...Sub Culture in College Sociology 120 University of Phoenix Axia College Sub culture is a word that is very much in controversy. Some people may think that the word is another word to describe a group of people, but I believe it’s much more than that. Sub culture is when a group in society does things or has distinguished attributes that are different from those around them. People in college for instance have many different sub cultures all around them. In the article “Gender Differences in Distress: The Mediating Influence of Life Stressors and Psychological Resources.” ( Nurullah, A.,2010)It teaches you all about the possible distress of the sub culture of college life. It goes on to show that women can have more distress in an overall basis than women do. It states that 30% of the time women suffer more distress than a man. Another article that coincides with the idea of sub-cultures in college was “DIVERSITY IN COLLEGE STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS.”(Heist, P., 1960). Within this article I came across useful information that helped depict some of the subcultures that are in some colleges. As I was reading the article gave some insight as to some of the college’s selections on their students. I think sub culture has a lot of effects on the way people look at society. In high school I think is where the sub culture begins and it integrates into college. References Heist, P. (1960). DIVERSITY IN COLLEGE STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS. Journal of Educational...
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......................................................................................9 Poetry and Music................................................................................9 Specialities of Sindhi Cities....................................................................10 Conclusions and Recommendations......................................................11 References..............................................................................................12 Executive Summary This term paper mainly consists of the sub-culture of Sindh. The sub-culture of Sindh is full of colors and life. From its origin to language, food to clothing, buildings to architecture , handicrafts to arts and crafts, everything is simply amazing. Each city of Sindh is popular due to some reason and each city has beautiful customs and traditions which depicts the sub-culture of Pakistan. Introduction: Description: The word “sub-culture” means a group having social, economic, ethnic, or other traits...
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...TERM PAPER SUB CULTURE OF THE PUNJAB NAME: UMAIR CHEEMA COURSE: SS0127 - Sociology SUBMITTED TO: ASIF H. QURESHI DATE: 4/18/15 SERIAL NO: 17 ROLL NO: L13-4154 NARROWED TOPIC: “Festivals, tombs ceremonies, local customs” TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Executive Summary II. Introduction III. Objectives IV. Scientific Investigation I. Literature Review II. Hypothesis III. Methodology IV. Collecting the Data V. Analyzing Data: VI. Conclusion: VII. Recommendations V. REFERENCES Executive summary: The society of Pakistan has many different cultures. The east of country is mainly Punjabi, the south is mainly Sindhi in the east are the tribal cultures. In many areas the tribes and cultures are mixed, most Pakistanis are Punjabi and most of the nation are Sunni Muslim. Culture comprises of the virtues and codes that retain in any particular nation, which becomes the traditional value of that nation. May be it is a food or a dress code, Pakistani culture is of its supreme quality. Punjab is the heart of cultural values. Many traditions are the part of Pakistani culture, for instance, the annual ceremonies on the tombs, the spring festival which is celebrated on a wide scale when all the cities are decorated with flowers, kite flying is another charm of these spring festivals, Wagah border ceremony that happens at the International border gate before 5PM each day, the Festival of Lamps, Mela Chiraghan, is also give...
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...Insignificant Gestures By Jo Cannon “Insignificant gestures” is a short story written by Jo Cannon in 2007. In this short story the main character, who is also the narrator, is looking back at his hard and violent time as a health officer in Africa. We read about how his daily clinical work, were not like the ones in the western world. He had to work under depressed circumstances, sometimes even in the middle of the night, and had no joy in his position at the local town hospital. The only consolation in his otherwise depressing everyday life was Celia Dimba, his native housekeeper. She did small things in the day, that cheered up his life, and also when she sat next to him every evening and draw with him. One night at the hospital, she suddenly became his patient. According to a village woman, she had been beaten up by her boyfriend. Celia was severely injured and almost unrecognizable to him, but in spite of his medical qualifications, there was nothing he could do at the local hospital to help her. After transferring Celia to a bigger hospital an hour and a half away, he was called to the police station to give a medical statement. It ended up putting the boyfriend behind bars, because of the narrator’s first hunger for revenge and anger, for Celia’s boyfriend. Six weeks later he found out that Celia actually died from meningitis and not a beating from her boyfriend. When he realized that he could have saved her with a single shot of penicillin, he tried unsuccessfully to...
