Social Welfare Institutions

I watched the film “The Battle of Algiers” by Gillo Pontecorvo as one of my events. This film is a re-inaction of the civil war in French Algeria in the period of 1954-1960. This war of independence was fought by the Algerians against the French imperialism. This movie, unlike most war movies, shows both sides […]

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This documentary, produced by Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck, was about how the Republican Majority leader of the state of Texas attempted to sell out Congress. “The majority leader is a partisan position in a legislative body”[1]. Tom Delay took advantage of this position to do what he pleased. The first thing he did was […]

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One of the main topics we discussed in our last class was based on reading of digital diploma; whether or not we thought it was a bad idea. According to the article, Noble believed it was a bad idea. Throughout the article, he brought up several points about why having digital classrooms to achieve a […]

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Today in class we talked about how the media holds information to the public in America. It seems as if they are only allowing us to hear what they think we should hear. By hiding information, it seems like they are trying to set our minds a certain way and make us view specific situations […]

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When reading this chapter, it reminded me of the  Left Forum event ” The anti- war movement” I attended. This chapter like, the forum I attended discussed the deep connection between the ideology of war, and captialism. McNally states on page 207, that ” serious historians” have never supported the claim that the First World […]

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Yates, Marx and the Wal-Mart article all depict the various problems and thus consequences with Capitalism. Until reading these three, I have never thought about Capitalism in the ways they have, and the major issues that are entailed.
            Firstly, Yates on pages 176-179 makes continues to detail labor power, and the concept of wage. He […]

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This speech was basically about the problems people face in their everyday lives, from work to class struggles and everything else in between. The speakers were actually quite interesting. They were also very funny and made many jokes. It was not difficult at all to understand them and I enjoyed listening to their speeches.
When looking […]

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The speaker, Dave Berry started off by introducing Guerin and the history of anarchism and the anarchist movement. This speech was mainly about Marxism and how it could synthesize with anarchism. The information was taken from Daniel Guerin who published the book about the “synthesis” of anarchism and Marxism.
Daniel Guerin (1904 - 1988) was of […]

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During our class discussion yesterday, our main focus on Chapter 4 was about race. We never got a chance to talk about gender, which was mainly what the last part of the chapter focused on. Poverty stricken nations such as certain parts in Africa, South Asia, India, China and Brazil has some of the most […]

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I use to work in a broken down office on top of a store. The working conditions were horrible. Everything was dirty; the carpet was unclean, then windows were filthy, and dust covered stacks of paper. The office desks were crammed together. In a small room, I worked at a old computer doing data entry […]

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The neoclassical view of economey is quite different from the radical view. However, they can both desire the same thing. Both want freedom, profit, private property, and the expansion and growth of the economy.
The neoclassical or mainstream economists “single mindedly pursue their own “self interest.” They believe in the individual increasing to his/her greatest possible […]

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Watching the video in class made me realize how important water is. It was not right to privatize the water and take it away from people who can hardly afford it. Since they did not have the money to pay for their water bill, there would be no point in raising the rates for using […]

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We all know the problem with capitalism. Critics refuse to call it capitalism, they use euphemisms such as “neo-liberalism” or “free market economics” instead. It’s not a secret that capitalists only desire profits and higher prices, and therefore they deceive the public. I feel that government needs to get involved to govern capitalists.
McNally mentions something […]

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In the Science and Worldviews by Merchant the Earth was personified in great detail. This painted a picture in my mind, like that of Frida Kahlo’s: “The Love Embrace of the Universe”. As crazy as this painting looks, it incites me to compare this world to a mother who provides for us. She also keeps […]

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Today in class, we talked about world views and mechanistic world views. Through our reading, the ruining of the earth is like someone killing their own mother. This can be applied to what we learned in class today. We need to find a way where we can work together with nature, not harming it b/c […]

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Ecology looks at nonhuman nature.  It studies the components of air, water, soils, atoms, plants, animals and bacteria.  Human ecology is the study of interactions between people and their enviornment.  Merchant discusses many aspects of ecology, however I chose one that pertains to us in school and in the workplace — the subject of egocentric […]

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So we are going to use this blog starting next week - and I want to go over some of the ways I’m thinking about it - just to get things started.
I’ve posted a few things to the blog so far - they are each articles or links to articles that are relevant to our […]

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Hi everyone, my name is Kenndy. I recently just moved to Staten Island, from Manhattan, the traffic in the morning is crazy! but i like where im living now, there’s less chaos on the streets. Im a very outdoors person, love to travel and have a big interest in arts. In the near future, i would like to travel to […]

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Hey guys!!
So something to know about me, um I love sports, especially baseball (Let’s Go Met’s baby!!). I also love doing out door things such as hiking or canoing. And I like astronomy and writing for the fun of it.

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Whats up Everyone! First off let me say Lets go Giants!! Super Bowl was amazing. As you can see I am a football fan.  Which is a bit strange seeing as I am Dominican and baseball should be my thing…. I am 22 years old and very confused as to what I want to do […]

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