Major corporations like Wal-Mart, Target, Lowe's and Home Depot have monopolized the shopping experience once enjoyed by the mom and pop stores, the backbone of small town America. ... The "Super Centers" have invaded and crippled small town America and have gone further offering Internet shopping for "our convenience". The reduced need to employ the younger generation has lead to an increase of unemployment especially in small towns. ...

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Thompson reveals how social media creates the image of a small-town life within modern city life ,in which, Thompson writes about how social media allows people to discover who they really are whether social media is beneficial to their lives or not. ... Within a "small town life" you are not able to hide yourself, everybody knows you and you know everybody, social media has created this through ambient awareness (Thompson 585). ... Social media has allowed people to create more relationships and broaden communication in modern society, however, spreading ourselves so broadly can thi...

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African-Americans have a strong work ethic within our families. ... Within our families and community, there are more flexible roles, meaning that our parents do not necessarily have to be there all day everyday for us. Our grandparents, aunts, uncles, and sometimes cousins take on the role of mother and father while our real parents are working, out of town, or if for some reason our biological parents are no longer around. ... We sing, dance, shout, and cry during our service. ... The church is an extended family in our community, and this is seen in the fact that we call members of our c...

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Nowadays, not only in Tianjin, Beijing, but also in most cities even towns, this kind of phenomenon is happening everywhere. ... At present, industrialization is the crucial thing in our country according to our situation. ... It doesn't consider the situation of our country. ... In our country, cities are the main bases for the construction of modernization. ... As a result, when making the urban planning, we should expand our horizon into the future and think of our descendants' life. ...

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Billy clearly does not belong where he is, yet when the students start dancing, the camera angel focuses solely on the dancers feet, eliminating our ability to tell which dancer he is, and we see here that although he might not stereotypically fit in to the situation, when you eliminate the stereotype and you focus on the dancing, he is just as good, if not better than his female classmates. ... But with the modern change in gender roles in society, our current views allow us to "switch camera angels" and just focus on the talent. ... He works in the mines like most of the men in his...

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As the author states the moment of Emily's death, " our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of a curiosity to see the inside of her house" (Faulkner 299). ... This quote or part of the story is an example of the constant change of society's ideology behind the changes our world faces everyday. For example, constantly today, everything we view on our Internet daily, we come across changes and new trends to follow, to be socially accepted by everyone. ... Therefore, we might be ignoring wha...

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In America's society a war is brewing, it's on the streets, it's in the workplace and quite possibly raging outside your very own window; it is a war which is occurring within ever level of our society and has been for quite some time. ... Through the late nineteenth century, as coal and electricity supplanted water power, industry moved from riverside factory towns to cities. ...

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Louis are obstructed by the social structures that hold them back from success, while the elite in towns like Rye, New York, invest money to make these structures stronger. ... Our culture and society influence us to believe that whatever class we are born into is where we should stay, and where we belong. ... Our culture has evolved into a constant verification of our status. Like a bird shows off its brightest feathers, we as humans desire to show off our most expensive and enviable items. ... The purchasing of expensive things, such as superior homes, help to shape our social identity, or t...

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By playing the production in a large industrial town in Northern Hungary, Csiszar's vision was received with familiarity by the audience who could relate to the play and its reflective qualities. ... In this scene, Lear's tone and language is formal, with the use of poetic language and verse emphasising his power, "Meanwhile we shall express our darker purpose-. ... Often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars - Edmond's eventual demise at the close of the play symbolises the triumph of good over evil. ...

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Ann-Mei's mother returns home after the night but the rumor is already circulated around the town. ... This demonstrates lack of respect of women in China, it was the Merchant Wu Tsing who raped An-Mei's mother; however, people in the town including her own parents and aunts blame An-Mei's mother for showing temptation, alluring the man. ...

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The slave of the mother's household was the captive of our mother, as opposed to the slave of our father. ... Due to the matriarchal and polygamous regime, we feel him closer to us, because he belongs to our mother, than the slave of the father, who is at an equal distance, socially speaking, from all the children of the same father and different mothers. ... The slave of the father's household, by contrast, considering his anonymous position (our father is everyone's, so to speak, while our mother is truly our own), will be of no interest to anyone and have no special protectio...

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On the death of their cacique (spiritual leader), the town of Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico elect a young male to take over. ... If we look at three instances of conscious ritual performed, we may see that our lives are made up of ritual and that it is important to the life course. ...

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With this, she is able to gently criticise the insular town of Highbury and her own society. ... When Cher becomes friends with Tai, Dionne clearly states "Our stock would plummet", referring to their popularity. ...

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It focuses on factors inside a town that affect the rate of crimes. ... All we can do is guide children and detect their behaviors from early on, so we can do our best to prevent them from turning savage or cruel. ...

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The nurture theory holds that genetic influence over abstract traits may exist; however, the environmental factors are the real origins of our behavior. ... The id being the subconscious domain featuring our innate desires and drives, the ego being the only conscious method balancing the id and superego, which is developed through early social attachments. ... The faster the urbanization can result in the relative gap of deprivation within a city or town. ...

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Bhutan is a small landlord country nestled in between China in the north and India in the south.The nation is well known to the rest of the world due to the philosophy of Gross National Happiness which was introduced by His Majesty the 4th Druk Gyalpo King Jigme Singye Wangchuck in the year 1972 wit...

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Some school rejects the emerging multicultural curriculum while others argues for greater recognition of the diverse cultures that are increasingly represented in our rapidly expanding population; specially Hispanics. ... We need to be honest about our past so that we can ensure that our future as a multiethnic society makes it possible for all groups to be acknowledged and to contribute to the whole of who America. ...

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Defining Differential Association According to Edwin Sutherland, Differential Association Theory is "the specific causal process in the development of systematic criminal behavior". (Criminological Theories, Akers, pg.72) To a lay person, I see differential association in the terms of someone being a product of his/her environment. A person who is brought up to be a criminal, becomes a criminal. If you take a person from an upstanding neighborhood, and place said person in an area of unwanted violence and destitution, that person has a great chance of becoming delinquent themselves throug...

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Our economy is managed or driven by people who believe the difference between Coke and Pepsi is a subject worth arguing about. ... We teach our children one thing about society and they learn the opposite from experience. ... Justice and Equality in Schooling Education has been a predominant social institution in Britain since as early as 1300AD, when 100 English towns were known to have schools; although it wasn't until 1850 when the introduction of schooling for girls was established. ...

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Marx explains that it is in human nature that our means of life are to be link with material or physical organisation. ... While, on feudal or estate property form of ownership, the production of labour is determine by the sparseness of the population at that point, which is consider to be very different from tribal type ownership.Since feudalism is still developing from town and its little territories to one large entity, Marx claims that, "definite individuals who are productively active in a definite way, enter into these definite social and political relations" (Marx 154) in this ownership...

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(Boyd, 2002) pointed quoted a point from (The Copenhagen Centre for Partnership Studies,2002) stating that Social Partners and Social Partnership can be defined as: Social Partnership can be defined as a tri or multi-partite arrangement involving employers, trade unions, public authorities (the state and/or local/regional authorities) and/or others (e.g. voluntary sector). Social partnership is usually concerned with areas of economic and social policy and might be based on a binding agreement or declaration of intent. (The Copenhagen Centre for Partnership Studies, 2002). Social Partners is t...

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