Word: everydayness
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...Coxes are one of 32 families in the Los Angeles area participating in an intensive, four-year study of modern family life, led by anthropologist Elinor Ochs, director of UCLA's Center on Everyday Lives of Families. While the impact of multitasking gadgets was not her original focus, Ochs found it to be one of the most dramatic areas of change since she conducted a similar study 20 years ago. "I'm not certain how the children can monitor all those things at the same time, but I think it is pretty consequential for the structure of the family relationship...
...back of the truck. “Essentially, that was where the front line was,” he says.Frost called the war in Iraq a “threshold event” for women in the army. “Women are showing by their everyday deeds that they can do any job the nation asks them to do,” she says. Doing these jobs means that women are also facing more risk. As of Feb. 4, 2006, 48 women have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to a Department of Defense website.FACING THE RISK After...
...help improve educational developments, the plan included no way for students to opt out of being tracked. With the renewal of the Patriot Act, citizens must be forewarned. The passage of this legislation makes way for less privacy and more for overly intrusive probing of private citizens’ everyday activities. The Patriot Act, as written, may leave us feeling less worried about terrorism, but it should also leave us anxious about whether or not there are any American ideals left to protect from terrorism...
...campus, students forget that there’s a vibrant political environment a short T ride away from University Hall. But when break rolls around, how do students get home? Most take the T to Logan and fly home. Even this simple, everyday act involves two major state-level organizations: the Mass. Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) and MassPort. Therefore, who runs these departments and how their programs are executed makes a huge difference in students’ lives...
...John Donne, it becomes clear that Conley’s remarkable creative and analytic talent lies in his ability to illuminate the forms he studies in a rich and challenging way. He brings new light to the ways in which we examine the world, both in academia and in everyday life. Ultimately for Conley, the studies of cinema, poetry, philosophy, literature, are all an exercise in mapmaking: “Humanities are the study of where we situate ourselves in relation to the world. The whole issue of what we are becomes a function of where...