His ideas involving spiritual matters, the soul, individual enlightenment, and the truth are still very much practiced today. The amount of influence that Socrates has on a society depends on where that society is located as well as the type of government, leadership, and religion. ... Socrates may have posed a threat to traditional values in history, but today his philosophies are practiced throughout the world. ... Today, many charismatic thinkers are embraced for stirring up thought and producing creativity in the youth. ... Today many cultures are still affected by and practice the wor...

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The author presents the society around this small town as rigid due to the unknown fear and evil of human nature. ... Jackson reveals two main attitudes that are prevalent in this society; the disturbing tendency of society to identify a scapegoat and the perception that societies are always victims of traditions and rituals that have existed in such communities (Wilson 78). At first, this short story is very worrying especially when compared to today's world. ... This isn't much different in today's prosecution procedures where the spectators don't have any influence on t...

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Prejudice and discrimination are multifaceted problems in today's society. ... To begin, the cause of numerous negative consequences in society is due to prejudice. The misapprehension of people leads to stereotyping certain groups, cultures, or religions, which can lead to violence in society. ... The absence of knowledge towards another society, culture, or religion will cause prejudice. ... In addition, negative factors due to discrimination are frequent in today's world. ...

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To exist in a society with other people, Locke believes you need to be an individual, yet be cautious of society and be willing to exchange some rights. ... The society would not exist if it were not for this. ... Hobbes believes that the government is the ultimate power and the force in the society, and they exist to regulate the conducts of citizens in the society. Hobbes believes that the natural state of human society would be for everybody to exist together without legitimate authority in a free for all society. ... Locke's society stresses rights and the importance to following natu...

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The different Socio-cultural believes system within Africa today explained how a group of people were socially connected through their beliefs system in many years ago. ... The point to note is that it is this type of social system and this pattern of reproducing the society that impacts on economy, politics, defense, ritual, and holiness, that was swept aside by colonial force supported by missionary propaganda. This politico-military attack on generational succession and age-sets undermined and led to eventual implosion of the African societies. The conflict that is raging over fe...

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This advances the relevancy of the play as religion is still influential in today's society. ... The current society can relate to this, as the prejudice Shylock encounters, corresponds to the discrimination Muslim's face today. ... Thus, the affect of the values and ideas of religion are still important in the modern society, just as in Shakespeare's society. ... Through this, it is demonstrated that the values and ideas of religion endures important to today's society as its relevance in Shakespeare's time. ... The religious discrimination Shylock tolerated, greatly...

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And actually we are surrounded by mythology in today's society everywhere, whether you realize it or not: in films, in the names of the cities, in literature, in art, in cultural traditions. ... I agree with the concern of Joseph Campbell for the future of the society which fails to put the teaching of mythology in an important place. ... I think modern society, especially western society, has no direction. ... It is the society of "now-ness", caring about nothing but its own entertainment. ... Even today we see people chatting in their cell-phones while walking, not seeing what is going ...

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Andrew Nicccol's film presents viewers with a society that has been deformed by its power. ... It is a truth that is reinforced in viewer's minds by their own knowledge that today's natural-born society is far from perfect. ... It is horrifying prediction of the outcome of suppressed lusts of today. ... Niccol's realistic scenario exposes the human potential to do evil through his use of the future as the magnification of today's problems. Viewers are left with the grim reminder that the beginnings of corruption today need only time and technology to easily bec...

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According to a "Woman's Forum" database, sixty-percent of women in North America are active in the workforce today. ... The second focus of this paper is the influence that secularism has on our society. The emphasis on religion in today's culture has diminished considerably over the period of a generation. ... Most people's lives today in North America would not function if you took away their car and their computer. ... To be locked in an era which they consider righteous and to dismiss the concerns of modern society which are riddled with corruption leaves their culture in my...

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Today societies are at a crisis of history and how the actions of today will decide and determine whether the world goes up from here or continues to slide into a new dark era. ... The history of Salem is nothing more than a set of unjust lies the entire society agreed upon. ... In The Crucible the religious authority believes it has control over society and the life of the society. ... It is not holding power and authority that corrupts a society but fear. ... Evidently the intertwinement of societal injustices and the heavy influence of religion molded the society we live in today. ...

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Huxley describes a society where all aspects of human life are altered before birth. ... In today's society, religion plays a large role in molding one's beliefs and their attitudes towards certain changes in technology. As in Brave New World, our religious society has repeatedly told the world what is acceptable and what is not. ... It is pure fact that today's society is striving to be greater than the society of our neighboring nations. ... However, in America today, it would be unethical to refuse to save someone's life when the means and knowledge are at hand. ...

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Beginning in the seventeenth century, there were many attempts to create unified and stable societies. One of these attempts was made by the Puritans, who had a strong desire to create a model society based on their beliefs. ... Also, they had many hopes of how they would go about building their ideal society. ... What they established in the seventeenth century helped form American democracy today. Although, in retrospect, it's not equal ti what we consider democracy today, Puritan's helped shape the mold for current, present day democracy. ...

