...be the same one used for the individual, as social change gives birth to new opportunities, individuals may move categories. This essay is going to explore Hacking’s term dynamic nominalism through the illustration of some of the issues in the emo society. The concept of dynamic nominalism claims that in giving a name to a category a new opportunity is created for human types to adopt. New types of people start to exist that in some respects did not before. We can see this through the emergence of the emo society. The term emo is short for emotional it was first used as a description for a genre of music named emotional hardcore, with lyrics full of sad and depressed emotions. As the music became more popular adolescents found a sense of belonging within the music, (Gorce 2005) and a new possibility that allowed their emotions to be expressed emerged. As dynamic nominalism explains “new slots were created in which to fit”. (Hacking 2002:100) The emo society was custom made to fit the youth who wanted to express their emotion. The emo society and the emo person were born in unison, in the same way that dynamic nominalism states “a kind of person came into being at the same time as the kind itself was invented”(Hacking 2002:106) The emo person was created and roles, behaviours and mannerisms were adopted to work in with the society which will be discussed next. To understand the view in dynamic nominalism that labels actively influence those labelled, we can look at the behaviours...
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...The Sound of Emo There are many stereotypes in society for every culture or group of people. These stereotypes are often based on musical influences, personalities, activities, and fashion. I am going to focus this essay on the group of people who are known as Emo. Both positive and negative attributes come from stereotyping an Emo follower, but most of society focuses on the negative. This essay will focus on all aspects in hopes of turning some of these negative stereotypes into more positive ones. The word Emo is often used to describe anyone who is perceived as being too emotional, often too sad or too dark. The term Emo is short for “Emotional Hardcore” which describes the genre of music an Emo follower would listen to. According to author Brian Bailey (2005), “[Emo music] is characterized by feelings of vulnerability, and...confessions about adolescence. Emo music draws from various genres of music including rock, punk, indie, pop, and heavy metal...The behaviors, attitudes, and values expressed through Emo music involve...despair, nostalgia, heartbreak, hope, and self-loathing.” These emotional characteristics and topics described in this genre's music often associate with the life experiences and characteristics of its listeners. Emo music is characterized by heavy, distorted, or acoustic guitar with male vocals ranging from soft whispering to screaming. Lyrics are expressive and melancholy. Mainstream Emo bands include Dashboard Confessional, My Chemical...
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...The definition of Emo has nothing to do with cutting yourself, it has nothing to do with what clothes you wear, what music you listen to, or what strange color you dyed your hair last month. Emo is the short way of saying emotional...really. Emo means emotional, like you have very vivid emotions and have a certain way of expressing that. Today, people see them as people that wear all black and purple-sometimes even red- and listen to screamo all day in a room with black lights and posters of weird bands that have no point. This stereotype is ruining the point of people expressing the way they feel about something. I have 3 friends that are all Emo, one is angry majority of the time, another is depressed and has to take meds for it, and the other is just like me, just wears a lot of black and orange- like Halloween. Notice how none of them cut themselves or drug themselves until they pass out? That is because those things were for some dumb reason associated with Emo poeple. The one on anti-depressants, is on them because she had huge trauma in her life, and expressing it through nothing. She would sit and think until it was time to go to sleep...she would wake up and go through the same routine. So before you start stereotyping emos as cutters and things to that effect, learn about them and you'll notice that they are just emotional people, not freaks, not people that you should avoid, just emotional...
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...Andrea Palladio shows simplicity throughout his architecture and the Villa Emo is no exception in that respect. Its open thresholds and level of symmetry reflect elegantly what Palladio and Leonardo Emo envisioned for society in Italy’s 1500’s. Economically and socially the path of the regions history at this period in time was guided by the innovation of maize crop and Indian corn. Leonardo Emo acquired eighty trevisan fields and planned to build the Vila Emo himself, however his death in 1539 meant that it would be his grandson, who was also called Leonardo that would complete his work in the latter 1550’s. Many have said that it was Palladio’s design of the Cornaro at Sant’Andrea oltre il Muson that led him to design the Villa Emo in a...
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...are many answers as there are people who are continually reinventing English as we speak. Teenagers Are Experts One of the first signs of impending adolescence is the desire to put space between you and your parents’ generation, and the fastest way to do that is through the art of language. Teenagers develop their own idioms and expressions that make adults scratch their heads, trying to figure out what the slang means (and if it’s something they should be upset about.) For example: • Emo - If you’re “all emo,” it’s like being a drama queen (a slightly older expression.) Emo was a type of music that seemed to rip at the souls of adolescent angst. It frequently included wearing all black clothing, dying one’s hair pitch black, and having a complexion so paper white that it looked as if the teen had grown up in the basement. To be emo was to be perpetually depressed, moody, and emotional, and perpetually at odds with society (even if it was nothing more than a pose.) • My bad - If a teen has made a mistake, the phrase “my bad” is frequently employed as a cover. It means what it appears to mean: “I was bad!” This is one of the phrases parents, especially mothers, might pick up on and use themselves, to the everlasting embarrassment of their children. “Busted” Ain’t Broke Some words have morphed from one meaning to another. Take the word “busted.” To the grandparents of today’s teens, the word was simply slang for “broken.” The last decade or so reinvented “busted” to mean...
