...Final Examination Question How has religion shaped the experience of life and the perceptions of religious practitioners? Religion has shaped the experience of life and the perceptions of religious practitioners in many ways. Christianity and Islam are two religions that truly affect the daily life of their practitioners. In this section of the paper I will explain the daily, weekly, and monthly rituals of the Christians and the Muslims and how it shapes them as people. Starting off with Christianity, Christians focus on Christ. Christian use daily gospel reading and prayer to learn and to communicate with Christ. Christians do prayer alone and also in groups. Most Christians pray when they wake, before meals, and at bedtime. The prayer revolves around thanking God, asking for something, or praying for the ill. The Gospel of Matthew contains one prayer called “The Lord’s Prayer”. The prayer tells Christians how to pray and what to pray for. It is known as the most influential prayer in Christianity. The Christians most sacred book is the Holy Bible which is composed of an old and New Testament. Also, Christians used to follow a strict practice of going to mass every day, but this has phased out a bit in recent times due to modern society. Christians also go to mass on Sunday which is the Sabbath. On a yearly basis there are many sacred holidays or holy days that require Christians to do or refrain from certain acts. An example of one of the holidays is Christmas and Easter...
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...opinion or should it serve to shape the public’s perception of art? These are complex questions on a topic that is very...
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...Queer theory is one of the most discussed, debated, and arguable subject I have studied. Throughout history many different factors affected the LGBT community. The development of queer identity and theory has many influences that helped shaped what it is today.The main influences are: society, religion, psychology, medicine, and law. The presence of homosexuality has been around for as long as humans have. The acts of homosexuality has taken place all around the world in history. More notably in ancient Greece and Rome. Before homosexuality was recognized, there were laws against sodomy, heavily influenced by the bible’s Sodom and Gomorrah. The term “homosexuality” was founded in the 19th century, which focused on males rather than females. Throughout the 1900’s homosexuality was heavily repressed and something to be ridiculed of. During WWII over 50,000 people were targeted for homosexuality and many of them died in concentration camps. A major turning point in history was the Stonewall riots, it was one of the first time that people finally took a stance against the suppression. Society is basically what shapes everything there is in the world. Society makes up our unique countries and society is also was helped shape the LGBT community, in both positive and negative aspects. From the beginning, anyone who was queer was instantly a minority in society. Anything other than the heteronormative was repressed and later something to be persecuted for. Much of this...
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...1. A graph showing the growth of forest volume over time looks like ... 1) A U shape 2) An inverted U shape 3) An S shape 4) A pyramid 5) A straight line 2. Maximizing the profit of timber harvesting involves all of the following except… 1) The total costs of harvesting 2) The total revenues from harvesting 3) The interest rate 4) The ecological value of forest diversity 5) The mean annual increment 3. The mean annual increment is calculated by ... 1) Dividing the annual change in biomass by the age of a forest 2) Dividing the total biomass by the age of a forest 3) Multiplying the annual change in biomass by the age of a forest 4) Dividing the annual change in biomass by the interest rate 5) Multiplying the annual change in biomass by the interest rate 4. A higher discount rate will tend to do all of the following except ... 1) Reduce the optimal harvesting period 2) Increase clear cutting 3) Encourage timber harvesting to pay off debts 4) Reduce the mean annual increment 5) Increase ecological damages to forests 5. What is the main cause of global tropical deforestation? 1) Slash-and-burn agriculture 2) Timber harvesting for export 3) Forest clearing for commercial ranches 4) Forest cutting for pulp 5) Forest clearing to build cities 6. How does total forested area tend to change as human populations increase? 1) Total forested area continually decreases 2) Total forested area continually increases 3) Total forested area...
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...Slide 1 No act is inherently deviant. It depends on 4 factors: time, place, consequence, identity of victim/offender How you perceive yourself is strongly based on how others perceive you Your interactions with others shape who you are. Master – the role that defines who you are (eg. CEO) Self fulfilling prophecy – you embrace what others label you Driving While Black Study (New Jersey)– study to see if blacks are pulled over or arrested more, to see if there is an official or de facto policy of targeting blacks * Determine the total % of black drivers, and the total % of black drivers stopped on the road * They also drove 5 mph above the speed limit and looked at the racial composition of people driving cars that drove past them * They violated traffic laws at approximately the same rate * 73% of drivers stopped and arrested were black, while only 14% of drivers on the road were black. * 35% of all who were stopped were black * Very small probability of this being a fluke * CONCLUSION: Blacks are several times more likely to be stopped than non-Blacks * Studies in Maryland yielded similar results for all minorities Howie Becker – the group creates rules and people that break those rules are labeled outsiders and deviants. Moral Entrepreneurs – people that make a career out of enforcing morality eg. Police Primary deviance – committing a deviant act before the rules are formed. You aren’t stigmatized as being deviant. Person who...
