Download or read book Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection present communities beset by unexpected social and physical events. Some outline immediate responses that soon pass and some that will not go away. Who would have foreseen that Elvis would be a phenomenon apparently as lasting as the faces on Mount Rushmore? Cultural history will not allow us to forget the H. G. Wells account of the Martian attack, nor can we ever forget the continued terror of the Chernobyl explosion. Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events catalogues on the Geiger counter of human emotions societal reactions to events both earthshaking and culture-disturbing.
Download or read book Ordinary Places Extraordinary Events written by Clara Irazábal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, they can equally be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. Indeed, public spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the contestation by ordinary people of various stances on democracy and citizenship. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities, this book sheds light on contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.
Download or read book Catastrophic Politics written by Lonna Rae Atkeson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking moments in society create an extraordinary political environment that permits political and opinion changes that are unlikely during times of normal politics. Strong emotions felt by the public during catastrophes - even if experienced only vicariously through media coverage - are a powerful motivator of public opinion and activism. This is particularly true when emotional reactions coincide with attributing blame to governmental agencies or officials. By examining public opinion during one extraordinary event, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Lonna Rae Atkeson and Cherie D. Maestas show how media information interacts with emotion in shaping a wide range of political opinions about government and political leaders. Catastrophic events bring citizens together, provide common experiences and information, and create opinions that transcend traditional political boundaries. These moments encourage citizens to re-examine their understanding of government, its leaders and its role in a society from a less partisan perspective.
Download or read book Special Events written by Joe Goldblatt and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning, scheduling, organizing and marketing events that differ from normal, everyday life (i.e. weddings, the Super Bowl, festivals. etc.). This book provides the reader with the tools necessary to begin a career in special events.
Download or read book The Ordinary The Extraordinary written by Frank N Pieke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. This study is the outcome of eight-months' fieldwork in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China (PRC), from 8 November 1988 to 17 June 1989. The original purpose of the fieldwork had been to acquire a grass-roots perspective on the dynamics of Chinese state socialist society under the impact of ten years of reform. This was extended to include People's Movement. The central questions this book therefore tries to answer are: how can these two different fieldwork experiences be reconciled with each other, and what do they tell us about the dynamics of Chinese culture and society?
Download or read book Decoding Discrimination written by Mark Bendall and published by University of Chester. This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from a conference organised for undergraduates at University College Chester, November 2002. The papers explore the nature of discrimination in a variety of different contexts. Topics covered include religion and belief in relation to ethnicity, the portrayal of old age by the media, gender in post-industrial Britain, stigma in health care settings, social class in contemporary Britain, disability and alternative lifestyle.
Download or read book Extraordinary Memories for Exceptional Events written by Stephen R. Schmidt and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all memories are created equal. Our memories for some very exceptional events seem to stand out in our minds, and as such they may form the very core of who we are. Perhaps you have a vivid recollection of a fateful day, an unforgettable face, or a hilarious joke. This book summarizes theories and data that provide insight into these extraordinary memories for exceptional events. The book begins with a classification scheme for exceptional events, followed by a theoretical overview grounded in four metaphors of memory. The classification scheme and theoretical perspectives are used to explore topics including: flashbulb memories, the influence of emotion on memory, the bizarre imagery effect, the humor effect, the serial position effect, and the isolation effect. The conclusion provides a framework for understanding these outstanding memories for exceptional events.
Download or read book True Event Adaptation written by Davinia Thornley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays all—in various ways—address the relationship between adaptation, “true events,” and cultural memory. They ask (and frequently answer) the question: how do we script stories about real events that are often still fresh in our memories and may involve living people? True Event Adaptation: Scripting Real Lives contains essays from scholars committed to interrogating historical and current hard-hitting events, traumas, and truths through various media. Each essay goes beyond general discussion of adaptation and media to engage with the specifics of adapting true life events—addressing pertinent and controversial questions around scriptwriting, representation, ethics, memory, forms of history, and methodological interventions. Written for readers interested in how memory works on culture as well as screenwriting choices, the collection offers new perspectives on historical media and commercial media that is currently being produced, as well as on media created by the book’s contributors themselves.
Download or read book Official Gazette written by Philippines and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Extraordinary Beliefs written by Peter Lamont and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early nineteenth century, mesmerists, mediums and psychics have exhibited extraordinary phenomena. These have been demonstrated, reported and disputed by every modern generation. We continue to wonder why people believe in such things, while others wonder why they are dismissed so easily. Extraordinary Beliefs takes a historical approach to an ongoing psychological problem: why do people believe in extraordinary phenomena? It considers the phenomena that have been associated with mesmerism, spiritualism, psychical research and parapsychology. By drawing upon conjuring theory, frame analysis and discourse analysis, it examines how such phenomena have been made convincing in demonstration and report, and then disputed endlessly. It argues that we cannot understand extraordinary beliefs unless we properly consider the events in which people believe, and what people believe about them. And it shows how, in constructing and maintaining particular beliefs about particular phenomena, we have been in the business of constructing ourselves.
Download or read book Modern Calvinism being a ser of discourses on the fundamental doctrines of Christianity written by William Stables Smith and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extraordinary Politics written by Charles Euchner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political protest and social movementstheir history; their cyclical development; their organization, strategies, and tacticsconstitute what Charles Euchner calls extraordinary politics, an antidote to the breakdown of politics-as-usual and a necessary, if not sufficient, condition of democracy. Activists have set the pace on every conceivable issue, including the environment, gay rights, feminism, abortion, states rights, religion, and multiculturalism. The president and Congress can barely keep up, but extraordinary politics keeps evolving. With style and grace, the author weaves together hundreds of examples drawn from movements spanning the ideological spectrum to offer both a practical and intellectual guidebook to political activism in a reputedly apathetic age, embracing with abandon the art of making a difference. }When dissidents and activists toppled powerful regimes across the globe in the 1980s and 1990sfrom the Soviet Union to South Africa, from Nicaragua to the Philippineshow did Americans respond to challenges in their own country? The conventional wisdom is that Americans sullenly withdrew from all manner of political action. But in fact, activists of all backgrounds took to the streets to challenge ordinary structures of politics.These movementstheir history; their cyclical development; their organization, strategies, and tacticsconstitute what the author calls extraordinary politics. Activists have set the pace on every conceivable issue, including the environment, gay rights, feminism, abortion, states rights, religion, and multiculturalism. The president and Congress can barely keep up, but extraordinary politics keeps evolving.With style and grace, Charles Euchner weaves together hundreds of examples drawn from movements spanning the ideological spectrum to offer both a practical and intellectual guidebook to political activism in a reputedly apathetic age, embracing with abandon the art of making a difference. }
Download or read book An Essay on the Improvement of Time written by John Foster and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unbelief in the Nineteenth Century written by Henry Clay Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reports of Cases at Common Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois written by Illinois. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
