Most world religion statistics point out that more than 50% of the world claim belief in either Christianity or Islam. For over 2000 years, the interpretations of “Abrahamic religions” have greatly influenced historic events and cultures. The formation of the Council of Nicaea in the 4th century CE is an early example of debates in…
For this project I was thinking of structurally and phonologically examining the common web survey. I would look at 2 or 3 representative surveys, possibly ones made at Zoomerang or survey monkey. It is already clear to me that online surveys have a very clear syntagm. So what do you think of this idea? Do…
So for my final paper, I have decided to use the work I have been doing for my capstone project in politics, more specifically by looking at political blogs (still in the process of choosing one or two specific blogs to focus on which are representative of political blogs in general)… how do conversations unfold,…
Mingxian posted an excellent question late last week about the problem of intention. If we look at camera angles in Bleu or La Strada, and we perceive that they relate fortuitously to narrative themes (etc.), and we attribute that coherence to the “director’s intention,” are we leaving structuralism/semiotics and heading back to phenomenology? My answer…
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This is one of the three mobile phones HTC just released. The company plans to have more patterned mobile phones become available in the market in the near future. I have not seen mobile phone like this in America. In Asia, where lots of people are crazy about knowing and buying mobiles that just enter…
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