Anthropology
you are required to make( FIVE ) annotations (thoughtful comments about an article). Thoughtful annotations may engage in key points in the readings, stimulate discussion, offer informative questions or comments. Highlight a sentence or paragraph and make an annotation. Each annotation should be 4 sentences in length. Please SPREAD the annotation in different pages. I attached 2 articles so 5 annotations each article. 10 annotations total. I want annotation NOT annotated bibliography. The example is from my other class
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And if we trace the history of the word through the civilized languages, it appears that neither the predominantly Catholic peoples nor those of classical antiquity1 have possessed any expression of similar connotation for what we know as a calling (in the sense of a life-task, a definite field in which to work), while one has existed for all predominantly Protestant peoples. It may be further shown that this is not due to any ethnical peculiarity of the languages concerned.
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The world is characterized by different people who belong to different religious groups. For example, the catholic and the Protestants. Each religious has a unique history that can be linked to their beliefs and practices. But then, Christians (Protestants and Catholics) strongly believe that some believers are called by God to serve.
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But in the concrete calling an individual pursued he saw more and more a special command of God to fulfil these particular duties which the Divine Will had imposed upon him. And after the conflict with the Fanatics and the peasant disturbances, the objective historical order of things in which the individual has been placed by God becomes for Luther more and more a direct manifestation of divine will.
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Devoted and staunch Christians they are called by God to fulfill certain divine duties. Work is highly valued by both Christians and non-Christians but Christian suggest that work should not be done for material is Valuing material gain more than personal needs is associated with lack of grace. Material gains can be achieved at the expense of other people.
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The monastic life is not only quite devoid of value as a means of justification before God, but he also looks upon its renunciation of the duties of this world as the product of selfishness, withdrawing from temporal obligations. In contrast, labour in a calling appears to him as the outward expression of brotherly love. This he proves by the observation that the division of labour forces every individual to work for others, but his view-point is highly naïve,
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Economic and social development cannot be realize in the absence of labor. When there is division of labor, there is a high possibility of growth. To some, labor is a calling and something that can considered as an expression of love. God expects human being to work and procreate. These is addressed in the holy book (the Bible).
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Franklin. Of course, one cannot consider his complaints against the great merchants of his time, such as the Fuggers,11 as evidence in this case. For the struggle against the privileged position, legal or actual, of single great trading companies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries may best be compared with the modern campaign against the trusts, and can no more justly be considered in itself an expression of a traditionalistic point of view.Against these people, against the Lombards, the monopolists, speculators, and bankers patronized by the Anglican Church and the kings and parliaments of England and France, both the Puritans and the Huguenots carried on a bitter struggle.12
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People have practiced trade for a long time. In the past many people exchanged goods and services for other goods (barter trade) but currently, money is used as the medium of exchange. Trade promotes and enhances human interactions. As people engage in trade they tend to learn and appreciate other people’s culture.
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To ascribe a unified national character to the Englishmen of the seventeenth century would be simply to falsify history. Cavaliers and Roundheads did not appeal to each other simply as two parties, but as radically distinct species of men, and whoever looks into the matter carefully must agree with them.29 On the other hand, a difference of character between the English merchant adventurers and the old Hanseatic merchants is not to be found; nor can any other fundamental difference between the English and German characters at the end of the Middle Ages, which cannot easily be explained by the differences of their political history.30 It was the power of religious influence, not alone, but more than anything else, which created the differences of which we are conscious.
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Although all human beings were created based on the image and likeness of God, it is good to recognize the fact that were are not the same. Our differences can be explained by various factors including history, our backgrounds, religious affiliation, cultural practices, and economic activities among other factors. We also tend to exhibit different behaviors as well as character due religious and political influence.
