...The attitudes of Christianity and Islam differed towards merchants and trade from the religions’ origins until about 1500. Over the course of time, the Christianity view changed from a negative view to a positive view. The views of Islam changed inversely, where initially there was a positive view, but later changed to a negative view. Christianity changed through a religious aspect of trade whereas Islam changed due to social aspects. However, both religions changed their views of merchants through an economic standpoint. Religion affected trade and how people viewed the business. The Bible stated, “A rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.” According to the New Testament, merchants will never go to heaven and aren’t descent people. This shaped Christian peoples thoughts of the economy and trade. On the other hand, the monk of Durham had a positive view of merchants. He says, “Godric was…open to give himself entirely to God’s service.” He is appreciative of merchants because he realizes that the money merchants make can be given to the poor and therefore used to help Christians with their task of sustaining people and helping the less fortunate. Muslim people’s attitudes towards merchants started off positive in the 600’s, but as time progressed turned negative in the 17th century due to social aspects. Document 3 is from the Qur’an in about 620-650 CE. The tone is very persuasive and it mentions how trade is the answer to problems with people. If someone is...
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...Research Paper Your name: Chris Woolford Your Capella email address: cwoolford@capellauniversity.edu The course number: BUS3004 Instructor name: Richard Sands Date submitted: 07/15/2012 Title of your paper: How information technology changed investing Introduction Let’s discuss Information technology and how it has changed the way we invest in today’s society. The New Era of technology shapes everything that we do within the financial world. Modern technology has changed the way investing has been done in previous years by providing the market easier access, which appears to be faster and inexpensive. With that being said it has allowed money managers to have access to unlimited information at their fingertips. Information technology also has its down falls when it comes down to investing due to security issues. In today’s society you have people who have the knowledge to gain access to your investments and pilferage from your investments. There are many different ways how someone can gain access to your investments and how to prevent it from happening to you. How information technology changed investing Information technology has been the biggest breakthrough in investments it has opened a whole new world for investors. This world has opened up the stock exchange to become open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week and 365 day a year and investors can have access to it at any place in the world via computer or smart phone Apps. As you are reading this, technology...
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...Hospice and Attitudes toward Death Unitie Mance Soc 304: Social Gerontology Kristin Bachman February 27, 2012 A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. Stewart Alsop Death, dying and bereavement finds a way of impacting everyday living. Images of real or fictional death are often while watching television or movies. Death can impact people on a personal and a cultural level. This essay will entail how cultural attitudes toward dying, death, and bereavement have changed. While examining hospice, the care obtained, and its role in this shift. Cultural attitudes toward dying, death, and bereavement have changed. There are enormous variations across societies and over time in attitudes toward death. Some societies engage in death avoidance while others celebrate the communion between the living and the dead. In the United States there has been an immense change in the process of dying from past centuries to the present. “This change is partly due to a shift in the average age of death and the association of dying with old age” (Aubrey, 2007). It is also caused by a change in the causes of death. At one time most people died from critical illnesses that struck quickly. Now people are more likely to die from a chronic illness that leads to a slow death. The setting for death has also changed. Most deaths in the past occurred in the home. Now death typically takes place in a medical setting...
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...ECONOMICS: CHANGES OVER THE CENTURIES LANDON COPE HISTORY 202 NOVEMBER 5, 2009 INTRODUCTION This report attempts to uncover the changing attitudes towards economics in the world over the course of several centuries. Several articles will be examined in an attempt to trade how basic attitudes, approaches, beliefs, ideas, and values concerning economics have changed over time. The articles being examined are (1) The Wealth of Nation by Adam Smith, (2) The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and (3) Japan’s Gross National Cool by Douglass McGray. The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776 and will represent the earliest of the works being examined here. Smith explains economic principles such as self-interest, supply and demand, and free marketplace. From this work we see the unraveling of capitalism and the paradigm of free trade. This work set the premise for many works to follow, including The Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto is an influential political manuscript that outlines the problems with capitalism and the struggles between classes. Communism is trumpeted here, as well as conditions necessary for a transition to communism. This work was written in 1848 and represents a stark contrast to The Wealth of Nations in principle and in theory. Much has resulted from this manuscript and its ideas as can still be seen in the world today. Lastly, Japan’s Gross National Cool represents modern economic thought. Written in 2002, its...
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...Message Becky Waldron PSY322 January 15, 2013 Vincent Bonina Marketing Research and Promotional Message Although still widely overlooked, women make up the majority of consumer purchases not only in the United States but worldwide. Studies show that women make 80% of the purchases in the United States, which amounts to $7 trillion dollars a year. When the marketing plan is focused at women, research needs to be current and ongoing, through surveys, and market statistics. When expanding the marketing message to include women or focus on women, focus on the following questions: what are women’s needs, perceptions and attitudes? How may these be used to create a marketing message? The traditional role of a woman in business and the household has changed dramatically over the past forty years. Therefore, so have needs, perceptions and attitudes of today women. The women of today are liberated worldwide more than ever before. Women around the world now have more life options, control of their lives more and this trend is expected to grow exponentially. More women are entering the workplace, resulting in women delaying marriage. These women have decided to continue their education and boosting their careers by making it the focus. Today’s workplace women are also putting of having children until they are in their thirties and forty’s, if they chose to have children at all. Generation Y has a renewed outlook on motherhood. Women have a tendency to be more emotional...
