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Disharmony in Society: Have you ever wondered why there is so much arguing and even violence in the average household in this era? In fact families that do not argue are a minority in the twenty-first century and it indicates that we should truly take a look at the way we live and ask the question: "Is this what I truly want from life?" It is true that everybody seems to work that much harder and longer to hold down a job, it is also true that it is almost impossible to totally switch off from work when you arrive home at the end of a long day. But is it necessary that you take out the frustrations built up during a day at work on those around you - the people you love most? It is necessary to find a way to separate work from private life so that when you walk through the front door each evening everything connected to work switches off, this process is called spatial anchoring and is something we are all capable of. It consists of mentally compartmentising the different roles that make up our life: - I am in work mode when I leave home each morning and my role is that of bread-winner. My focus for the next 8 to 10 hours is to make the company that employs me richer. - When I leave work I will leave the problems and outstanding issues in the office where they belong. During the trip home I will focus on my private life and I how I wish to communicate with those around me. - When I open the front door at home my time is with my family because they are very inportant to me. On the trip home I've made a mental list of all the things I wish to hear about and all the things I wish to speak about, including the most important thing of all and that is telling my friends and family at least once how important they are to me. Until I leave for work tomorrow private life is my focus. The benefits of setting spatial anchors in your life is that by switching off from work at the end of each day you will become better at your job because you are allowing your sub-conscious mind time to focus on problems. By doing this the answers to seemingly massive problems will appear without too much effort. If you are married and have a family you will give family life the opportunity to blossom and provide the necessary balance and harmony that only family life can give and as a result of this you become better at both work and personal life. Often unattached people wonder why it is so difficult to find a partner these days. Some are well into their forties before they find what appears to be the right partner, others give up long before that. What we all need to focus on is whether we have suitable spatial anchors in our life or whether we meet people and still have part of our mind focused on work. Because if you do you will never appear interesting to a potential partner. In fact it is a good idea never to mention work until you've made a decision to tell a potential partner all about yourself. This has to be mutual and unless you are prepared to give a partner your total attention now, when you first meet, what chance is there of you creating a spatial anchor around this relationship in the future? I read recently that the City of London Police introduced a a radical new human relations policy in an attempt to reduce the instances of stress in this highly stressful job. They encouraged all officers to leave the job after 8 hours work each duty shift. It did not matter if they left half finished paperwork on the desk, after 8 hours it was time to leave and focus on private life. What they actually did was create a spatial anchor around work and provided a time to switch off that spatial achor and focus on another. Work is not life, it is a portion of life. The early results indicate a far more harmonious and efficient workplace. Crime solving rates have risen, absenteeism for all reasons, including stress, have reduced dramatically and the police stations are much happier places to be. - I will go one step further and say that the private lives of the police officers is better and life in general is assuming a fun aspect that was previously missing. Your efficiency at work will rise dramatically if you are able to switch off after you leave your palce of work. You will be a more fun person to be around and your problem solving ability will soar as a result of allowing yourself time to switch and have fun with those you love most. Disharmony in society is of our own making - are you big enough to take the action necessary to unmake it? If you can you will improve greatly as a human being.
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FRANCIS K GITHINJI |
2008-02-04 |
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Title: New Dating Society in Canada
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Online dating in Canada and many other developed countries has taken root. Internet users are increasing day by day globally.This has made dating easy and interesting. It is estimated that 80% of the Canadian population has dated online in their lifetime. This is the birth of a new society it is not often that one witnesses the birth of a new society. But its interesting to learn that this one qualifies to be called a society in all manner and character. This society is growing very fast such that by the end of 2008 its only China and India that will have a larger society than the Internet dating community. The developing world has not been left behind but it is also taking root. Days are gone when young men and women used to have arranged marriages.They role of the parents and guardian is being overtaken by events Its unfortunate that the online dating community is concentrated so much in the developed world. Online dating in Canada, USA and UK tops the list of the English speaking countries where online dating is the order of the day. This online society finds this kind of society more friendly and convenient than the convectional one Four main social forces appear to be driving the rapid growth of online dating society: - In Canada there is growing population of online dating communities composed of a big chunk of singles. It is becoming fashionable for people to remain single in Canada breaking away from the old ways of living as a husbands and wives. This no doubt makes the main pool of online dating society. - Careers, time and life pressures are increasing everyday, so men and women are looking for more efficient ways of meeting for intimate relationships. - Single people are more mobile due to the demands of the job market, so it is more difficult for them to meet people for dating. - Workplace romance is on the decline due to growing sensitivity about sexual harassment. Online dating in Canada is mostly for the young.Because Internet users are younger, well educated and with very good prospects of landing in well paying jobs. Online Dating communities are most often Male, younger, single, divorced and some cases married. Most of them well educated and in urban areas. Most online Dating users want to have fun, look for sexual partners and quite interestingly for life partners. For most Canadians, embarrassment is not a limiting factor in online dating, but mostly the risks associated with it. Chances of landing in the hands of scammers, scammers or even dangerous criminals have also to be factored in. Some people do not believe it is effective or there are better ways of meeting their life partners. One may be tempted to imagine that Internet dates are not social people, on the contrary you will find they either belong to a religious organization or even a social club. They are also very active in several other social activities. Among some of the main worries is the fact that many online dates will not tell the truth about themselves, they sometimes upload the wrong photos and the profiles that only dwell on the positive part of their lives. To conclude i would say that online dating provides an opportunity for one to meet people who would otherwise in an ordinary situation you would have not met in once life.It is more convenient than other ways of trying to meet people.Online dating in Canada is fun. Francis K. Githinji Is A Online Dating Expert. His Latest Project ONLINE DATING IN CANADA Shows How The Power Of Online Dating Can Be Harnessed Internationally and With Great Success, Or You Could Post Your Valued Comments On His Blog At ONLINE DATING IN CANADA.
