understand the context of postmodernism‚ a person must start with the intellectual shifts in culture that influenced postmodern thinking. Such significant shifts in postmodern thought include the popularization of the death of God movement‚ religious pluralism‚ the power to inform through the visual and the blurring of reality and imagination‚ the lost center of cultural molding‚ and the shifting of power to a younger world. As a result of these shifts‚ there has been a major epistemological impact on
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The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011 UNITED NaTIONS asdf This report is based on a master set of data that has been compiled by an Inter-agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators led by the Department of Economic and Social affairs of the United Nations Secretariat‚ in response to the wishes of the General assembly for periodic assessment of progress towards the MDGs. The Group comprises representatives of the international organizations whose activities include the preparation of one
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Should welfare mothers be required to work after a predetermined amount of time? Mothers on welfare should be required to work. Even though mothers with newborn babies face increased responsibilities‚ there is an overwhelming amount of day care centers and babysitters that can provide relief for these mothers in order for them to enter the work force. With that being said‚ mothers can find jobs to better their financial status. The majority of welfare mothers are becoming too dependent on the
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Australia‚ the USA‚ Great Britain‚ New Zealand‚ Italy‚ India‚ etc are all secular governments. There are multiple factors which have contributed to the decline of religion’s relevance for the integration and legitimation of modern life. The increasing pluralism and materialism of society alongside society’s increasing individualism and dissatisfaction with traditional religions are major reasons for secularisation. This trend is most evident in the significant increase in the number of people responding
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. Lyon describes how globalisation has increased the movements of ideas and beliefs across national boundaries. Due to the central role played by postmodern society by the media and information technology‚ which saturate us with images and messages from around the globe. These ideas have become disembedded‚ for example the electronic church and televangelism disembed religion from the real‚ local churches and relocated it on the internet allowing believers to express their faith without physically
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Interreligious Dialogue with respect to theological pluralism Statistics show that most of the world’s population is affiliated with some type of religion‚ with Christianity and Islam encompassing slightly over 50% of the population. Though interreligious dialogue is beneficial in gaining a better understanding of another’s religion‚ is it possible to hold one’s religion as being the absolute truth while engaging in an open interreligious dialogue with another religion? Many spiritual people
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public sector for ideas and hence the birth of the NPM (Gruening‚ 2001). This paper seeks to define NPM and list its advantages and disadvantages in the delivery of human services. The paper will also explore the implications of NPM for non government welfare organizations. NPM has been defined by Wolfgang (2005) as the transfer of business‚ market principles and techniques from the private into the public sector‚ based on a neo-liberal understanding of state and economy with the aim of creating a trim
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Our nation protects the common welfare while protecting our natural rights. There is controversy‚ on some issues‚ whether the common welfare‚ the whole country‚ is more significant than the individual rights of the people. However‚ one simply cannot be more vital since they correspond with each other. The definition of common welfare is what is in the best interests of everyone in the country while natural rights are the right to life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness. The Declaration
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Why is religion so diverse? I believe that one ought to know the definition(s) of religion and diversity before they can even begin to find the answer(s) to the above question. Religion is the belief in‚ worship of‚ or obedience to a supernatural power or powers considered to be divine or have control of human destiny. Religion is an organized collection of beliefs‚ cultural system‚ and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Diversity is a term used broadly to refer to
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Is Robert Kennedy right to believe that GDP is a deficient measure of an economy’s welfare? Explain your answer stating clearly why economists care about GDP. Tia Patel 1120 words GDP has been the long-established measure of a country’s economic progress. It is ‘an estimate of market throughput‚ adding together the value of all final goods and services that are produced and traded for money within a given period of time’ (Costanza‚ Hart‚ Posner and Talberth 2009: 3). Whilst it was designed to measure
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