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...of screamo music to the spiritual enrichment of the Stigmatine Youth Movement (SYM) Statement of the problem This study Is to determine the perceived effects of screamo music on the spiritual enrichment of the Stigmatine Youth Movement (SYM). This seeks to answer the following questions: 1. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of 1.1. Age 1.2. Gender 1.3. Length of membership in Stigmatine Youth Movement (SYM) 1.4. Length of exposure to Screamo Music 2. What are the effects of Screamo music as perceived by the Stigmatine Youth Movement (SYM) in the apostolate? 3. Is there a significant relationship between the profile of the respondents and the perceived effects of screamo music to the spiritual enrichment of the Stigmatine Youth Movement (SYM)? Methodology A descriptive survey research was used in this study. Descriptive research involves collection of data in order to test hypothesis or to answer questions concerning the current status of the subject of the study. The descriptive research has no control over what is, and it can only measure what already exist. The researcher abides into descriptive method of research in order to determine the perceived effects of screamo music to the spiritual enrichment of the S.Y.M. 1. The respondent’s profile 1. Age Mostly of the respondents age belong to the adolescence which range from thirteen...
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...Understanding Open Source Software Development Process Abstract: As the assignment requirement, we selected eclipse, Linux kernel and commercial software from the corporation of one member. It is the regret that we had not enough time to collect all statistics by ourselves, and instead of that, papers and blogs are the main resources for open source part in this document. The open source software is introduced before the commercial one. Keywords: development process, code ownership, defect density, bug lifetime Background: Linux Kernel In April 1991, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student at the University of Helsinki, Finland started working on some simple ideas for an operating system. He started with a task switcher in Intel 80386 assembly language and a terminal driver. On 26 August 1991, Torvalds posted the following to comp.os.minix, a newsgroup on Usenet: I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). After that, many people contributed code to the project. Early on, the MINIX community contributed code and ideas to the Linux kernel. At the time, the GNU Project had created many of the components required for a free operating system, but its own kernel...
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...college students would react. Also, there are many different personalities that are being dealt with because the campus is so large and there are many people. Though many college students range around early twenties, there are also many older adults that are on campus that have the ages between forty and fifty. While conducting my experiment, many people were shy to approach me. A lot of people that passed by either giggled and walked pass, or refused to make eye contact. I was really afraid that I was going to walk out of this experiment with one to none hugs. About fifteen minutes goes past, and finally, a group of boys notice my sign and each of them gave me a hug. They seemed very happy and pleased when they saw my sign. When people saw what the group of boys did, more people began to join in and gave me hugs. I had a lot of smiles and “have a good day” come from people that I have never seen before. Even though this was just for a social experiment, I felt as if I was performing a good deed. The more hugs I got, the more I noticed the time difference between each one; some hugs grew longer than other ones. I decided to perform an experiment because I was more intrigued to have encounters with...
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...Music Review Abstract This paper will examine music and social issues. Suicide rates have increased among teenagers, young adults and an epidemic in our military with the prolonged wars. Songs that are composed about suicide and the loss of someone whom has committed suicide has also increased in recent decades. Key words: suicide, music, social problems, demographics and lyrics. MUSIC REVIEW Music is easily accessed today through various media outlets and devices. Music is in automobiles, smartphones, personal audio devices and online. With all these personal devices it has become more common today for people to listen to their choice of music when shopping, traveling on public transportation, working out or virtually any other task at any given time of the day. Music can be an outlet to escape from a situation, isolate oneself or to reflect on something. People can focus in one genre of music, artist or song and repeat that over and over as much as they want. This can be both a good and bad situation. Music can motivate you at the gym when listening to a high beat tempo while conducting a cardiovascular routine. However, music can also keep someone depressed or emotional after a particular event or situation. Suicide has been an increasing problem in young to middle age people over the last decades. This is can be attributed to a number of factors such as wars, financial distress from global recessions and increases in social platforms and...