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Pramod Shet |
2007-06-10 |
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Title: Top 5 Reasons Why There is Disharmony In Your Sex Life
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The article aims at listing and analyzing the root causes of troubled Sex life. You need to Spice up your sex life. What could be the ramifications of a dull, non-exciting sex life is well known. It could lead to a divorce . Well , this article's objective is to outline the causes of disharmony in the Sex Life. One of these five could be the main reason affecting your sex life and you need to take an action immediately. 1. Stress in Professional Life We are generally tuned to bring our professional life at home. this causes a lot of stress in our personal life. many people are responsible for spoiling their personal sex lives due to over ambitious Professional Objectives. The partner also has some basic needs which should be satisfied. Time is short and if its lost once, the marriage life also gets badly affected.One of the causes of divorce is un successful sex life. 2. Self Abnegation Sometimes people are guilty of self abnegation. They put the interest of other people in front of their Sexual needs. They might be involved in social work and are not working on their own selves. They need to look physically attractive.They need to look sexually interested. But in most such cases they are not. This leads to ignorance from their counterparts. 3. Less time With Each Other Metro life style has its own pros and cons. Its very fast and the time that couples should spend together is actually eaten up by work , television and activities to keep up the financial health of their family. Lack of communication leads to disharmony in relationship. Sexual performance is directly proportional to the sharing and caring that a couple experiences. 4. Monotonous Sexual Activities Predictability is the evil of discomfort in sex life. Spice brings the essence to sex life.If the same places , weekend nights are going to be the Planned Sex Environments, then the interest would soon be lost. 5. Cheating on Partners A secret affair signifies the flash point at which the relationship has come to. It could end up in a divorce. Symptoms being a lack of Sex life . With the Cheating partner avoiding any closeness whatsoever. Any relation is built on trust and Cheating often leads to a feeling of guilt whereby the cheating partner finds himself as the culprit. These are the five main causes which time and again affect your sex life. As far as possible discuss with your partner and always share and care for a healthy relationship and Sex life. Pramod Shet is an Expert at Enhancement of Sexual Performance and have been in this arena for few years now. He has got Expert status as an author and you would find his expert comments on various Sexual forums. Below you will find the link WHICH is ACTIVE for this Week ONLY. Also Grab the article"Affair on internet" ABSOLUTELY FREE For Enhanced Sexual Pleasures and to SpiceUp Your sex life CLICK BELOW www.refinedways.com/sexualmastery/sexualmastery2.html ">CLICK HERE NOW !!!! /a> Copyright 2007 Pramod Shet. Please feel free to pass this article on to your friends, or use it in your ezine or newsletter.
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dimitri konchin |
2007-03-13 |
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Title: Selected Achievements of Nationwide Building Society.
