THE AMISH COMMUNITY BY: Lori Burris Instructor’s Name: Chad Goings ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (AVL1237D) 10/15/12 The Amish are religious separatists who dress plainly and avoid many convinces of modern life that you may know. The Amish are known widely for horses and buggies for transportation‚ they came to America in the eighteenth century from Switzerland. They evolved out if the Mennonite groups coming from the Anabaptist tradition. The Anabaptists urged a return to
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Evaluating Learning & Development Activities Welcome‚ L&D team‚ to today’s Lunch & Learn. I hope you’ve enjoyed your lunch‚ now for the learning. We’ll be discussing the benefits of evaluating L&D activities and this handout covers 5 points: 1. Glossary of terms 2. Defining the purpose of evaluation (stakeholders’ perspective) 3. Return on Investment and how it can be measured (example included) 4. Approaches to evaluation 5. Evaluation tools 1. Glossary
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Monsanto had been covering up years of environmental pollution. A paper trail showed Monsanto had known about the pollution since 1960‚ but didn’t stop the dumping. Hugh Grant took over the company in 2003. But because of the scandals and stakeholders uncertainty‚ the price of Monsanto’s stock had fallen by 50 percent‚ and they lost $1.7 billion dollars. Grant knew by strategic focus on GM foods‚ the company would recover. Monsanto’s Pledge and Code of Ethics: The Monsanto Pledge is to
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Community Service Once upon a time‚ there was a rebellious girl‚ who always got drunk and did drugs. One night at a party‚ the police came and caught her doing illegal drugs. Her sentence was community service‚ and she did not know what to expect. After the first day of community service‚ she discovered that she actually enjoyed it. Community service changed her life because she got to see and help people who used to be just like her‚ who did drugs and got drunk all the time. She saw how her life
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The Paradox of Community "One can see that insiders are caught in the paradox of community: The same cultural vocabulary that undermines community is simultaneously that community’s idiom of self-affirmation" (Greenhouse‚ et al. 175). In Law and Community‚ David M. Engel explores how ordinary people in a small‚ rural‚ Illinois town perceive the law‚ courts‚ litigants‚ and community. By analyzing the legal practices and relations in Sander County‚ it is evident that law and the courts play a
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Community corrections is a range of alternative punishments for nonviolent offenders. There are two basic community corrections models in the United States. In the first model‚ integrated community corrections programs combine sentencing guidelines and judicial discretion ("front-end") with a variety of alternative sanctions and parole and probation options. In the second model‚ some states have instituted programs in which correctional officials may direct already sentenced offenders into alternative
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Hughes English 101-04 April 1‚ 2012 “You go to school at a community college? It must be so easy since it is not a real college/university!” They say that community college is a lot worse than a four-year college or university. They say only slackers go to community colleges so they barely have to do any type of work. They say professors are terrible and do not know what they are doing at all. They say that anyone who goes to a community college will not get a good job in the future. They may
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Speech Communities Language is both an individual possession and a social possession. We would expect‚ therefore‚ that certain individuals would behave linguistically like other individuals: they might be said to speak the same language or the same dialect or the same variety‚ i.e.‚ to employ the same code‚ and in that respect to be members of the same speech community‚ a term probably derived from the German Sprachgemeinschaft. Indeed‚ much work in sociolinguistics is based on the assumption that
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Chapter I The Human Community Just in the human community though we are many we also work at the same purpose in a community‚ to be in a mutual service and dialogue and for the upbringing of a good and just society sharing and incorporating to them the blessing we have received according to God’s plan and initiative. As what St. Paul said in one of his writing that though we belong to one body and all of us have a different role that played on that one body. Many parts though they are but they
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Why is community services is important in today’s world? Community service has been a forever‚ long service done through giving people of communities in the effort to bring up their neighbourhood. These selfless acts of kindness have been passed through the generations with the same traces. As volunteering services have grown through the times‚ there are now more available means of community services for people to involve themselves with. Why is it‚ however‚ that people Volunteerism is so important
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