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    Life is a series of paradoxes. Society uses opposites that help us define the meaning of values and attributes that are acceptable. Could we know what is desired without knowing what is unwanted‚ recognize hatred without love or good without evil? In the novel A Clockwork Orange‚ our humble narrator Alex‚ is a teenager in a futuristic city where citizens are controlled by a corrupt‚ authoritarian government. Adult society seems to have been brainwashed into a trance as their free will is stifled

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    increase in infrastructural nd human power for a new state.....also small state doesn’t guarantee good governance....e.g. Gujarat despite being big state is better governed than Goa.So political will‚ quality of bureaucracy nd level of education in society also plays an imp factor. Economically: yes it ll lead to bettr utilisation of available resources ie. Maximising the advantages for the better of states e.g. Green Revolution has turned small states lyk Punjab nd Haryana into most prosperous states

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    Concept of Civilization What is civilization? Civilization is a term we have frequently used as a milestone for our existence on earth. However‚ all of us have our own views and definitions on the term “civilization”. In most modern researches of civilization‚ it is common for the researchers to gravitate to tangible and measurable data such as technological advances‚ economic status‚ as well as quality of life in order to determine the “progress” of a civilization. Yet‚ a famed Egyptologist

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    A Definition Of Civilization by Philip Atkinson All Human inventions are first thoughts before they become things. So the creations of communities such as cities‚ governments‚ armies‚ as well as communal achievements such as conquests and discoveries— everything that goes to make a civilization — must spring from a community ’s thoughts. Hence: Civilization: is the tangible expression of a communal understanding. Communal Understanding: is that single understanding allowed by the set of values

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    During my study in the World Civilizations class‚ it occurred to me that although many ancient civilizations established far apart and independent from each other‚ yet somehow we can trace tremendous evidences showing us that their cultures‚ beliefs‚ world views‚ traditions are somewhat similar to one another. I am very interested in discover more details about when those ancient civilizations was formed‚ the people at that time did not have effective transportations or contact methods like us today

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    For hundreds of years music has played a role in society to either entertain‚ inspire and even for relaxation purposes‚ but in today’s time music is completely different we live in an era that for entertainment we can hop on our phones and watch a live television broadcast‚ to relax we can drive any where we want and have the pleasure to watch a beautiful sunset or watch the stars in the sky. Music plays a huge role in society today and I believe rap music plays a huge roll in today’s youth by inspiring

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    Civilization

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    mentioned illnesses. In the earlier years the people of Greece and Rome were just scratching the surface of what we know as love. From cave drawings to carved busts of fertility deities we see that earlier man thought of love with a spiritual depth that has been diluted today. In earlier times love was portrayed as a minor aspect of ones life. We find in literature and depicted on murals‚ stories of what may be epic love affairs. These take a back seat to the might of man. It seems that love was a feminine

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    Perceptions of Culture and Civilization The words ’culture ’ and ’civilization ’ have been often used synonymously‚ though they have different meanings. By definition‚ culture is the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group. On the other hand‚ ’Civilization ’ means the betterment of ways of living‚ making nature bend to fulfill the needs of humankind. It includes also organizing societies into politically well-defined groups working collectively for improved conditions of

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    000 and 10‚000 years ago‚ when it was succeeded by the Mesolithic Period. NOBOPOLIO AGE: The Neolithic Age or New Stone Age was a period in the development of human technology‚ beginning about 9500 BC in the Middle East that is traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age. The Neolithic followed the terminal Holocene Epipalaeolithic periods‚ beginning with the rise of farming‚ which produced the "Neolithic Revolution" and ending when metal tools became widespread in the Copper Age or Bronze Age

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    theme of civilization. Some boys are left on an island to fend for themselves. The idea of the book is that every human is born a savage‚ that it is our instincts. The book puts our characters alone without any guardian or government. Society can mask our natural ways‚ but it cannot completely change us. They decide to make their own civilization‚ in which Ralph is a figure of democracy‚ while Jack is a figure of Dictatorship. Piggy is the rational and intellectual one. The book explains what would

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