Friendship is a relationship and concern between individuals and provides positive emotional support. Friends care for one another and look out for each other. In order for a deep understanding to occur between friends it requires opening up about personal things‚ listening carefully‚ and being loyal to one another. Friendship and association are often thought of as spanning across the same continuum and are sometimes viewed as weaknesses. The study of friendship is included in the fields of sociology
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edu/~ldiamond/iraq/WhaIsDemocracy012004.htm Source 3 - “The People Who Rule” 1. Greek δημοκρατία (dēmokratía) "rule of the people" 2. Definition: a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections. b) The active participation of the people‚ as citizens‚ in politics and civic life. c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens. d) A rule of law‚ in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens. 3. The role of the people in democracy: The key role of citizens
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There are 7 billion people in the world. 600 million live in northern America. 125 million live in Mexico with 1.5 million living near the Cancun peninsula‚ and only around 2‚000 of them are Itzan. The Itzan people are in grave danger of extinction‚ with only 1‚983 natives left. Did you know that only 8 people in this whole world‚ speak itzan fluently? But who are the Itza people? The Itzan are one of the few surviving tribes of the Mayan people but they are also shrouded in mystery. No one
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Explain how political‚ economic and social constructs can be used to categorise society. Look at how Irish society stratifies according to social class and gender. Sociologists develop theories and concepts to help reveal the structure of social life and they engage in numerous different forms of empirical investigation to test and develop these theories. They are interested in how people communicate and create meaning and understanding‚ but they are also interested in questions of power and inequality
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Can religion be studied academically? Discuss the importance and different ways of studying religion. The academic study of religion isn’t a means of just learning scriptures or passages from a sacred text like the Bible. It is a more complex process and can be considered multidisciplinary – it can include art‚ literature‚ linguistics‚ history‚ philosophy‚ psychology‚ sociology and much more. Religion can’t be studied without knowing what we are trying to study‚ and while some would argue it just
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What makes ppl virtuous...... Virtue is defined as "the quality of moral excellence‚ righteousness‚ and responsibility" (Pg.73) While studying what makes a virtuous person their character rather than actions are studied. Honesty‚ courage‚ moderation‚ compassion‚ wisdom and loyalty are a few examples of the characteristics of a virtuous person. (pg.82) Virtue is the moderate option. For example a person can be greedy or a person can give everything they have away‚ but the person
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role as second-class citizens. I was a time when black people‚ who were politely called Negroes in those days‚ were expected to sit at the back of the bus. They were not allowed to use “whites-only” drinking fountains‚ restaurants‚ or rest rooms in South. Worst of all‚ black people in America were not supposed to have any ambition. They had no choice but to work for little money the alternative was to starve. Most white people encouraged the system because they saved a lot of money
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poet who grew up in Hawaii‚ wrote‚ “Who Makes the Journey.” She has gotten several awards‚ such as the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and Song the Shelley Memorial Award‚ in her career. Cathy Song’s poems have been filled with imagery and tone that have left readers awestruck. “Who Makes the Journey” is about growing old and growing up too fast. In the poem‚ the reader is taken to through an elderly woman’s life through a third person’s perspective. In the first stanza of “Who Makes the Journey
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“Who Makes the Journey” by Cathy Song In most cases‚ it is the old woman who makes the journey; the old man having had the sense to stay put and die at home. You see her scurrying behind her newly arrived family. She comes from the Azores and she comes from the Orient. It makes no difference. You have seen her before: the short substantial legs buckle under the weight of the ghost child she carried centuries ago like a bundle of rags who now turns in front of your windshield‚ transformed in Western
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What Makes A Just Society? Throughout history‚ people have been trying to create an improved‚ fair‚ and equal system of justice‚ not only to better society in which one lives‚ but to also find a sense of meaning in what responsibilities people should hold within their civilizations in order to create this just way of living. As early as the Old Testament within the Bible‚ we see examples of how the Hebrews formed their own justice. This can be seen in the in text of the Ten Commandments
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