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    often see beggars At the corners of streets or roads with shabby clothes sitting on the ground‚ stretching out their hands And there would also be a bowl or something concave with some coins in it . Some of them seem to be disabled‚ some of them carry their children and beg money for them‚ others sing sadly in front of you. we would feel sorrow while we see such people and cannot help having compassion for these beggars‚ so we give money to them. Nevertheless‚ It would be better not giving money or

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    Essay for Business Spotlight #5‚ September/October 2009‚ p. 22 - 23. Subjects of the article are the aspects of giving money to people living on the street. The author divides the article in two points of view and brings them together in the end. On on side‚ giving money to beggars is a good thing. It gives them what they need to provide themselves with food. It also means that you recognize that they have a problem‚ so it’s also a sense of dignity. The prior difficulty of helping these people

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    AFRICAN BEGGAR Sprawled in the dust outside the Syrian store‚ A target for small children‚ dogs‚ and flies‚ A heap of verminous rags and matted hair‚ He watched us with cunning‚ reptile eyes‚ His nose less‚ smallpoxed face creased in a sneer Sometimes he shows his yellow stumps of teeth And whines for alms‚ perceiving we bear The curse of pity; a grotesque mask of death‚ With hands like claws about his begging bowl But often he is lying all alone Within the shadow of a crumbling wall‚ Lost in

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    Giving vs. Recieving Children dismiss their sleep on the night of christmas eve waiting to rush down to the chimney in the morning. Smiles no grander after shredding through wrapping paper; while the parents hearts are warmed by this sight. Showing such kindness and generosity towards one another develops each of their bonds in a state of unity and pleasure. People teach their young that is it better to give rather than receive; to prevent them from developing a self centered ego (Myers). Empathy

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    Beggars are human being clothed in rags and could be seen anywhere begging. Beggars are a great problem in our society. They are blot on humanity. They even indulge in many criminal activities. The obvious reasons why there are beggars is illiteracy‚ poverty and unemployment. It is our moral duty to help to the weak‚ the hungry and the suffering people. But by giving out alms as charity‚ we do not help the beggars. As I have realized‚ there are many negative side effects when we are giving out

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    Beggars should be abolished: for it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them.’ Said Friedrich Nietzsche. In simple terms beggary is a state of extreme poverty but now a days it has become a profession for most of the people. Those 15 seconds‚ when you’re anxiously waiting for the red signal that is just about to turn green- a small child comes up to your car sticking his face in the window as hard as he can to make himself seen‚ or holding consumer goods‚ like tissue packets

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    Édouard Manet Beggar with Oysters (Philosopher) 1865/67 Upon entering the room‚ Manet’s Beggar with Oysters immediately caught my attention. The vagabond has the appearance of being captured in a moment of introspectiveness. In the painting‚ a bearded man‚ wearing a hat‚ covered with a blanket appears from an empty‚ dark background. An invisible light brightly illuminates his face. At his feet six oysters lay on a pile of hay. By setting him against a hollow‚ dark background‚ Manet seems to

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    relative risk context‚ with the liability-hedging portfolio replacing the risk-free asset. We also show that the introduction of maximum funding ratio targets would allow pension funds to decrease the cost of downside liability risk protection while giving up part of the upside potential beyond levels where marginal utility of wealth (relative to liabilities) is low or almost zero. This paper is a shortened version of a paper entitled “How Costly is Regulatory Short-Termism for Defined-Benefit Pension

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    Gift Giving in Japan

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    portion of the book‚ Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash‚ Connections. Cosmologies. After that she had her graduated training in the University of Chicago funded by the National Science Foundation and the University itself‚ including one year of support from the Committee on Japanese Studies. Before the writing of this book‚ Katherine Rupp took twenty months of field work In Japan which is funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education. She finally completed the manuscript of Gift-Giving in Japan as a postdoctoral

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    Have you ever read a book that you remember from your childhood‚ and discovered hidden meanings or symbolism‚ when you thought the meaning was exactly stated? In the book The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein‚ a favorite book of quite a few children‚ Silverstein tells a story of a “tree” giving everything she can to a young boy throughout his life. He comes back when he has taken from her not physically‚ but mentally and emotionally‚ and asks for bigger favors as he gets older. He starts to take greater

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