The similar and different perceptions of the same values in the two texts provide the audience a greater understanding and insight of the values, even though their context may vary vastly. ... Both texts incorporate similar values (that are made different by their context) and the same basic plot, i.e. the heroine is transformed from an ignorant, spoilt brat to a rational, perceptive character through her own downfall. ... During the opening scene, Cher comments that she has an "ordinary" life for a teenager whilst picking her clothes for school using a computer. ... The change in context has ...

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Understanding the complexity of society in terms of all the institutions, contexts, and interpretations and how all these are related is an important milestone in the study of criminology; to further study in criminology one needs to accept the fact that everything in society is related to the criminological field. ...

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Social welfare is an encompassing and imprecise term, but most often it is defined in terms of organized activities or some other factor that suggests procedure and programs to answer to identified social problems or to ameliorate the well-being of those at risk. To define social welfare in terms of...

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Gender has become an ordinary concept of daily activities and for some people, questioning the notion of this term may seem pointless. ... Butler (1990), in her book "Gender Trouble", coins the term "performativity" and argues that the act that an individual does and performs is one that has been there before the individual came to the context. ...

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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. ... That is to say, the meaning of symbols is also context-bound. ...

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