Today, the university is the community of scientists and scholars in order to do research, develop science and be global. Today, there is a big race in different nations so science is needed for guiding them much more than past years. ... Today, the superiority of nations depends on the level of science and technology. ... The societies expect from universities to become a place which creates culture and social values and transfers it to society by students. So, universities have really important responsibilities for societies. ...

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Nowadays, societies of developed countries are organized around the unprecedented consumer appetite and display of commodities through which individuals gain their identity and prestige. ... The result is dependence on consumption for a member of a society to function. ... For instance, most children at Christmas time expect to receive material gifts as a sigh of love, also today it is impossible to imagine a proposal without a ring- in many cases material objects represent and mean more than human relationships. It is generally believed that advertising manipulates the society through the p...

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The National Honor Society officer elections are today. ... After all of the votes had been cast and counted, I was declared the next president of the National Honor Society. ... I taught myself how to become a leader through all of the members of the National Honor Society. ...

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Tablets, laptops, smart phones, PlayStation, and Xbox, all are part of and contributed to our technology today. ... Negative effects of technology in our society are lack of social skills, obesity and constant distraction. ... Consequently, the inactivity itself has a significant effect of the increase of number of obesity today. ... I believe that people have incorporated the modern technology and disregarding the negative effects in our society. ...

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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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My Opinion of the Purpose of National Honor Society To be inducted into the National Honor Society would be a great respect. ... The Influence of National Honor Society Members on Others To be in the National Honor Society makes your friends and piers look up to you. ... They are very important because they helped us become what we are today. ... These are two factors that are very important to our society. ... They made us grow into what we are today. ...

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Today the American culture yet again faces issues of assimilation and social status of emerging racial and ethnic groups. ... While keeping in mind Park's theories and how they affected society present day, and how American society is facing similar, but larger issues were he alive today one wonders what he would think of an African-American president, the former first female Secretary of State governing the American society. Today the challenges to go beyond Park's theories of societal roles and begin to think to a new construct perhaps. ... " And yet today the biggest social ...

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The family is the fundamental basis of our society. ... Not only do I believe his views are nonapplicable in our society today, but I believe they were never applicable to any society. The concept of families has existed since the beginning of time, and continues to be a strengthening principle of economics in our society today. ... This claim is false, especially in today's society. ... Karl Marx was apparently confused on the issue and his points have no validity today, nor did they in the 19th century when he wrote them down. ...

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Young people today are dying to be thin; literally. Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, primarily affect teenage females living in western society. ... Family members possessing unhealthy attitudes towards body image, contributes to eating disorders among today's youth. ... While the study of eating disorders is still relatively new, society should be aware that the problem is on the rise. ... Society must make a joint effort to address the problem of unhealthy attitudes towards the body, which affect today's youth. ...

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Cultures are the socially derived valued habits, a minimum set of standards designed in a way, which tells us how to behave in society to acquire those standards to survive. ... On the other hand, not all the cultural habits are deserved to be obeyed even if they are suppose to be obligatory in the society. Like in India, dowry system, animal sacrifice in the temples, unequal rights to females etc. however, today these wrong systems do not exists that dominatingly as they were in past, and it was possible because of people who did put forward their opinion on these habits and showed courage to...

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In today's modern society women have achieved so much; from being simple "house wives", to CEOs in major companies. ... Women have always held the role of the "caretaker" in a marriage, and in American society. ... Today's generation is moving away from the "old" culture ways, at an astonishing rate. ... Society standards are what people around us expect of us. ... In today's society women are frowned upon by other women, if they choose not to take advantage of our progress towards employment equality. ...

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Since society has passed laws that condemn any type of racism, the only other possible answer to African American failure is white racism. ... It is against society to control individual's beliefs, values, and norms. All of societies actions against racism today are grid locked in legal and social rules. If today's whites can find a common ground in racial differences, yesterday's whites had to oppress them. ... Failure and misbehavior by non- whites is proof enough that white society is riddled with hatred and bigotry. ...

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From culture, social class, ethnic backgrounds to the neighborhoods we grew up in, we have be molded into who we are today. These things teach us who we are in society and how society functions. ... The reliance on cars changes what we view as close and far and last minute today is different than what was last minute back then. ... Values are what is important to a person and to a society. ... Individuals can have different values that the society. ...

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In America modern society, media has huge influence when it comes to in establishing what is feminine in society, and we can found it in many popular forms of media, including TV commercials, movies, radio, magazines, newspaper, and so on. ... With more access to social media and exposure to commercials, today's youth are receiving an overwhelming amount of information. ... Even though, women was only seen as the person who stayed home taking care of the house, children, and their husbands, today they can be more than that. ... For instance, in today's American society, we see many w...