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Nationwide Building Society, the world’s largest building society, is the country’s 4th largest mortgage lender and in the top 10 of UK’s financial institutions in terms of assets size. Having its start in the 1850's, Nationwide has been able to complete over a hundred mergers, the key one being the merger with Anglia Building Society in 1987. Nationwide is still committed to staying mutual meaning that the society is operating solely for the benefit of its members. The main goal of the society is to provide valuable lending and savings products and charge as little as possible for all the day-to-day activities. The loans that the society makes are always secured by the residential property and are funded through the deposits of the members. The members of the society fall into two categories: borrowing or those that have a mortgage from Nationwide and investing or those that hold a FlexAccount (savings account). Deposit accounts, insurance, personal loans, credit cards or products of the subsidiaries do not provide membership rights. Being a member of the Nationwide Building Society gives an opportunity to participate in the organisation’s management and vote on various issues and appointments. Nationwide has a number of subsidiaries that are responsible for specific lines of products within the society. UCB Home Loans limited, for example, is one of UK’s top specialist lender of mortgage loans. Nationwide Mortgage Corporation Limited purchases and runs mortgage portfolios of other institutions. Nationwide Investments Ltd. provides investment advice to the members. Socially responsible business is a priority for Nationwide. The society is actively involved in various charitable initiatives through the Foundation, a charity organization set up by Nationwide where members of Nationwide automatically become members of the Foundation. Other community activities are conducted by the Community & Environmental Affairs team with volunteers involved in various community-serving projects around the country. The company firmly believes that great business success and strong community work have to co-exist in order for the society to continue its growth. Nationwide’s members appreciate these efforts and reward the company with support toward their products. Setting Nationwide aside from the competition is its dedicated effort to respect the rights of consumers. Nationwide was the first to publish Summary Boxes on all credit card information which clearly presents to the consumer all fees and charges usually hidden in the fine print. Some of the societies other achievements include being UK’s second largest savings provider that is opening 3,000 new accounts daily. UK’s 4th largest lender, Nationwide has 1.2 milion mortgage accounts. Nationwide clearly demonstrates that the strategy of commitment to the interest of its members, financial innovation and social responsibility can produce significant results and continued growth. Nationwide Loans & Mortgages Quote
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Tim Johnson |
2006-01-31 |
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Title: Gender and the media
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The media can be viewed as a complicated network of communication channels that the society utilizes to disseminate information. Thus, the media serves as a mechanism that society uses to control and monitor the people that make up that society. A big question to ask is whether it is the media that serves the society or the society that serves the media. It is believed that there is a direct relationship between the information that appears in the media and the demands that the society sets forth. A good situation to investigate would be the role of women in the media. It is rather obvious that women attract considerable attention of the media. Many television commercials that advertise consumer products use super-models to catch the attention of the viewer. Women serve a purpose of an attention getting device. Today this ideal of a female body is being massively advertised and promoted by the mass media and it has already established a solid position in women’s minds. Nowadays the society announces new updated version of the beauty standards regarding the shape of a female body. The development of this ideal has been under way for centuries and today it is being headed in the same direction. In a similar fashion, today women want their bodies tight, firm and less curvaceous. Now like never before these standards influence the life of every woman in the present-day culture. This new ideal is extremely conspicuous in television commercials where we see a well-shaped beautiful woman opening a can of Coke. Also the presence if this ideal is salient in magazines where the pages are filled with pictures of half-naked attractive women that are put in there with a purpose of catching the reader’s attention. The pattern here is easily determinable. Women now prefer having a slender body which is much thinner and less curvaceous. There are numerous beauty contests such as Miss America Pageant for example that actively assisted in the creation of this ideal. Today, women turn to the mass media to see what a perfectly shaped body looks like. Hollywood promotes this image in the movies, television commercials have their own way of getting the viewer’s attention and money, and magazines publish pictures of attractive women exposing parts of their bodies to increase sales. This culture is ruled by money and corporations that are willing to do whatever it takes to snatch a dollar from a person’s pocket for it is the primary objective of the economy. The goal of any business is to make money. Higher profits resulting from an increase in sales signify that the economy is back on track and is fulfilling its major objective. The mass media could not care less what women think about the ideal of a female body. This ideal was created by society in order to achieve the objective. Magazines and televisions sell this image to the consumers that enjoy seeing women the way they look on the front cover of Playboy, Cosmopolitan and other publications. These standards are established by society, a complicated notion which basically represents a network of economic agents that derive monetary profit from creating an image that appeals to the end-user. The bottom-line is that the role of the