Structural Essays

  • Frictional, Structural, and Cyclical Unemployment

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    used as a measure of workers' welfare. The proportion of workers unemployed also shows how well a nation's human resources are used and serves as an index of economic activity. Economists have described the types of unemployment as frictional, structural, and cyclical. The first form of unemployment is Frictional unemployment. Frictional unemployment arises because workers seeking jobs do not find them immediately. While looking for work they are counted as unemployed. The amount of frictional

  • Structural Functionalism Vs Structural Functionalism

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    We watched a film and we had an activity afterwards, I was assigned to relate a certain scenario from the film to structural functionalism. That was time I panicked because I didn’t know what it means. Luckily, one of my classmates told me what was it all about and I got it fast. For me, structural functionalism is all about the vital roles of the people, institutions, and other involved in making the society better. Basically, it’s about working together

  • Structural Violence

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    Structural violence is the way in which a social structure will harm people by not providing, by limiting or by barring people from receiving basic needs. Structural violence impacts people on the bottom rung of society. People who live in poverty or are not considered being of a high social standing. This could be because of a person’s age, sex, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or any other aspect that makes them different from the majority of the population or different from what people consider

  • Structural Analysis

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    important topics in this research are structural analysis, finite element methods and the basic review on Abaqus software due to the fact that this software is used as a research tool for examining the behaviour of structures. Therefore, it is essential to know about these topics and the relationships between them. An effort is made to review the important structural analysis and finite element method approaches, reports and fundamentals guiding the structural analysis of the CNC machine research

  • Structural-functionalism

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    The focus on how social structures determine, and are effective in maintaining the equilibrium is functionalism or structural-functionalism, which is the theorizing of Durkheim and Parsons (Dillon, book, 179). What this means is that we need to look at the structures effectiveness of social structures and make sure that it is at a satisfying state of equilibrium. An example of this would be the human body, we have many different organs and they all work together to produce the fully functional human

  • Structural Elements of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

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    The Bluest Eye:  Structural Elements In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison employs structure as an aid for telling her story. She uses at least three unique structural devices for this purpose. First, Morrison begins the novel with three passages that prepare the reader for the shocking tale about to be told. Second, the novel is divided into four major parts with each quarter given the name of a season. Third, the novel is further divided into seven sections that are headed by a portion of the passage

  • A Structural and Vocabulary Analysis of John Donne's The Flea

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    A Structural and Vocabulary Analysis of John Donne's "The Flea" In his poem "The Flea", John Donne shows his mastery in creating a work in which the form and the vocabulary have deliberately overlapping significance. The poem can be analyzed for the prominence of "threes" that form layers of multiple meanings within its three stanzas. In each of the three stanzas, key words can be examined to show (through the use of the OED) how Donne brilliantly chose them because of the various connotations

  • Signification Through Structural Irony in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

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    Tale and The Merchant’s Tale utilizes an ironic structure to mean quite differently than the narrative voice says. M.H. Abrams defines irony thus: Some literary works exhibit structural irony, in that they show sustained irony. In such works the author, instead of using an occasional verbal irony, introduces a structural feature which serves to sustain a duplicity of meaning. One common device of this sort is the invention of a naïve hero, or else a naïve narrator or spokesman, whose invincible

  • Structural Engineering Mishaps and Disasters

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    Structural Engineering Mishaps and Disasters Hindenburg: An Unnecessary Disaster In the 1930s airships, better known today as “blimps”, were the main source of air travel. During this time, the airships were used for various different reasons such as: bombing enemy targets, patrolling coastal areas, escorting naval ships during the night or through unsafe bodies of water, or used to make luxury flights across the Atlantic. The Hindenburg was believed to be the biggest and most sophisticated aircraft

  • I Wish to Pursue Structural Engineering

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    I Wish to Pursue Structural Engineering A simple bridge truss was the first structure I ever analyzed. The simple combination of beams that could hold cars, trains, and trucks over long spans of water fascinated me. Having the tools to analyze the loads on the truss further increased my interest in structures. I encountered the bridge in a textbook for my first engineering class. Knowing that the professor, Mr. Paul Davids, was a tough teacher, I asked him for the textbook so I could study

