Essays on Contemporary World

Family Rights

1. Polyandry relationships provide for marriage system in which a woman can have more than one husband. Speaking from the historical perspective, the emergence of such marital arrangement in Tibet is related to the fact that the social system compelled marriage within a social status category.To understand the Tibetans' practice of polyandry, "it must be realized that Tibetan families consider it of great importance to keep together, without any division, whatever property they possess" (Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, 1962, p. 414). That is the reason why husbands are often brothers or close relatives, which is referred to ...

Our world is very diverse. It is home to a wide variety of nations, each of which is interesting in its own unique way. In the history of mankind there were many cases when peoples under the influence of certain historical circumstances were gradually losing their traditions and therefore identity. However, there is still a nation that, to a great extent, maintains its own unique traditions. These people even in the conditions of contemporary processes of globalization do not lose their identity and had not become involved completely in the popular global trends, at the same time remaining faithful ...

The essence of living in relationship and community with God opens up ways to ensure that care is administered to the world. This is to mean that God saw the relevance of people to live together to the extent of allowing them to mingle. The ability to be in relationship and community with God, therefore, enables an evangelist to be in connection with God and the people, to take after the love of God and to be inspired by the stipulations of God. These attributes are vital for the work of evangelism. Evangelism allows the love and commands of ...

Introduction

In the contemporary world, the rate of divorce has assumed an increasing trend. Marriage dissolution is subject to numerous discussions and studies and demonstrates intricacies in regards to several influences, triggers as well as effects. The increasing trend in divorce rates and permanent separation among married couples has attracted a substantial amount of concern across the country as well as all over the world. As a result, so many studies and research have dedicated their work to examining the causes of the increasing rate of marriage dissolution in the society today. The rate of unsuccessful union between two adults ...

Identifying the Object

The Mondrian dress is a red, blue, white, and yellow dress that shows the integration of art and fashion. One of the renowned French designers, Yves Saint Laurent, designed the dress in the winter of 1965-66 and made it his signature piece. This illustrates that the integration of art and fashion is an old concept, and it remains significant today. The Mondrian dress takes the form of the 1960s modified form of a sack dress, and Laurent utilized the color blocks. Inspired by the contemporary artists of the Mondrian art movement, Laurent incorporated the flat planes derived from 1960s’ ...

Coaching Session

Sullivan Window Company: Lauren Smith Having a clear and an effective strategy for product promotion provides the necessary impetus to guarantee a competitive edge in the global market. In the contemporary world, the managers’ efforts should go beyond providing a high-end product to preparing the right reception for new ones. Having an effective and clearly thought out marketing mix is crucial and surpasses sales of even a high-quality product (Becerril-Arreola, Leng & Parlar, 2013). How a company deals with the existing customers and efforts towards attracting the new ones should be the focus of any business entity. Sullivan Window Company ...

Abstract

The demise of the Soviet Union has been a major cause of controversies on the relevancy of NATO in the contemporary world. Many of these controversies are informed by a superficial understanding of its roles in light of the emergence of the US as a world superpower. Admittedly, the role of NATO has been pivotal in restoring order and tranquility in Europe and Western bloc. NATO’s military interventions in places such as Afghanistan and Syria have been crucial in restoring order in the world. With its revised rules that include global war on terrorism, and drug trafficking, it ...

Abstract

The demise of the Soviet Union has been a major cause of controversies on the relevancy of NATO in the contemporary world. Many of these controversies are informed by a superficial understanding of its roles in light of the emergence of the US as a world superpower. Admittedly, the role of NATO has been pivotal in restoring order and tranquility in Europe and Western bloc. NATO’s military interventions in places such as Afghanistan and Syria have been crucial in restoring order in the world. With its revised rules that include global war on terrorism, and drug trafficking, it ...

Identifying the Object

The Mondrian dress is a red, blue, white, and yellow dress that shows the integration of art and fashion. One of the renowned French designer, Yves Saint Laurent, designed the dress in the winter of 1965-66 and made it his signature piece. This illustrates that the integration of the art and fashion is an old concept, and it remains significant up to date. The Mondrian dress takes the form of the 1960s modified form of a sack dress, and Laurent utilized the color blocks. Inspired by the contemporary artists of the Mondrian art movement, Laurent incorporated the flat planes ...

Faith and the belief systems play a vital role in driving the human experience. In their articles, Street (2010), Keane (2008), and Lewis (2002) make interesting discussions about the concept of belief in the universal world. This essay utilizes their influence to argue that belief is not in opposition to doubt. Also, however, there appears to be a clear universal distinction between irrational and rational beliefs. The following is a further discussion on this issue. Belief systems, however, have different ways of explaining forces that operate within the contemporary world. Christianity, for instance, as suggested by Alice Street (2010) ...

The nature of the communities living in a country, forms of land ownership, the government characteristics together with the laws enforced are not crucial if a right perception of Muslims across the globe is to be set. However, there are ways that Muslims need to conduct themselves to live Faithfully in the contemporary world. The main reason behind the need to come up with these ways is that political and colonialism actions that define forms of “protection” have led to significant transformations in Muslim nations. Economic, as well as political factors, have forced many Muslims to migrate to western ...

Introduction

In the contemporary business world, the work environment is constantly changing, so as the structure that defines the jobs, employees, and employment practices. The rise of globalization has allowed the employees to choose and have a voice in their place of work, and hence forcing the companies to rethink about the future contemporary and future means of acquiring, planning, and using physical space. Therefore, in order for a company to change and enhance the workplace performance, it is important to consider the most interesting issues that affect the contemporary and future work environment. The two most interesting issues in ...

