...was 62,788,000. An increase of 18,016,000 over the past 50 years. Population Growth: Population increase 40.24% over past 50 years. Urban vs Rural: Urban Population: in (1960) population was 28,853,870 in urban areas. In (2010) population was 50,488,930. An increase of 21,635,060 people. Urban Pop. Growth: 74.99%. In 1960 61.90% people in France living in urban areas. In 2010 were 77.80%. An increase of 16.90%. Rural Population: In 1960 were 17,759,820 living in rural areas. In 2010 were 14,406,870; a decrease of 3,352,950. Rural Growth: Decreased by 18.88% over 50 years. In 1960, 38.10% of the population was living in rural areas. In 2010, 22.20% were living in rural areas. A decrease of 15.9% over the past 50 years. Ireland: population in 1960 was 2,828,600 people. In 2010 was 4,475,000; an increase of 1,647,000 people. Ireland Growth: Over last 50 years Ireland grew 58.23%. Urban vs Rural: Urban population: in 1960 1,295,499 people in urban areas. In 2010 were 2,769,626 living in urban areas; an increase of 1,474,127 people. Urban Growth: That’s 133.79% growth in the last 50 years. In 1960, 45.80% of the total population lived in urban areas. In 2010, 61.90% of the people were living in rural areas; an increase of 16.10%. Rural Population: in 1960 1,533,101 people living in rural areas. In 2010 1,704,730 living in rural areas; an increase if 171,629. Rural Growth: Only an increase of 11.20% over the past 50 years. In 1960, 54.20% of the total population lived...
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...LIVING IN THE MOMENT By: Jason Mraz If this life is one act Why do we lay all these traps We put them right in our path When we just wanna be free I will not waste my days Making up all kinds of ways To worry 'bout all the things That will not happen to me So I just let go Of what I know I don't know And I know I only do this by Living in the moment Living my life Easy and breezy With peace in my mind With peace in my heart With peace in my soul Wherever I'm going, I'm already home Living in the moment I'm letting myself off the hook For things I've done I let my past go past And now I'm having more fun I'm letting go of the thoughts That do not make me strong And I believe this way Can feel the same for everyone And if I fall asleep I know you'll be the one Who'll always remind me To live in the moment Living my life Easy and breezy With peace in my mind With peace in my heart With peace in my soul Wherever I'm going, I'm already home I can't walk through life facing backwards I have tried, Tried more than once to just make sure And I was denied The future I'd been searching for I spun around and hurt no more By living in the moment Living my life Easy and breezy With peace in my mind With peace in my heart With peace in my soul Wherever I'm going, I'm already home I'm living in the moment (I'm letting myself off) I'm living my life (The hook for things I've done) Just takin' it easy (I let my past go past) With peace...
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...American Modernization Modernization. This has been a feared word in the past and even today. For example, in the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is trapped living in the past and is disillusioned by modernization. Additionally, in the story A Rose for Emily, Emily is also afraid of modernization because she is trying to escape death by holding onto her father’s dead body. She is afraid to move on in her life and decides to hide in her past. Lastly, in one of Langston Hughes poems called Mother to Son, he writes about how in the early 20th century African Americans were not equal to white people and then society began to modernize blacks to become equal. This led to segregation because the white people wanted to isolate themselves from African Americans. Because their dream of what society should be was disillusioned, just like in all three of these literatures. Therefore the results of modernization, isolation and disillusionment was that many people didn’t except a change their life. Gatsby wanted to feel like he was living in the past with Daisy but he was isolated and disillusioned because he was living in a modern society. Additionally, he was isolated because he could not have a social status or Daisy. In the book, Gatsby was a fantastic character because he wanted to hide in the past with Daisy when everything was perfect. While the other characters in this book went with the change of society. Also in the book, Gatsby’s yellow car symbolizes the modernization...
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...Family is often defined as a basic social unit, in which a group of people is living together and is related to each other by the ties of marriage and the bonds of blood. Family is also defined as a place where we, as human beings, seek shelter and comfort. In the photographs taken by John Clang, which was displayed in the National Museum of Singapore’s Being Together exhibition, portray what it means to be a family both in the past as well as in the present. One of the similarities between the photographs of the past and of the present is they both reflects the idea of being one unit and the idea of togetherness. In the past, ranging from the 1870s to the 1970s, photographic portraits consisted mainly of images of royalties, of affluent local families and that of European traders and their families. Often times, these photographic portraits (see Exhibit 1) are commissioned to reflect the wealth, lineage, and the status of privileged class and to document the colonial conquest. However, in the late 1970s, casual snapshots became increasingly popular with the ubiquity of handheld cameras. In addition to that, families in photographs (see Exhibit 2) of the past often portray a big family. This perhaps is due to the style of living in the past. In times of ancient past, families often stayed in small villages. Nuclear and extended families often times lived in the same house (long houses they are called, according to my grandmother). This is, in part, reflected in the village...
