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    Max Horkheimer was born in 1895 in Stuttgart, Germany. Horkheimer’s father was a prominent Jewish manufacturer that encouraged him to travel throughout Europe. Horkheimer worked for his father’s business but then pursued academic studies. After completing his military service, he wrote his doctoral thesis on Immanuel Kant and became the director of ISR. Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse worked in Frankfurt, New York, and Europe. Their work was not well received in Germany, but was in the U.S. and Europe

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    As seen throughout the semester, the debates surrounding capitalism and its role in society are extensive and transcends generations. By virtue of the nature of debates, two broad positions on capitalism evolved in North American Protestantism – one position defends capitalism while the other protests capitalism. The defense of capitalism developed in the 19th century. Being one of the many authors to do so, Charles Sellers attributes the development of capitalism to the Market and Industrial Revolution

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    In the essay, “The Common Life” by Scott Russell Sanders, Sanders studies the connection between the individual and society. However, this leads to the question, what is the relationship between the individual and society? Individuals and societies may be in opposition but this helps to develop both the individual and society. The decisions that an individual makes reflects on how society views him/her. The overlook of the community can be reverted back to the individual within the society. Society

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    The word civilization is explained as being the stages humans go through and how they develop into social, prosperous, and advanced beings. Many civilizations today include several important things, such as the elements of social, economic and political categories. The social category of a civilization is where humans interact with each other and their environment. Whereas the economic category deals with money and jobs and how humans have learned to adapt to the changing society. Lastly, the political

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    Nonetheless, the Protestant work ethic set limits to wealth acquisition and luxury expenditure. One ought to work if the work done is beneficial either for the general good or for one’s own, not injurious to anyone else, and provided that it did not lead to unfaithfulness in one’s calling. This meant, that how useful and pleasing a calling is to God depended on its moral benefits, the importance for the community, and its profitability for the individual. Also, one must not have refused an opportunity

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    also enabled the determination of Avogadro’s number and therefore the size of molecules. Einstein was the one who answered the basic question, why is the sky blue and he proposed the general theory of relativity. He was rewarded with the Copley Medal, Max Planck Medal, Franklin Medal, Matteucci Medal, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. My book, Albert Einstein The Miracle Mind, was very good for a book report. If you want to know about Albert Einstein I would recommend this book.

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    Physiological Differences

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    Physiological Differences Although chronotype has shown to impact psychological variables, such as RPE, during exercise at extreme ends of the day, little research has shown that chronotype has a relationship with physiological variables during physical activity. Other research studies have shown significant differences in physiological measurements during exercise at opposite ends of the day. Hill (2013) researched men participating in exhaustive severe-intensity cycle ergometer tests in the morning

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    Sociologist study society, social behaviors, and this also includes culture. There are number of options for sociologists when it comes to jobs. Sociology is not the largest field, but it does is a unique one. Sociologists study culture, which has always been a field and has many aspects such as tv, media, and politics. The sociologists of the world also study people and the groups that they form. Sociology is the area that sociologists go into when they go into secondary teaching. Sociologists

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    Max Weber, the sociologist that changed the view of how humans think toward society, once stated, “the ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.” This quotation was astonishing to people at the time and still is today, it is clear that Weber made a great impact on the world in terms of his ideas for his reformative thinking. More importantly, the birth of Karl Emil Maximilian Weber was on April 21, 1864 in the Prussian city of Erfurt

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    Foucault Surveillance

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    Habermas believed communication was a major factor in the development of the individual based on “communicative action.” Habermas central metaphor for grasping sociology is communication, and asserts the "self" is a product of social interaction. Thus the individual is not merely a product of the whole society as ascribed by (Durkheim), or capitalism according to (Marx) nor self-motivating schemes as theorized by (Weber). Habermas says the individual is a part of face to face interactions,

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