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Good And Evil Due To The Fact
1,586 wordsThe use of hallucinogenic plants dates back thousands of years. Over the years, many different cultures and civilizations have used them for different purposes. The common belief that similarities exist between cultures that rely upon the use of herbal hallucinogens is greatly exaggerated. The cultural variables between these cultures are often so significant that the only major similarity between them is the fact that they use hallucinogens. The common generalization by society that every cultu...
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Quality Of Life Western Societies
659 wordsMany facts concur to show that we must look far deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy. These tools have some questionable properties. They are regents. Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Throughout the course of human history, men and women have taken steps to make life easier. Going back to the allegorical curse placed upon man in the Genesis scriptures, that he should work by the sweat of his bro...
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How Has Diversity Shaped Western Civilization
1,741 wordsHow has diversity shaped Western civilization? In recent times, the term diversity became a buzz word, which is being applied by the pushers of left wing agenda, mostly out of context. We are made to believe that Western civilization will gain immensely, because of our society becoming less and less racially homogeneous. The hawks of political correctness do not bother to come up with any real proofs, while making their argument. We are simply expected to agree with whatever we are being told, o...
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People In Western Sociological Theories
1,643 words... people are going to consider other members of society as their enemies. Bauman suggests that it is the individualism, on the part of Europeans, which allowed them to create a civilization, but at the same time, it is the hyper-individualism, as the final stage of post-modernity, which will bring about Western civilizations ultimate demise. It is very remarkable that, while suggesting the peoples post-modernist egoistic drives are essentially harmful, Bauman does not include a perverse sexual...
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Effects Of The Industrial Revolution On Women
2,609 wordsEffects of the Industrial Revolution on Women (1) It is impossible to talk about the beginning of process of womens emancipation, without mentioning Industrial Revolution in Western countries, which began to take place in 18 th century and continued throughout 19 th century. Within a matter of hundred years, after ideas of egalitarianism began to circulate, women had acquired numerous civil rights, of which their grandmothers could only dream about. At the turn of 20 th century, the most outstan...
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Serial Killers Socio Political
2,560 wordsMasculinity and Nursing Western civilization, as we know it, has been traditionally based upon the principle of separation of social roles between men and women. The beginning of womens emancipation process did not change this situation by much; however, it laid ground for the reevaluating of employment practices, which even today are affected by socio-political stereotyping. In this paper, we will make an attempt to look at such stereotyping as something that comes absolutely natural, rather th...
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Worlds Religions Socio Political
1,880 wordsMenstrual Meanings (1) Throughout the history of humankind, such physiological aspect of womens existential mode as menstrual cycle, used to be traditionally surrounded with many controversies. There are different theories that strive to explain this from socio-political, psychoanalytical and philosophical perspectives. However, the majority of psychologists agree that society's popular attitudes towards menstruation correspond to the fact that people subconsciously entitle blood with mystical p...
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Mini Bars In Hotels
2,078 wordsMini Bars in Hotels (1) The introduction of so-called mini bars in Western style hotels dates back to sixties, when Director of Food and Beverage in Hilton International, Robert Arnold came up with the idea of equipping every individual room with mini-refrigerators, stocked with alcohol beverages, to provide utmost convenience for Hiltons guests. However, it was not up until 1974, that Companys top management decided to actually implement Arnold's idea in practice. This year marks the time when,...
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Socio Political Reality Fashion Trends
2,898 wordsFinal Project (the original paper contains pictures Ive sent it to administrator, she will be able to forward it to you via email) (1) When it comes to defining the very essence of different fashion trends, throughout the history, many fashion experts fail to understand that these trends actually reflect peoples existential mode, associated with a particular historical era. Therefore, our analysis of current fashion trends and our forecast, in regards to these trends in 2009, are going to be clo...
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Western Societies Space Exploration
728 wordsSpace Art Museum When we talk of different art concepts and styles, we need to keep in mind that they dont just appear spontaneously in peoples minds but are rather intuitive responses to the realities of nowadays. We cannot talk of concept of baroque, for example, without mentioning that it came as a direct consequence of the fact that intellectual elite became disappointed with the Christian doctrine, since it was effectively proven that Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way arou...
