There are other ways of saving money or investing it rather than the modern way of using banks and investment companies. Organisations such as micro lending and Roscas make it possible for people in mostly third world countries save their money. ... They mostly focus on lending money and saving is also included. These two forms of organisation involve paying a certain amount of money into a fund that is accessible to everyone periodically. ... Therefore, where money only helps the individual household of the owner, livestock helps the whole community of a Lesotho village (Ferguson, 1985)....

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Poor thing, she has no choice in the matter, and she is from that moment onwards no longer a free female, but a slave for her husband and his family, to clean the house, take care of chores, cook the food, work as a servant to earn more money and, of course, to have children. ... And when the females of this lovely dysfunctional family are of age, they are married off, which saves more money to be spent in the other children and so on and so forth until it becomes a traditional way of life, a normalcy. ...

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Raising awareness of forced marriage will help those that have been put in difficult positions, even if it is in a non-direct way, as if everybody in the community is informed, they may be more mindful of any suspicious behavior, and so are more likely to report the incident and save lives. ... We would need them as they have voting power and access to money that can fund campaigning, that can affect things more than we could. ...

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Although it is strongly suggested that she was accepting money for sexual favors, it is only implied, making it so the producers cannot be penalized for it. ... However, when Dennis offered her money, she claimed "you know it wasn't like that, " indicating that the dynamic between them was not mutually agreed upon. In addition, she also said "guess I'm not used to sleeping nights, anyway." " Women during this era were obligated to save themselves for marriage and to treat themselves with respect; Vantine was young, beautiful, and persuasive, so many people feared she would influen...

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Torvald, as the male presence in the household, exerts his dominance by his control over the finances, making Nora beg, through tears and entreaties', through dancing and dressing up and reciting', for money to run the household. ... Linde that it was I who raised the money' for the holiday that saved Torvald's life. ... Through the actions of the women who married for money, 19th Century writers show the then society to be a superficial one that values wealth above all else, with one such woman, Tatiana, remarking that the riches and glory is tinsel on a life that ...

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However, her sons " another example of how low even the writers of the time thought of women " saves her candidacy by bringing aboard the ark. ... It is in this marriage where she holds the least power because, unlike her first four marriages where she dominated the rich, submissive men and forced them, with sex or lip, to give her money, she actually loved her fifth husband. ...

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As we know, we all are living in the modern society in today's world. People are choosing different types of education degrees, getting different kinds of jobs, taking a variety of transportation, tasting food from other countries, learning the news from the world through the internet media every day. We already get used to the way we live now but maybe some people will have such doubts: what kind of society that is before the modern society and how did the ancient people live? The following essay will compare the difference between traditional and modern society, specifically focusing on...

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The shortsightedness and myopic tendencies of our society have ultimately led to our Social Security system. If left without government intervention our society would focus on today rather than tomorrow, disregarding the ominous necessity of saving for retirement. Furthermore, citizens struggle to a...

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