Intentional community Essays

  • Unintentional And Intentional Community

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    humans intentionally do this to the community or were it unintentional, and we were just consumed without knowing? Intentional is something done with a purpose or pertaining to it. Unintentional is something done by accident or no reason. A community is built by people with a purpose, or it can be built by accident because people decided it would be a good idea. The purpose of this essay is to explain the difference in an unintentional and intentional community and how the author feel about these

  • Intentional Community: What Is An Intentional Community?

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    Introduction Intentional community is a general term that refers to a wide variety of living alternatives. Shenker (2011) defines Intentional Communities as a relatively small coalesced group of individuals who have consciously, willfully and purposefully created a wholly new way of life with the intention of attaining distinct preset goals and objectives. Intentional communities consist of various groups of individuals with similar ideologies and shared motivations. Such communities may be established

  • Jehovah's Witnesses: A Study on Intentional Community

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    Jehovah’s Witnesses, a sect of the Adventist movement, founded in 1872 by Charles Taze Russell are one of the most unusually strict biblical literalist groups in the world. They are strict to their interpretation of scripture to a fault, as intentional communities go this, as most religion based groups, is one which depends upon the charisma of the biblical character Jesus while looking almost yearningly forward to the “end of days” a time during which the supposedly wicked will be cast into purgatory

  • Limitations of New Criticism in Carol Ann Duffy’s Little Red Cap

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    specific examples existing within the text can accurately assess literary work (135). New Criticism also discounts authorial agency and cultural force that informs construction of a text. New Critics believe sources of external evidence produce intentional fallacy, the flawed acceptance of the author’s intention as the text’s true meaning, and affective fallacy, the confusion of the text with the emotions it produces (136-37). This literary lens indicates that author’s intent, emotions prompted, and

  • Extreme Frugality: An American Co-culture

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    Several months ago I began to suspect that a new acquaintance had some unusual ideas about money. Her Facebook posts and conversation starters revolved around living a frugal lifestyle and her approach, at least at the time, seemed quite novel. The Great Recession has certainly forced all of us to reevaluate our spending behaviors and tighten up our proverbial belts a few notches. In fact, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) conducted a poll in January that shows many of us are

  • Emily Dickinson and Daniel Dennett

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    Reading Dickinson, I do not. Not until Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (3) did I begin to squirm. But Dickinson's "theory" is every bit as radical and not dissimilar to Dennett's. Does the human brain take a different (intentional, physical, design) stance when assessing scientific versus non-scientific information? Neither Grobstein nor I complain about Dickinson's lack of rigorous logic or scientific underpinnings in this poem. Instead, we accept it as a welcome springboard

  • An Analysis of The Intentional Fallacy, by Wimsatt and Beardsley

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    In their essay, ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ (1946), William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley, two of the most eminent figures of the New Criticism school of thought of Literary Criticism, argue that the ‘intention’ of the author is not a necessary factor in the reading of a text. During the time-period when they authored this essay, the commonly held notion amongst people was that “In order to judge the poet’s performance, we must know what he intended.”, and this notion led to what is termed

  • Veganism Essay

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    The Evolution of Veganism In America, 97.5% of the population grows up living a half carnivore, half herbivore based diet. This is how I have eaten my entire life, along with the rest of my family. Drew Carey once said, “The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.” Even though a great amount of Americans live with this type of diet, there are many who have switched to a high-carb, low fat, plant-based diet,

  • Discussion on Mr. Barlow's Is There a There in Cyberspace

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    intententional and intentional communities are? If you are like me, then you have no idea what it is or how it relates to society. That was until I read the selection written by John Perry Barlow “Is There a There in Cyberspace.” Are you informed on what I am talking about or would you like to know more? You may not even be aware of what nonintentional means. The dictionary definition for this word is "not done on purpose." In Barlow’s discussion of these types of communities, he states that “Unlike

  • Vegan Diet Persuasive Essay

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    Did you know that only a mere 2% of the U.S population are on a vegan diet? A vegan diet, is a diet that consist of plant-based foods only. Vegans do not eat other animals or anything that they produce. Although this is not a very popular lifestyle, it is gradually growing over years. Many people tend to look down on a vegan diet for some reason, but I never understood why. I personally think a vegan diet is better than an omnivorous diet in multiple ways. A proper vegan diet is more natural, healthy

  • What If The World Went Vegan?