  • Structural Engineering and Ethical Decision Making

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    Structural Engineering and Ethical Decision Making INTRODUCTION Currently in the state of California, designers employed in the building industry follow the 1997 Uniform Building Code (UBC 97). The UBC 97 is intended to be a minimum requirement for both engineers and architects to follow in the design of any structural building or bridge. There are exceptions to the use of the UBC; local jurisdictions have the right to adopt other codes for there use. For instances some counties or cities

  • Annotated Bibliography On Structural Violence

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    Structural Violence Structural violence is a form of violence which corresponds with the systematic ways in which a given social structure or social institution prevents individuals from achieving their full potential as explained by Galtung (1969). Structural violence explained by Samantroy (2010) is “…believed to come from a lack of access to power to protect oneself from the detrimental effects of the economic, political and social order” (26). Based on the definition of these two authors (Galtung

  • Structural Factors Case Study

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    structural factor may vary at the presence of other structural factors. This section explores the interplay between several pairs of socioeconomic factors. Essentially, the study divides interactive relations into three different types according to their substantive meanings. Each type includes two different interactions between two structural factors. The first type can be called mitigation effects. It basically involves the interactions of external threats with natural resources and with ethno

  • Structural Makeup of the Commercial Building

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    Analysis • Structural Make-up • Beam Calculations • Load Trace • Choice of Materials • Conclusion Introduction This report will investigate the structural makeup of the commercial building we are working on as part of the Studio 2 module. The building has a single-storey basement that is to be used for car parking, with 5 upper storeys comprising of a café and open plan offices. This report investigates firstly the site that the building is situated on, secondly, the structural make-up of the

  • Structural Violence the Unseen Violence

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    affected individual, in most cases are unaware of the violence inflicted upon them. These types of violence are termed as structural violence. Structural violence is a form of invisible violence setup by a well-defined system, to limit an individual’s development to his full potential, by using legal, political, social or cultural traditions (Winter and Leighton, 1). The term structural violence was originally phrased by Johan Galtung, to highlight all the disadvantages faced by humans due to economic

  • Structural Violence: Hughes And Bourgois

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    through analyzing hegemony processes; therefore, opening the possibility for social critique. Likewise, Hughes and Bourgois, attempt to make sense of violence by defining structural violence and symbolic violence, “Structural violence [as] the violence of poverty, hunger, social exclusion and

  • Gender effects of Structural Adjustment Programs

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    of Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs). First, I will give an in depth overview and background information about Structural Adjustment Programs. Secondly, the research will also examine and highlight the factors that influence the adoption of Structural Adjustment Programs. Moreover, the essay will briefly elaborate on the term gender and what constitute gender bias. Furthermore, I will attempt to evaluate the impact on gender by the implementation of the conditionalities of the Structural Adjustment

  • The Moving Load Problem in Structural Dynamics

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    CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The moving load problem is a fundamental problem in structural dynamics. Engineers have been investing the potential hazard produced by the moving masses on structures for many several years. The dynamic response of structures carrying moving masses is a problem of widespread practical significance. A lot of hard work has been accounted during the last ten decades relating with the dynamic response of railway bridges and later on highway bridges under the effect of moving loads

  • Examples Of Structural Functionalism In Animal Farm

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    Structural Functionalism Structural functionalism is a theory that explains why society functions the way it does by focusing on the relationships between many social institutions that make up society. The animals created commandants that they all had to follow (chapter 2). They also labeled Napoleon as their Leader acknowledging him as the most capable one on the farm (chapter 6). The relationship between the other animals and pigs eventually evolved into that of a servant and master (chapter 10)

  • Theoretical Perspectives: Conflict Theory And Structural Functionalism

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    Cristina Frazier SOC-102 September 13, 2015 Timothy Larkin Theoretical Perspectives There are many ways in which an individual is able to view the world and the three sociological perspectives, conflict theory, structural functionalism, and symbolic interactionism, represent some of these ways. These theories are an important part of sociology and help individuals put the world into their own perspectives and then draw conclusions about how society works as a whole. Once a person is able to do