From the beginning of the 1960s, social history was known to be a dominant tradition of political history.2 As social history began to evolve, it became more democratic, involving ordinary people such as men, women and children. ... Elizabeth Marsh was a woman who had a growing awareness of connection between different regions and people.6 In her travels she explored many different places such as the Caribbean, Africa, India and Morocco. ... Reason being is because, since social history includes ordinary people, Colley's text would allow for ordinary people to create their own social h...

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Throughout history, people have completely change their stances on social issues. ... Many people felt that with out the suppression of divorce they would socially drowned. ... People often take part in cohabitation before entering a bond of marriage. ... People frequently recognize the widespread changes that have reshaped family. ... Unlike the past, today divorce is observed as common and ordinary; some may say that is it almost as ordinary as marriage. ...

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"I tried to choose people that I felt were in fact real people. ... For two reasons: 1) I thought that the viewers were far too clever to buy into fake personalities and 2) I felt that rather ordinary people would become extraordinary when subjected to the rigors of the island and the voting process." ... If that was the premise of Survivor we would have had people put at great risk to get compelling television. The compelling television comes from seeing rather ordinary people put in uncomfortable situations -- social interactions, not in the peril of their lives. ... The type of people t...

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Wright Mills imparts a bold statement in his opening sentence, when he writes, "The power of ordinary men are circumscribed by the everyday worlds in which they live, yet even in the rounds of job, family, and neighborhood they often seem driven by forces they can neither understand nor govern" (Mills 1956). ... Ordinary men have enhanced the "power elite". ... Contrary to his statement, we find that many powerful, wealthy people have gained a prestigious position and then lose their wealth and power through forfeiture, or circumstances beyond their control, they are more apt to return to that...

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He illustrates how this life is about people's opinions, social classes, and competition. ... He remembers his professor lecturing that a man could learn a lot from a bum on the street. " He would learn that work and a women and a place to hang his hat are all the ordinary man wants. ... (Whitecloud 122) His people kill their own food then share it, make their own houses, and then celebrate with all of their own people. This young man appreciates his homeland and people more then ever. ... He is not ashamed of his people who work hard each and every day for survival. ...

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Popular images have African American people being poor and committing more violent offenses, while the white people are supposed to be members of the middle class and carry out extreme "white-collar" offenses. While this is common thought in America, empirical evidence illustrates that offenders in all racial and socioeconomic groups commit mainly humble and ordinary crimes, such as shoplifting, burglary or driving under the influence. A high percentage of people in trouble for "fancy" crimes are white, at the same time, a very low percentage of white offenders are in trouble for "fancy" crime...

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Popular images have African American people being poor and committing more violent offenses, while the white people are supposed to be members of the middle class and carry out extreme "white-collar" offenses. While this is common thought in America, empirical evidence illustrates that offenders in all racial and socioeconomic groups commit mainly humble and ordinary crimes, such as shoplifting, burglary or driving under the influence. A high percentage of people in trouble for "fancy" crimes are white, at the same time, a very low percentage of white offenders are in trouble for "fancy" crime...

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People are well concentrated to do their work in the best way. ... However, conformity and collectivism accompany the concept of group, which let people to become an evil. Staub observes that belonging to group makes it easier for people act in ways that are out of ordinary (77). ... Also he state that with public fear notched up and the enemy threat imminent reasonable people act irrational (11). People have to chance, they can hate people who system says or they can be people in bed side. ...

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His characters are usually underprivileged white people and black Africans-ordinary people caught in racial and social traps. ... The novel shows that the Igbo people were on control of an actual sturdy identity and religious principles, customs and rituals which the British colonizers have destroyed by unpityingly converting the natives to Christianity. Achebe was questioning the ideology that within the Igbo people there were no civilization prior to the coming of colonialism. ... Moreover, Achebe is strongly self-justifying of the genuineness of the Igbo religion and culture; for instance, ...

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In an individualistic society it is empowered by people who are constantly looking for an upper-hand. ... Ordinary citizens are not expected to participate in politics or even to vote. ... View was brought to the United States by people who settled the southern colonies. ... Although, the groups could change, it is highly unlikely because they cover a wide-span of people and regions. ... These cultures demonstrate the types of people involved and effected by certain issues. ...

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Material and non-material culture in the film were very out of the ordinary, which is why their world is so harsh E. ... Boys in the Hood basically had nothing but black people in their society. There were a few white people. ... Non-material culture consisted of people with basically no values, and a mind set that you must kill to stay alive. ... Also if unlike people from different societys are forced to be together they will collaborate into one, especially if they are both striving to reach the same goal. ...

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After the period of colonization, people gained a hybridized identity: they carried both the African identity and the western identity as people tended to cling themselves to western lifestyle and thoughts which they believed to be superior. In the short story Minutes of Glory by James Ngugi, the author reveals that people in the society tend to accept and recognize those who bear a certain western characteristics whereas they incline to neglect those who are ordinary black. ... Apart from the lower class, the upper class also searches for recognition from their class of people. ... Since peop...

