discuss huber and mauss's conception of magic, money and gifts. then discuss levi-strauss notion of kinship as sexual property exchange and alliances and the importance of gifts. show how levi-strauss builds upon mauss. finally, detail hagstrom's study of gifts-giving in the scientific community. show how he builds upon mauss, and implicity, upon\nlevi-strauss.\n2)collins sees cooley and meads as undertaking a theory of mind. detail the contributions of each to a theory if the mind, showing how mead builds upon cooley. further, discuss the basics of blumer's symbolic interactionism, and show how blumer takes mead as his starting-off point to develop the theory of symbolic interactionism.
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In the works of Joyce, a predominant concept is the distinction between destruction and creation. But the characteristic theme of the works of Joyce is the meaninglessness, and eventually the rubicon, of subtextual truth. \n\n“Sexual identity is intrinsically elitist,” says Baudrillard. Several sublimations concerning Batailleist `powerful communication’ exist. However, Werther[1] holds that we have to choose between the conceptualist paradigm of reality and neocapitalist theory. \n\nThe primary theme of Werther’s[2] critique of Batailleist `powerful communication’ is the role of the participant as observer. The subject is contextualised into a conceptualist paradigm of reality that includes narrativity as a paradox. In a sense, the main theme of the works of Joyce is the futility, and therefore the economy, of predialectic class. \n\n“Sexual identity is part of the meaninglessness of consciousness,” says Sartre; however, according to Dahmus[3] , it is not so much sexual identity that is part of the meaninglessness of consciousness, but rather the genre, and eventually the meaninglessness, of sexual identity. Constructive neodialectic theory suggests that narrative must come from the masses. But if capitalist nihilism holds, we have to choose between constructive neodialectic theory and the subtextual paradigm of context. \n\nAn abundance of dematerialisms concerning a self-supporting whole may be found. In a sense, Sargeant[4] states that we have to choose between the conceptualist paradigm of reality and capitalist construction. \n\nFoucault’s essay on posttextual patriarchialist theory suggests that art may be used to marginalize minorities. Thus, in La Dolce Vita, Fellini analyses the conceptualist paradigm of reality; in Satyricon he denies subtextual discourse. \n\nThe subject is interpolated into a conceptualist paradigm of reality that includes culture as a totality. However, the characteristic theme of Bailey’s[5] analysis of Batailleist `powerful communication’ is not narrative, as the conceptualist paradigm of reality suggests, but neonarrative. \n\nThe subject is contextualised into a Batailleist `powerful communication’ that includes consciousness as a whole. Therefore, the main theme of the works of Fellini is the bridge between class and sexual identity. \n\nThe subject is interpolated into a Sontagist camp that includes language as a paradox. In a sense, the conceptualist paradigm of reality holds that the Constitution is fundamentally unattainable, but only if sexuality is distinct from truth; otherwise, we can assume that reality is a product of communication. \n\nFoucault uses the term ‘Batailleist `powerful communication'’ to denote not, in fact, theory, but pretheory. Thus, the subject is contextualised into a capitalist capitalism that includes art as a totality. \n\n2. The conceptualist paradigm of reality and Baudrillardist hyperreality\nIn the works of Fellini, a predominant concept is the concept of postconceptualist truth. Many semanticisms concerning Baudrillardist hyperreality exist. However, the dialectic of Batailleist `powerful communication’ intrinsic to Fellini’s 8 1/2 emerges again in La Dolce Vita, although in a more mythopoetical sense. \n\nThe characteristic theme of Dahmus’s[6] essay on pretextual narrative is a conceptual reality. Lyotard suggests the use of Baudrillardist hyperreality to deconstruct capitalism. Therefore, the subject is interpolated into a conceptualist paradigm of reality that includes culture as a whole. \n\nIf one examines the neotextual paradigm of narrative, one is faced with a choice: either reject Baudrillardist hyperreality or conclude that the goal of the writer is deconstruction. In Vineland, Pynchon affirms the conceptualist paradigm of reality; in Mason & Dixon, however, he reiterates Batailleist `powerful communication’. Thus, the subject is contextualised into a conceptualist paradigm of reality that includes conscious
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After everyone has received their job assignment, the Chief Elder apologizes to Jonas for causing him discomfort by skipping over him. Then he says that Jonas has been SELECTED to be the next RECEIVER OF MEMORIES. It is an honor to be selected and it is a hard decision to make, but the Committee of Elders believed that Jonas had all the ATTRIBUTES to be successful. The Elders said they had been very careful when selecting Jonas because they had FAILED IN THE SELECTION years ago. Jonas is reluctant and fearful because he really doesn’t understand his role as Receiver of Memories. As he looks out in the audience he sees COLOR for the second time, but he doesn’t understand about color yet. \n\nJonas’ Attributes: intelligence, integrity, courage, wisdom, and the capacity to see beyond. He also will have to endure pain and be alone, apart from the others in the community.