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...styles in our society today. Just to name a few we have the punkers, the emos, the sport types, the fashion type, and so on. I find that the punkers and emos are very much alike. They both wear dark clothes, have dark hair and maybe a bracelet with spikes on it. The sports types often wear a specific shirt, of their favourite sports team and do a lot of sports themselves. The fashion type is always very attentive, about what they wear and how their make-up is done. Dress codes are also something we are very familiar with. A dress code can vary from event to event e. g. at a golf club you must wear a polo shirt with collar, no jeans! but instead chinos, a pullover and golf shoes. And then we have the big formal dinner were you need to wear a suit or tuxedo. Other times there is no dress code, like at a picnic with family and friends, it does not matter what you wear. We also have dress codes at some schools’, in form of school uniforms. In Denmark we do not have school uniforms, and I am glad we have it that way. Some of my friends in the United States have school uniforms and they like it. They think it is very nice to wear the same clothes. That way they cannot be bullied for what they wear. I can see the purpose with it, but I would not like to have school uniforms. I would like to wear want I want and not something, somebody tells me to wear. If it was the case that you would get bullied because of what you wear, I would defiantly want school uniforms’ too. But I have not...
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...moderate in intensity and needs family support. Only in rare cases is any type of medical therapy required. Duration of depression often can last several weeks to throughout the illness. The goal is to help the person go into the final stage of acceptance. People who feel they are near the end of their life often refuse food and/or water. Changes in emotion and behavior are very common. The changes may include emotional liability, nervousness, restlessness, irritability, fatigue and insomnia. Physical symptoms such as disturbed sleep, impaired appetite, and lack of energy may already exist as a result of the disease. Fear of dying. Although unable to immediately sort out emotions, given time, a person will likely begin to start grieving what the loss will mean to them – lost dreams, lost family, and loss of a cherished friend. * Emotional Responses to Illness * Caring for the Caregivers * Grief * Loneliness and Resentment * Anxiety or Fear * Tiredness * Anger * Sadness * Guilt * Physical...
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...subcultural studies for the next two decades” (Gelder, 1997, p.81). The outburst of subculture theory in Britain was after the Second World War which involved analysing British Subcultures, such as punks and Mods and Rockers, it is understood that this was an outburst reaction of the youth against structural changes taking place in British post-war society. Unlike American traditions a Neo-Marxism approach to class and power was adopted. So the rise of subcultures are due to the struggle for cultural and social power.(Williams 2007) This theory like American researchers tended to focus on lower classes, which made it hard to identify how subcultures used symbols to resist dominant cultures. Another weakness from the CCCS was that they ignored what participants said and did, but read why they resisted through style and ritual; this is termed as lack of ethnographic research, by not observing the group closely. The CCCS being criticised for “papering over the cracks” (Sweetman 2013, p.2) and not engaging with the youth it was investigated in Cohen’s publication ‘Resistance through Rituals’ 1976 addressed the issue that because of the urban redevelopment of the 1950’s working class communities were being broken up and forming new collective identities through music and style to show their resistance to these changes (Winlow 2006). Referring back to the Birmingham School tradition (CCCS), style is an act of resistance within the working youths, both to inequality and society as a whole...
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...1) Siddhartha- Hermann Hesse A) Archetypal Criticism: Hermann Hesse has incorporated numerous symbols, metaphors and allusions into his work to help the reader understand the story of Siddhartha better. Similarly, Archetypes are also present in this book. The main Archetypal character in the book is Siddhartha. He is a seeker who wants to experience a better, more authentic and more fulfilling life by achieving enlightenment. He fears being trapped and is true to his soul. For example, he leaves the Brahmins, the Samanas and Gotama Buddha in pursuit of more knowledge to fulfill his desire of gaining enlightenment. Similarly, Vasudeva is also another Archetypal character in the story. He serves as a counselor towards Siddhartha and is a role model to him. For example, in the chapter “the ferryman” Siddhartha surrenders to Vasudeva his entire self, even his clothes, in order to follow his example in leading a life of calm fulfillment and wisdom. Along with archetypal characters, archetypal symbols are also present in the book. The River is definitely the most influential archetypal symbol in the book. It represents the flowing of time and transitional phases of the life cycle. For example, whenever a great transition occurred in the book like when Siddhartha left Gotama Buddha and also when he abandoned his wealth he came to the river. When Siddhartha observed the river he learned that the river exists only in the present, it is everywhere at once, upstream...
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...follows the life of Tayo, a half white and half native American. Tayo is a United States Army veteran who is confused and disoriented about his identity. Tayo having come back from World War II is struggling with what seems to be post-traumatic stress disorder and is losing his mind. Much of the Tayo past are left blank, just like his brain, as we follow through his journey of receiving aid from medicine men, we learn about how difficult people of the mixed-race go through throughout their lives. Therefore this quote signifies, how much culture and background impact you in society. “ They sent me to this place after the war. It was white. Everything in this place was white. Except for me. I was invisible. But I wasn’t afraid there.” (Silko 113) “ In this quote it Tayo is talking about the hospital where he was sent after the war. Although being half white, Tayo did not feel like white, he felt as an outsider from the rest of the people at the hospital. Tayo was raised by his Auntie after his mother abanded him at a...
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