Essays on Amitai

Amitai Etzioni, in the essay, “Working at Mc. Donald’s” discusses his opinion that working at restaurants like Mc. Donald’s can most of the times influence teenagers in a bad way. They lose most of their study time while they work at restaurants and other work places. He supports his argument with the example that these kinds of jobs will never provide any kind of training to the students that will equip them for the future life. The skills required for these kinds of jobs require less time to acquire and the disadvantage is that once the job ...

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Introduction

During the 1200s, Islam has proven itself as a dominant religion throughout parts of Asia, Europe and Africa, now collectively known as the Middle East. Islam has encountered numerous challenges to its integrity, particularly from the Roman Catholics through the Holy Crusades, which eventually collapsed during the late 1100s through the Islamic liberation of Jerusalem. The Islamic civilization proved groundbreaking not just in religious affairs, but also in terms of establishing intellectual potency and political strength within all influenced territories. The city of Baghdad, now the capital of present-day Iraq, stood as ...

Gender is a social construct and depends on the context in which it is created, but it is also a dynamic system that experiences changes, despite the resistance that often clings to traditional norms and gender roles. A review and comparison of gender roles in India and the US reveals how the oriental culture and western culture share certain similarities when defining male and female gender roles. However, it also shows how certain cultural aspects, such as religion, can affect the structure of gender in different cultures. For example, India also recognizes alternative gender roles, which are not recognized in the ...

Today, take time to think. What is it that you most want to have in this world, at this very moment? The movie The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard and Amitai Etzioni’s literary work Spent published on The New Republic talk about the very things that would first pop into our heads when asked this question – things. Both narratives depict very similar themes mainly expressing society’s attitudes towards material goods. It is strange to think that out of the many possible aspects of our lives, material possession would define and center most of it In ...

Political science

The Caribbean islands are small countries in Central America that consists of small islands all surrounded by the sea. It comprises of a little over 7000 islands. The islands are organized into various sovereign states but some are dependent on main land nations like Britain and the United States.

In modern times, it has proven a major challenge for the Caribbean nations to integrate and form any meaningful political or economic blocks. The challenges arise from their racial, regional and national backgrounds.

Racial identity in the Caribbean is very diverse. The people inhabiting these islands are of diverse races as well ...