GE104 - Contemporary

• Defined as the practice of keeping productivity process indefinitely—natural or manufactured by replacing resources used with resources equal or greater value without degrading or endangering natural biotic system.

  Sustainability
• Development meets the needs of the present without compromising future generations " Ability to meet their own needs "

  Sustainable Development
• " Ability to meet their own needs "

  Sustainable Development
• We live within our natural resources. We ensure that we consume our natural resources at a sustainable rate.

  Environmental Sustainability
• Economic Sustainability 


  Requires a business or country to make efficient and responsible use of its resources so that it can operate sustainably to generate operational profit consistently
• ability of society or any social system to achieve a good social well-being on an ongoing basis.

  Social Sustainability
• both complex and challenging issue to resolve as it cannot be characterized or limited by geography

  Food Security
• used to assess the sustainability of products

  Natural Step Framework
• Measures the area of land and seas that people need to sustain

  Ecological Footprint
• Views the over all conditions of process and activities required in the aspects of production

  Life cycle Analysis
• views sustainability from the perspective of a person on

  Quality of Life
• Psychological phenomena in which the minds respond to a stimulus

  Pareidolia
• according to____ as diversified as those against modernization and vary in line with their unique trajectory in modern and global settings.

  William H. Mott
• Monotheistic religion that was founded in the seventh century by their prophet Mohammed

  Islam
• Shahada, Salat, Sawm, Zakat and Hajj


  Islam's Five Pillars
• The testimony of faith

  Shahada
• Prayer rituals occurring five times a day

  Salat
• A month long fast knows Ramadan takes place during the ninth month of the islamic calendar.


  Sawm
• 2.5% of income is required to be given to the poor one a year


  Zakat
• If possible. Muslims are to take a pilgrimage to Mecca located in Saudi Arabia at least once in their lives.

  Hajj
• Sunni and Shia


  Two primary sects of islam
• ( 90% of All Muslims ) believe that those in the lineage of the first four caliphs— Muhammad's successors are rightful religious leaders.


  Sunni Muslims
• Believe that the only those in the lineage of the four caliph—Ali— are worthy successors of Muhammad.

  Shia Muslims
• Polytheistic religion with over 330million gods and goddesses and one supreme and impersonal gid known as brahmin 


  Hinduism
• Priests, Academics


  Brahmins
• Soldiers, king warrior class

  Kshatriyas
• Merchants, farmers, laborers, and craftspeople

  Vaishyas
• Commoners, peasants, servants 


  Sudras
• The " Untouchables "


  Harijans
• is a system of cause and effect

  Karma
• The good and bad actions of an individual influence where they rank and in what form they reincarnate— from insects to individual.

  Karma
• Hindus aren't seeking salvation, but wanting to be released from their karmic debt cycle to end the generation cycle. This is called Moshka and is done through works, devotion, and knowledge.
• Diaspora Media


  address the needs of specific ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups
• One society media dominates another culture

  Media Imperialism
• Commercialization 


  The economy becomes more important, not only for the way in which culture and society