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...‘Community engagement’ shows us the ways of how ethical communication can encourage individuals and groups participate and involve in political debates (Demetrious, 2012). It gives individuals in the society has the right and freedom to speak, to challenge, to provoke awareness through participation in public debate. ‘Democracy’ is the conceptual provenance of ‘community engagement’ (Demetrious, 2012). In other words, community engagement plays an important role in our democracy system. As Birch and Glazebrook (2000, p.41) state that corporate is under a great pressure to increase its profit, to keep a good relationship with its investors. Without doubt that ‘spin’ is a strategy for corporate in common use to frame information in a way that can be easily accepted by public who are related tosw. Gare also state that ‘The business community is becoming more isolated from the community at large and looking after its own interests’ (cited in Birch and Glazebrook 2000, p.41). Using the theories of the citizenship (Hudson & Kane 2000) and the communication (Habermas 1989) this essay will discuss the role and relationship of ‘community engagement’ to society and how ‘community engagement’ can be a solution to ethical problems associated with spin. The case study “The Wrribee toxic dump” will be used to demonstrate the arguments. Community engagement is a big theory that included both citizenship theory and communication theory. Hudson and kane (cited in Demetrious 2012, p.2) define...
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...ideals and institutions of a society or segment of society.” Poignantly, this definition does not include the common correlation between myth and falsification. While myth may include ostensible histories or exaggerated events, falsification is not crucial nor significant in the creation of myth. Whether or not a culture’s myth relies on scientific or historical fact is irrelevant to the core of its application. A culture’s myth or belief is vital in the realm of their world view, stresses, and precedencies, not its...
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...VISUAL COMMUNICATION CA1 CORPORATE IDENTITY PROGRESS JOURNAL : “JOMENTS” VISUAL COMMUNICATION CA1 CORPORATE IDENTITY PROGRESS JOURNAL : “JOMENTS” JUDY TING PING CHU (1632082) [DMC/FT/1A/02] 1632082 1632082 JUDY TING PING CHU (1632082) [DMC/FT/1A/02] 1632082 1632082 COMPANY NAME: Joments Slogan: priceless little moments Products: watches Target audiences(age): both males and females, about the age of 12(teens) to 35(young adults) Competitor 1: Daniel Wellington * Selling Price: (price range: $200+ to $300+) For leather straps, the bigger face (40mm) costs $319 while the smaller face (36mm) costs $269 For NATO straps, the bigger face (40mm) costs $279 while the smaller face (36mm) costs $229 * Logo: -simplistic, yet clean looking, easy to remember and recognize too -bold fonts. * Unique Selling Proposition: Daniel Wellington (DW) believe that the traditional, yet crisp design blends together perfectly with the colourful NATO strap and elegant leather strap who will appeal to almost everyone with a sense for classic and timeless design. Minimalistic designs of the watches appeal to many of the teens worldwide. * Famous Products: -Classic St Mawes -Classic Sheffield -Classic Durham Competitor 2: Casio * Selling Price: (price range: $99 to $200+) * Logo: -simple, font is very bold * Unique Selling Proposition: ...
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...styles, racial differences, ethnic differences, age, social class, regional differences, sexual minority, religion, political affiliation, skills, and abilities or disabilities. All of these characteristics listed make the world diverse. Through out the years the United States has become more and more diverse, which means that many different cultures and backgrounds are helping our communities and neighborhoods function. Growing up in an environment that has diversity creates cultural richness within our society. It allows for people to have a better understanding...
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...Today many people understand that the media can influence us in different ways. Even if we don’t believe what the media say it still shapes the parameters of our experience. Study after study tells us that the media do affect us. Whether we recognize it or not, mediated images not only help to shape our view of the world, but shape our value and actions. Watching movies and programs on the television as we relax takes us away into this different realm—that is, there are parts in our being that feels we are the ones in the movie and sometimes we even feel what they are feeling as we get caught in the emotional excitement. The effect of media does not stop when the movie or program ends. And this lingering effect might just be the cause of behavioral changes in people. Thus our knowledge of the world becomes a complex blend of personal, interpersonal and mediated experience. Watching popular TV programs, movies or sitcoms we tend unconsciously to copy some life style images and bring it to our way of life. Imagistic advertising is qualitatively different from nonimagistic ad, because rather than lead us to rationally evaluate the price and quality of a particular product it focuses on our emotions and conscious and underconscious desire. Imagistic advertising compels us to organize our world and place value via commercial culture products. Silently we observe and order our lives using fashion. We come to understand who we are in the same way we come to understand the...
