The passage of the Affordable Care Act has definitely gone against some of the writers' theories and ideas, but I believe their ideas are still somewhat applicable. The author begins with a few ideas about why the USA has yet to pass comprehensive national health insurance (NHI). ... The issue is so important and prominent that recent presidential debates have included the topic in their questions. ... However, the passage of the ACA/Obamacare created a large stepping-stone for government to do so. ... There have been many debates surrounding the benefits or setbacks of the ACA, but tho...

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It disturbs the comfortingly quiet way of life by asking questions no one among the "locals" remembers being asked, let alone answered."(Bauman, 1997:14-15) In other words, questions disturb a comfortable life and defamiliarise the familiar, daily life comes under scrutiny and devaluation. ... It should also be recognised that many of these societies" rituals also intertwined with ideas on the environment. ... The second example comes from Siena, Italy with a population of around 59,000 people. ... It can be seen from those two examples that ritual still plays a strong part in everyday life...

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In the passage, one of the Primary character , an eccentric women named, Ms. ... For instance, in the passage, Ms. ... What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it? ... Furthermore, their connection with there parents is more stable. ... This made me questioned myself " how come my school and other schools in poor communities don't have access to these program? ...

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The two authors have different perspectives on how the society is disciplined, however Galloway's and Foucault's account of discipline differ in their application; Foucault's is clearer while Galloway's is unclear with how he sees the technology can influence the society. ... He or she accepts how the system works with no question. According to the passage, "Our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous concrete training of use...

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How a complete neophyte can address such issues with any hope of coherence seems beyond the realm of possibility. ... In the public discourse this meant "coon- songs and shows that took the humiliation of the black race to a new level of cruelty, and the passage of laws (i.e. ... The author's early work often dealt with man's internal fights with his own conscience. ... The common denominator among these works is their exploration of a paradoxical connection between union and division; they question both when division is destructive and union desirable (as in the cases of the divid...

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Therefore suicide from one generation to another was no due to heredity but due to passage of this insanity. ... A cough, a dance motion or homicidal impulse is transferrable to another with no social bond or with only chance and temporary encounter. ... Durkheim says that if imitation or contagion was the cause of suicide, there would be central geographical points or countries where the suicide rates would be the highest and around them would be countries (in a concentric pattern) with high suicide rates and in the next circle would be countries with lower suicide rates. ... BOOK 2 - SOCIAL...

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The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one. 1 In Africa, it is not rare for members of the lower caste to refuse to enter into conjugal relations with those of the higher caste, even though the reverse would seem more normal. ... The gér comprise the nobles and all freemen with no manual profes...

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