Freshman Studies - Civil Rights
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- Moral Reasoning
- a methodology to help people deal with moral dilemmas
- Moral Dilemma
- occurs when you are faced with value-laden problem & all the choices appear to have merit
- Normative theory
- Should or shouldn't
- Golden Rule
- honor others rights
- Obligations
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restrictions
ex) contracts, vows, friendship, family - Values
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beliefs about what is good/desireable and bad/undesireable
-change due to time & experience
-unique to each individual - Consequences
- projected results that might occur from any given action
- Work of Art
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one person's vision of human reality expressed in a particular medium and shared with others
-creation
-expression
-communication - Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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-Entertainment (heart) - holds our attention
-Edification/Education (mind) - learning expressions/feelings
-Exaltation (spirit) - opening spirit/happy/spiritual level - Politics
- process of using power to affect whether govt. acts on a specific matter
- Power
- the ability to get people to do things they wouldn't normally do
- Perceptual Screen
- helps reduce mass amounts of stimuli into one whole
- Modal Person
- Someone you expect to find...typical person
- Charismatic Person
- read into people, they see things differently, have different perspectives
- Outsider
- member of an outgroup which society assigns to a social status which is 1) undesireable or 2) otherwise involves restrictions on freedom to pursue reasonable life goals
- House Negro
- Masters pet - get treated better than field - loyal to their masters - good diction
- Field Negro
- wanted destruction, weren't loyal to their masters - hated them
- State of Nature
- conflict - competition, suspicious, reputation
- Mise-en-scene
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what is put before the camera
-settings
-costume
-lighting
-acting - Tone
- range of colors in the image
- Film Speed
- rate at which it is shot
- Frame
- border containing mise-en-scene
- Crane (moving frame)
- camera pans up
- Pan (moving frame)
- camera pans back and forth horizontally
- Dolly (moving frame)
- camera follows the character
- Handheld (moving frame)
- amateur quality
- Thomas Hobbes
- establish social contract (hire a sheriff to live in peace)
- John Locke
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Believes in this imaginary state of nature-always achieve natural rights
-strongest makes decisions
-no judges
-said-for the sake of convenience (rights) , peeps left state of nature and entered into society
-2 thoughts - series of principles and attitudes - Emperical theory
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what is
descriptive language - Political Ideology
- a more or less coherent picture of 1)how the current social, economic, and political system works, 2) whether it is good/bad, 3) what should be changed if anything
- Liberals
- favor active role of govt in economic issues, left, strong for equality, rule by reason and equality
- Conservatives
- narrow role of govt, right, favor roles of govt when issues concern order, rule with passion and self-interest, want govt intervention with social issues
- Log Cabin Myth
- anyone can come up and be president
- Patrick Buchanan
- Conservative
- Jim Hightower
- Communitarian
- Edward Kennedy
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Liberal
-talked about inflation and high unemployment - Harry Browne
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Libertarian
-everyone should have a gun