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- 10411: Monks and Today's Society
- ... of those seen through the three monastic vows (poverty, chastity, and obedience). As a whole the inhabitants of these monasteries (Monasticism as a whole) discipline themselves, through the three vows, in order to reach a high spiritual purity. In other words, their strict discipline was to obtain a closeness to God through their own purity. The three vows, which were mentioned above, are all means of rejecting the worldly things in ...
- 10412: Why People Feel Gun Control Is Unfair
- ... by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of social issues such as crime and drugs. Guns have become closely linked to drugs and murder in the public mind. Drug dealing and high tech weaponry have escalated the warfare in cities between long established loosely knit gangs. Predominantly guns of crime are used by gang members. Many police officers are killed every year due to drug and gang ...
- 10413: Effects
- ... Not only will their awareness level be raised, they may be more concerned in the changed viewing environment and less on the television programs. In a person's home they may watch TV with a high or low awareness level for the program. Some people choose to watch TV just as a background noise while others may be quite into the program. Due to these different levels of awareness it is ...
- 10414: Entertainment During The Renaissance
- ... style of hunting varies from country to country, depending somewhat on the kind of hawk available to the hunter. Short-winged hawks such as the goshawk and coopers hawk, hunt ground level prey from a high perch. Long-winged hawks such as the perigee, gyrfalcon and mesh hunt from the air and take flying prey. Short-winged hawks are trained to return to the falconer's glove, but long-winged birds ...
- 10415: What is Welfare?
- ... cash assistance. These programs aim to improve the quality of life of those without enough money for food, shelter, medical care, or education. Such programs include food subsides such as the Food Stamp Program, the School Lunch Program, and the Women and Child Nutrition Program; medical insurance or Medicaid; housing subsides, which provide public housing or vouchers toward rental assistance; and Low-Income Home Energy Assistance, which helps needy families pay ...
- 10416: Ethnocentrism
- ... had that meant something because they had nothing. So if I were a crew member who took great pride in my country, entering another one, not knowing much about it because I could not afford school and hearing all the rumors about these new people being demons, it's hard for me to say that I would accept the new customs and cultures that came along with this new country with ...
- 10417: Gender Socialization
- ... part of his childhood. It is at this stage that children begin to try to separate themselves from the clutches of their mother and establish their own identity. I remember when I was in secondary school, I found out that my brother received much higher allowance as compared to me when I am at his age. I think it is unfair to me because I help my mother to do housework ...
- 10418: Why People Dye Their Hair
- ... the hall, or the blue haired boy in your gym class. It's immediately the way you're first described by your peers. This attracts attention to you, and makes you more known around your school. Everyone's talking about your new hair color, about how "crazy" and "cool" it is; or maybe how "gross" it is, depending on how it turned out. You could look like a way cool punk ...
- 10419: Cheating
- ... cheat on a homework assignment, quiz, or test, you are only cheating yourself. You should be honorable enough to take a bad grade and admit that you don't know everything. When you cheat in school, you are just getting by, you aren't actually learning. Later in life, this can really hurt you. When you grow up and have a job, there will be no one to copy. None of ...
- 10420: Greek and Hellenistic Philosophy
- ... empire rarely touched by any other. As time changed so did thinking and reasoning process wich led to the Hellenistic philosophers and their separate beliefs. The first philosophy was Cynicism wich began as an organized school. A famous philosopher involved was Diogenes. It was said that he roamed the streets daily looking for an honest man. He called for a return to absolute simplicity and a refection of artificial divisions, wether ...
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