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...The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living “The unexamined life is not worth living,” is a familiar saying that Socrates said at his trial for heresy, that is, encouraging his students to challenge the accepted beliefs and think of themselves instead and this led to his death sentence. Socrates could have avoided death by choosing life in prison or exile but he refused claiming that, these alternatives will prevent him from examining the world around him and see how to make the world a better place. He argued that with the absence of his examined life will, there was no value of living. Therefore, Socrates claimed that for a human being to live a worthy life, everyone should question, examine and re-examine the values of their lives daily (Kamtekar, 154). This paper explores the meaning and the significance of the Socrates claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living” focusing on the Apology and Euthyphro. The words, ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’ by Socrates comes from Plato’s Apology when Socrates is sentenced to death after being accused of corrupting the youth and impiety (Ahbel-Rappe & Rachana, 229). Patterson posits that apology is one historical account of Socrates’ defense during his trial (Patterson, 16), and these words appear at the end of the Apology when Socrates is going through possible punishments for charges against him. Socrates utters these words when the jury has already found him guilty and has to decide on what kind of punishment to impose...
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... Curiosity Killed the Cat As one analyzes the “Apology” by Plato, one is able to analyze and contrast and most of us would agree with Socrates when he makes the claim that “…the unexamined life is not worth living…” From a more personal standpoint I would completely agree with Socrates point of view, due to the fact most of us in society have chosen to live an “unexamined life” for centuries and as a result we live in a society where one is segregated from our freewill as human beings as well as a society that that is restrained by rules and other types of social “walls”. Today there appears to be an ever increasing fascination with the bold statement that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” The man simply and directly states that lives that are not examined are not worth living. One might ask why Socrates would make such a strong and irrevocable statement. Well, Socrates believed the purpose of life was spiritual and through the spirit and soul one could achieve personal growth and development. Man is unable to grow towards a greater and true understanding of his nature unless we are willing to examine and reflect upon our lives. Santayana, another philosopher, stated “He who does not remember the past is condemned to repeat it.” I think as humans it is in our nature to examine and question, to hope and aspire. Think about it, without aspirations how can we attain excellence? Without asking yourself and planning where you want to...
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...In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams suggests in many ways that Blanche Dubois represent the faded grandeur of the American Past. Blanche acts as if she is still living in the old South where everything seems prim and proper, but she has yet to realize that things have changed. She is used to her old life in Belle Reve, which in French means “beautiful dream”, but has difficulty fitting in her new life in New Orleans. Blanche's life in Laurel Represents the past and moving to live in New Orleans shows the New South. Blanche is deeply attached to Laurel and Belle Reve and has lived there her whole life, she lived a much wealthier life there and hates to see how her sister Stella is living in New Orleans. Blanche is stuck in the past...
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...Taylor Sadlowski Professor Swinney WR 240 24 January 2012 Word Count: 604 Reflection: Looking Into the Past Through Present Eyes The past is not something that can easily be erased from the memory or relived to satisfy an ulterior outcome. Instead it is revisited by those who choose to reminisce in a precedent experience from which they feel brings a sense of happiness, sadness, or other feeling. In E.B White’s memoir, “Once More to the Lake” he captures the essence of looking back at the past after a visit with his son to a lake that he went to as a young boy. As he tells his story, the words create a vivid picture through his adult perspective and the perspective of his little boy. He recalls the pristine color of the lake, the smells that seemed to remain stagnant in the woods, and the way everything seemed to look the same. Throughout the memoir, White not only establishes himself as a father taking his boy on a vacation but also as a young boy reliving his childhood experience. It is through detailed explanations of the scenery, the reminiscence of once lived memories, and current conditions of the lake that make White seem like he is living in a dual existence. “I seemed to be living in a dual existence. I would be in the middle of some simple act, I would be picking up a bait box or laying down a table fork, or I would be saying something, and suddenly it would be not I but my father …” (White p. 4). White summarizes his memoir with this one sentence by...
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...characters Emily and Gil both travel back to a desired time, albeit one is on purpose and the other accidental, and learn the lesson of appreciating the life around them. Emily purposefully decides to travel to the past in her afterlife, to revisit her twelfth birthday. Since she is dead, she is able to view everything in a third person point-of-view. This helps her learns to appreciate the small details in life, the moments which living people usually oversee and regard to as boring or plain. She realizes how important life is, and to savor every moment when she says she misses, “food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths … and sleeping and waking up.” She misses these because when dead, these actions and chores do not exist anymore. Although she learns this lesson, she can not use it to change the way she is living her life because she is already dead. Wilder purposefully does this to, teach the readers how important living in the present is, and to regard life as something wonderful and satisfying. Midnight in Paris teaches the same lesson as Our Town through the character Gil, who travels back to...
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...Examining Evolution from Two Subfields in Anthropology ANTH 101 Professor Rosh March 25, 2012 Evolution overall is the change and adaptation of all living things on this planet. In the past this idea was thought to be absurd and still in today’s society some people still don’t believe in the theory of evolution. Thanks to a man named Charles Darwin who was brave and smart enough to publish scientific books on this subject some of our society now accepts the concept and studies it. To think that living species does not change and adapt over time is nonsense. With the study of evolution humankind can learn from its past and better prepare for the future by studying how humankind has developed over the past. Evolution is defined in biology as the idea that all species can change over time and have a common ancestry (Parker, 2008). A physical anthropologist could study primatology in order to study evolution for humankind. Primatology is the study in physical anthropology that began with morphological comparisons of primates to reconstruct the evolution of humans (Rodman, 1999). Studying primatology can help the study of evolution because it is a very good example of basic evolution and primates and human beings have a lot of similar traits and also the primate is the closest living example that is like a human genetically. This source was chosen because it helps break down the meaning and understanding of primatology and provides the basics and in depth terms to...