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Men And Women Sexual Revolution
1,761 wordsSaint Augustine and how his teaching impacted modern sexuality Saint Augustine is well-known in Church History as a great theologian scholar. His insight of marriage, love and sex is still regarded as dogmas of the Catholic and the Protestant Churches. He is considered to be one of the greatest writers of the Churching the 4 th and 5 th centuries. His books: Confession of St Augustine and The City of God, are still studied by Christians, especially, his understanding on love and sex. But there a...
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Men And Women Gender Equality
1,347 wordsGender struggles, differences, and similarities The issue of relation between men and women has been a subject of great many psychological and sociological studies. It is the key factor that defines functioning human societies as whole, thats why the importance of this issue cannot be underestimated. Still, we can only talk of beginning of twentieth century as time when psychologists and philosophers became interested in this topic. Oddly enough, right up to this period, relation between men and...
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Western Societies Ethical Issue
671 wordsEthical Issue Analysis The ethical issues can usually be characterized by three criteria: ideals, obligations and consequences. These are social terms, as ethical problems usually arise within society, consisting of people with different ethical values. In Western societies, the idea of multiculturalism is being promoted on many different levels recently and those whore in favor of this concept assure us that there are no real ethical consequences of this policy, but only cultural ones. Is it re...
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Distribution Of Wealth Deviant Behavior
1,576 wordsCultural Assessment A couple of years ago, I was invited by my friend Rahima, to attend an Indian wedding. I thought it might be fun for me to experience the different foods, clothing, personalities, and religious beliefs that were particular to her culture. Later on that evening I had pulled her to the side and told me that the culture that I was raised in was completely different from hers. I was raised in Louisiana and in all my life I had never experienced such a distinct culture. At that ti...
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Means Of Production Mode Of Production
2,447 wordsAs stated before, the key classes in the capitalist mode of production are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, or capitalists and landless wage laborers. While Marx recognizes that there are other classes, the fundamental class division is between this pairing of the exploiter and the exploited. The bourgeoisie derive their class position from the fact that they own productive wealth. It is not their high income that makes them capitalists, but the fact that they own the means of production. Fo...
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Anorexia Nervosa Eating Disorders
2,294 wordsDuring any given day, the American society is inundated by our perception of the ideal woman. The ideal of a slim and slender body bombards young women on television, in magazines and even while walking across campus of their University. It is this ideal that is prevalent in our society that drives women and some men to starve and deprive their bodies of the necessary nutrients in order to achieve what appears to be most desirable. The motives behind each individual can vary, but most women do t...
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Scientific Revolution Human Beings
6,060 wordsThe first part of this essay will outline the main arguments of the feminist ecologists and deal with the concept of Ecofeminism. The second part will sketch the main arguments of Rosemary Radford Reuther book, Gaia and God. The final part of this essay will analyze: Starhawk's The Spiral Dance, Witchcraft as Goddess Religion, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and the Descent of Inanna and examine the pros and cons of the position that a return to goddess worship would save our planet. Part One Ecofe...
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Military Strength Western Societies
1,074 wordsAre Machiavelli s Theories Still Applicable Today? Niccol Machiavelli was an Italian politician and philosopher, who lived in the late middle ages (1469 - 1527) in Florence. He had gotten in a high political position during the reign of Soblerini, and during his work as a secretary of a ten-man council got the chance to study political tactics of Italian rulers. Unfortunately for him, when the family of the Medicis got back in power, Machiavelli lost his job, as most families in that time wanted...
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Means Of Production Mode Of Production
2,880 wordsAlthough the concept of class has a central importance in Marxist theory, Marx does not define it in a systematic form. Marx left this problem of producing a definition of the concept of social class until much later. The manuscript of the third volume of Capital breaks off at the moment when Marx was about to answer the question: What constitutes a class? Even without his definition of class, one can reconstruct how the term is to be understood in his writings. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx ...
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State Of Poverty Western Societies
2,520 wordsPOVERTY INTRODUCTION Prior assumptions Student Poverty STUDENT POVERTY INTRODUCTION Prior assumptions about poverty and its relativity to human nature are needed to be able to begin researching poverty. A starting point is needed, and this is nearly always based on other people? s research. A hypothesis is formed firstly, based on existing theory formulated by other research and conclusions, and then I will try to anticipate some outcomes and relationships that I may find. From this I can begin ...
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