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Paper discusses Donna P. Hope's article on Dancehall and Passa Passa in contemporary Jamaica which refers to hybridity, identity, and other theoretical terms. However, when one reseaches a little on the poor Kingston area to which Hope refers, one finds inaccuracies. Hope has been so devoted to theory that she has not fully investigated a changed Tivoli Gardens area, for instance. Her own outlook and class origins are plain; several articles correcting opinion on Tivoli Gardens; also, widescale opposition to Passa Passa across social classes.

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`Dancehall' in Kingston, Jamaica: Whose Culture & Whose Identity? Introduction Donna P. Hope was a Fulbright scholar when she studied Jamaica's dancehall phenomenon towards the article that this paper discusses. (2006) Hope also published, Inna Di Dancehall - Popular Culture & the Politics of Identity in Jamaica, using the same approach. (2006) The article is very theoretical so that in preparing this paper, time was taken to learn a little of the environment described by Hope, as was revealing. he West Kingston `garrison' area of Tivoli Gardens where Passa Passa originated is a world away from Hope's own origins or outlook, but her main concern has

Tags:donna p hope, jamaica dancehall, theory

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This paper explains that philosopher Donna Jeanne Haraway draws from the tradition of Louis Althusser and Martin Heidegger to develop her hypotheses outlining the nature of the interspecies relationship between people and animal or "hailing". As interpreted by Althusser and Heidegger, the author relates that "hail", which is from the archaic word interpellate, is given an additional meaning by Haraway. Based on Haraway's work, the paper concludes that the "hailing" of animals call people to account for the way they affect the lives of animals, and the "hailing" of people call animals to a close, inseparable, interspecies relationship bound within the structure of human society.

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"Haraway adds to these two meanings of hail a third, the more conventional meaning of interpellation. Animals hail people to "account for the regimes in which they and we must live", and by doing so, they challenge people to justify the practices of society which create the circumstances of life that animals and people must live in. The effect of the hail is threefold: firstly, humans hail animals, creating a subject out of animals by the hail, bringing animals into our social discourse of power."

Tags:interpellate, primatology, relationships, political, narrative

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This paper explains that Donna Usher's 1983 work "Contemplation", which is a multiplicity of depiction of Usher's thoughts, masterfully reflects her ability to blend human aspects with natural symbols. The author relates that the falling leaves fold to the base of the painting, melting from the background to the foreground like a thought. The paper points out that, with the background appearing to shift vertically from cool and bluish at the top to a white hue at the bottom and becoming increasingly sharper, the viewer sees that color clearly plays a pivotal role in this work. The author stresses that the only variety that Usher employs in the piece occurs both between the levels, which vary in size, background color and content, and between the leaves, which vary in form, crispness and value.

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"The form of a simple, spatially elongated leaf creeps throughout the piece, as if they are falling towards the ground. The light structure of the leaves, which appear infinitely thin, seem to fall and crumple at the base of each of the four rectangular segments into which the painting is divided. The leaves seem to form sloping edges down the sides of the painting towards each "floor," which is coated, lightly in the first two and more densely in the second two, in the blurred, leafy forms. It is obvious that Usher was trying to create a sense of depth by juxtaposing vivid and blurred leaves."

Tags:texture, space, groupings, organic, geometric

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Analysis of book on female prostitution. Author's concept of the role of gender in Argentine political and economic history. Prostitution as an expression of gender roles. Issue of prostitution in relation to labor questions, gender problems, tourism, immigration, medicine, law, civil rights. The relationship between the family and prostitution. Women's roles in society.

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"Donna J. Guy, in Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires, states the purpose of her book immediately and explicitly:

This book is an attempt to integrate gender into Argentine political and economic history by examining the role and image of female prostitution in concepts of work, family, class and citizenship (1).

Guy's premise is that these categories are not distinct from one another, but in fact interrelate with and thereby shape one another. For example, "politics constructs gender and gender constructs politics" (1). What affects one piece of the puzzle of society affects all other pieces to various degrees. The issue of prostitution certainly has its appeal as a subject for social study (the author is a social historian), but on first glance it would appear to be a subject on the outskirts of social science."

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This paper summarizes the main anthropological and societal issues addressed in the novel "Laughter Out of Place" by Donna M. Goldstein. It seeks to further analyze the author's choice of title ("Laughter Out Of Place") and it's importance. Overall, the paper focuses on the injustices and inequality of living in a Rio shantytown.