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...Governments will and has spent millions of dollars to clone extinct animal by trying to clone non-extinct animal. If they continue to fund this project, the governments will be totally unsatisfied with the result. the essay, “De-Extinction Is Immoral, and Bad Science All Around”, will prove to be the correct way to think about cloning extinct animals. There are many things wrong with cloning animals from the past. For example, the author of this essay claims that, "De-extinction is immoral, unethical, and dangerous.It should not be pursued" (Counterpoint para 8). I immoral, unethical, and dangerous are just ways to describe what could happen if scientists clone extinct animals. The animals could spread disease to living animals and could spread...
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...Each person defines happiness a little differently. Some may believe happiness is all about what you own in life. They think someone who has a Porsche is clearly happier than someone who only drives a piece of junk car, or the person with the mansion on the hill is much happier than the person living in the trailer park. Others might think happiness is something simpler, such as having a family to come home to or a job that pays the bills. No matter what a person’s personal definition of happiness, the most important thing about this is that they strive to reach it. Every day I am striving to reach what my idea of happiness is. I define happiness as being found by living in the present, achieved by living a virtuous life, and created through my own actions. Religions, philosophers, and psychologists all have...
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...rightful owners or brought to police stations where said items could be claimed. Only 6.6 bikes are stolen for every 100,000 people in Japan. In wake of the tsunami and past catastrophic events you see that the people of Japan were not looting. Instead they were helping each other out in finding their belongings instead of taking advantage of other individuals, unlike what we’ve seen here in the United States after Hurricane Katrina. 2. Indebtedness * Japanese parents give so much to their children when they raise them. For giving life to the child and nurturing them, the child is indebted to their parents, and does whatever it takes to please them. A lot of Americans take what their parents have done for them for granted. I know I don’t, but many do. I wish more of my peers fully appreciate the many sacrifices that were made to fulfill their wants and needs. My siblings and I have been a financial burden on my parents and I see their struggle to this day, but I have high hopes of making it up to them once I attain my degree and provide for them so that they can retire. 3. Group Orientation * Americans are not the greatest when it comes to group-oriented work. The Japanese focus on the good of the whole collectively where Americans have strong individual mentality. One thing I learned from a past management course is that decision making in groups is not an easy thing. At the same time however, it can be highly effective in reaching established goals as many...
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...they must learn how to change and adapt to their new surroundings. When we think about changes, we usually think about taking something negative and turning it into something positive. With every lesson learned there must be a price to pay in order for that improvement to happen. In the novel Life’s Golden Ticket by Brendon Burchard, the protagonist learns how to change his life, to put him on the right path. Dwelling on the past negative events of the past only made it hard to move on, but prevent him from moving on presently. This is an important lesson that the protagonist learns, but he also needs to learn about going forward with a positive attitude, and I will teach him this lesson through my attraction of the rollercoaster. When someone is being a negative person, they are opposed to changes. In the beginning of the novel, the protagonist starts out closed minded with a negative attitude. The protagonist already decided that the world is a dark and dangerous place, other people are unfair and hurtful, and you yourself are inadequate. He was living his life in a dark and as a puppet to society. He would come home from work in misery, sensor out his fiancé, and added a disclosure sign to his life. In chapter 10, the protagonist learns what caused the negativity in his life and is taught how to deal with it. He defeated his first opponent, but failed to defeat himself. “A mirror image of me stepped onto the deck. He wore the same clothes that I did. He stood the same way...
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...Throughout Song of Solomon, readers are treated to a vast array of experiences, which reflect Toni Morrison’s themes of bearing witness to the disturbed past of black people, exploring divisions within a family that has lived through that past, and chronicling personal quests to reconstruct splintered identity at the personal, family and community levels. To create the conscious experience that brings so much of Morrison’s work to life, she imbues Song of Solomon not only with vibrant, directly encountered realism, but also magical themes and experiences. Magical Realism—in essence—is a way of telling a story with two sides. One based on a so-called rational view of reality and the other on the acceptance of the supernatural as everyday reality. Song of Solomon features many instances of the image of flight as it plays a major role in the narrative. Flight signifies true life and the living of it, as well as a sense of freedom and release for the main characters in the book. Of all the characters in the novel, one seems the most affected and that persona is Milkman—someone whom embarks on a journey of self-discovery and discovers the true meaning of flight. Milkman experiences flight in many different ways—through song, imagery and literal experiences. The onus is on us, the reader, to distinguish what is “real” and what is pure mysticism. The first instance of Morrison's use of the image of flight is at the very beginning of the book. "At 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday the 18th...
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