FUNCTIONS OF MONEY Money is something that people use every day. We earn it and spend it but do not often think much about it. Economics define money as any good that is widely accepted as final payment for goods and services. Money is so common that we rarely think about what it is. The characteristics of money include durability‚ divisibility‚ portability‚ and scarcity. Money acts as a unit of account‚ medium of exchange‚ and a store of money. First money is a store of value. Store of value
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Compare and Contrast China and Japan China and Japan‚ both with thousand years of ancient culture and civilization history‚ share numerous similarities and differences. Confucianism is a collectivist based value system which embraces a set of moral codes of behavior designed to regulate the relationships between ruler and subject‚ father and son‚ friend and neighbor‚ husband and wife‚ and brother and brother. Even though both China and Japan employed Confucianism as the state ideology
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Modern Japan Due to the younger generation of Japan ’s increasing apathy towards religion‚ Japan ’s rich culture‚ identity‚ and national pride is in jeopardy. This can be concluded by reviewing the connection between religion and culture through Japanese history‚ and comparing it to the state of the two in modern Japan. By fading away from traditional religion and culture‚ Japan will continue to adopt western culture and form a new‚ blended culture‚ as it has in the past. Japan ’s cultural
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individualism. Japanese people need to justify their existence on the grounds of membership to some sort of group. Be it family‚ club‚ or company. Japan is a collectivist society. A collectivist society is concerned with the good of all of the people‚ and not concerned with the individual’s desires or needs. Everything that the homogeneous country of Japan does strives to benefit the entirety of the community. Unfortunately‚ their efforts are futile. Their views are completely unrealistic. The Japanese
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Cultural differences A comparison of Russia and Japan Kristina Aksakova Exchange student Virrat‚ 2011 [pic][pic] Table of contents General information about Russia and Japan 4 Japan 4 Background 4 Tsunami Devastates Japan 5 History 6 Geographical facts 8 Demographical facts 9 Economic facts 11 FOREIGN RELATIONS 13 Governmental facts 15 Infrastructural facts 16 Russia 18 Background 18 History 18 Geographical facts
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An Analysis on the Country of Japan Introduction: Japan‚ a relatively small nation in size‚ located in Eastern Asia between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan boasts a population of about 127‚368‚088 people; 10th most populated nation. It is quite hard to imagine how a country about the size of the state of California could have been positioned and was predicted to become the largest‚ most powerful economy in the world. Japan’s economy‚ in the years following World
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International Crime and Transnational Crime Danielle Poindexter Dave Sanchez CRJ: Comparative Criminal Justice April 13‚ 2013 Based on the Article General Assembly of the United Nations‚ drug trafficking refers to illegal drugs sold and distributed. This happens in the United States as well as in other countries; the main concern with transnational drug trafficking for the United States is illegal drugs being transported. In from other countries the states the sales of them
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History 1520 World Civilizations The Renaissance Information Sheet Questions for Discussion: Describe the term Renaissance. Why was it an important event in European history? Do you believe that it was a period in which there was a rebirth of culture‚ government‚ the economy and religion? Discuss the salience of the Protestant Reformation. Do you believe that it played a significant role for the betterment of European society? What was the role of Martin Luther and did his actions
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By the seventh century‚ the Greeks’ medical writings might have vanished Luckily‚ Islamic scholars decided that these writings were worth preserving Ninth-century caliphs of Baghdad established a center where Greek scientific manuscripts were translated into Arabic. Simply keeping these manuscripts in use and making copies available would have been a remarkable achievement for the medieval Islamic world. But Arab scholars were not content just to study information that had already been discovered
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At the beginning of the 19th century‚ both China and Japan were societies governed by Confucian tradition. In Japan‚ Meiji-era modernization made it a great power over the course of a generation‚ but in China efforts at modernizing reform over the same period produced political fragmentation and rendered it vulnerable to foreign encroachment. Why? China‚ the so-called Middle Kingdom‚ was the center of civilization in Asia for hundreds of years. Leaders from far and wide came to pay homage
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