mass media in shaping the image of a perfect body can hardly be overestimated. As discussed above the beauty standards sold by the mass media generate long-term obsession with the body for most women. It is safe to say that women who are born with a perfectly shaped slender body are not many. Most females have to constantly control their eating and drinking habits in order to meet the expectations of the environment that they live in. This is how moral dissatisfaction with their bodies and low self-esteem lead some females to anorexia nervosa. Also, it is obvious that the media literally treats women as toys in other words as instruments to generate profits. Such attitude seems to be incorporated into the social structure. Tim Johnson Junior is a freelance writer, CRWA certified resume writer and career coach. Has written over 2000 articles and essays on the subject of Social Issues. Has worked for Essaymart's custom writing department from 2003 to 2005. Currently, Tim is busy helping professionals and executives optimize their careers at a certified Resume Writing firm, ResumeAid
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Yvonne Russell |
2005-12-21 |
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Title: Red Hat Society Ladies
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Who are the Red Hat Society Ladies? If you see ladies in the over 50’s bracket, wearing red hats and purple dresses, get out of their way. Red Hat Society Ladies are on the move, and they’re having fun. The Red Hat Society originated as a group of friends having afternoon tea in Fullerton, California. Now the ladies of the Red Hat Society number over 1.5 million worldwide. There are more than 41 000 chapters, including groups in Canada, Japan, Mexico, Egypt and Australia, as well as an online chapter. Seize the Day Wearing red hats and purple dresses is symbolic of this seize the day, devil may care approach to life. For Red Hat Society Ladies who are feeling especially frivolous, a feather boa, glitzy jewelry and purple gloves add an extra dash of glamor and fun. They call themselves a disorganisation , and have no rules except the red hat and purple attire worn to all gatherings like a badge of honor. Red Hat Society Origins Founder, Sue Ellen Cooper was inspired by Jenny Joseph‘s poem Warning. The essence of the poem is about embracing fun and life, rather than being held back by age and society’s expectations. The poem starts off When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit Red Hat Society Ladies have learned the art of prioritising what is really important in life. And they are going for it. I don’t mean doing the laundry or having the best starched sheets on the block. The Red Hat Society Ladies are intent on having serious fun. Fun and Friendship In fact, it’s all about fun and friendship. The fun starts with the naming of the chapters and members. Chapters include the Raspberry Tarts, the Rowdy Red Hat Mamas, the Brassy Belles, and the Scarlet O’Hatters. The leaders of each chapter are Red Hat Royalty, with Sue Ellen Cooper as the Exalted Queen Mother. Bev Fussell, Queen of the Australian Dinky Di Divas told ABC Television that “girls just wanna have fun... We've gone garage-saling in convoy, and that's an absolute hoot.” San Francisco’s Strutting Peacocks chapter holds an annual tea party at the San Francisco Zoo. When it comes to parade time, it seems that Red Hat Ladies just can’t resist a red sports car or a red London style double decker bus. Ladies with Hattitude Even bikies are not safe from being descended upon en masse, and being asked to pose with the Red Hat Ladies. The Red Hat Rockettes in Rockingham, Western Australia, and their irrepressible leader, Queen Beadazzled, have the photos to prove it. The Red Hat Society Ladies are ladies with a zest for life and plenty of “hattitude”. Long live the Red Hat Society. Yvonne Russell is the Editor of All Info About Tea & Coffee Lifestyle. Read more about The Red Hat Society, as well as other Tea and Coffee related articles about e.g. books, entertaining, tea party ideas, recipes and kids tea party poems etc.,
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Grant Eckert |
2008-05-04 |
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Title: Art''s Impact on Society
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Art is an extremely private experience, yet, it is meant to be shared with the public. Society, as a whole, examines the art produced and has the right to approve, disapprove, acknowledge, ignore, praise and abuse it. The public or society has not remained constant over the years. In the time of the Renaissance, for example, only a select few were "society." They commissioned art, were patrons of the arts and their artists. Today, almost anyone can share in the experience of art. They can attempt to create, view and act as a critic. Does art make the world a better place, or is it quite useless? This is a very ancient riddle, and no one has solved it yet. A similar question - has art truly had any impact upon society? Has it fashioned or molded minds? Has it shaped opinions and altered how people feel or think? Is it practicable in or relevant to society and its individuals' daily lives? Art reflects life. It is a portrait of history, whether it is history of the current moment or an event in the past or something of the imagination. Art has captured an event, clarifying its existence and representation to society. The portraits of the French Revolution by David, Benjamin West's portrayal of the death of General Wolfe and Poussin's recreation of the Rape of the Sabine Women all strive to provide a version of historical events. Society, in turn, can accept or reject these portrayals of true events. Sometimes, as in the case of Goya's depiction of the French behavior during their conquest of Spain, art inspires a deep hatred of a certain nationality. Art encapsulate a country's culture during that time period. Rembrandt, Rousseau, Monet, Hogarth, Whistler, Jan Steen, Frans Hal and Breughel depict for their generation the world as they see it. They affect future society by providing concise, if sometimes imaginative, depictions of daily life. Brughel the Elder paints peasants, Jean Baptiste depicts lower-class life and Daumier's subjects in "The Third Class Carriage" are not the lofty work of Gainsborough. The wit and graphicness of Hogarth in "The Rake's Progress" or the imposing work of Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic" provide historians with clues and pictures to a vastly different way of life. Jan Steen's "The Eve of St. Nicholas" provides a way to uncover how people spent Christmas in the early 17th century in the Netherlands. Art has encouraged feelings of patriotism and national pride. Goya's, "The Third of May, 1808," the Americans portrayal of their revolution and countless other artists across the centuries have provided an impact extending beyond the work. Depictions of Washington crossing the Delaware, and portraits of battlefields, at home and abroad, are scenes that inspire society. These works also remind the public of their past, what has been sacrificed or accomplished and what they can aspire to in the present or future. Artwork has also provided clues to lives long over and species since disappeared. Holstein provides us with portraits of people long dead e.g. Henry VIII, Erasmus of Rotterdam, as Rubens does with his painting of Marie de' Medici. Goya's masterful and psychologically rich work "The Family of Charles IV" lays bare the natures and relationships of this royal family for all of society to view. Art has also provided examples of garden styles, structures to be imitated and fashions to follow. Artwork has allowed us to glimpse lives and lifestyles. At one time, dressmakers in the colonies used the artwork found in magazines and depicted in reproductions of paintings to create the latest in fashionable clothing. Art shaped a fashionable society where none had existed before. It allowed the Americans to be as up-to-date as their European counterparts. In the same manner, George Caleb Bingham with his painting "Fur Traders on the Mississippi" allowed Europeans a glimpse of another life. The art works by the Jewish artists trapped in the concentration camps of World War II preserve for all time the horrors of war and the inhumanity inflicted by one race upon another. Art has also been a medium to help spread a culture. Art of propaganda during war is a classic example. Posters urge people to support their troops. Marketing ploys ask consumers to buy locally or purchase a specific product. Pop art is probably one of the most influential societal tools of the modern and post-modern age. The best possible example is Any Warhol. His Campbell Soup Cans are now icons. Art has stirred the imagination of all nations from the earliest time. It has helped roused patriotic fervor, brought new ideas and culture to light, raised questions and rewritten or reinterpreted historical events. Art has provided clues to the past and advanced questions about the future. Its impact continues to be felt emotionally. For, above all, art touches us beyond the intellect, reaching down into society's emotional core. In the end, the greatest impact of art is its ability to provide us with the truth about the world seen through the eye of an artist.
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kaye |
2007-09-12 |
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Title: When Couples Are In Stressful Relationship
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“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” - Pearl S. Buck When two people get married, it means they are making a big commitment. It means they should stay with each other through sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, till death do them part. Getting into a marriage relationship is the sign of the fullness of their deep romantic love for each other. Yet, their love for each other is tested in the course of time. First, there would be the adjustment period. All couples go through that. There is a saying that you only get to know the person if both of you are living under one roof. The routine of everyday life brings unrealistic expectations. Marital disenchantment comes in and it is expressed shortly just after the honeymoon fever wears off. This is the time when inperfections can be seen. Shortcomings can be blown out of proportions. Some eccentric behavior which you found “cute” before now becomes annoying. Aside from your own problems as a couple, you have to deal with in-law relationships, money matters, and certain conflicts which have become the cause of your stress and anxiety. When negative emotions and actions take over, it becomes the perfect recipe for marriage disharmony. Unless you become aware of your own hurtful attitudes or actions, chances are, you won't do something about it. Marriage is accepting who that person really is. We only need to practice self-control and learn not to have so many expectations. The following tips will show you how to bring back that “zest” in your married life: TIPS ON PUTTING ROMANCE BACK TO YOUR MARRIAGE 1. UNDERSTANDING – We all need reassurance. Reinforce this by showing affection, a simple praise, hug or kiss will do. We should learn to communicate our feelings to our mate. Don't be defensive. When you have a minor spat...say “I'm sorry.” and really mean it. The sooner you do this, the sooner your mate will stop resenting you. 2. LEARN TO ACCEPT- All marriages go through certain obstacles. The one that you married turns out not to be the “angel” that you envisioned or the “knight of shining armor.” Real love takes a lot of patience. So go beyond your illusions on what or how your mate should be. Rather, focus on yourself and start to make the necessary changes needed to improve who you are as a spouse. 3. MEET HALFWAY- In every situation, especially when you reach the point that you are angry, hurt, and frustrated --- you have to learn how to meet halfway. In other words, you must know how to compromise or negotiate. No two human beings are exactly alike. So settle your differences and learn to forgive each other right away. Don't let the sun go down on you without you and your mate finding the solution. 4. REKINDLE - How do you refresh and fix a troublesome marriage? Bring back the love and intimacy. Work on it. Work on your marriage. Like life....marriage is not a bed of roses. You have to work it out with your partner by investing time, love, money, and interest in each other. Bring back the closeness by being honest, non-argumentative, and non-judgmental. Being happy together brings good mental health as well as the physical. Yes, you and your partner should be on top of everything, be in charge of keeping the romance alive and let your marriage blossom the way it was meant to be.
