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    Modern technology plays an important role in our daily lives‚ it is the means of communication and entertainment. Computers‚ televisions and smartphones has influenced our lives in different ways‚ nowadays everyone carries a smartphone with access to the Internet. Imagine going a whole day without your cell phone. Would you be able to function right? The advancement of many new sciences has made our lives easier and more convenient. As our technology improves‚ so does our quality of life. For

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    the walls and extent of the cathedral link above the aisle roof that extends from the upper nave wall‚ where the first thrust of the central dome is the greatest. The result is to add structural strength and solidity to the building. In today’s society‚ we can use some of the most well known influences and values without realizing where it came from or where it began. I think that the influences from architecture‚ art‚ and even religion. The influences of the middle age

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    religions have merely become a means of facilitating the ambitions and desires of those who are in power. Many faiths disguise and warp themselves in a way that sets reality aback‚ and makes individual existence seem all the less valuable. Over millennia‚ scriptures have been modified countless times‚ becoming form-fitted duplicates that vary according to the era‚ or to whatever purpose such an alteration might serve. Recently (relatively speaking)‚ the addition of the media has served as a method of

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    "There ’s an App for that" - Steve Jobs Has Technology Advanced Too Far? Once upon a time‚ in a world far‚ far away from 2013‚ when everybody listened to music on a personal CD player and "twitter" actually meant a series of chirps from a bird‚ things were different. Enter 2001 and the introduction of the iPod‚ an invention that would change the world forever. Music from a CD is now old news. Welcome to the world of iTunes - a digital library stored with everything from music to full length

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    I decided that I would much rather live in the society we live in today rather than in an Amish society for many reasons. One of the areas that I will be discussing is the education system of the Amish Children. The second area that I will be discussing is the impacts and how important religion is to the Amish. Finally‚ I also felt that another interesting area of consideration would be the relationship between Amish children‚ parents‚ and the community as a whole. As you can see‚ I have many areas

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    aspects of the social structure‚ from paid work to the household divisions of labour‚ from sexuality to violence. Ann Oakley (1981) has traced the changing status of women in British society from the eve of the Industrial Revolution to the 1970s. She claims that ’the most important and enduring consequence of industrialization for women has been the emergence of the modern role of housewife as ’the dominant mature feminine role ’ Thus a combination of factors which included ideology‚ the banning of

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    Assess the view that the modern family has become more child centred. Sociologists have different opinions on the definition of childhood. Some believe that childhood is a social construction‚ rather than a natural state. Today’s society has become more child-centred than what it was in the past. Sociologists with the ’March of Progress’ view argue that children are now the focal point of the family as children now get to make more decisions‚ also parents invest more emotionally and financially

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    heard these names echoed since childhood‚ but do we really know who these people are? In the United States these people are viewed as outcast; there hasn’t been a need for them in a very long time. Science‚ and modern technology have exiled the Shaman into the fringe of society. They remain a mystery to most‚ but beckon the open-minded. The Shaman is a spiritual wayfarer‚ that hasn’t thrived in the United States since the arrival of the white man‚ and his conquest of nature. There

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    Residents of a prosperous country have to go no further than a supermarket to get all they need to live a sustainable life. This is undoubtedly a benefit of living in a capitalistic society; however‚ there is also a flip side to which many scientists and philosophers call attention. This is the ideology of consumerism‚ which is often embodied in a consumer’s urge to purchase goods in ever-greater amounts‚ even if those goods that are not needed. Consumerism is supported by manufacturers‚ who do their

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    civilizations come from the Hellenistic periods of Greece. A lot of the Homeric values like heroism‚ skill‚ dominating warrior‚ and strength are still much valued in the western ways. Through math‚ science‚ society‚ and culture prove much of this point. Math and science are a huge part in modern western civilization. Most of the science we use is based off the founding made during the Hellenistic Age. The heliocentric theory of the earth rotates on its axis and that the earth revolves around the

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