaries, it has fallen into two unfortunate groups. There’s the conventional variety of “archival doc” that consists of basic talking head interviews intercut with old footage and photographs, much of it rather randomly selected and presented. Much of these films are stiff and...
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1.0 Introduction Public transportation can be defined as transportation by conveyance that provides continuing general or special transportation to the public excluding school buses (Tran & Kleiner 2005, p.154). There are many ways of public transportation in Malaysia such as taxis, buses and vans. Generally, taxi is a mode of transport for people to go from one place to another places. There are several ways to pay the taxi driver such as based on taximeter that calculates distance from one...
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My plan was to go to the Nixon Library with a few of my friends as a way to spend time with them. Since graduating high school, a lot of my friends went to different schools, so trying to allocate time with all of them is a headache. Until my grandparents overheard about this project where they basically invited themselves. But it turned out to be a fun day. We went to Polly’s Pie to eat a quick breakfast and...
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In this paper, I will argue that the victory of Barack Obama, which is considered historic, can not only be largely attributed to his highly effective political campaign, but also to his personality characteristics. In other words, Obama’s characteristics played a major role in his victory in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections. Barack Obama’s personal characteristics such as that being perceived as highly intelligent, having good oratory skills and his practical and inspirational style of leadership gave him an edge...
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Introduction Most Americans know that the United States has a complex and costly system for delivering healthcare. They also know that obtaining affordable healthcare is very important. Those who are insured have some form of health insurance. They can pay up front for some or all of the healthcare, which includes visits to a doctor's office, treatments in a hospital, or getting medicines at a pharmacy. Or they pay insurance premiums to an insurance company, which they contract with to...
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COVID 19 has become a threat to the entire world. It is proved to be deadly and has become a catalyst in creating challenges for the national and the state governments all around the world. Every government has adopted autocratic decisions to get over the nationwide health emergency. Amidst this situation, media has played a major role in the democracy by visualising rational and critical information in an objective perspective. The righteousness of the media can be well identified at...
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Governments commonly wield propaganda as a weapon meant to control. Propaganda is the action of influencing public opinion by omitting or manipulating information (“Propaganda”). Governments of varying ideologies utilize propaganda, and some of the most persuasive and convincing examples are from extreme left or right-wing leaders. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong are all prominent instances of leaders who employed propaganda as one of their main means of control over their people. These specific leaders often used propaganda in...
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The problem of 21st century In 1/16/2019, a news editor form Seattle’s local fox affiliate Q13 was fired, after it was revealed that the editor had aired a doctored clip of president Trump’s January 8 oval office address to the nation. The video was changed to make it look as if the president was sticking his tongue. (studentnewsdaily 1) Media bias is a controversial issue on our population. The media’s goal is to brainwash and guide people toward what they...
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Moral philosophy or ethics is the discipline that is concerned with what is morally good and bad, and morally right and wrong. This term can also be applied to any theory of moral values or principles. How should we act? Is it right to be dishonest in good cause? Morality describes the principles that govern the answers to these kinds of questions, and thus our behavior, character, and how we interact with one another in society today. This being said,...
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Nowadays, most of the workforce in Malaysia is dominated by Generation Y. Generation Y is those born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s (Sharkawi, Syed Mohd, & Roslin, 2016). They are also known as Millennial and have unique characteristics that make them different from the generation before. This generation is raised up in surroundings which technology is widely used in daily life. More precisely, it is because of the development in the current stream of modernization is taking...
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This was an entry made in the International Journal of Ethics, Vol. 25 No. 2 in January 1915 by a renowned British philosopher, writer, political activist, mathematician, and social critic Bertrand Russell OM FRS. It had been six months since World War 1 had broken out when the article was published. Being a pacifist himself, Russell wrote this article addressing not only Britain but the whole world, convincing them that war cannot be justified and is not the way for...
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Research Task This essay will be addressing Gender and Identity in children’s literature. These books are children’s first glimpse into education and it is partially what helps to shape their minds and opinions of the world around them, this includes how they view their own identity and how they view each gender. When referring to “Gender Identity” I will be addressing how people view what they should act like, what they should like, and what interests them based off their...
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Introduction to Sociological Theories: Structural Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Symbolic Interactionism Everything in society can be explained through different perspectives, have you ever wondered which perspectives sociologists use? There are endless perspectives used in sociology but there are three main viewpoints I will cover throughout this essay. The three perspectives are structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Each perspective can be used to explain gender roles, racial relationships, and class differences in society. Jeffrey Alexander states in his article...
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Introduction The relationship between the media, politics, and the public is a complicated one. The changing face of the media landscape, including how we disseminate and access news content, as well as how politicians and government institutions choose to communicate, is constantly evolving and begs the question; what consequences does this have on the democratic process, political agenda, and public opinion? This essay will critically discuss how the media influences politics and public opinion. It will do so by drawing...
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Describe and explain the social construction of Britishness in a culture known to you The aim of this essay is to describe and explain the social construction of Britishness in a culture known to me. Therefore, as I am from Spain and I live in a tourist area, I will explain first what “Social constructions mean” and then I will focus on the famous stereotype that Spanish people tend to think about British tourists. Concretely, I will focus on how...
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