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    What if the World Went Vegan? Albert Einstein once said, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” A vegan is a person who does not eat animal products, including fish, meat, seafood, eggs, and dairy products; all plant based. The worldwide rate of vegetarians is fairly low. There are currently 4-5% vegetarians in Canada and in the United States alone. About 30% of India’s population is vegetarian due to religious

  • Relative Moral Superiority and Proselytizing Vegetarianism

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    The benefits to maintaining a vegetarian diet are myriad and increasingly well-defined by modern science; these benefits include decreased risk of heart disease and certain cancers. Many vegetarians claim to feel better and more perceptive, and two of the top three sprinters in the world are vegan. Vegetarians often claim moral superiority over non-vegetarians through varieties of a “hurt no living thing” credo. Nevertheless, only 2.8% of American adults are vegetarian. The advantages to vegetarianism

  • Compare And Contrast Vegetarianism And Veganism

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    Vegan Vs Vegetarian Many vegans and vegetarians were not born within this way of eating, they adopted this lifestyle, whether for health benefits, religious beliefs, moral considerations, environmental issues. Little by little this trend has been growing in the last decades, “became even more popular in the 1960’s and 1970’s” (Des Chenes 19). But while these styles of eating have its devotees, it also has its fair share of critics. So many people are confused not knowing what the difference between

  • Is Vegetarianism Good or Bad?

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    It is hard living life to the fullest if people have to make decisions especially the big ones. Vegetarians always have to worry about their health and whether being vegetarian is the healthier choice. Some people say that vegetarians are the healthier choice, but there is some evidence suggesting that being a meat eater is much healthier. Some people go vegetarian for health and environmental issues, and some others take the historical side. Some people have had a hard time deciding whether or

  • Vegans and Vegetarians

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    Veganism and Vegetarianism is collectively emerging as a very distinct sub-culture characterized by unique nutritional tendencies and beliefs. According to Stepaniak, the major distinction between vegans and vegetarians is that the former strictly avoid consumption of animal products or foods processed using animal products, while the latter only avoid animals products that involve killing of the animals (154). However, both vegans and vegetarians draw their nutrition from similar plant sources.

  • Graceville Community Garden

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    In the article “It’s only a garden!”, community workers Jason MacLeod and Catherine Byrne (2012) reclaim the meaning and purpose of community organisation as a intrinsic aspect of community development, within Australia. The significant movement of community building to community organising and back again, was the centre of engaging local residents from the inner-south-west Brisbane suburbs, to collaboratively plan for a community garden in one suburb of what was a newly established ward of Tennyson

  • Examples Of Individualism In The Return Of Martin Guerre

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    Juliana Altman Paper #3 Dr. Cook Communities throughout Time Communities throughout time have been shaped by the change of human rights, religion, and abstruse improvements—and in this case, the status on freedom actuates a communities values, morals, and ethics. The quality of a communities could be joined to its reliance from its physical and social aspects, therefore, when parts of a community are differentiated from those qualities, they end up in danger. In the Return of Martin Guerre

  • One of the Most Deprived Areas in Scotland

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    the local community. By 1988, local population had decreased to 5,600, 39% of households composed of single parents and unemployment exceeded 30%. (Scotland.gov.uk 1998) Previous attempts at regeneration in Ferguslie Park had tried but never succeeded. In 1988, Ferguslie Park was included in the launch of the New Life for Urban Scotland programme. A 10 year strategy was established for regeneration developed in collaboration with local residents that set out a plan for how the community would improve

  • Essay On Global Community

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    Global Communities An impoverished man living on the outskirts of a neighborhood park walks through the forest and notices a block party. He thinks to himself, a “free” lunch. As the man strolls toward the party, he notices many people of all ages eating and talking. When he looks at the food on the table, his eyes’ yearn in hunger. He then comes across a sign reading “BLOCK PARTY, COMMUNITY ONLY.” Slowly his momentary happiness vanishes because he does not belong to this neighborhood community but

  • The Importance Of Happiness In The Community

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    this is the shared happiness found within the community. This paper will attempt to present the connection between happiness and the community, referring to examples from film, personal experiences, and several other resources and analyze its significance within the community. The importance of happiness in a community stems from being accepted as part of their group. It is especially hard when families have to move to new neighborhoods or communities and have to restart their life anew. Children