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Jordi Shoman |
2006-06-21 |
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Title: What Is A Society?
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When you start to delve into the question "what is society" you will realize that this is indeed a very deep subject. There is no one answer because a society is not a thing that can be easily explained in one or two sentences. In fact, this could actually be a topic for a thesis by a graduate student in philosophy and it would take many volumes to include all the possible answers. Let's start by looking at what we consider to be a society. In our daily lives, a society is the place where we live. It is made up of the government, the education system, the health care and the many occupations that people have. Each and every person is an important part of a society because each one has something to contribute. It is a very broad concept that is often broken down into different segments or facets of life. Within a society, there are smaller societies or groups of people who have a particular goal or ambition. These could be government agencies, groups of students or groups raising money for a cause. There are also other factors that separate smaller societies from one another. These include culture, language, race, and religion. Within a society, there can be many different cultures. If you look at the whole world as one society, you can easily realize just how many differences there are. Even within a country, city or town, you have numerous differences and you can even have different societies within a neighborhood. The neighborhood of a city could be an ethnic society all its own. In the larger frame of things, all these societies interact with one another on a daily basis bringing new ideas and ways of doing things. Customs transfer from one culture to another, immigrants become assimilated within a society and people react with violence when a part of their society is threatened. All of these things make up a society, which is more of a quality than a thing.
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Pramod Shet |
2007-06-10 |
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Title: Top 5 Reasons Why There is Disharmony in your Sex Life
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What could be the ramifications of a dull, non-exciting sex life is well known. It could lead to a divorce . Well , this article's objective is to outline the causes of disharmony in the Sex Life. One of these five could be the main reason affecting your sex life and you need to take an action immediately.
1. Stress in Professional Life We are generally tuned to bring our professional life at home. this causes a lot of stress in our personal life. many people are responsible for spoiling their personal sex lives due to over ambitious Professional Objectives. The partner also has some basic needs which should be satisfied. Time is short and if its lost once, the marriage life also gets badly affected.One of the causes of divorce is un successful sex life.
2. Self Abnegation Sometimes people are guilty of self abnegation. They put the interest of other people in front of their Sexual needs. They might be involved in social work and are not working on their own selves. They need to look physically attractive.They need to look sexually interested. But in most such cases they are not. This leads to ignorance from their counterparts.
3. Less time With Each Other Metro life style has its own pros and cons. Its very fast and the time that couples should spend together is actually eaten up by work , television and activities to keep up the financial health of their family. Lack of communication leads to disharmony in relationship. Sexual performance is directly proportional to the sharing and caring that a couple experiences.
4. Monotonous Sexual Activities Predictability is the evil of discomfort in sex life. Spice brings the essence to sex life.If the same places , weekend nights are going to be the Planned Sex Environments, then the interest would soon be lost.
5. Cheating on Partners A secret affair signifies the flash point at which the relationship has come to. It could end up in a divorce. Symptoms being a lack of Sex life . With the Cheating partner avoiding any closeness whatsoever. Any relation is built on trust and Cheating often leads to a feeling of guilt whereby the cheating partner finds himself as the culprit.
These are the five main causes which time and again affect your sex life. As far as possible discuss with your partner and always share and care for a healthy relationship and Sex life.
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Ian Wendt |
2007-05-14 |
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Title: The Tryanny of Experts (part Ii) - Experts and Civil Society
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Experts are valuable, necessary contributors to our diverse and specialized society. But they cannot and should not be used to constitute or replace civil society. Indeed, the idea that anyone can claim to be a civil society expert is troubling. Civil society needs to be composed of a broad and diverse array of people throughout our societies. The internet offers us an opportunity to radically expand civil society, to debate all of the ideas and ideologies that shape the world, and to publish our speech around the world. We cannot abandon this field to experts, particularly not the much vaunted experts of civil society.