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...Most countries in the world have very different love and marriage laws. These laws are often adjusted over time to match change in social values. Transformative trend of the past one hundred years has led to large changes in attitudes to love and marriage between contemporary society and earlier times. Marriage can be defined as a vow between two people to remain together as a couple. It has a civil form and a religious form. There is a great diversity of types of love and marriage, and social attitudes to some of them have changed greatly. In particular, attitudes towards cohabitation, gay and lesbian marriage and sole parenting were more accepted in the world. A cohabitation relationship can be defined as living together of two people as partners but without a marriage certificate. Gay and lesbian refers to marriage between people of the same gender. Sole parenting concerns a parent who is raising their children without a spouse. One area of serious alteration is in attitudes towards cohabitation which has become more acceptable. In the past, cohabitation was considered to be shameful. However, today there are many people who live together as a couple without marriage. This is more popular in modern life than ever before. In Viet Nam for example, cohabitation is a new phenomenon in society over the last few years and has become a widely spreading trend. Viet Nam society used to base on Confucian values. Most children in the family were expected to live formally. Losing...
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... (2 Marks) How would you describe the physical characteristics of this character? The character is a young, tall, slim, attractive and cheerful lady. Intellectual / Mental / Personality...
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...for a couple years till I finally draw the line and said, “No more of this miserable life.” As time goes on, I have been living in a more stable and happy life compared to the married life I have before. How and why did I do it? Basically, I did it by re-socializing to adapt and cope to the married life I have now. What do I mean by re-socializing? It means that I must learn from my past experiences and make a dramatic change in the area concerning my behaviors, attitudes, expectations, and values to improve my new life. Before I get into my behavior change, I want to give a brief discussion on the topic why people get divorced. There are many reasons why people get divorced, but I will list a few of the important ones. First reason has to do with the break-down in communication and disclosure. This occurs with when both party starts to limit the communication between them. When one stopped talking to the other, it showed a lost of interest to be with the other one. If this goes on, both parties will eventually have negative thoughts such as, he or she is cheating, he or she don’t love me no more, or he or she is up to something no good. These kinds of negative thoughts aren’t good in a marriage life. Another reason has to do with the physical appearance and attraction towards each other. Couples get together because they feel physically attracted to each other. As time passes, it's more likely that taking good care of your body, like you did when you were single...
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...one can take a mental and emotional toll on an individual. Their minds begin to wander, thinking about how and why this happened, trying to answer the questions that cannot be answered. Imagination takes over and a sea of powerful thoughts and attitudes take over. This happens to Orleanna Price, from Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible. Upon the death of her youngest daughter Ruth May, her mind evokes complicated and mixed feelings over time. These attitudes of confusion, guilt, and the need to move on are portrayed by the use of imagery in her mind. The initial shock of Ruth May’s death comes with a dose of confusion. After spending several years in the Congo at this point, and with that, living under the reign...
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...Gender has had a large effect on consumption of products and services in the Irish society. Gender roles have changed over time in the Irish society; women have gone from the traditional roles of housewives to having professional occupations. Changing gender roles in the Irish society has lead to many difficulties for marketers. To be male or female can be defined biologically, but masculinity and femininity are socially constructed. The image of masculinity and femininity differ due to cultural aspects and change over time. Early advertising and brand building were aimed at women in the Irish society as the consumer was seen as a female role. Products and services of less significance such as domestic brands were aimed at women. Adverts for domestic brands often represented women to be naive and foolish. The washing detergent adverts for Ajax Laundry Detergent in the 1960’s portrays the foolish housewife. “The housewife was a uniformed and classless persona precisely because marketers could for the first time unite women from different backgrounds under the same banner” (Giles, 2004) Due to marketers the perceived image of a woman’s role was a housewife. This image of a woman who cooks, cleans and takes care of the children was a learned image in the Irish society. From a young age we were exposed to housewife role through children’s programs, television soap operas films and television adverts. This image of the traditional housewife was broke in the late 1980’s and early...
