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Baseball Influence on the Dominican’s Republic Culture
Baseball has a long history of being a globally recognized national Dominican sport for a number of solid reasons. Moreover, baseball is considered a true passion rather than an average physical exercising for a great number of Dominicans, and, therefore, nowadays, it significantly shapes the Dominican culture. This tremendous success of baseball i...
Contemporary Pop Culture
Every society, in any period of its history, has its own culture, which has a great effect on people and defines a direction in which humanity moves. In a modern society, people have contemporary pop culture that forms tastes and views of the present generation as well as reflects the current situation of it. The main components of popular culture ...
The Politics of Place in Global Cities
Introduction Berlin, Germany’s largest city by population, has been a city of locals and immigrants for several centuries. Immigrants from various countries in the world have contributed to the shaping of the character of Berlin and Germany in general, making a relatively unique feature in the city. While most immigrant communities in the city c...
The Problems and Perspectives of the Muslim Minorities
Introduction The overwhelming majority of people in the world have religious beliefs. In fact, religion plays such a crucial role in people’s lives that the right for the freedom of religion is considered to be one of the most important ones. At the same time, global trends, regional distinctions and local preferences can often lead to the overl...
The Causes Of Gentrification In Inner-Urban Areas
Introduction The concept of gentrification always emerges in the discussion about urban inequality since it was coined in 1964 by a sociologist Ruth Glass. In the past five decades, the factors that might cause this process have changed. It has happened even as some former communist states such as Estonia are experiencing an influx of middle incom...
Unemployment in The United Arab Emirates
Introduction The issue of the study is to prepare overwhelming report for the Gulf Cooperation Council states annual summit with the focus on currently rising problem of unemployment in the United Arab Emirates. Due to the crisis, which has taken place because the oil prices fall, the quantity of working places has reduced. In the UAE, oil and gas...
Obedience to Authority
Obedience to authority is a basic organization of the society that is created on the ground of hierarchy, where some people are subjected to others. The most obvious examples of obedience to authority are the obedience of students to their teachers, obedience of society to police, obedience of soldiers to their commanders, etc. Obviously, obedience...
Use of Plastic Shopping Bags
A. UTILITARIANISM Using your own words, define the expression Utilitarianism. From the case study provide an example to show your understanding of the expression utilitarianism (5 marks) Utilitarianism is an ethical ideology that considers the good of the society as the sum of happiness of individuals. The reason for morality is to promote th...
Creative Problem Solving: Global Ecological Crisis
Issue Description Nowadays, humanity is closing to the edge of irrecoverable climate changes caused by its industrial activity and resource consumption. The forests are cut down, oceans are polluted with oil and garbage, CO2 level is growing each year because of machines exhausts. We have forgotten about the fact that a man is not the nature’s ma...
How can We Explain Gender Stratification
Over the years, all the research works on a topic of stratification have suffered from the particular blind attitude relating to the assigned role played by gender differences. However, gender on its own can be named one of the striking examples of general stratification concept. There is no society where women have influence, effects, and status g...
Third Exam: Authoritarian and Totalitarian Systems
The main purpose of the paper is to study and analyze the issues of authoritarian and totalitarian systems through the observation of the example of ancient Greece and the way the issues are represented in the works of such theorists, as Arendt, Freud, and Sun Tzu, as a representative of Chinese theorists. It can be seen that Thucydides’ observa...
Family Role
Family is the area where gender equality or, more precisely, gender disparities are the most acute, painful and often the hardest problems to deal with, at least, by law. The family is a complex social institution. Family relations are determined by the national culture, historic traditions, socioeconomic conditions, and some personal factors. The...
Christianity, Power and Nature
Agrarianism as a philosophical concept points out that true reason for the current situation on the planet, including poor quality food, air polluted with harmful emissions and diseases lies in the existing world view. First of all, the cult of material gains is one of the technocratic civilization priorities, and spiritual and moral principles a...
Eliminating Poverty
Introduction Poverty remains one of the crucial problems of humanity. Many people in the world suffer from food and water shortage, while a small proportion of rich people lives in luxury and enjoys sophisticated achievements of modern science and technology (Abramsky, 2013). The discrimination on income principle becomes evident in many parts of t...
Is Generation Me Really so Bad?
Hard data and statistics show that persons born between the 1980 and the year 2000 have propensities of self-regard than any other group. People born in previous years were more society-oriented than self-oriented as compared to the current generation. All the same, the trend towards self and individualization began long ago; it has just climaxed w...