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    movie is based around a young Amish boy Samuel who witnesses the brutal murder of a police officer and a police officer John Book who heads the murder investigation. In the film the responder is exposed to‚ two parallel plots that of forbidden love with Rachel and of course the murder plot. It is through an array of cinematic techniques that weir successfully portrays John’s world and positions the responder to understand how influential power is within this society. This evident through influential

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    Amish Gone Wild The main point of this video was to show how the lives of Amish teens are changed drastically when between the ages of 16 and 21 they are faced with a whole new lifestyle. This then leads them to face a very difficult decision. Durring the ages of 16 and 21‚ Amish teens are ’let lose’ or able to live the life that English children live. They can move out‚ get their license‚ wear normal clothes and party on a regular basis. Then after this is over with they must make their decision

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    Running head: CULTURAL SENSITIVITY 1 Cultural Sensitivity in Professional Communication with the Amish Grand Canyon University: NUR 502 May 8‚ 2013 Cultural Sensitivity in Professional Communication With the Amish It is a well-known fact that disparities in healthcare exist among minority groups. The nursing profession‚ in an effort to deliver more appropriate and individualized patient care‚ is continually gathering data that can influence

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    Marcos land reform plan paved the way for the initiation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in the Spanish agricultural sector‚ during the Presidency of Aquino. In fact‚ this formed one of the major points against Marcos‚ emphasized during the Presidential campaign of Aquino. In other words‚ the introduction of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program had an underlying political motivation. The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was a land reform law mandated by Republic Act No.

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    David Trask once said‚ commenting on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby that "The Great Gatsby is about many things‚ but it is inescapably a general critique of the ’American Dream’ and also of the ’agrarian myth’ - a powerful demonstration of their invalidity for Americans of Fitzgerald’s generation and after." Fitzgerald defiantly breaks down the societal boundaries of the 1920’s and creates a new societal example. Although the country was rooted in the American Dream‚ or what they thought was

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    differences between your life and that experienced by a typical Amish adolescent?” Though living in the same time period during the twenty-first century‚ my life and the life of a typical Amish adolescent are vastly different. Old Order Amish distinguish themselves from other‚ less-conservative communities by their avoidance of most modern innovations and their traditional dress. These differences between my life and that of an Old Order Amish teenager can be explored in terms of family‚ roles and status

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    Rumspringa‚ defined as “running around” is a time when the Amish youth at the age of 16 decide whether to remain in or leave their community and faith. During this time teens area allowed to enter and lead a life in the “English” world and participate in partying‚ drinking‚ illegal drugs and pre-marital sex. During rumpsringa teens are exposed to a myriad of things that they normally would not have been able to in their regular Amish life. This stage of their life highly affects the cultural identity

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    Agrarian Justice written in 1795‚ Thomas Paine states‚ “Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal property without the aid of society‚ as it is for him to make land originally. Separate an individual from society… and he cannot acquire personal property… So inseparably are the means connected with the end‚ in all cases‚ that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation‚ therefore‚ of personal property

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    Caring for the Amish in a Modern world Tanya Mitchell Mid-State Technical College Caring for the Amish in a Modern world The Amish believe in living in the simple world. They travel by horse drawn buggies and most don’t use electricity. Cell phones‚ Internet‚ and vacuum cleaners are not among the items found in an Amish home. The highest education they receive is the eighth grade and are not wanting to seek a higher level of learning. Over time the Amish have begun to take part in some of the things

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    Terminator Seeds and its Effects on the Agrarian World Zeena Tutunji 210801215 SOCI2030: Social Structure and Social Change Professor: Dr. Sylvia Bawa TA: Adam King Introduction In 1998‚ the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Delta and Pine Land Company announced that they have received a patent on a new bio-agricultural technology that was later dubbed the Terminator (Caplan‚ 2007). The goal of this biologically modified seed is to grow crops by giving higher yields

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