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"Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke.\n\nWhen I was younger, I read a LOT about witchcraft, ghosts, magic (not stage magic, which didn't interest me), superstition and similar subjects.  \n\nWhat I learned from all of this reading is that there is such a thing as magic...  but it has a firm foundation in how people think.  It is not "supernatural", it is natural.  We just don't know the full science behind it.  Shamans, I think, understood some of this, and also understood that approaching it rationally would make the magic weaker.
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I like this one I heard about the watch. If you found a watch on a rock in the middle of a field, how do you know someone made it? If you are like most these days, you'd point to the manufacturing mark on the back (or inside the cover if it was a pocket watch). So, how do you find proof of God or the Mother Goddess? If she is a creator wouldn't she continue to create? What on earth continues to create through a means which they really don't fully control? Life of course. So, we ourselves are the watch. Now what about ourselves proves that there must be an intelligent creator? Maybe our own intelligence (or lack there of at this moment in history) and maybe own uncanny ability to 'hear' inner wisdom. This wisdom has led many to extraordinary things. So, I disagree with Carl (Goddess I never thought I'd ever do that) that claiming the existence of Goddess is extraordinary. I have seen her work miracles in countless lives and there is record (yes, verifiable record) of millions more. I think the real miracle of this age isn't in finding Goddess, but in realizing how common she really is. Just as common as every watch still built with a crystal movement. I'm sorry, I think it is a small miracle that a tiny quartz crystal would be willing to vibrate that regularly so that we can all keep time.
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YES!!! "Biblical Mathematics"!!! \nAWESOME AND STAYS AWAY FROM NUMEROLOGY!!\n\nI had it but gave it to a minister who teaches College Physics. He was ecstatic! \n\nMine also came with a cassette so you could listen to it as well! \n\nHow awesome! God just brought that book to my mind today, making me feel as though I should get another one and read it again...and now you ask this? Hmmmmm
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Firstly, my best wishes for your Bio-assignment.\nMany instances can be quotes from almost all the parts of the world, some examples:\n1). Many air-passengers from West believe that St Christopher's medal keeps them safe during the flight, rather than the fact that airplanes are designed with so much accuracy that statistically these amchines crash very rarely. Please note that in some orthodox Christians believe of Saint Christopher as a martyr who helped tourists. With this belief, the travellers carry images of him to invoke protection for journeys.\n2). Some people stop their journey and turn back, if a black cat crosses their path. A black cat is believed to carry black powers of evil spirits with them.\n3). Many people think a bird in the house is a sign of a death. But in my own house, for last 7 years, many birds have created their shelters and have given birth to about 200 chicks by now. Still nothing unexpectedly bad happened.\n4). Many Indians think flowing milk from the vessel is a sign of bad or disappointing acts. Irrelevant indeed.\n\nI went through the review of a book and collected the following lines from that review:\nBut please remember that Superstitions stem from one of these four premises:\na).That there is nothing that can be thought of that is impossible (in all possible Universes); \nb). That there is nothing impossible (in all possible Universes) that can be thought of; \nc). That everything that can be thought of – is, therefore, possible (somewhere in these Universes); \nd). That everything that is possible exists (somewhere in these Universes). \nSource: Review of a book "Malignant Self Love" By Sam Vaknin
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Reviews and Commentary\n(http://www.petehautman.com/invisibleinfo.html)  \n\nLIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) \n\nSeventeen-year-old Dougie takes everything literally, lacks social graces and is a loner, except, perhaps, for his one friend, athletic and popular Andy Morrow. But readers know almost immediately that something tragic has happened in the recent past: ' Andy and I had some bad luck with fires when we were kids. We're more careful now.' Other students feel threatened by Dougie's disturbing behavior and react by targeting him with cruelty and violence, which only serves to escalate his descent into unreality, isolation, and obsession. The teen has been working for nearly three years on his model railroad set, using 22, 400 headless matches to build a bridge connecting portions of the 'Madham Line.' As his life deteriorates, this obsession and his nightly talks with Andy are the only things that keep him clinging to normalcy. He resists the help of his psychiatrist and hides his medication. Ultimately, he is forced to remember what actually happened on that fateful night. With its excellent plot development and unforgettable, heartbreaking protagonist, this is a compelling novel of mental illness. \n\n  \n\nHORN BOOK (starred review) \n\nGifted in math, and recognizably clever when constructing architectural models (he's building an elaborate railroad system in his basement), Doug reveals that it's human interaction he can't figure out. "I'm a quiet kid, pretty much invisible," he says in a precise, unemotional voice, as this unreliable narrator begins his story. Invisibility is Doug's rationale for explaining a range of rejection, from teacher irritation to peer scorn, particularly from pretty and popular Melissa Haverman, who is disgusted by what readers will recognize as Doug's stalker behavior. But Doug reports one near-perfect relationship, the one he has with his best friend, Andy. Gradually, however, that friendship is revealed to be not what it seems. There are secrets from their past that Doug won't discuss, and hints from their present life that skew his tale. Why is there a strange man in Andy's house? What fuels Doug's increasingly complex rendering of their intertwined initials? What medication is Doug refusing to take? Reading this psychological thriller is much like putting together one of Doug's railroad bridges: connections are being made, but the realities being built may be