The policy is very complicated and multifaceted thing. Humanity has long interesting history, and humanity is accompanied by the policy throughout a very long period of time. Despite the fact that the policy has already become familiar and integral part of modern society, it remains a very controversial issue, which generates a lot of emotional debates and disagreements. The representative of contemporary democratic society got used to consider that democracy is inviolable or even sacred. A modern citizen believes in his rights and freedoms; moreover, he strongly believes that the state, namely the democratic system is intended for protection ...

Indeed, the provision of information about cancer has become one of the most important undertakings in the contemporary world. In this regard, the information about cancer is shared by provoking dialogues among people in regard to the disease. In addition, social media has been used to spread information and also evoke public campaigns in support of the people fighting cancer. Importantly, the purple color is used as a representation of cancer especially during the cancer world day. In the United States, cancer has been classified as being the second main cause of mortality after the heart disease and a ...

In the contemporary world, customer relationship management (CRM) plays an essential part in the typical organization's marketing system. In the market structure, the demand for understanding how to manage customer relationship effectively has increased. Firms have realized that the esteemed and potential customers have distinct economic value to their business and hence need to use their communications strategy and customer offering offerings. As a result, companies are shifting from brand centric or product-centric marketing strategies to the customer-centric method. According to Payne and Frow (2005, p.168), CRM is defined as "a strategic approach that is concerned with creating improved ...

Introduction

The modern world is increasingly facing the development and advancement of the social media, which has become an essential part of the contemporary society. Most of the common platforms of social media include gaming sites, video sites such as YouTube, blogs, and Web sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Instagram, and LinkedIn among others. These channels have provided different and convenient ways of communication and hence changing and revaluing the ties that bind people together. These ties involve the emotional interconnection between different individuals in the society regardless the adverse or positive aspect of this interconnection. Through verbal and ...

Collaboration and Collectivity have become central methods of advancing contemporary art. Artists associations, groups, networks, partnerships, and coalitions are terms often mentioned in light of contemporary art. As such, collaboration and collectivity become generic names used when an artist chooses not to work alone, but to come together and co-work with other artists. The collaboration may also entail an artist cooperating with members of a certain community as they all work to realize the objectives of a given project. The slight difference between cooperation and participation comes in the extent of the controls between the parties involved. The collaboration ...

Introduction

Introduction In the contemporary world the use of new media, and in particular social media, has become an essential need in the society. Social media include Web sites that allow social interaction such as social networking sites like MySpace, Twitter, Facebook; gaming sites such as Second Life and Club Penguin; video sites such as Vimeo and YouTube; and blogs. Such sites have provided a fertile ground for communication and entertainment especially for the teenagers and the young adults. According to the prevailing studies, 75 percent of the teenagers are in possession of cell phones, and 25 percent utilizes them ...

Will become smoker or not?

There are a lot of things, without which people cannot live. Humans are accustomed to a large number of things that help them to have fun, relax or simply kill time. Among this set of habits, a special place belongs to old, but at the same time always modern habit - smoking. Surely it’s a bad habit, for which humans spend a lot of money, time and health, of course. In the modern world the number of smokers is rather increasing than decreasing. Some people start smoking, whereas others don’t even try, but why? After all, what ...

Stalking Ableism: Using Disability to Expose ‘Abled' Narcissism

Meaning of terms in the context of the chapter One of the key terms in Chapter 13 is the ableism. According to Campbell (2012, p.213), ableism is defined as "denoting an attitude that devalues or differentiates disability through the valuation of able-bodiedness equated to normalcy." Alternatively, ableism is used in the perspective of able-bodiedness to mean "a way of being" (Campbell, 2012). In other words, according to the chapter, ableism can be defined as processes, beliefs, and processes that generate a particular perception of body and self, which is reflected as species-typical and perfect. Therefore, ableism is significant and ...

1.2 Religion, Mega Events, and Tourism 1.2.1 Introduction This section seeks to discuss into detail the association and interrelationship between religion, mega events, and tourism. In essence, the section reviews some of the perspective, observations, and critiques of these three aspects by previous authors. Jafari (1988) acknowledges that sporting events such as the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, Expo, and other related competitions which mostly attract audience from every part of the globe play a significant role in determining the tourism patterns. Understandably, they provide tourism opportunities for the host countries bearing in mind that visitors flock into the ...

Savings defines the part of income which is not spent. Savings which is economic variable defines quantifies a person’s physical quality of life and standards of living. Proper banking is effective to improve one’s standards of living. It is the obligations of banks to become creative and create an efficient banking environment in the financial market. Implementing saving habits during the earlier days assist a person and family to attain a more stable life than a person who has no savings (Cummings 2). Embracing norms of saving money is a mode of safeguarding one from protecting someone ...

The Chinese culture is deeply rooted and has managed to prevail in the changing world for thousands of year. Feng shui art for instance can be dated back to 4000 years ago; it has a history as intricate as its tradition (Yuan, 8). Feng shui came to be as a result of scientific philosophical tradition. In the past years feng shui was used in different structures and sites like graves, temples and palaces. As time passed on it has become a fading culture and heritage used in modern buildings and for beauty purposes. It is one of Chinese oldest art of architecture ...

Before explaining on my moral codes, the understanding of moral codes is essential to ensure that while explaining or putting across my moral practices I understand what I am talking about in this context. Moral codes area system of morality that a particular persons or people who may be united by a common religion or practice believe in, and somehow dictates on how they envision things in life. Thus, according to the environment that I happened to be brought up in, there are certain acts that I perceive as good or bad. Consequently, according to my religious practices, there are also ...