Message from @SamanthaM
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Why?
gotta do a book review on it
ive read a good amount but i dont have time to finish and was struggling to figure out what i should write
How about a defense or refutation of the main idea. Which, I believe, is something along the lines of 'nationalism is a bureaucratically enforced method of creating a homogeneous population through state or industry created organizations.'
Nationalism, as being in opposition to localism or tribalism.
Well, not exactly in opposition. As the 'group' becomes a larger entity, it becomes more difficult to maintain a truly homogeneous culture. Ergo, it becomes important for state-created organizations to synthesize naturally-formed local cultures to form a 'baseline median.'
It's like how 'Germany' is really a combination of more local groups from Prussia, Swabia, Bavaria, ect.
gotcha, yeah the main things in the paper are supposed to be identifying the main argument/s and evaluating its persuasiveness
i was having some trouble narrowing down what the actual main argument was
"nationalism is an inescapable consequence of modernity" i think is some of it
idk whether to write about that or maybe include his definition of nationalism as wellmaybe
Yes. That's exactly right. But it must be noted that he defines nationalism as to mean the combination of local groups to form a median. You should include both points because they support each other.
Because by 'modernity' he means the breakup of agricultural society in favor of industrialization.
One is just the outflow of the other.
okay nice that helps clear it up thank you!
Although, as a counter-argument, you could make the claim that it isn't *really* industrialization that is the main cause.
*cause of nationalism
true i was thinking that aswell
Interesting. What example are you going to use?
im not sure yet, kind of just gathering my thoughts and re-reading some parts right now
thank you!
Is anybody in here a Calculus wiz?
@GDoctor taught it for many years, I can probably help
What are you looking at?
@ThisIsChris I'm In calculus 1 right now and there are no prerequisites however, it assumes a high school background in pre-calculus. The problem is that high school was over 10 years ago for me and I didn't do well in it. I'm going to post a scan of my latest homework and would like to know how to solve the problems in layman's terms. The scientific calculator I have is a TI-84 Plus.
Here's my current homework. It's due September 5th.
@GDoctor here is 1a and 1b
@ThisIsChris Thank you very much! I'm signed up for tutoring at my school so hopefully I'll catch up and remember how to do this stuff in my head. Tests account for 85% of my final grade.
<@&435155896780324864> Can someone tell me why I'm getting a null pointer exception in Java?
?
how do you paste code?
```java
import java.lang.*;
```
\`\`\`java
code
\`\`\`
```java
public boolean contains(Object o) {
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
if (o == null && get(i).data == null) {
return true;
}
else if (get(i).data.equals(o)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
```
```java
public ListNode get(int index) throws IndexOutOfBoundsException{
ListNode cur = head;
for (int i = 0; i < index; i++) {
if (i == index) {
return get(i);
}
cur = cur.next;
}
return null;
}
```
pls no bully I haven't taken Java in two years and now I have to relearn everything
get(i).equals
make the first && an ||
but I'm checking to see if they're both null
but the elseif