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...advanced through the years of development to the media outlet it is today, films have shaped culture and attitudes through stories and other content. As more movies are produced, views and values of society continue to alter based on the images portrayed. These changes in society occur because moviegoers absorb the styles and attitudes of idolized characters from films. For example, in the late 1960s, several movies were released depicting rebellion and violence. Movies such as “The Wild Bunch” and “Bonnie and Clyde” let to more liberal attitudes toward social order as well as an acceptance of violence and sex on-screen (Lule, 2012). More films were produced to specifically shape the viewpoints of the audience once filmmakers took notice. The movie “Super-Size Me” is one example of a movie produced specifically to alter perceptions of society. Television provided a source of at home visual entertainment beginning in the 1950s. Initially, television was a family oriented activity with programming such as “Leave it to Beaver” featuring white families living in suburban communities with a focus on issues of family life but not on issues of society. These types of shows depicted the ideals of the time. As society events began to create stress in everyday lives during the 1960s, shows like “Bewitched” provided a world of fantasy and escape, but still avoided discussing the issues of the time. Between the 70s and today, shows began appearing discussing social issues such as single parent...
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...ATTUTUDE Attitudes are generally positive or negative views of a person, place, thing, or event— this is often referred to as the attitude object. People can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object, meaning that they simultaneously possess both positive and negative attitudes toward the item in question. First person who came to my mind with a really positive attitude is my cousin Navin Yadav. He has aura around him that makes one feel happy and energetic, so I decided to interview him. Questions I asked him are:- ME:- What is the worst thing that ever happened to you when you were in junior high or high school in these areas: work, relationships, family, school, sports, or other extracurricular activities? How did you feel about it and how did you deal with it? Navin: - I have problem in remembering thing, my memory betrays me most of the time. This problem mad me bad in studies and more over I was really good at sports, especially cricket. I used to score badly but never felt bad because all I loved was cricket. As I reached class 10th I got selected to play for a stadium team of Gurgaon, but my parents didn’t allowed me to join them and asked me to study hard as it was a board class. I felt heartbroken that day and just wanted to do nothing. As the year passed I scored well in studies but was never happy about it. Then in 11th standard they made me go for biology but I was a maths guy. I started to live saddened and just allowed to my life to pass...
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...HAS THE PERCEPTION OF GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE CHANGED DUE TO HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Has The Perception of Government Assistance Changed Due To High Unemployment Rate? R. Khalil Muhammad Sociology Class July 19, 2011 A little over 20 years ago the general perception of recipients of government assistance, particularly welfare, was negative, racially bias, and based on distorted facts. Researcher Martin Gilen used evidence from public opinion polls, analysis of public policy and welfare reform, and media reports to conclude in his book “Why Americans Hate Welfare” that much of the negatives feelings about welfare were related to “the perception of welfare as a program for African Americans and the misrepresentation in the media of most welfare recipients as black and the undeserving poor.” But today, 1 in 6 Americans receive some kind of government assistance[1], dispelling the false notion that African Americans are the primary recipients of government assistance. The report indicated that government anti-poverty programs have grown to meet the needs of recession victims. More than 4.4 million people are on welfare in America, which represents an 18% percent increase during the recession. More than 40 million people in America receive food stamps, an increase of nearly 50% percent during the economic downturn and ten million Americans receive unemployment benefits. The evidence suggests that this information...
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...A New Work Ethic Describe how typical the attitudes that Sheehy reports appear to be in work environments you have experienced. I worked as a merchandise manager at Bloomingdales where the average age of the sales associates where 18 to 25 years old. At that time many of the employees regarded the work as something to do until they found real jobs, or until they graduated from college. For many of the It failed to meet the economic and professional standards a college graduates envisioned their college education would, or should afford them. Consistent with Sheehy’s observations, task like sweeping, vacuuming or wiping down glass table were more popular than waiting on customers and restocking shelves with merchandise and all tasks took longer to complete than expected. These associates were smart and looked for any opportunity to get over on the system and do the least amount of work even while getting commission on every sale that was made. These employees were also smart and studied the handbook in and out. They knew attendance policies and exactly how many times they could arrive late to work before they where written up. The associates also played games with the organization to see how many loop holes they could take advantage of. When some of the college students needed time off to study, they would call out and return before needing a doctor’s note. Some of the students would even go to the doctor and make false claims of being sick in order to have their...
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...characteristics of religion that share with each other, how a specific religion is responding to challenges in the modern world and what have changed about the roles of women over time. As times change, so do people’s views and attitudes about religion. What are common characteristics the assigned religion shares with the others? There are numerous common characteristics religion share with other religions. All religions pretty much exist on the belief of its followers, religious prophecies, ceremonies, texts and writings. Most religions believe in spirits, gods or even one God, a higher power in which created everything that exists. Other characteristics which religions share, they all have a requirement of certain rituals and traditions for individuals and certain faith communities. Religions also help humans cope and deal with the cycle of life and death. All religions promote great moral codes and values for individuals and people of their faith. All religions have the promise of peace with in an individual regardless of how life can be. Most religions share the theme of helping people that are suffering from illness, being poor and less fortunate while always showing compassion. Almost every religion has a God that is the supreme judge for the way in which we as humans live their lives. In each religion, their God is also an overseer of the person’s life, finances and family of which ever faith a person believes in. How is this religion responding to challenges in the...
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