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"By drawing on her own Jewish background, Goldstein delivers a book chock full of stories she gathered from her informants. Through these stories and additional elaborations she is able to address the issues of race, class, and violence as pertaining to Brazil; Rio in particular. Most of the story-telling is centered around her main consultant Gloria. Gloria works as an empregada for an upper-middle class patroa. To say that this "honest work" provides her with insufficient fiscal earnings is a gross understatement. This servitude is more akin to slave-labor, which is a very relevant juxtaposition. "

Tags:anthropology, race, equality, civil, rights, Brazil, shantytown

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This paper examines the influence of gender in the writing of these two works and the effectiveness of the given text in relating the information to the reader. The author points out that both Donna Haraway and Daniel Chandler argue that in the world so filled with technological advancements it is very hard to separate the human component from the technological. The paper relates that Haraway expresses extreme feminist ideas in her work; however, Chandler's work is not gender-based at all. The author relates that Haraway is very allegorical and attempts to bring up images of genderless, machine-like women to make her point clear; on the other hand, Chandler avoids the allegories, providing a more informative rather than speculative outlook on the subject.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Comparative Analysis
Contrast Analysis
Conclusion

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"Chandler applies the technological progress and cultural development to the world in general and outlines how these trends shape the society and what forces contribute to the humans' desire for progress. Haraway, who is very subjective, focuses on one group of people in particular - women. The basis of her work is the gender-defined society where progress does not serve to unite but rather separate the people into gender and class, therefore outlining a very socialist idea of inequality and strives for such. Haraway seeks to make a point about the seeming lack of such equality in today's world and how it ties in with the technological progress."

Tags:logical, emotional, extremist, impulsive, organized

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The paper discusses "Suicide," a groundbreaking book that was a case study on suicide by the sociologist Emile Durkheim in 1897. The paper explains that suicide was generally considered to be an individual's tragedy, until Durkheim first opened discussion to suicide as a social problem, making connections between the individual and society. The paper also examines "Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead-End Kids" by Donna Gaines that is similar to Durkheim's study on the groundbreaking connections between the individual and society as causes of suicide. The paper explores the term "sociological imagination" coined by C. Wright Mills that shows how the individual cannot be understood without understanding society and the relationship between them.

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"Durkeim found that Protestants and Catholics have very different rates of suicide. According to him, strong social control in Catholic society lowered suicide rates, while the less social control among Protestants resulted in higher suicide rates. Social integration, the level of attachment people have to their social groups, affects suicide rates. Durkeim found that both high and low levels of social integration can cause people to kill themselves, either because they have no social support, or because they do not want to be a burden on society."

Tags:sociological, imagination, Mills, social, control, groups

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"Teenage Wasteland" is a book that cleverly combines pure participant research and personal experience. The book delves into the unexplained suicides that occur in a small suburban town of Bergenfield, New Jersey. The paper summarizes the main points of the book and then presents the theories used by Donna Gaines to understand why the suicides occurred.

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"In order to understand what really happened and why, Gaines travels to Bergenfield in order to attempt assimilation into the culture of those who were friends or peers of the four suicide victims. The adaptation into the lives of these kids does not present itself as a simple task. These kids aren't jocks, brains, preps, or anything in between, by any means. They are the outsiders. They represent the outcasts or the "burnouts" that could only relate to one another. They share the same taste in music, similar views on life, and comparable family structures. But, what else is so intimately shared that makes four teenagers want to die together? That is one of Gaines? curiosities. She asks herself ?What could be so intimately binding that in the early morning hours of March 11 not one of them could stop, step back from the pact they had made to say, "Wait, I can't do this"?? (Gaines, 1991, p. 9) "

Tags:bergenfield, outsiders, suicide, suicides

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This paper reviews the book, "Language Matters" by Donna Jo Napoli. It discusses the author's argument that a specific language mechanism exists for language learning that is independent of other types of brain functions.

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"Using a wide variety of sources that deal with different types of populations, Donna Jo Napoli argues that a specific language mechanism exists for language learning which is independent of any other type of brain functions. In the book "Language Matters" ..."

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This paper discusses Donna Haraway and her belief that modern society has been altered through the creation of the cyborg. It explains that the cyborg, often considered as a fantasy element of film or scientific experimentation, has, according to Haraway, become an integral part of human existence. The paper explores Haraway's opinion that the modern cyborg is a combination of imagination and material reality throughout the world.

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"Donna Haraway has discussed her belief that modern society has been altered through the creation of the cyborg. The cyborg, often considered as a fantasy element of film or scientific experimentation, has, according the Haraway, become an integral part of human existence. Haraway writes that the modern cyborg is a combination of "imagination and material reality" throughout the world. It has gained this prominence through society's quest to maintain humanity, while at the same time advancing technologically beyond what mankind originally thought possible. Haraway states, In the traditions of 'Western' science and politics--the tradition of racist, male-dominant capitalism; the tradition of progress; the tradition of the appropriation of nature as resource for the productions of culture; the tradition of reproduction of the self from the reflections of the other - the relation between organism and machine has been a border war. The stakes in the border war have been ..."

Tags:social, theory, modern