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society and where
Ideally speaking, it should be allowed to operate only where the public has a great stake in the continuity of supply or services, and where the actions of a single proprietor are secondary to the needs of society.
Many of these aspects will be seen as comparable to those of the ideal detective, but where the detective is active and militant, the jazz musician is passive, almost a victim of society.
This is a virtue of which we have great need in a society where there seems to be an increasing lack of communication -- or even desire for communication -- between differing schools of thought.
It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.
* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.
They viewed society like a modern stock company: democracy is like a company where all shareholders have an equal say regardless of the scale of their holding ; one share or ten thousand, it makes no difference.
He formally retired in 1988 and within a few years moved to the Pyrenees, where he currently lives in isolation from human society.
An arcology is also depicted in the 1968 futuristic novel " The World Inside ", by Robert Silverberg, where in the year 2381 the human race lives in 1000-storey-high towers, providing everything necessary to the society ( nutrition, energy, entertainment, jobs, etc .).
In a society where genealogy was considered extremely important because of God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants, the author may have felt compelled to establish his Hebrew lineage.
Her Journal was an important laboratory for her creativity serving as both sketchbook and literary experiment where in tiny handwriting she reported on society, recorded her impressions of art and artists, recounted stories, and observed life around her.
In the 1830s and 1840s a new development took place with the Permanent Building Society, where the society continued on a rolling basis, continually taking in new members as earlier ones completed purchases, such as Leek United Building Society.
" Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body.
Indeed, in those cases where no clear consensus exists on a given norm, the drafting of criminal law by the group in power to prohibit the behaviour of another group may seem to some observers an improper limitation of the second group's freedom, and the ordinary members of society have less respect for the law or laws in general — whether the authorities actually enforce the disputed law or not.
Conservative Judaism occupied an enviable middle position during a period where American society prized consensus.
measure of God ( Allah ) reinforced the significance of reserving and maintaining rights and equality for concubines in the then Arab society where earlier they were merely used for sexual pleasures without any social security and respect.
in novels such as Vice Versa ( 1882 ), where magic disrupts Victorian society with
It has been speculated that this trend may continue in the future to the point where liberal democratic nation-states become the universal standard form of human society.
Ethel decided not to be left behind so rented the Capua Palace on Malta, home port of the Mediterranean Fleet, where she became part of the island's high society.
Recognizing the reality of scarcity and then figuring out how to organize society for the most efficient use of resources has been described as the " essence of economics ", where the subject " makes its unique contribution.
Examples exist of teacher and student success stories where learning has transcended the classroom and has reached far out into society.
Instruction must focus on the child as a whole for you can never be sure as to where society may end or where that student will be needed or will take themselves.
Series of this type include the Famous Five ( 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog ), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, ( 15 novels, 1943 – 1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police ) as well as The Secret Seven ( 15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries ).

society and everything
While the economy is the base structure of society, it does not follow that everything in history is determined by the economy, just as every feature of a house is not determined by its foundations.
A key notion in the work of the Frankfurt School since Dialectic of Enlightenment had been the idea of thought becoming an instrument of domination that subsumes all objects under the control of the ( dominant ) subject, especially through the notion of identity, i. e. of identifying as real in nature and society only that which harmonized or fit with dominant concepts, and regarding as unreal or non-existent everything that did not.
; " The Fox and the Forest ": A couple living in a war-ravaged future society on the brink of collapse escape by traveling back to 1938 Mexico ( using a traveling agency in which people can travel to different time periods ) and enjoying life before chemical, nuclear, and biological warfare ruined everything.
The provisor was the head ; nothing could be done without consulting him ; he installed the members selected by the society, and confirmed the statutes drawn up by it ; he had to provide for everything.
In his view, people should own the productive results of their efforts and everything found in nature, most importantly land, should belong equally to everyone in society.
Dionysus is represented by city religions as the protector of those who do not belong to conventional society and thus symbolizes everything which is chaotic, dangerous and unexpected, everything which escapes human reason and which can only be attributed to the unforeseeable action of the gods.
However, Mao stated that in a few years a new Cultural Revolution might be necessary and added " No one should think everything will be all right after one, or two, or even three Cultural Revolutions, for socialist society occupies a considerably long historical period.
Supporters say that watching all Internet traffic is important, because by knowing everything that everyone is reading and writing, they can identify terrorists and criminals, and protect society from them.
He believed that no individual ( or group, including the government ) could ever understand everything about an economy or a society in order to rationally design the best system of governance.
: The truth of the matter, as Marx sees, is that everything that bourgeois society builds is built to be torn down.
* The short story " Earth's Holocaust " from Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse, is about a society that burns everything that it finds offensive, including its literature.
His early individualism was quickly superated by an organicist theory of the social link, in which " the individual is nothing, society is everything ").
*" The individual is nothing, society is everything " ( L ' individu n ' est rien, la société est tout ) in Les Déracinés ( Roman de l ' énergie nationale I ), in Romans et voyages, R. Laffont Bouquins, 1994, p. 615
Abel receives everything undeservingly, while his friend Joaquín is despised by God and society and envies him.
In ancient and feudal society, the ability to appropriate surplus-value from trade in commodities and capital was usually strongly regulated, and limited by the state and religious authorities ; a universal market where almost everything could be bought and sold freely using money did not exist.
Stalin quotes Lenin that " we have everything necessary to construct the complete socialism " and claims that despite the claims of Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev (" who later became spies and fascist agents ", in Stalin's words ), the socialist society has for the most part been indeed constructed.
He also compares contemporary society to the Middle Ages, where instead of individuals believing in anything told to them by religious leaders, now individuals believe everything told to them by science, making people more naive than in Middle Ages.
Individuals in a contemporary society, one that is mediated by technology, could possibly believe in anything and everything, whereas in the Middle Ages the populace believed in the benevolent design they were all part of and there was order to their beliefs.
Other functions rely not on recognition of some token or weight of metal in a marketplace, where time to detect any counterfeit is limited and benefits for successful passing-off are high, but on more stable long term social contracts: one cannot easily force a whole society to accept a different standard of deferred payment, require even small groups of people to uphold a floor price for a store of value, still less to re-price everything and rewrite all accounts to a unit of account ( the most stable function ).
His politics is communal politics, mob politics, herd politics ; his religion is a public rite wholly without subjective significance .” Babbitt, he believed, was the literary embodiment of everything wrong with American society.
The album's name and lyrical concept were revealed on January 29, 2011 in an interview by DJ JC Green of Metal Messiah Radio's " Heavy Metal Thunder " show with Russell Allen: the follow-up to Paradise Lost will be titled Iconoclast and will have its lyrics centered around " machines taking over everything and all this technology we put our society into pretty much being our demise.
Both main and secondary fictional characters become prominent members of society who advise the most important figures of the period and affect everything from politics to economics and science.

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