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...Broadly Mumbai police is divided in to five regions namely Central, North, South, East and West. Each Region having 3 to 4 Zones. The in charge of each zone is a DCP. And In charge of Police station is Police Inspector commonly known as Sr. Police Inspector which is an honorary designation. Ranks of Mumbai Police Rank | Abbreviation | Strength | Commissioner of Police | C.P | 1 | Joint Commissioner of Police | Jt.CP | 5 | Additional Commissioner of Police | Addl. CP | 12 | Deputy Commissioner of Police | DCP | 38 | Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police | Addl. DCP | | Assistant Commissioner of Police | ACP | 124 | Police Inspector | PI | 977 | Assistant Police Inspector | API | 756 | Police Sub Inspector | PSI | 2850 | Assistant Sub Inspector | ASI | 3329 | Head Constable | HC | 8146 | Police Naik | PN | 6010 | Police Constable | PC | 18666 | Subunits of the Mumbai police force Mumbai Police is...
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...than 10 million packages to millions of destinations in 200 countries. The company has been around exactly a decade in 2007. It was established in Seattle in 1907 by the 19 year old Jim Casey. It was not until 1919 that Jim Casey and his partners Evert McCabe and Charles W. Soderstorm decided to establish the name United States Postal Services because the business has been expanding outside its home city (Friedman, 2006). The company is created with the basic perspective that the best services combined with lowest rates will win the market’s attention. Since the beginning, leaders of the company managed its staff by stressing the value and importance of reliability, low rates, customer courtesy and round the clock services. The business culture remains at the core of UPS activities until today. Today, the company is the one of the most recognized symbols American capitalism with $42.6 billion worth of assets and more than 400,000 employees (Friedman, 2006). I chose to use the United States Postal Service, because I was employed with them for five years. I made a change by leaving the company, but I often regret my decision. The Postal Service was a really good company to work for and diversity was a huge conception, in the area I worked and lived. In reviewing diversity management of a company, it is important to have both a quantitative and qualitative sets of criteria. For example, a measurable set of criteria will include: 1) Demographic 2) Career development management...
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...Witness of a Road Accident In a city like Bombay, which has more than four hundred thousand vehicles and a few million pedestrians on the roads, many accidents take place every day. But tragic as and accident is, involving loss of life. Things are made worse by the fact that every accident is followed by time-consuming and expensive lawsuits. The polish are handicapped in this matter by the fact that very few people come forward as witnesses. They are either afraid of getting involved or simply indifferent. Let me tell you about the time my friend Nick and I witnessed a road accident and got involved. We were on our way one evening to the beach and for this purpose we had to walk down through crowded market. It was winter and foggy weather. Suddenly we heard the squeal of brakes and saw a car, clearly out of control, skidding on the road. The young man who was driving the vehicle was struggling with the steering wheel but the car was moving sideways towards market. We saw the car smash straight into a cyclist who was coming from the market and flung against a lamppost. He fell unconscious on the pavement and was bleeding profusely from a gash above the forehead. Nick ran in search of a policeman and to phone for an ambulance while I tried to render some first-aid to the bleeding man. Meanwhile a large crowd had collected round the victim of the accident and the car. The driver was pulled out and the public began to beat him up. Fortunately for him...
