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  • Integration Paper on Race and Ethnicity

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    Introduction to Sociology Professor Sharon Preves Due by December 9th Turned in by December 16th (7 days late) The U.S. banned the discrimination based on race, sex or ethnicity, through the Civil Rights Act, almost 40 years ago in 1964. However, more subtle, permeating forms of racism are prevalent in today’s U.S. society according to…

  • the meaning of being a full-time student

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    I was thinking of how I used time up.. and how much time I had left. See, there’s 24*7=168 hours in the week. 56 sleep21 meals13 church (4 sunday worship +6 friday bible study+ 1.5 mac christian fellas + 1 bible study group)12 class (4 classes)4 talks 1.5 (reading circle) +1 (marx series) + 1…

  • Integration Paper on Social Class and Inequality

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    Integration Paper on Social Class and Inequality Introduction to Sociology Professor Sharon Preves Due by November 18th, 2002 Turned in by November 25th, 2002 Yong Ho Kim Any large enough society in the world today faces problems of individual and social inequality among its people. In chapter 10 of his book, Newman has addressed this…

  • refreshed

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    Yongho Kim: I drink coffee for strictly caffeine absorption purposes Sung Kyu Lee: i once drank 5 coffees in one sitting and got really sick, diaharrea and everything Yongho Kim: I got diarrea too out of eating two meals of cereals in a row Sung Kyu Lee: ahahaha Yongho Kim: green stuff Sung Kyu Lee:…

  • Gender – China

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    Intro. To talk about current issues of gender inequality in China is to talk about the consequences of a quickly developing socialist society with a patriarchal, agriculturally intensive and confucianist tradition.

  • Critical Book Review of Tracing the Veins

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    History of Modern Latin America Profesor Javier Morillo-Alicea November 11th, 2002 Yongho Kim The book Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata by Janet Finn is a study of two mining societies owned by one company. She intends to break off from the traditional way of viewing local histories as…

  • Proposal: Nationalism in Argentina

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    Paper Topic Proposal History of Modern Latin America Profesor Javier Morillo-Alicea November 5th, 2002 Yongho Kim I will write my paper on the influence that Argentinian nationalistic self-image had on the ignition of dirty war and regional violence during Peronism and the military coup. In Prisoner without a name, cell without a number, Timberman indicates…

  • Spring 2002 class quotes or memorable momenta bursting out of the green

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    Modern Philosophy Hans: On a sidenote, it seems like we could make an analogy between the Humean attitude of aggressive all-negation to that in… umm.. music, for example. Gundy: So Hume is the heavy metal of philosophy! Kevin: Yeah! Phil31 is offered every spring But Gundy teaches every semester. Analytic Chem Kuwata: so can anyone…

  • Dingen for 2001-2002

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    I posted a short quotes list in my room, I got excited about em, and decided to post an expanded list of the memorable things during my stay of Mac during 01-02. Following the greek tradition, I shall separate them in academic disciplines: (don’t quote me on this Kat, I really didn’t know what to…

  • Alsino and the Condor: The Choice of Identity Over the Law

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    Yong Ho Kim Professor Kiarina Kordela HCST 10 : Introduction to Humanities and Cultural Studies 25 April 2002 Alsino and the Condor is a movie filmed by the Nicaraguan Film Institute and co-produced by Mexico, Cuba and Costa Rica. According to The New York Times, it “is a film about injustice and revolution, not looked…

  • Yooohoooo!

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    Viva el calor y la nieve! Don’t you love Minnesota? I wish those 95 degrees were accompanied by a snowstorm. That way, we’d appreciate the wonders of mother nature in an even more dramatic way.

  • Lead emission decreasing around University of St. Thomas

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    Friday APRIL 12, 2002 50¢ Star Tribune NEWSPAPER OF THE TWIN CITIES / . Edition www.startribune.com Lead emission decreasing around University of St. Thomas By Yong Ho Kim anonymous submission SAINT PAUL, MN.―― Are students at University of St. Thomas (UST) more environmentally conscious than the mean of the population? The riverbank area of St.…

  • I need to see tv more often

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    ftp://141.140.108.85/temp/dutch_commercial (from http://www.claancy.net/index.php?area=lunacy)

  • This is absolutely necessary

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    I need to bitch about how little sleep I get. And how much work I gotta do. And the expectancy level. And how I still can’t break the B+ limit. And how I get to register for classes the very last week of registration (yeah, yeah, we’re barely sophomores) But cheer up, summer is coming…

  • I'm in a slump

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    I don’t want to work. Of course phenomenology is a dumb way of justifying a procrastination, and say “It’s not me who actually procrastinates, it’s a symptom of something else in me”.

  • [Audun Solli] analytic and synthetic

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    Audun Solli: An analytic judgement is for Kant a statement in which no new information or knowledge is contained or presented in the predicated that didn’t already exist in the concept of the subject, like “all mothers are women”. Synthetic judgements, on the other hand, add some information in the predicate that didn’t exist in…

  • [Sherali Tareen] Burke/tree

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    Sherali Tareen: The supernatural, literary connotations of words, and the distinction between the two concepts seem to be the main main focus for Burke. For instance, he discusses the non-verbal nature of trees that is entirely unrelated to the object of living thing “tree” itself. (1) However, the distinction between “the Word” and “words” remain…

  • [Aaron Hubbard] Descartes/God/Kant (?)

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    Aaron Hubbard: (…) Descartes grapples with those concepts that arise only with leisure. He questions that which he can really know, that which he can discern from the real, and concludes nothing other than that he thinks. His problems with sun on p.118 arise from the definition on the sign by its relation with other…

  • [Lindsay Gosis] individuality

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    Lindsay Gosis: In both Debord and Foucault, the issue arises or lust exists, of the problematic relentless from the individual reality/ideality and the spectacle/government of individualizarism (Foucault 420). Described in terms of subject/object., the individual reality cannot act as the subject of the discussion, because the spectacle, as its own force creating itself (drive?), affects…

  • HCST Definitions

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    Definitions jotted down for the final HCST paper. Yong Ho Kim The real is illusory as long as it is confined within the borders of the Other. The real is a network of derouted desires intertwined in a stubborn desire, or drive, that guides the individual’s forces towards an arbitrary direction. In the real, the…