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    and their families. In this paper am going to analyze critically the issue of corruption‚ (Daniel & Cheryl 1998). Corruption and tradition I disagree with the statement that‚ corruption is a western concept and that some societies with the ‘gift culture’ cannot live without it and has no negative meaning. To begin with‚ parties to corruption‚ the giver and the receiver involve in it for gains. The gains are obtained as a result of defrauding the public. Take‚ for example‚ an importer who obtains

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    or given a gift that looked something like this. (Hold up poorly wrapped gift.) Nobody wants to be that person at the party with the gift that gets mistaken for trash. When giving a gift to someone it is important to put just as much thought into the gift wrapping as the gift buying. II. Connect with Audience: You may be thinking‚ but I don’t always have time to make my gift look professionally wrapped. Or‚ I don’t have the money to go out and buy the supplies I need to wrap a gift. III

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    Although I knew by seventh grade that Santa was not real‚ I knew that my younger brother and sister still very much believed in him. Not wanting my mom to see me‚ I quickly sneaked back to my room unnoticed. I stayed up all night thinking about all the gifts I would receive in the morning‚ and wondering if I got what I asked for. Desperately trying to get to sleep‚ I knew it was going to be a night of restlessness and anticipation. Waking up bright and early‚ I hoped out of bed and rushed downstairs

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    24 January 2012 Pro-social Behaviour in Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Eliot’s Middlemarch “Sacrifice is an act of giving that is necessarily reciprocated‚” says Marcel Mauss in his work The Gift (21)‚ emphasizing the fact that the gift is never free and has to be repaid. While both Jane and Dorothea‚ the main characters of two great Victorian novels‚ made their kinds of sacrifice‚ it can be concluded that those sacrifices arose from two different causes. Pro-social behaviour or “set of actions that

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    community service and my other completed hours from the past years. There is no greater feeling of fulfillment when one dedicates their time to someone whom needs some caring. In my 12 hours of community service‚ I had volunteered in my church‚ gift wrap gifts at the Agnew center‚ and helped at the Christmas party that the Portuguese threw for the under privilege children at Lyndale Elementary School. I knew that I made a difference somehow in someway in my community. I wish that each and every individual

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    A Gift of Goats is a Gift of Hope Story and Photos by Darcy Kiefel‚ Heifer International Photojournalist   In a mud home made vibrant by beautiful flowers‚ Leokodia Byabasaija extended her hand to welcome a stranger.    Byabasaija‚ a beautiful woman who conceals the hardships of her life with an engaging smile‚ lives in the village of Kisinga‚ Uganda. Not long ago she had a happy life with her husband‚ Lesio‚ and their children. Married in 1968‚ the couple‚ working as peasant farmers‚ raised

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    This is not an easy book‚ but it is a classic (first pub. 1923- 1925) and an insightful book for any serious student of sociology or anthropology. Mauss provides a view of human evolution‚ based on empirical research comparing exchange worldwide. Implicit in this analysis is a theory of change (Mary Douglas’ foreword‚ p. xiii): “changes in the organization of production radically transform the system of categories and beliefs.” Understanding archaic societies helps us understand our own.

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    While those lousy seventh graders are worrying about what North Korea is doing our generation is more worried about our science test. America’s Gift To My Generation. What gifts does America have on your generation? Some gifts American has on my generation are‚ we have the technology‚ protection‚ speech‚ education‚ and traveling. First‚ you have travelled. Most countries like North Korea prohibit traveling. They are stuck in their state until further notice. Almost all of us get to travel almost

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    The Theme of “The Gift of the Magi” William Sydney Porter‚ or O. Henry as it is widely known‚ is one of the most famous names in American literature. He was a master short-story writer of nearly 300 short stories. With a very inventive mind‚ he made plots for his stories from the commonplace things. The settings of his stories were drawn from his experience and‚ likewise‚ his characters were based on actual people he had known. In rapid-moving prose‚ he developed his stories imaginatively and

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