What is an expert? Experts and expertise are usually recognized through degrees earned, publications, experience and notoriety. There are good reasons for each of these things. But each of them can also be troubling. If degrees and titles make experts, then we need to carefully, critically examine the curriculum, the quality, and the ideological biases of our degree offering institutions. If publications make experts, we need to be aware of the obscurity or audience of journals and the public and private funding sources for research. Experience is very valuable; but there are plenty of rich political donors who have become consular officials without a shred of expertise. Notoriety is the most troublesome of the signs and symbols of expertise. Famous experts are often assumed to be better experts - false. Famous people and celebrities often mistake themselves for experts and think we ought to care what their expert pronouncements are - really false! In addition, experts tend to congregate together and pat each other on the backs by awarding one another fellowships, grants, distinctions and prizes. The Ivy League is the country club of expertise. The longer you hang around, the more your expertise will be burnished, brightened and expanded by all of your expert pals who slap you on the back. Finally, success begets success. People who gain degrees, earn awards, grants and fellowships will earn more of them. If you have not broken into this club by the first year of graduate school, you are unlikely to join it later.
Civil Society Experts
A wide array of civil society experts are called in to analyze, explain and advocate prominent policy issues. From the scientist and the statistician, to the economist and the literature professor, to the historian and the constitutional lawyer, to the retired general and the retired ambassador; there is no shortage of experts to tell us how to think and act and vote in this complicated world of ours. Now we even have technocrats - those elite experts who blend modern technological training with state power to produce utopia in developing nations like China and Chile, well, eventually maybe. Then there are the experts who are not experts. Politicians and rich people, reporters and pollsters get tired of having to ask the experts or hire the experts or hunt around for someone with an advanced degree to advocate their position. So they step up to the mike themselves and are transformed into pundits. But in the end, none of these civil society experts provide us with civil society, or solutions to the problems we must work together to solve.
In the last generation we have seen the rise of a new expert - the technocrat. This is the ultimate melding of expertise with power. Now instead of simply elevating the powerful to power, we elevate (powerful) experts to power. Hey, I love meritocracy. But let us not confuse engineering, business or science degrees with the ability to lead nations and states. Scientists, engineers and CEOs are no better or worse than anyone else at voting with principle, debating important issues, or leading communities.
Perhaps most prominent among civil society experts are scientists and statisticians. Statistics is an important tool for making valid conclusions based on small data sets. But statistics is also undoubtedly the most commonly misused tool for lying in politics, the media and civil society. Next, scientists are specialized professionals who master specific tools and methods for investigating specific, narrow questions. They arrive at provisional, evidence-based answers to those questions. They do not claim to discern truth, morality, wisdom or sound public policy. If you hear a scientist claiming any of these latter findings, then you are listening to a person, who happens to hold a PhD, who also holds an opinion that may or may not be informed, effective, wise or true. Scientists and scientific research are also very expensive, and so they are paid by someone or other. The sources of funding do not determine scientific results, but they can reflect policy analysis and advocacy.
Social scientists form a lower tier of civil society experts. These can include - Political scientists: who analyze politics and may try to tell you how to vote. Economists: who analyze the economy and may try to predict the future (with predictable results). Sociologists: who may or may not perform experiments on small groups of people, then tell you what is wrong with your society and what to do about it. Historians: who analyze the past then complain that you do not know about your past and that everything you think you know about the past is wrong. Anthropologists: who used to study remote cultures and now study ritual in any culture and will tell you how your culture is oppressing some other culture. And so forth. In related fields, literary and cultural critics abound in English, foreign language, and comparative literature departments. Scholars of literature and the arts consider themselves the primary experts on culture, mediators of high culture, and interpreters of all discourse, rhetoric and cultural expression. As a historian myself, I love social scientists and scholars of the humanities. They are often passionately devoted to civil society. But that does not make them experts on civil society.
Lawyers, constitutional lawyers, and law school professors form another common array of civil society experts. These people are trained to think critically, to read and write carefully, and to debate with acumen and rhetorical skill. Lawyers are legal experts, and so if you have legal problems, they come highly recommended. But in other circumstances the society of lawyers tends to make communication incomprehensible, extremely expensive, combative, and fraught with hidden landmines (read any small print lately?). The central problem with trusting a lawyer-expert is that you can find a lawyer who will argue any position. They may believe passionately in it, or they may simply believe in the virtue of arguing for their client. In short, lawyers are useful people to pay to support your position; but that does not make them civil society experts.
Finally, former government officials and diplomats are ubiquitous civil society experts. Former domestic or foreign policy advisors-now pundits, former generals and military officers-now private contractors or military advisors, former ambassadors-now think tank fellows, former congressmen-now lobbyists, former spies-now novelists, former bureaucrats-now whistleblowers. These people may or may not have done effective service for their governments in the past. They may indeed have garnered very useful experience. But you may be sure that these particular civil society experts certainly cultivated well placed friends, political favors, and public notoriety. Listen to such experts with care.
