Business is everywhere
Do you like the ability to buy and sell whatever you please? I do too! One of the reasons for us to be in college is because we want to specialize in some field, so we can sell our service to a company or a particular person. This is a characteristic of the free market that we live in. Free market is associated with a capitalist economy, which is “an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations” (Capitalism). I am certain you know everything about that from history and government classes. We are the type of society that wants to make a business out of everything. With the popularity of Second Life and its proximity to real life, we can expect people try to make a living out of it. However, the real question is; what is the nature of business that we can find in Second Life?



"Capitalism." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 12 Nov. 2009. .

This source is an online dictionary. A service provided by Ask.com. The content of it is a straight definition of capitalism. Which is an economic system with a free market. In this free market services are changed for currency, in our case Dollars.

Topic: Business

What is the degree of business that we can find in Second Life?

Outline

1. Virtual merchandise

a. Purpose

b. Advertisement

c. Location

d. Economic transactions

2. Real life retail within Second Life

a. Purpose

b. Advertisement

c. Location

d. Economic transactions

3. Second Life word as a business

a. Purpose

b. Advertisement

c. Location

d. Economic transactions

Would you like to go skydiving without the risk that it presents? Well, in Second Life you can do any sport that there is in real life. The definition of sport is “physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively” (Answer.com). Humanity has always been involved in some kind of physical activity. According to the web site Sports History, sports like gymnastics dates back to seven thousands years ago. People usually think of sports as football, baseball, soccer, and basketball. Without dough these sports are the more popular ones around people. However, I recommend that you experience the other sports that are not as popular. Some of the sports that you can find in Second Life are, skydiving, scuba diving, and skateboarding.

Works Cited

Sports History- Gymnastic, 18 February 2009, 9 October 2009, http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/sprtindx.shtml

World of the Body- sport, 24 June 2009, 9 October 2009, http://www.answers.com/topic/sport

Topic: sports

Thesis: Some of the sports that you can find in Second Life are, skydiving, scuba diving, and skateboarding.

Did u know that eighty-four percent of the world’s population has some kind of religious belief? According to the wed site Major Religions, sixteen percent of the world’s population is nonreligious. Within this sixteen percent, there are people that are agnostic, atheist, secular humanist, and people answering none or no religious preference. The eighty-four percent that are religious include any religion from the smallest “tribal to Christianity” (Major Religions). “Wherever the human imagination goes, so goes the spirit”(Grossman). Therefore there was no question that religion would have been present in a virtual world like second life. There are several types of religions and types of worship found within the second life, some of them are; Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity.

Work cited

List of The Major World Religions, 9 August 2007, 9 September 2009, http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

Grossman, Cathy Lynn. “Faithful build a Second Life for religion online.” USA Today 1 April 2007: 6. 9 Sep. 2009 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2007-04-01-second-life-religion_N.htm,

my thesis statement is: "There are several churches or places of worship within the second life; some of them are Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity."

For my first short essay I choose religion on second life.