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...Global pandemics have helped shape history and the modern world. Without the diseases that cause pandemics nations and empires would not have been able to expand as far and wide as they did and they would not have grown in complexity and culture. The bubonic plague took the world to the Dark Ages, but also resulted in one of the greatest ages of enlightenment, the Renaissance. Beautiful works of art, literature, and philosophy were born from this. Somewhat sadly not all pandemics have resulted in ages of enlightenment. Often they come fast, kill even faster, and then are gone. One pandemic that still plagues the world today, with no end in sight, is AIDS. An incurable virus that became the center of attention in the 1980's. Bubonic plague and AIDS are very different in nature, but have resulted in many similar political, economic, and cultural impacts within human societies. The differences and similarities of these pandemics can help us understand pandemics better and also can help us to prepare for future pandemics. First we must look at the bubonic plague, how it spread and how it impacted the world socially, economically, and culturally. It was first recorded in Europe by a Sicilian chronicler by the name of Michele da Piazza in October of 1347, who recorded the port of Messina having twelve galleys full of sailors carrying the disease down to the marrow of their bones.1 Black Death began to really take its toll in 1348, spreading through Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland...
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...The idea that Africans have contributed little to world civilization is one which many in the West have for a long time assumed and taken for granted. Thanks in part to depictions of Africa which rarely extend past civil wars, famine and the primitive; information about Africa’s past advances and accomplishments have continued to remain obscure and little known. Since first contact between Europe and Africa the history of Africa has been fundamentally dominated by the way Europeans have portrayed themselves in relationship to that continent. So that most of what we read and see about Africa tends to say -- either directly or indirectly -- more about the history of European colonialism and its biases toward Africa than it does about the real Africa and its people (see Ahmad, 1987). The majority of people today of all backgrounds, including those of African ancestry, tend to know little about Africa and its history outside of the transatlantic slave trade and perhaps colonialism. While even in these instances knowledge about these events can be at times, limited. The African continent is too often conceived of as one with no legitimate history before contact with Europeans. Formal anthropological research is now showing that this notion could not be further from the truth. In the bible Ham's sons are believed to have fathered the peoples of Africa. Of Ham's four sons, Canaan, fathered the Canaanites, while Mizraim fathered the Egyptians, Cush the Cushites and Phut the "Libyans"...
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...minerals and soils. So while there are descent roads and railroads leading from the port cities into the interior of the coastal states, there are no roads that lead from port city to port city because many of these cities were colonialized by different countries. This has lead to Africa having the lowest percentage of intra-realm trade in the world, only 13%, according to Regions . Infrastructure is in need of major renovations to improve the economic stability of Africa. Since the decolonization of Africa in 1994 corruption has run rampant. Before colonization corruption was unheard of. According to Dr. Jean-Marie Hyacinthe Quenum, S.J., “the institutionalization of corruption in sub-Saharan Africa has invalidated the history and institutions of African traditional societies based on the cultures of solidarity with a strong sense of community and the virtue of hard work for the benefit of families, clans and tribes.” In post-colonialism Africa the “consumerist mentality” has lead to widespread corruption including election rigging, bribes, and looting of public funds to name a few. Change will be difficult because high poverty has made many people vulnerable to corruption. Political problems have also made economic progress slow to materialize. Civil wars have...
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...Discuss the contributions of iron technology to the process of state formation in Bantu Africa. The spreading of the Bantu all across the sub-Saharan Africa was a major contributor to the advent of a mixture of crops, not to mention the innovation of iron made equipment. The Bantu settlement was heavily dependent on the collection of such crops and changes. This also led the Bantu to have access to a myriad of resources of both high quality and quantity. The ability acquired to create a new form of technology from iron, which had not been done before, was an added bonus to the group. It exponentially increased their productivity in that the Bantu had come up with a way to alleviate their everyday lives through tools they had made from iron. The creation of iron tools made trade for the Bantu with neighboring communities that much easier as they could now trade favorably and profitably with them. The Bantu could get better and improved products from communities with more experience in the production of other commodities such as food. This was only possible due to the advancement that they had made in their iron work. Advancements in the use of iron technology made it possible to eliminate such challenges associated with food preparation, as iron work had given rise to, and inspired clay workers to merge with the iron technology in order to make tools that would make food preparation much easier. Such innovators have been known to have come up with a type of pottery, inspired...
