Reading Ancient Futures has made me realize how privileged I am personally to live in the western culture and how easy it is for myself, and millions of others to forget how fortunate we are. It has shown me how easily westerners take for granted how accessible everything is to them. That we only have to come out and walk a minute to reach the train system, or that when I enter a supermarket every type of meat and vegetables that we might want is at our fingertip already pre- prepared. When we need some butter all we have to do is run out to the corner store and pick up a box, or when it gets chilly outside as the seasons change we enter a department store and have a mass variety of different brands and styles of clothing to choose from. This book has also been able to shine a new light on how wasteful we are as well. When we go out for dinner and the food doesn't suite our taste buds or if we are full and still have quite a bit of food left on our plate we throw it away without a second thought. Even though I am so grateful to be living in the western culture, there are some aspects of the Ladakhi culture that I am envious of. In some particular aspects you could say that the Ladakhi people are actually more privileged than we are. In the west you work because you have to work to survive, and so do the Ladakhi people but the one thing that differentiate them from us is that we work all year round, we have to work and not just work but work hard and we work to suite the needs of our employer not ourselves, where as the Ladakhi people work hard but at their own rate accompanied by laughter and songs. They are lucky because the get to throw festivals and parties very often and they are happy doing their jobs. Now when it comes to us we dread going to work most of the time, and we go because we need to make money to take care of ourselves and our families if we have one. Plus we cant forget the fact that because we live in such an industrialized culture that we must have money in order to obtain our mere necessities of life, such as food, water, shelter, clothing, etc.
With the examination of some of the texts of the author of Ancient Futures, Helena Norberg-Hodge, one can ascertain the intended message that not only is particular of Ladakh and how the impression of modern life is perceived, but also is representative of the entire "underdeveloped" world, with Ladakh serving as a microcosm for said purpose. ...
While reading the article by Hopkins his made main point very clear that the popular gladiatorial shows were actually games. The games were played throughout this time as popular shows that attracted many of the surrounding population. The fight hosted by the emperor Trajan just after the conques...
Terrorism, Terrorism is the threat or use of violence, often against the civilian population, to achieve political ends. Terrorism involves activities such as assassinations, bombings, random killings, hijackings, and skyjackings. It is used for political, not military, purposes, and by groups too w...
The dynamic characteristic of laws played in favor of the plebeians, as the document came to be more accepting over time (Carriedo 85).The state of the Rome might have been questionable around the creation of the Tables due to the unwillingness of the patricians to integrate with the plebeians, but after they had time to adjust, the quality of life was undoubtedly better than the ancient Babylonians. ... The plebeians were slowly given the opportunity to have a say in the government and their futures. ...
If we were able to see into the future and we did not like we saw would we be able to change what was going to happen or are our futures already written for us to carry out. ... It is known to a lot of historians that we have a massive chunk of our history missing like for example, the Mayans were handed knowledge from some ancient civilisation so they were able to map out a yearly calendar, who was this civilisation and where was it from. ...
Jihad And McWorld In a changing world, there are two known political futures: Jihad and Mc World. ... Benjamin Barber writes, " One driven by parochial hatreds, the other by universalizing markets, the one re-creating ancient sub national and ethnic borders from within, the other making national borders porous from without (53)". ...
1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve. Over 5 million years ago, primates walked on all fours. ...
Mutually opposed, interdependent, and controlling each other In understanding how YinYang theory and Qi work together, ancient Chinese physicians applied this duality to the inner-workings of the body and mind. ... This is further exemplified in Lambert's article, "The New Ancient Trend in Medicine."" ...
