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    for 20 years, it is sincerely very hard to imagine a life without it. We are constantly using it in our everyday life. At school work, home. We use it to “be foraging in the Web’s info-thickets reading and writing e-mails, scanning headlines and blog posts, watching videos and listening to podcasts, or just tripping from link to link to link.”( Carr, 3) It has become such a big part of our everyday lives that not been able to connect with it is like living in the desert. And it has taught us how to

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    succeeds in making the readers reconsider why education matters to them. Mike Rose’s Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us effectively persuades his audience of the importance of education beyond the classroom, which proves true in our everyday lives because the essential aspect of education is what we do with it and how it helps develop one’s personal growth. Rose elaborates on the significance of education by reflecting on his own perspective on how that shaped his identity. His childhood

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    It Takes All Sorts of People to Make a World The concept of being a good person has painted a picture of how people have handled their lives. Good Country People by Flannery O’Conner, is a fairly complex story of life presented as a simple tale about good country people. In Good Country People, education, religion, and one’s physical attributes all play a role in forming ones’ identity. Religion could be one of the most prominent things playing contradictory roles, however, the more important and

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    Post 9/11 Research Paper

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    times, but the end result is to keep the citizens safe. Although America has not been the same since, the tragic events that occurred on September 11th, 2001 has left a lasting mark on the citizens of the United States and resulted in changes in the everyday lives of our country, making us a safer country that is more unified than

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    Smoke and Mirrors: Manipulated Realities Photography is an art form that plays with the mind. Photographs are perhaps one of the most layered and contradictory objects we can see around us. They represent reality, but yet somehow they don’t - they don’t capture the whole of reality, rather just a snapshot of it. There is always a constant battle going on between the two photographic considerations: make the photographed object look as beautiful as possible or tell the truth. What a picture finally

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    individuals and make sense of those observations is what he became most recognised for. His research focuses primarily on the sociology of everyday life, social interaction, the social construction of self, framing of experience and social stigmas. He is best sighted for his study of symbolic interaction. Published in 1956, ‘The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life’ focuses on the subject of the self not so much as a singular and fixed entity but as a contingent response to a social context. It was

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    Essay on Dramaturgical Analysis

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    correct any flaws in their performance before giving it. The theory of dramaturgy is considered a micro theory, under the category of “interpretive”, which also includes interactionism, ethomethodology, and phenomolohy. In The Presentation of Everyday Life, Goffman lays out the seven elements that create a performance: belief in the role that is being played, the front or ‘mask’, dramatic realization, idealization, maintenance of expressive control, misrepresentation, and deception/mystification

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    The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life is a work developed by noted sociologist Erving Goffman. In it, Goffman details the sociological perspective of our social interactions. He uses the metaphor of theatre to better understand the complexities surrounding interactions; it is from this seminal text that we establish words from the dramaturgical framework such as performance, backstage, front-stage, and costume as illustrations of interactionism. He begins the book by addressing the idea of performance

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    In classroom setting, the interactions to make meaning between teacher to students happen in many different layered / laminated situations. In class size discussion settings, the dominant interaction structure between teachers and students have been the I -R-E ( Initiation, Response, Evaluation) structures that according to some studies, may diminish teachers’ classroom communications skills ( Moloney, at.al., 2012), turn teachers as sole knowers ( Robinson, 2011; Lehman & Scharer, 1996),

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    In this essay, I will be explaining Erving Goffman’s social concept called dramaturgy, primarily focusing on the element of stage theory. I will also incorporate Peter Borger’s social construction of reality within the essay as it also relates to stage theory. I will be describing what these concepts mean it my own words, based off experiences in my own life, research that I have done, as well as using the information that we gathered in class. Then we will be looking at college students as a case

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