Chapter One A General Introduction to Folk Customs 1. Folk customs: a definition Folk customs‚ or folk ways‚ comprise the part of cultural life that people of a country or nation have created‚ practiced and transmitted in their endeavors to satisfy their needs at various stages of their history and society. Deep-rooted in the cultural life of a community‚ folk customs are passed down from generation to generation in a temporal dimension and spread from one place to another in a spatial dimension
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Would You Mind‚ Can I Have Your Facebook Password? Nikki Gardner Roberts Wesleyan College Social media has connected the entire world to one another. It has become a cornerstone of communication in the 21st century with websites such as Google‚ Instagram‚ Facebook‚ and Twitter to name a few. Since this large boom in social media usage in the past 10 years‚ many issues have arose with it as well. One of these issues was addressed and discussed in the essay‚ “Why Asking for a Job Applicant’s
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CUSTOMS & COURTIOUSY Marine customs are simply desirable courses of action sanctioned by tradition and usage. In the Marine Corps‚ practically every custom has grown out of the manner in which Marines of the past conducted themselves. Many Marine customs have been incorporated into regulations in order to standardize conduct throughout the Corps‚ but some of them cannot be found in written directives. Knowing and observing these customs‚ both written and unwritten‚ is important to each Marine
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explore the possibilities of moral‚ subjective and cultural relativity. I submit that a person’s actions are only right or wrong relative to their particular moral framework. It is wrong to kill is a statement that could be made by one based on his moral and/or cultural beliefs‚ thereby making it a true statement. However‚ the image becomes blurred when that same man is responsible for administering drugs to prisoners sentenced to death. Some would conclude that such acts raze his moral framework
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"You express the truth of your character with the choices of your actions" - Steve Maraboli. The first adjective to come to your mind when you hear a persons name is what forms their character. Character is not only how people describe you‚ it’s about how you present yourself and what actions you choose. To show your strong sense of will‚ their are a few characteristics that are most important. The most important characteristic are compassion‚ perseverance and honesty. Compassion is feeling sympathy
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In Support of Moral Relativism: My topic is on moral relativism‚ and I am trying to argue that moral relativism is applicable and is required to explain the current phenomenon. First I would try to show how culture affects moral decisions‚ and that such shows the need for a relativistic explanation. I would propose a few arguments and analogies for the need of relativism‚ such as that in different situations the same moral rule may not apply. I would then try to see if there are any moral standards
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How would you Move Mount Fuji? Do you have what it takes to get that position you have always wanted? If you are looking to demonstrate your creative and innovative attributes to make you stand out from the crowd‚ consider reading William Poundstone’s‚ How Would you Move Mount Fuji before your next job interview. You probably know the clichés about how fast things are changing and how everything you learned in school will be out of date in 5 years (plus or minus). Children who are entering schools
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Webster’s dictionary defines ethnocentrism as "The tendency to evaluate other groups according to the values and standards of one’s own ethnic group‚ especially with the conviction that one’s own ethnic group is superior to the other groups." When first reading this definition‚ one would naturally agree that ethnocentrism does exist in our world and society‚ often confusing it with patriotism. However‚ many do not realize that ethnocentrism is‚ has been‚ and continues to be a leading cause for violence
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Apply strategies to foster criticism in problem solving To solve a problem‚ we need to have all the information we can gather so that it can be completely digested. 1.The first is to say to yourself‚ before you begin to take a critical look at any idea‚ “I know this idea is going to look good to me and that I am going to feel it’s pointless to look for flaws. That’s natural. I thought of it‚ so I want it to be perfect. But I’m going to disregard this reaction and force myself to examine it critically
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“Ethnocentrism” talks about differentiating between one’s own culture and “others”. It is also one of the major reasons for separation between members of different races‚ and religious groups in society. We as individuals believe that our own culture is better than the other individuals that cause a lot of discrimination and misunderstanding between one another for reasons merely based on our custom. Throughout this essay we would be analyzing ethnocentrism and romanticism depicted in the movie Avatar
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