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However, when analyzing "Red Dust"" through a modern-day cultural lens, this movie is considered tame to the majority of cinemas produced today. ... After examining each unethical act in "Red Dust, " one can conclude that these behaviors would be repulsive to American society during the 1930's. ... Comparing "Red Dust"" to the majority of films that are produced today, this film would not be considered obscene, as sex and drugs are common depictions in movies that are released on a regular basis. ... In addition, alcohol and sex are so commonplace in the media today, that films of all ge...

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At the other end people may use their religion as a guide of how they should aim to live, describing religion as a part of human experience that may integrate other aspects of life and society and in this case is religion is seen as much more flexible. ... The expanding boundaries of the term religion can be seen as in today's society as people may regard sport, individuality, career or fashion as religion. Society has come to recognise these as secular religions as opposed to formal religion. ... Hinduism has not always been as we know it today, it has spread worldwide and has absorb...

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All three philosophies collectively believed that they were needed in order to improve humanity, end conflict and in turn keep order amongst society. ... In the perspective of the Legalists, efforts to improve the human society by a magnanimous example, education, and ethical principles were incompetent. ... This philosophy, even though not named "Legalism " is used to keep order in society today and punishment and reward is still engaged upon the actions. ... Although Confucianism is at a low population today, much of its central beliefs are still practiced in other cultures. ... This belie...

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Wilson notes that religious practices in society are a thing of the past. ... A rebuttal has been made by Steve Bruce on the theory stated by Finke and Stark that claims some of their evidence is flawed and secularization is evident today. ... In the early communities and traditional societies, religion had a strong social significance. ... Religion was a communal activity that existed in many parts of society. ...

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Today only villages and some small towns remind us of this kind of life, and as time passes, more people choose to abandon traditional way of life, to move to the "big city". ... Pre-industrial societies addressed education only to the elite and the rich. ... In pre-industrial societies income and the economy as a whole, were based on agriculture and manufacturing in home. ... The pursue for wealth is so high that if we compare it with traditional societies, modern ones would look corrupted (Macionis: 408). ... In modern societies government is done indirectly and people have little particip...

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Madison's view and opinions of faction-politics is relevant to today's politics. ... Further are the political parties of today, work unions, protesters, religious groups, different culture living in the United States. ... As America witnessed throughout the civil rights movement, factions, although not right or fair, were separated by race and even as we witness today in our schools children faction themselves away into their own disconnected groups by age, parent's income, or sports teams. ... They must listen because listening to the public's opinion is among the most im...

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The debate over the pros and cons of censorship in our society have been ongoing. ... The book also outlines the legal limitations of free speech in today's government and guidelines to determine whether or not something should be censored. One way the text can be interpreted is supporting censorship in society. ... If ideas of many people are suppressed, this may lead to one idea being too dominant and restrictive in society. ... The author believes that other functions in society should be unrestricted allowing for diversity in a community. ...

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There are three main types of euthanasia, or mercy killing, in existence in the world today. ... These methods display that there are many ways for someone to end their pain and suffering in the world today. ... The issue of euthanasia will always be argued in society and always gain support and opposition. ... As long as religion plays a strong part in society's position, there will always be a strong opposition to euthanasia. ...

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The monetary burden placed on society to support the young teen mother and her child is compounded with the distressing economic reality that a teen mother who is incapable of completing her education will earn appreciably less in her lifetime, pay considerably less in taxes, and statistically consume significantly more of society's resources (Evans). ... In providing community services churches reduce the economic burden on society. ... But if you were to ask them today, why they did not like her, they would never admit exactly why, it is just how our society works, and how people ar...

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It is said that there are three different kinds of people in today's world. ... In a time where our country was practically separated, social responsibility had all but vanished in society as a whole. ... By writing this, Martin Luther King, Jr. suggests that everyone that makes up a society is ultimately influenced by one another. ... By him taking the social responsibility of equality for all, it resulted in a change in society for the better. ... The beliefs of society may have changed, but the meaning of social responsibility remains crucial to our overall survival....

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There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not" (Butler). Religion is a part of society that is inescapable. ... Whether college bound individuals choose to subscribe to a particular religious group or not, does change the idea that religion is a powerful aspect of society that plays an essential role in the explanation of current issues and historic events that occurred centuries ago. ... "Today's headlines are full of Muslim terrorists, Jewish settlers in Israel, Chinese persecution of Muslims, friction between Hindu India and Musl...

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She faced challenges (such as losing her husband at a young age) with skill and determination that would rival anyone living today. ... Thoreau and Emerson saw a very different result in the burgeoning industrial society that Alexander Hamilton saw fifty years before them. ... For all the trials Douglass endured in life, his advice to move forward would be as useful today as it was then to anyone willing to heed it, "My business, if I have any here to-day, is with the present. ... Additional pieces in our reading, such as Melville's Bartelby the Scrivner and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Y...

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Today Christians aren't as devout as they used to be, plenty still get baptized and regularly attend church but how many actually live the life that Jesus wanted them to? ... Tradition, faith, and community drive the religion today this is my perspective on Christianity. ... Faith, tradition, and community are some of the major aspects I've learned about thus far and they shape the religion we know as Christianity today. ... If we as a society continue to trend away from faith and community, and don't live the lifestyle Jesus sought from us then what will Christianity come to?...

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