Essay
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Ahmed Al Jashmi
Cultural Aspects of time and ageing
Researching an idea to collect evidence,
Accordingly, on the occasion that an individual loses five shillings worth of time, they are likely to have lost five shillings. This follows that the individual will have lost all the benefits of having the five shillings. As life progresses, from early child hood to old age the individual finds that they will have lost a considerable sum of money. In this regard, Hellman notes that studies into ageing and approaches to extending longevity are focused on the physiological elements of human physiology, particularly at the, molecular of cellular levels.
Basing on the highlights and illustrations such as (…) that discusses the ethical and social effects of time and ageing, Hellman notes that the underlying issue needs to be considered within wider scope; noting the social, cultural and economic contexts.
Evaluating the evidence
Pointedly, cultural highlights of ageing are closely linked to cultural elements of time and other varying elements of time have been explored. This feature follows that a section of traditional agrarian communities perceive time as extremely cyclical due to its repetitiveness and slow advancement. On the contrary, the Western communities perceive the concept of time as unilateral and framed along the basis of religious and intellectual thoughts for a considerable period of time. Joseph Needham (1966) perceives this feature as a foundation of the Judaeo- Christian view, with its elements of time starting at the creation ex nihilo until the end of the Second coming of the Messiah.
In this regard, the western concept of time is perceived as directional, advancing and barely repeats itself. Pointedly, the entirety of human life was seen as a continuous linear redemptive process and the historical; development of the world perceived as divine dramatically event that is enacted on a single stage without repeated performances. This linearity and sense of time is ostensible in the 18th century physiological ideologies of human development, the 19th century concept of social development and in the underlying ideologies of the developed and the developing economies.
3) then presenting a discussion about the idea he/she investigated in a clear and concise manner
Different authors have explored time through different lenses: these highlights differentiated; the western, the traditional and the conventional. pointedly, the anthropologist Edwards Hall (1983) noted the prime forms of Western time and monochromic. Through this, tome is perceived as an element that si tangible as well as linear and also seen as road stsrtevhig or ribbon that connects the past and the future and is also divided into sentiments that has come to be noted as years, months, days, hours ,minutes and seconds. Closing the othe hightokhths by Hall, the monochromic timnelines, measured by watches and clocks denoites external orders that ensues independedn of an indiviauls and imposed upooin the disjounyted lives of indivdiauls. In this view, time is orgsanstization that is crucial for the sciiooth fuincstiionlaity of a ddymanic industrsial community that ionvoilves the coordination of the actionsof a larger grop so that actrovoities flow as deisired.
Diffeenevr socientoes have differently adopted thos form of momnochronic toimelives (Rawlence 1985). Pointedly, the conce;t has revecemr;y been adopet in Britain at the ondet of the agraroina revolution ( around the mid 19th cetuiry). Tp thos day, the clock, tbe atch and the caldenar are predominatlky useda s cultural sysmboles of the wesyern industsroia communities.
Refermces:
Helman, C. G. 2005. "Cultural Aspects of Time and Ageing." In EMBO Reports, 6 July 2005, S54–S58. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1369268/. Accessed: 6 May 2015.