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    Should we pay more attention to people who are older and more experienced than we are? being older and more experienced indicates better mastery of handling problems. However‚ what matters in the advancement of the society is the power of the intellect and vision‚ not age. If anything‚ old people are more likely to be conservative‚ slow to recognize the merit of individual ideas. Finally‚ they are world in terms of hierarchies instead of individual aptitudes. On the contrary‚ young people have a major

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    Utopia‚ More provided the leaders of his time with the keen insights to help improve his world by claiming that leaders should not use poverty to control his people‚ harshly tax his people‚ and take benefits of people’s hard work. Leaders should not use poverty to control his people. In Utopia‚ Sir Thomas More wrote “Certainly it is wrong to think that the poverty of the people is a safeguard of public peace.” More meant that a ruler should not use poverty to control his people. Having people depending

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    From what I have experienced in my life in our society I do believe that Americans are most likely more ethnocentric‚ than people in than other Western Industrial nations‚ As Americans we are cultural diversity. Most Western nations are surrounded by many countries with many different languages and cultures.Americans are surrounded by Canada which is more liberal; and Mexico which is more conservative.We can only see cultures between states‚ regions and time zones.Ethnocentrism is believing in the

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    Is it possible to help people to change to more healthy behaviour? Theories about changes in health behaviour tend to look at: • Cognition: the way people define and think about what they do and how they change their minds in ways that can lead to changing the ways they act; and • Context: the cultural‚ social‚ physical‚ emotional and psychological environments that shape people and the factors that can facilitate change. No one theory can sum up all the factors in health behaviour‚ but

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    People eat more unhealthy foods on days they drink April 10‚ 2013|By Kerry Grens | Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Americans tend to eat more calories and fat on the days they also have alcoholic drinks‚ a new study suggests. "Food choices changed on the days that people drank... and changed in an unhealthier direction for both men and women‚" said Rosalind Breslow‚ a nutritional epidemiologist at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the lead author of the

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    essential role in business world‚ because the tasks today are more complicated than before‚ team work increase the efficiency and create more new ideas to accomplish the tasks. To involve what kind of persons to inform a team becomes crucial topic now. This paper proposes that like-minded persons are more efficient to achieve goals in a team. It demonstrates the strongest rival argument people of different characters accomplish goals more efficient‚ strong points with explanations and examples for

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    politics is less about institutions and more about people At Swarthmore’s baccalaureate ceremony in June‚ Professor of Religion Mark Wallace mentioned Mathew Louis-Rosenberg in the same breath as College co-founder Lucretia Mott‚ women’s suffragist Alice Paul (Class of 1905)‚ and civil rights worker Ralph Roy ’50. He called them all “religious prophets‚” singular Swarthmoreans who have resisted the evils of American society—slavery‚ male dominance‚ Jim Crow‚ and now mountaintop removal coal mining

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    Quality Starbucks sets its prices on a simple idea: high value at moderate cost. When people feel like they are getting a good deal for their money‚ they are more likely to pay a higher cost. Quality is key. Starbucks has to maintain strict quality controls in its coffee sourcing as well as in its customer service and peripheral products to justify its costs. Differentiation Starbucks also spends a lot of time and energy differentiating itself from the competition. You can see this in the design

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    Less IS More In “The Gospel of Consumption”‚ Jeffrey Kaplan touched on the Kellogg controversy regarding their temporary experiment with a six-hour workday. This hot debate brought up the question: Which is better? A larger income or a chance to rest? It is without hesitation that I say we should have stuck to the six-hour workday. Although our current eight hour routines allow us the opportunity to earn more money‚ Kellogg’s experiment proved that those with shorter hours were happier and healthier

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    Though it cannot be denied that modern society is profoundly materialistic‚ there is nothing inherently wrong with a society that values the production and consumption of material goods. Ample historical evidence suggests that societies that devalue capital wealth and material gain will be unstable and short-lived. Materialism – whatever value we place upon it – creates a stable societal structure. Just turn on the television‚ peruse the magazine covers in a supermarket‚ listen to any one of the

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