In this interview, Marianna Cost, a retired woman living in New Jersey explains how she was raised. Her upbringing illustrates traditional American values of independence and hard work, the importance and value of community and family, respect for fallen one, compassion, and volunteerism.
She begins by explaining the average work week of ten hours a day for six days a week and following up the hard work outside the home with housework on Sunday. This explanation details the independence, hard work, care of property, and determination shown by Americans. She then discusses the importance of community and caring for one another by checking on the sick, sending your condolences, and sitting down together for family meal time. Cost then asserts the importance of volunteerism and compassion for the deceased.
These ideals are all often important to American citizens and helped to lay the foundation of a successful society.
Part of fulfilling the responsibilities and duties of citizenship is following the social contract of your community. One of the guidelines in the social contract of your community might include driving in accordance with the local speed limit or keeping your pet spayed or neutered. Maintaining either of these parts of your social contract will "secure the common good". Driving the speed limit assures the safety of yourself, your passengers, and other drivers and pedestrians on the street and sidewalk. Spaying or neutering your pet will prevent your pet from wandering into busy traffic or running away, and prevents unwanted offspring from bothering your neighbors.
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The correct answer is B) Both religions experienced a decline in popularity because of widespread persecution.
The other options of the question were A) Both religions blended together to form a distinct new faith. C) Both religions quickly expanded and became stabilizing forces in their regions.
D) Both religions conquered new territory but did not allow conquered peoples to convert.
A similarity between the roles of Post-Classical Christianity and Islam was that both religions experienced a decline in popularity because of widespread persecution.
Christianity spread from the Middle East to Western Europe and the Roman Empire adopted this form of religion during Constantine rule. But during the post-classical era, a time of conflicts in this region of the world, invasions and change of powers meant persecution of Christians and Muslims by invaders that oftentimes professed pagan beliefs. We are talking about the time than ran from approximately 1200 to 1450 CE.
I don't know much about diplomacy but this might help :)
<span>The functioning of diplomacy is influenced by a complicated combination of different interrelated factors. This paper briefly analyses their impact on the evolution of diplomacy and discusses how diplomacy as an instrument of good governance should adjust itself to meet the new challenges, to become more relevant, open and agile, to modify its methods and to fully utilize opportunities offered by the technological revolution.
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