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Human behavior is not what people decide to do, nor does society shape our lives. ... Questioning the ordinary beliefs and taking precautions with assumptions and opinions. ... People have the ability to participate in society. ... Language is the use of symbols that allow people to communicate with one another. ... Humor can help people vent such as political jokes or opinions on a subject. ...

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Kennedy went on to win the debate and the presidency, thus verifying the fact that image culture, even at it's beginnings, substantially influences people in their opinions and choices and ultimately, the course of history. Since that time leaders, companies, celebrities, and even ordinary people are defined by how they are portrayed through social media and images. People can create a life for themselves on media and internet that is just a facade for those who view it through images. For national and world leaders to be successful, they must focus on presenting themselves as having a...

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These conventions that govern the workings of society arise from our habits and the arrangements that have made a particular group of people into a civil society. He argues that a people is an organized group; it has a history and institutions, customary ways of acting, habitual pieties and loyalties and authorities. ... Even though Edmund Burke's philosophy seems to be out of the ordinary compares to others, he often seems to have a good point in every of his theory. During this day and age, people often want new changes because they think that it will make a different, but that is no...

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In the midst of death the people sought relief in drink, gambling and violence. ... The great majority were middling people, mildly prosperous because of their industry. Among these, the ordinary merchants and prosperous shop keepers, the traditions of 17th C. life were stronger. ... As the social and political power of the rich people grew, that of the lener gentry diminished. 2- Trade and wealth 1714 - 1742 Trade was a national preoccupation and constant concern be of parliament and the government, for all his contemporaries were agreed with Defoe that trade was the cause of Englan...

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Several relationships are apparent and relevant to the way a family and union of two people work, in "East is East." ... Conflicts sometimes become so powerful that they often incline people to resort to divorce. ... Something is out of the ordinary if a family does not have any conflict. ...

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That people should find diverse methodologies to be creative, for example, joining a workmanship class, or getting into photography. ... On the other hand you could derive that if people need to be religious then they can practice their religion for the most part the length of they are in their own specific home, or a position of affection. ... For these reasons design can advance inventiveness in ordinary life. ...

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It seems that the overall point Newman tries to make is that people feel a need to know what appropriate behavior is in order to function as a society. ... To them, it is nothing out of the ordinary to fully explore the bodies of those that are a part of their tribe. ... As Shneebaum relates in the section about the British man who did a study of the Murat people (Schneebaum 107). ... Cannibalism definitely does not fit our mold of a "civilized" society, and it goes to show that it is simply a widely held social construction that people are not to murder and eat other people. ... The Akara...

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A man inherits something from his parents and, in turn, passes it on to his children; one of the ordinary examples would be religion. ... From the studies in psychology we see that "if there are any traits common to all people, they are so embedded in diverse cultures that we cannot say anything significant about them" . ... Socialisation refers to the processes by which people learn the norms and roles necessary for functioning within societies ; in each frame or setting of interaction between the individual and the society, the person performs a role that is expected of the situation. ......

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There are many ways to reveal the masks over people's eyes. ... The basis of ideology is serving its purpose by the making of the village people being blind towards the fact that the man who also has contributed to making the baby is now free to do what he pleases. The lived experience of the aunt is blame which leads her to silent her "inseminators" name and commits suicide to escape the harsh experience of blame and humiliation to the village people and herself. ... At the end of "White Tigers" Kingston writes of the way that the imagined swordswoman and her similar: May my peop...

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"Pop Art" takes its subject matter from popular culture such as comic strips, motion pictures, and advertising, as well as ordinary everyday objects, which are portrayed by using various artistic technologies. ... He was extremely interested in the media and the influence that it had on people's lives; he was intrigued with how vulnerable society was to the media's influence. ... He was so taken by the fact that the media was able to manipulate people's emotions that he soon began his series of Jackie Paintings, which displayed Kennedy's grieving widow. ... When faced with ...

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Worthing's "Contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life-, reminds Lady Bracknell of the worst excesses of the French Revolution "and I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?... The first setting is the London home of Lady Sneerwell, who is meeting with Snake, her agent of destruction and of other people's reputation. ... The virtuosity of his art is that of a juggling act; he created a scathing satire of a hypocritical society without offending the very people on whose hospitality and money he had come to depend. ...

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During the opening scene, Cher comments that she has an "ordinary" life for a teenager whilst picking her clothes for school using a computer. ... Heckerling shows that it is one's own arrogance and prejudice that stop them from being associated with good-natured people from a different social standing and is not the cause of the society of "Clueless". ...

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For example, Raymond Williams defined culture in his 1965 book, The Long Revolution, as "a particular way of life which expresses certain meanings and values not only in art and learning, but also in institutions and ordinary behavior. ... According to this conception, culture refers to people's everyday sense-making or meaning-making experience. ... First, communication, like what people from the transmission perspective would agree, involves at least two persons. ... This point highlights an essential aspect of communication's nature: As people maintain their relationship through c...

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