Understanding Culture: Enculturation and Social Dynamics
Understanding Culture and Society
Culture is the way of living of a society. It’s defined by:
- Cultural knowledge: Information, skills, attitudes, beliefs, and other mental components of culture that people socially learn during enculturation.
- Patterns of behavior: Within a single culture, the behavior most people perform when they are in certain culturally defined situations.
Culture is:
- Shared: People within the same culture don’t have to explain their actions, reducing misunderstandings. Different
Human Understanding of Life and Reality
The Human Need to Understand Life’s Meaning
One thing seems clear: unlike animals that spend their lives consumed by the constant procurement of subsistence, humans cannot be content merely to live. We need to find meaning in life. We need to understand why we live and what is the best way to do it. Animals live completely submerged in the present, their needs satisfied by predictable stimuli and responses. We, however, are never fully comfortable in the present. We are pulled back to a past we miss
Read MoreUnderstanding Text Types and Their Characteristics
Types of Text and Their Relationships
Each text possesses specific functions and linguistic features, requiring distinct communication strategies. Texts are grouped by areas of use or sectors of human activity. Each area involves interlocutors, specific functions, and deals with particular topics. This leads to the following classification:
- Personal Scope: Texts for personal use, not intended for others. They cover general themes, often using slang and informal language.
- Oral: Monologues, tape recordings,
Ledger Lines, Polyphony, and Medieval Music
Ledger Lines
A ledger line, or leger line, is used in Western musical notation to notate pitches above or below the lines and spaces of the regular musical staff. A line slightly longer than the note head is drawn parallel to the staff, above or below, spaced at the same distance as the lines within the staff.
Origins of Polyphony
In the ninth century, music theorists in the Church experimented with the idea of singing two melodic lines simultaneously at parallel intervals, usually at the fourth, fifth,
Read MoreSpanish Romanticism and Realism: Authors and Works
Emergence of New Themes in Romanticism
Key themes: Pessimism, love in extreme situations, interest in exotic and faraway places, glorification of the past, reflection of human feelings, and descriptions of landscapes.
Romantic Features
- Mixture of prose and verse.
- Combination of genres; drama breaks the rules of Neoclassical prose.
- Historicist.
- Costumbrismo: Depiction of everyday life scenes.
Larra (1809-1837)
Born in Madrid in 1809. He wrote a historical novel and a tragedy but is best known for his journalism.
Read MoreAircraft Engine Components & Systems
Aircraft Engine Components and Systems
Bearings and Supports
- 1: Thrust bearing for low-pressure rotor (LPR)
- 2: Radial support for the front of the low-pressure compressor (LPC) drive shaft
- 3: Thrust bearing for high-pressure rotor (HPR)
- 4: Radial support for the high-pressure compressor (HPC)
- 5: Radial support for the low-pressure turbine (LPT)
- Oil-damped bearings: 1, 3, 5
- Carbon seals (dry-faced): 1, 2, 3, 5
- Roller bearings: 2,4,5
- Bearings: 3 (LP rotor), 2 (HP rotor)
Stages and Stations
- 117 STA #1 & #5
- 10th,
Understanding the United Nations and International Law
The United Nations: Structure and Organs
The United Nations (UN) has several principal organs:
- Security Council: Responsible for maintaining international peace and security. It has 15 members, including five permanent members: Russia, China, France, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom.
- General Assembly: The main representative and deliberative body, often described as the parliamentary body of the UN. Proposals adopted by the General Assembly are resolutions.
- Economic and Social Council
Law Enforcement: Use of Force and Firearms
Use of Force
The police force is the instrument through which public administration exercises legal coercion. The occasions when force is used are determined, but this does not necessarily mean violence. The Law of Force and Security Corps (LOFCS) is aware of this complexity and sets limits and exceptionality in such use.
With codified regulations and R34/169, the UNGA 17D conduct for law enforcement officials states that they may use force only when strictly necessary and to the extent required to
Read MorePankhurst, Fascism, Auschwitz, 1929 Crash & New Deal
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)
Emmeline Pankhurst, the British suffragette, was born in Manchester. As a young woman, she joined the British Labour Party. Along with her daughter Christabel, she founded the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903. This group pressured the government to grant women the right to vote. The group’s methods were sometimes violent, including destruction of property and arson, which led to Pankhurst being jailed several times. After World War I, Pankhurst moved to Canada.
Read MoreSpain’s Progressive Biennium & Unionist Government (1854-1868)
The Progressive Biennium (1854-1856)
The elections were called under the laws of 1837, which allowed a progressive majority and the first appearance in Parliament by some House Democrats. The new government tried to restore the principles of progressivism. It also prepared a new constitution (1856), which failed to be enacted, and in 1854 drafted a progressive Councils Act in which mayors were elected by sufragio (suffrage). The most important action of the progressive government was the resumption
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