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...have an identity. It is not possible because everybody has an identity and everybody’s identity is completely unique to who they are. Identity is what shapes people and it can be anything from looks to traits. The House On Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is about a girl named Esperanza and her journey through life. Esperanza desperately wants to move off the street she lives on and in doing so she realizes many things about herself as well as who she is as a person. Identity is the most important theme in the novel because Esperanza’s identity change s, identity shapes who she is, and Esperanza discovers her cultural identity. The first reason why identity is the most important theme is because Esperanza’s identity changes. Alicia states, “ Like it or not you are Mango Street, and one day you will come back too,” (Page 107). Esperanza responds with, “ Not me,” (Page...
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...Sara is no longer able to accept the traditional way of life of her father and community and flees home in order to study and get a job. I believe Sara managed to become her own person, and the attempt at reconciliation with her father by the end of the novel is a proof of this rather than indication Sara is still influenced by the restrictions and prejudices of her childhood. There are two...
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...ITTOO Nitasha STUDENT ID: 201400546 COURSE: BSc (Hons) Business Management With Specialization MODULE: Operations and Management 1 Year of Course: Year Two Semester: One Name of Lecturer: Mr Temen Ganoo Table of content 1. Briefly describe the cookie production process…………………….. Pg 3-5 2. What are two ways that the company has increased productivity? Why did increasing the length of the ovens result in a faster output rate?....Pg 6 3. Do you think that the company is making the right decision by not automating the packing of cookies? Explain your reasoning. What obligation does a company have to its employees in a situation such as this? What obligation does it have to the community? Is the size of the town a factor? Would it make a difference if the company was located in a large city? Is the size of the company a factor? What if it were a much larger company? ……………………………………………………………Pg 7-8 4. What factors cause the company to carry minimal amounts of certain inventories? What benefits results from this policy? ………………..Pg 9 5. As a consumer, what things do you consider in judging the quality of cookies you buy in a supermarket?.....................................................Pg 10 6. What advantages and what limitations stem from the company’s not using preservatives in cookies?.........................................................................
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...Investigation of How Culture Shapes Curriculum in Early Care and Education Programs on a Native American Indian Reservation ‘‘The drum is considered the heartbeat of the community’’ Jennifer L. Gilliard1,3 and Rita A. Moore2 This article investigates how culture shapes instruction in three early care and education programs on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Interviews with eight early childhood teachers as well as classroom observations were conducted. The investigation is framed by the following research question: How does the culture of the family and community shape curriculum? Data analysis suggested that ongoing communication with parents and community about teaching within a culturally relevant context, building a sense of belongingness and community through ritual, and respecting children, families, and community were essential to defining the Native American Indian culture within these early learning programs. KEY WORDS: culture; in; tribal; early; education; programs. INTRODUCTION Instruction informed by children’s home and community culture is critical to supporting a sense of belongingness that ultimately impacts academic achievement (Banks, 2002; Osterman, 2000). American school populations are increasingly diversified with immigrants and English language learners; but American teachers are over 90% European American (Nieto, 2000). Educators who are from different cultural perspectives than those present in the families and communities of the children they teach...
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...APPLIQUE 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 History 2. REGIONS 3. PRODUCER COMMUNITIES 4. RAW MATERIAL USED 5. TOOLS 6. PROCESS 6.1 Designing 6.2 Tracing 6.3 Pasting 6.4 Cutting of shapes/ designs 6.5 Tidying 6.6 Stitching 6.7 Finishing 7. MARKET 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Introduction Patchwork and appliqué are very ancient techniques and sometimes referred to as one. The only difference between them is that patchwork or piecework is the process of seaming small pieces of fabric in to a larger whole, while appliqué is the process of sewing smaller pieces of fabric onto a larger background fabric. It is a technique of forming a single pattern with different pieces of cloth. Pieces of fabric are applied on top of another for decorative or functional purposes. 1.1 History Appliqué is an ancient technique of creating beautiful and decorative items with different pieces of cloth. Nomadic people of the desert have long pieced together their tents and even decorated them with elaborate appliqué. Festive patchwork textiles created for special occasions are found in many places throughout India. Pieced and appliquéd household items are made by women for dowries. These objects include decorative bags, pillows and sitting mats. Appliqué played a part in religious textiles as well. It has long been used to make decorative clothing, because most clothing is used until it is worn out and then again reused to create beautiful patterns out of the worn fabric. This serves both economic and decorative...
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