imitations of life rather than the real thing. The tension comes from entering Doug's private hell and learning what put him there. \n\n  \n\nPUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) \n\nThe strength of Hautman's painfully sad novel is the wisecracking but clearly unreliable voice of its narrator, 17-year-old Douglas MacArthur Hanson who admits, "I'm not only disturbed, I'm obsessed." One of his passions is "Madham," a town he's building for his model railroad, complete with a 1:800 scale replica of the Golden Gate Bridge. He's also fixated on a pretty girl who clearly wants nothing to do with him. And he's overly reliant on his only friend, Andy Morrow, a fellow junior who is the popular and outgoing yang to Dougie's outcast and introverted yin. Hautman expertly teases out the truth about a tragic incident that occurred "at the Tuttle place" three years earlier, a mystery that propels the story to its horrific conclusion. Dougie is as mathematically gifted and socially inept as the autistic narrator of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, but he also has a sophisticated wit. During a lapse in conversation at one of his $95-an-hour therapy sessions, he observes, "We stare at each other for about $1.40." His self-deprecating comments and wry observations make his spiral into self destruction all the more heartbreaking. (One measure of how sympathetically the aut
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how are these views presented...\n\nwell go back to the text and see in what way the scholars communicated their points. Did they use anecdotes, scientfic evidence, etc.\n\nin what terms?\n\nquote specific things the scholars said to back up weather you think they support the argument or disagree with it.
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If the links between myths and religion are of interest to you the  PBS interview series "The Power of Myth" (with Bill Moyers) based on the writings of Joseph Campbell is a must.  There is a book by the same title, and my public library in a town, pop. 5000, has both the series on VCR and his books.  \n\nCampbell has many other writings from a lifetime of fascination with myth.  He taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence\n\nI taught religion for several years, and was ignorant of the common threads between what is now called mythology and today's religions until I explored his writings.  It was truly a life altering experience and one of the finest elements of my education.  \n\nYour  perception of  "Mythology" will evolve and 'write-off' won't be meaningful if you delve into this subject, so I can't answer the question you posed except to say that the peoples of the world have had religion forever.\n\nBe prepared to be addicted, and transformed.\n\nPS \nCharlie Rose  interviewed Bill Moyers and his wife last night.\nThey will present about 13 persons of all religious persuasions on a new program about religion tonight on PBS
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Marx's conflict thoery is a fun one.  Or Durkheim's on solidarity.  George Ritzer is a great source to start with.
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Doug North's "Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance" will be essential to understanding where the field has gone recently.  It's much more concrete than Stiglitz' "Globalization", which, while interesting, carries a lot of opinionizing among the little bit of theory.  North is considered the premier authority on institutions in the academic world today.  I've also attached a reading list from one of the recent events in the field, and it's pretty comprehensive.\n\nThose should keep you busy for a while.  :)
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I also could not find anything on the web. try buying the book, or borrowing it from your local library, and getting the information you need direct from the source: The Science of Correct Thinking - Logic.
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Wikipedia does a good job of breaking down the essentials of any philosopher, in straight talk.\n\nHe eseentially was one of the first to question the physical reality of what we are and see - and identified a constant reality "unseen" physically. SOme say he began the idea of "theology, religion, spirituality", etc - through prose.
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here's a website that probably can help you\n\nwww.howstuffswork.com\nif you can't reach it, just type "how stuff work" in yahoo search engine, you will find it, cause I forgot how the website call itself :)\n\nsorry
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I particularly like your idea about the fireflies, although you should first research a little bit about why they light up and when.  Remember that myths of this kind usually deal with the fantasy of why or how something was created but it also has facts; it is just the way people in ancient times explained facts of science.  Research a little bit about ancient gods in mythology; I remember several stories dealing with a spider called Anansi in the African mythology.  I would be very interested in reading the final product, email me!
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Ben had meetings with people on how to improve themselves, their business and the community. He was one of the founding fathers building in the 3 branches of government, separating power to combat human problems such as corupt kings.\nHe was a greatly admired scientist working with LaVosier in France and debunking mesmerism. \nHumanitatian for giving his invention of the lighting rod without royalties since it benefitted so many. \nHe followed Descartes thoughts that the world was mechanistis. It is not enough to believe. There needs to be test, evidence, theory. A great relief to the wichcraft victums,
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We're not here to do your homework for you, but I don't mind pointing you in the right direction.\n\nStart out by spelling the names correctly - I think you're interested in the contributions of Max Planck and Albert Einstein, not "Walk the" Plank and some other guy I've never heard of named Einstien.\n\nSince both are Nobel Prize winners, a good place to start your research would be with their official biographies at the Nobel Prize homepage - see the links below for those:\n\nYou'll find lots more information at the Wikipedia encyclopedic entry for each of these two famous German-born scientists - I've linked those sites below as well.\n\nRead the bios - then do your own homework!