Experts who aren't
There are a variety of people who by virtue of their professions or positions voice their opinions and ideas with great authority - as if they should be listen to, believed and followed. Many of these experts are not experts at all.
First, politicians - Politicians are experts of campaigns and fund raising. They may be statesmen or stateswomen; they may be wise or principled; they may be experienced or expert in some field; but they are not necessarily any of these things. Generally, politicians (as politicians) are not experts. Elected government officials deserve respect on two levels. First, they have succeeded at communicating their ideas, marshalling personal and monetary support, and managing a campaign in order to attract democratic votes. This is a real achievement; but it does not make them a civil society expert. Second, successful politicians eventually accrue a great deal of experience in the halls of government. This is a mixed blessing in that these politicians have opportunities to contribute toward functioning governance and to help solve societal problems; but they just as frequently take those opportunities to perform bad governance, to fail to solve societal problems, and occasionally to become part of the problem. Few politicians are experts.
Rich people and celebrities - wealth, power and notoriety do not grant expertise. Celebrities are almost never experts and should not speak any louder than anyone else. Rich people are able to buy and broadcast louder speech, but it does not make them experts. (And then there is the stray expert who somehow gains celebrity. Expert-cum-celebrities sometimes deserve their notoriety. Some of them have gained celebrity through a lifetime of achievement crowned with high awards - Nobel Prizes, medals, honors, etc. These people mark an exception to the celebrity rule, but their celebrity is usually fleeting. How many Nobel Prize winners for the sciences can you name?)
Reporters and pundits - the press has become increasingly openly ideological. As the media has opened its ideological content, journalists, columnists, news analysts and pundits of all kinds have proliferated and expressed their opinions in ever increasing volume. Reporters and pundits are often widely informed by virtue of their interviews and reportage; they are also often very good rhetoriticians. Personally, I believe that open, honest, ideological expression by the press is much better than veiled or even unconscious bias contained in misleading headlines or buried ledes. But being published in print or being broadcast on cable does not make anyone an expert.
Pollsters - the ultimate non-experts. These are people who are paid to ask a representative sample of regular people what they think, then to use statistics and their analytical powers to discern what everyone thinks. Well, polls can be interesting; they might even in some cases be beneficial to policy makers or civil society. But how any of this makes pollsters experts is beyond me. Nevertheless, pollsters have become increasingly common media experts who provide journalists and pundits with a window into the mind of the common woman on the street. Where is the expert here? Wizard of Oz, we see you behind your curtain!
Finally, there is the all too common spectacle of the expert parading in public who establishes their credibility by lambasting their field of expertise - the expert insider critic or expert whistleblower. Have you seen the accredited psychologist who attacks the field of therapy or psychoanalysis right before lathering their audiences with a thick layer of relationship advice? What of the conservative scholar (tenured) who bravely eviscerates academia from within? Or the anti-medicine MD? How about the government civil servant whose civil rights (and political views) were so trampled that he had to give hundreds of media interviews to show how reactionary the government is? We could multiply examples. These experts are remarkable because they attack the root of their expertise, while all the time utilizing the same expertise to convince us we ought to trust and listen to them. Most remarkably, the slickest exploiters of the expert-insider-critic shtick actually manage to make us trust them more than other experts, even as they savage the root of their expertise.
Your Civil Society
One of the major critiques of new media on the Internet is that it accumulates much noise and little substance - too much riff raff and too few experts. Wouldn't it be better to gather quietly at the feet of wise experts, rather than sift through all of the shouting, competing voices in new media echo chambers? Oh, I have heard elderly reporters wax lyrical as they recalled the days when everyone listened to Cronkite and read the New York Times, because back then we knew that was the way it was. This common, elite meme argues that we actually need fewer media broadcasters, fewer experts, fewer points of view, and a lot fewer people speaking. But to the contrary, our civil society needs more people to be more engaged, to speak more openly, to broadcast their voices further, to test and debate more ideas, new ideas.
If Ideology Forum is to succeed in helping strengthen our civil society, together we need to enable a very wide range of people to thoughtfully engage one another about as many ideas and principles and movements and causes as possible. Doubtless, some will criticize saying that regular people - common internet users - lack the expertise to make newsworthy, publishable, original contributions to the big issues and debates that shape our world. In other words, 'Shut up and listen to the columnists, pundits, politicians, professors, scientists - the experts.' But civil society must be broad and inclusive; it ought to be active and democratic; the Internet makes that increasingly possible; and Ideology Forum strives to make that civil society real. We need more people to throw off the tyranny of experts and speak.
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