Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Examples of Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds in the following topics:

• Winning an Election: Majority, Plurality, and Proportional Representation

  • Common voting systems are majority rule, proportional representation, or plurality voting with a number of criteria for the winner.
  • The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly that is based on single-member constituencies .
  • This voting method is also used in multi-member constituencies in what is referred to as an exhaustive counting system where one member is elected at a time and the process repeated until the number of vacancies is filled.
  • In political science, the use of the plurality voting system alongside multiple, single-winner constituencies to elect a multi-member body is often referred to as single-member district plurality (SMDP).
  • Compare and contrast the voting systems of majority rule, proportional representation and plurality voting

• Spread of Islam

  • Trading played an important role in the spread of Islam in several parts of the world, notably southeast Asia.
  • Within the first century of the establishment of Islam upon the Arabian Peninsula and the subsequent rapid expansion of the Arab Empire during the Muslim conquests, one of the most significant empires in world history was formed.
  • Initially, conversion was neither required nor necessarily wished for: "[The Arab conquerors] did not require the conversion as much as the subordination of non-Muslim peoples.
  • These initial conversions were of a flexible nature.
  • Instead, the rulers of the new empire generally respected the traditional middle-Eastern pattern of religious pluralism, which was not one of equality but rather of dominance by one group over the others.

• Theories of Religion

  • It is in this sense that Marx said, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless circumstances.
  • "The reality of the Christian world depends upon the presence of social structures within which this reality is taken for granted and within which successive generations of individuals are socialized in such a way that this world will be real to them.
  • The existence of religious pluralism depends on the existence of freedom of religion.
  • This theoretical approach proposes that because no religion was guaranteed a monopoly in the U.S., religious pluralism led to the conversion of religions in the U.S. into capitalist organizations.
  • Altemeyer and Hunsberger (1997), in their book Amazing Conversions, note that one of the primary motivations for people to seek religion was fear of the unknown; specifically, fear of the after-life and what it portends.

• Subject-Verb Agreement

  • Think of it this way: you've got more than one subject, so your verb has to be plural.
  • Some indefinite pronouns can take a singular or plural verb based on whether the noun to which they are referring is uncountable (singular) or countable (plural).
  • [The subject bags is a plural noun, so the verb were is also plural to agree with the subject.]
  • Some words ending in "s" refer to single objects but are considered plural and so should take plural verbs, unless they are preceded by "pair of" (in which case "pair" would be the subject).
  • The title of a book or work of art is always singular even if a noun in the title is plural.

• Third Declension

  • Adjectives of three terminations in the Nominative Singular,—one for each gender.
  • With the exception of Comparatives, and a few other words mentioned below in § 70, 1, all Adjectives of the Third Declension follow the inflection of ĭ-stems; i.e. they have the Ablative Singular in -ī, the Genitive Plural in-ium, the Accusative Plural in -īs (as well as -ēs) in the Masculine and Feminine, and the Nominative and Accusative Plural in -ia in Neuters.
  • Celer, celeris, celere, swift, retains the e before r, but lacks the Genitive Plural.
  • In the Nominative Singular of Adjectives of this class the Feminine form is sometimes used for the Masculine.
  • In case of the other words in the list, the use of the Feminine for the Masculine is confined chiefly to early and late Latin, and to poetry.

• Defective Nouns

  • Nouns used in the Plural only.3.
  • But the above classes of words are sometimes used in the Plural.
  • Several nouns have the entire Singular of one declension, while the Plural is of another; as,—
  • Other nouns have one gender in the Singular, another in the Plural; as,—
  • The following nouns have one meaning in the Singular, and another in the Plural:—

• Polite and plural forms of "you"

  • There is a formal and informal way of addressing people in German.  
  • As a rule of thumb, use the formal "Sie" when addressing someone with whom you would use a title and their last name.  
  • German also distinguishes between a singular  and plural "you".  
  • ihr: more than one person, informal (think of the English equivalent, "you all" or "you guys")
  • Sie: always the formal, with one or more than one person

• Religious Diversity

  • Many faiths have flourished in the United States, including those spanning the country's multicultural immigrant heritage, as well as those founded within the country; these have led the United States to become one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world.
  • Due to its large population and history, the United States has numerically more Christians (and more Protestants) than any other country in the world.
  • A significant number of people identify themselves as American Jews on ethnic and cultural grounds, rather than religious ones.
  • On the other hand, American Islam effectively began with the arrival of African slaves.
  • Religious pluralism is an attitude or policy regarding the diversity of religious belief systems co-existing in society.

• Making Subject and Verbs Agree

  • To assure this, writers need to consider whether the subject of her sentence is singular or plural, and whether the subject is first-person, second-person, or third-person.
  • If a sentence has a compound subject, you should use a plural verb even if all the components of the subject are singular nouns.
  • Note that this is the case specifically because of the word "or. " If the phrase was "the monkey's antics and the handler's chagrin," it would be a compound subject and take the plural verb "cause. "
  • This is one thing writers may forget to edit.
  • Then focus on the verb and ask yourself, "Who or what is performing this action?"

• Kongo

  • Before the early twentieth century, there was no single name in Africa for the group; in the earliest documented ethnonyms of the seventeenth century, those residing in the Kingdom of Kongo called themselves Esikongo (singular Mwisikongo); those in the Kingdom of Loango called themselves Bavili (singular Muvili), and in other parts of the Kikongo-speaking world they had different names as well.
  • Nkondi (plural minkondi, zinkondi or nkondi with mi-concords, according to dialect) religious objects , frequently called "nail fetishes" because users often hammered nails into them, were made by the Kongo people of West Central Africa.
  • The nganga gathers materials, called nlongo (plural bilongo, milongo, or concord with mi-), which when assembled, will become the home of a spirit.
  • The purpose of the nailing is to "awaken" and sometimes to "enrage" the nkisi to the task in hand.
  • The most common place for storage was the belly, though such packs are also frequently placed on the head or in pouches surrounding the neck.