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Jewish dominance in business

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When one takes a visual sweep across the globe in terms of business ownership the presence of many Jewish owned enterprises is clearly visible. Taking a closer look you find that many of these businesses are family run and are at least well into second and third generation phase. This begs to ask the question, what is it about jews that make them more successful in business than others? It is not only about success in business . Financial handling in this group is also very astute. So it must be then that there's something or some things that they are getting right. At the most basic starting point which is the family unit there's well establish financial savviness. Everyone is taught and has the ability to save. It is apparent that financial lessons in this group start at an early age. Knowledge and the ability to handle money is passed down from generation to generation.Children are taught the basics of money . When a business is established everyone partakes. The children pa...
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Something learnt from a Home Economics class.

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                                                           A yearning for more A diagram I was taught back in high school has stayed with me ever since. It is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. According to this hierarchy a person must satisfy their most basic needs which are at the bottom of the hierarchy before they can attain their most highest needs which are at the very top of the hierarchy. Moving through the motions of life. I get frustrated at times when I realise that I am still stuck in trying to fulfil my most basic needs. Which are food, shelter and clothing as well as safety. By this stage I should be far from that. So how do I focus on attaining higher needs when bottom basic needs are still dragging me down? I would like the liberty to be solely focused and faced with the challenge of satisfying my most highest need which is self-...
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Is art photography really art?

     A long standing debate There’s always been this debate about whether art photography is art or not. This topic has always been at the back of my mind. What finally propelled me to pen it was a reaction I witnessed while viewing some photographic installations from one of the members of the public visiting the FNB Art Joburg fair. The reaction was that photography is not art. Generally this has been a debate and something that is in the open air. The pundits who stand by this assertion put fourth this reasoning that anybody with a camera can simply take photos and title them as art. I disagree. I think art photography is exactly that, an art form. We have to look at the categories of photography and their various functions. There’s that part that seeks to simply capture what it sees in front of the lens. This is usually just a hobby. There is journalistic photography which seeks to inform us about the happenings in our surroundings. There’s also ornamental photograp...
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