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Today, our ability to be freethinkers is constantly being tested; our lives are assaulted on a daily basis by relentless advertising and shameless consumerism. ... Set in the mid-1600s, The Scarlet Letter epitomizes the religious intolerance of Puritan society. ... In "The Custom-House," he claims that he distrusts people and feels that most of society doesn't understand him. ... The 1800s, on the other hand, were inundated by an emerging consumerist society, which Thoreau adamantly rejected. Today, social deviance has a much larger scope and context, yet the pattern of societal intol...

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Many people in society don't realize the importance of maintaining equality. ... Despite statistics, many homes that are composed of single parents and his or her children are still considered incomplete and not supported fully by society. ... Kleiman's experiences allow the readers to debate while her arguments confront today's male and female population. She has made a great statement about the single parent families and how they are still not fully appreciated in today's society. Kleiman's writing is something that should often been seen in modern society and ch...

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Society seems to be a mass powered system which manipulates what is right or important; I have my own take on society depending on how I'm affected by society growing up and what values our parents instill upon me. Since I grew up rejected by society, disliked by most due to my race my view upon society was thus morphed in a negative way. ... We are shaped by what society wants us to be, and what society deems as "ok " is constantly changing. ... I've acknowledged how horrible society is, yet I have no choice but to take part in this messed up system due to the fact that I am a part ...

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Juvenile Delinquency and Society Throughout time, crime has played in an important part in the function of society. ... Our society tends to hold children in special regards in most cases, and the implementation of the juvenile court system led to the development of specific theories such as neutralization, labeling, and social control theories, by people which had a first-hand interest in these juvenile delinquency cases. ... The culture that exists today is different than the American culture twenty years ago, and in twenty years from now, American culture will have yet again, undergone a si...

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Time is tremendously important to those living in Western Society. ... Various societies throughout the history of man have treated time differently, and even today there is a disparity between cultures regarding the importance of time. ... In western society however, time is incredibly important. ... Being on time is important because our society says it is. It's not a virtue, and society can change its mind. ...

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Social construction is how society classifies it's inhabitants by what expectations certain groups have, and what privileges some have over others hindrance. ... Women are seen as more emotional and feminine because society tells them that they are. ... As a whole, society believes that gender is unchanging along with the person's assigned sex, very much similar to race. ... Social constructs such as race and gender would not exist if the world today was not built upon the need to categorize every being. ... When something as insignificant as race or gender becomes magnified under th...

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Growing up in society today is a difficult thing to do. ... Many views held by some members of society in America today reflect negatively on homosexuality, and have a very real affect upon the self-esteem and self-image of Gay teenagers. ... Gay activism and education, in addition, are slowly changing the view of society. ...

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Assumptions and Moral Values in Society in Invisible MAN Ralph Ellison uses the narrator in Invisible Man to portray how the narrator's alienation shows the society's assumptions and moral values. It is very apparent his society was not how it is today by way of the examples given in the book. ... The people in the society also ignored and openly oppressed blacks with no shame or guilt. ... The people in the society seemed to be in a never-ending cycle and showed he weak society the narrator lived in. ... This action shows how the narrator had no dignity and reflects the rest o...

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Affirmative action is a policy that was meant to create an even playing field for everyone in our society. ... It is my argument that Affirmative Action, properly and appropriately implemented can still have positive outcomes that our nation initially had in mind for populations of America's society. ... There is still evidence of "non-traditional affirmative action" practices in various aspects of American society, American schools, clubs, and even minority and gender biased organizations. ... This is another reason why America must stand up for its past of carnage and help to make rig...

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Although the United States is not the only society that places a high regard on being on time, Americans in particular it would seem have been criticized in the past for being a highly time-oriented people, and some other cultures may not place the same level of importance on being punctual as exists in the United States today. ... For instance, Doob (1990) emphasizes that, "The mandatory requirement of language is evident in modern societies which stress the importance of punctuality. 'Let us meet at two o'clock today': we immediately know that reference is being made to time ...

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This was in such to safeguard trade so that it was unable to be manipulated with civil society's power to dictate and determine prices on its value merits. ... Polanyi developed his idea to illuminate the warning for society and its natural resources when the competitive forces are allowed to dictate the market prices in the economy. ... Polanyi argues that negative consequences are inevitable from pursuing this utopian ideal as a struggle for resources in a resource-scarce world will ultimately lead to demise of nature and effectively human society. This presents a surprisingly relevant...

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