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Translation, please.

13 Jan 2008 – 11:56 pm

C. W. Mills wrote in “The Sociological Imagination”:
In large part, contemporary humanity’s self-conscious view of itself as at least an outsider, if not a permanent stranger, rests upon an absorbed realization of social relativity and of the transformative power of history.
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Er. What?
At another part:
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the [...]

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Dalam diri saya ada ihsan, haiwan dan syaitan… ahh!

3 Nov 2007 – 8:44 pm

Sekali lagi, nilai penulisan di Berita Harian (Singapura) membingungkan saya.
Baca: “Insan, haiwan dan syaitan dalam jiwa” oleh Rahmad Sakom (3 November 2007)
Penulis berhemat bahawa perbandingan antara haiwan dan perokok (”perokok serupa haiwan”) yang dicetuskan oleh Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat itu terlalu keras. Penjelasan Datuk Nik Aziz tentang perbandingan demikian adalah bahawa perokok “tidak menggunakan [...]

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In rejection of lewdness

23 Apr 2007 – 1:41 pm

Every afternoon, there is a man in the street who sells candies, and good candies they are, which attract many customers. But you also know that when night falls, he sells another type of ‘candy’, which attracts a group of customers as well—he is a drug trafficker.
Question: If you had a child, would you [...]

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