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...and prospects for Africa, there are a few conclusions that students can soundly arrive at. As far back as scholars have researched, a range of different cultures have come into contact with Africa including European and Islamic cultures. A lot of the interaction has been forced upon the continent, and has been accompanied by violence, physical and otherwise. However, it is clear that the different cultures of people who have passed through and continue to reside on the continent has had effects, both positive and negative, on various aspects of the continent. Ali Mazrui is a Kenyan academic and political writer whose book The Africans: A Triple Heritage, which is actually a reader supplement to a PBS telecourse, covers this topic. Ali Mazrui’s argument that “modern” African politics, culture, and societies are a product of an Islamic, European, and indigenous African triple heritage is an accurate portrayal of the continent which African people should derive strength from, focusing on the positive aspects of each, in order to reach the transcontinental stability Africa envisions for herself. Chapter four “African Politics” of Understanding Contemporary Africa written by Donald L. Gordon is a valuable source that speaks to the politics of contemporary Africa and how they have been heavily influence by European culture. One of the most basic pieces of evidence of European influence on African politics is the countries contained within the continent which were drawn up by...
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...Project title: Health promotions NGO in Africa Type of project: Health Education Project beneficiaries: rural households and schools Location of beneficiaries: Africa Duration: 10 years Area of project implementation: Arid and Semi- arid Africa Budget requirement: $ 550,000 Project summary This proposal outlines a project aimed at helping the rural community in Africa deal with problems related to good hygiene practices, sanitation and healthy eating through various programs carried out by an NGO. The scope of this proposal is to outline how to register and operate an NGO dealing in health promotion in Africa. Based on existing statistics, the region is shown to require help in terms of education to facilitate change of behavior to promote good health. This project aims to enhance awareness of the dangers of practicing bad health habits and the advantages that come with changing to better habits. Problem statement Diarrhea, cholera, dysentery and other health related illnesses are top in the list of the most killer diseases in most developing countries, claiming more than three million children per year. For instance, Kenya, a country located in the eastern region of Africa is one of the countries with the highest rate of child mortality, with research findings pointing to the causes of this as poor sanitation, lack of an adequate water supply and poor access to health facilities. A recent survey by Unicef (2013) shows that...
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...Steven Rousse Prof Scott Roper World Cultures and Geography 28 October 2014 Current Political Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa In Africa there were signs of a shift toward democracy and also free elections. However, it seems as if any progress in this topic seems to be often halted by violence. Also wherever light of progress shines and free elections are held violence always ensues. Today Africa is facing many issues, and a very general topic that is a major problem is within its political system. These political problems include ethnic rivalry, geopolitics, Al Qaeda in Mali, refugees, and also democratization. The main issue that is holding back the political progress is violence between rival ethnic groups brought on by another countries influence. The first topic that is putting a hold on political progress is the fact that Africa is still dealing with the major problem of ethnic rivalry. What ethnic rivalry is, is a rivalry between different ethnic groups, these rivalries can bring forth conflicts and even worse, ethnic cleansing. Anyways this rivalry between tribes and different ethnic groups has put a halt on pretty much all of the political progress because of frequent civil wars. These civil wars are a direct result of the colonial era policies of divide and rule. What the divide and rule policy is, is the policy of maintaining control over one's subordinates or subjects by encouraging conflict between them. So basically the colonists were encouraging conflicts...
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...The Effects of Globalization and Neoliberalism on African Societies Globalization and neoliberalism are concepts that can be applied to the analysis of any aspect of modern day society. Social life in a particular area is filled with the constant spread of ideas, practices and beliefs due largely to globalization. This paper will provide an in depth view on the effects Globalization and neoliberalism has had on culture and development in African societies. Within Africa lies various intricate backgrounds from its colonialism roots to the shift towards globalization in the effort to promote development. Exposing the dynamics of globalization as well as its impact on African societies will lead to a better understanding of the relationship between Africa and the international community. Globalization, as defined by Held et al. , sees the issue “as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions--assessed in terms of their extensity, intensity, velocity and impact--generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction and the exercise of power.” (Held et al. 2004: 68), It involves the increased interaction between nations and the exchange of ideas, practices, relations and organization. (Ritzer 2008:574). One must be aware that the theory of globalization can be expressed through economic terms as well as sociologically. The...
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