Healthy ageing is about ‘optimising opportunities for good health‚ so that older people can take an active part in society and enjoy an independent and high quality of life’(Healthy Ageing: A Challenge for Europe). Ageing is not necessarily a burden‚ and it does not necessarily decrease a person’s ability to contribute to society: older people can make valuable and important contributions to society‚ and enjoy a high quality of life. But this depends on treating ageing as an opportunity rather
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Family Structure‚ Institutions‚ and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations By AVNER GREIF* There is a vast amount of literature that considers the importance of the family as an institution. Little attention‚ however‚ has been given to the impact of the family structure and its dynamics on institutions. This limits our ability to understand distinct institutional developments—and hence growth—in the past and present. This paper supports this argument by highlighting the importance
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This five-page paper discusses the nature of the family in the developing world and examines whether the family is more important‚ less important‚ or neutral in the movement from technologically simple or agrarian societies to industrial societies. The Role of the Family Family systems‚ like biological organisms‚ evolve with time and circumstance. It seems readily evident from an examination of the nature and role of the family in the developing world that form may indeed follow function
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Air pollution Are you satisfied with the air that you breathe today? Do you know how many people suffer from the air pollution? Air pollution‚ which is harmful to the health or could cause damage to plants and materials‚ contains gases‚ dust‚ fumes. When pollution occurs in the air‚ it can easily travel and spread‚ and because we breathe in air‚ people are not able to easily avoid it. There are three effects of air pollution‚ which are acidification‚ health effects and global warming. The first
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aspects of the family such as provision of care and teachings of norms and values. The three main functionalist sociologists in this topic are Murdock‚ Parsons and Fletcher‚ who all have a different view towards family but main argument is the functions it provides for society. Murdock believes that the family have to provide 4 main functions: primary socialisation‚ financial support‚ the meeting of sexual and emotional needs and reproduction. These functions need to be provided by the family in order
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There are many different family traditions and relationships based on our culture and how it was developed. We are trained to act and behave in such a manner that is “appropriate” from the time that we are born. Many of these actions are actually based on the cultures of ancient times. Some of our everyday traditions come from these cultures‚ along with our actions and behavior within our families. A few of these countries are Babylonia‚ Greece‚ and India. I have found one story from each country
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Family Medicine: A medicine with compassion By Dr. MARIAM IJAZ My first rotation was Family medicine and on the very first day I was very much impressed and motivated by the direct involvement of doctors with the patients. The environment the ideology all attracted me and I enjoyed and enhanced many important traits like communication‚ compassion and counseling. Family medicine is based on continuity of care. The patient-physician
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Family Matters Families are an important part of society. They not only teach us how to have close interpersonal relationships‚ but they perpetuate our genealogy‚ and help to give value to our self-worth and existence. As depicted in the Disney film “The Lion King”‚ the circle of life allows us as families to learn and grow relationships‚ and pass the knowledge we learned of the past and the present‚ to our future family generations‚ and to carry on our family name. Many would consider this the
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Family Heirlooms Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” stresses the importance of family heirlooms and the tradition of passing down artifacts from generation to generation. One of the main characters is the narrator Mrs. Johnson or “Mama.” She is the mother of two very different girls named Maggie and Dee. Throughout the short story we learn a lot about Mama and her character traits. She has had a very difficult life. Mama is a poor African-American woman‚ but she is strong and independent
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In her essay‚ “The Magic of the Family Meal‚” Nancy Gibbs‚ explains the important role of having meals plays on children. Gibbs begins her essay by telling us how valuable having a family meal is and the positive outcome. She believes that having a family meal‚ more than three times a week‚ with no interruptions‚ can have a great power over a family’s communication skills. Gibbs then explains that children who eat meals with their families‚ are less likely to get into trouble and eat healthier. She
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