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Cooperative
* Most cooperatives are in the farming industry.
* Some cooperatives operate their own processing and manufacturing plants.
* also have crucial social and welfare functions in rural areas.
* are a long established form of home ownership
  - way for farmers to keep more control of their marketing
  - also important in the farm supply sector
  - another form of ownership housing in a multi-family building or complex
  - association
  - autonomous, self-help organizations, controlled by their members
  - commercial enterprises
  - communities where members own their own homes but share resources and support
  - democracies in action
  - democratic, participatory organizations actively controlled by their members
  - essentially organizations that are owned and managed by their members
  - examples of democracy in action
  - fundamental to the ideology of economic democracy
  - legally, organizationally, and financially structured to meet consumer needs
  - member owned and controlled organizations
  - more common in big cities, where there shortage of housing
* are one business structure that benefits all it's members
  - type of local organization
  - self-help organizations controlled by their members
  - stores that are owned and run by their members
  - useful when animals feed on one property then leave by the hunting season
  - voluntary and non-discriminatory organizations
  - worker and consumer owned companies that are democratically managed
* can be large enterprises with millions of members or small community enterprises
  - exist in both capitalist and socialist-oriented economies
* enable groups of people to achieve goals which are only possible through joint effort.
* flourish in villages and in the informal sectors of the cities.
* functioning worldwide are a very important actor of civil society.
* have a large impact of the nation's economy.
* play a significant role in agriculture
  - strong role in the economic development of rural communities

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Electric cooperative
* are nonprofit, independent, free enterprise businesses
  - organizations with a strong past and bright future
  - private, independent utility businesses owned by the consumers they serve
  - significantly different in ownership structure and purpose
* focus on providing members the highest level of service possible.

Housing cooperative
* are similar to other business cooperatives because they are member-owned.
* can help low income people to realize their hopes of owning their own homes.
* have one vote per household.

Worker cooperative
* Some worker cooperatives are highly democratic, with a collective decision-making process.
* are excellent examples of the power of workers themselves to direct an economy
  - unique both as cooperatives and as businesses

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Fine art
* Fine Arts -Evaluate the relationship between art and the society from which it comes
  - -Relay a folk tale through illustration or through music
  - are specialists in the finest quality reproduction oil paintings
* are important in promoting human culture and progress.
* form of human expression that usually results in a tangible object.
* has very little to do with advertising.
* is all about nurturing and enriching the soul
  - an art, so far as it has at the same time the appearance of being nature
  - art that is done soley as an expression of one's self
  - located in museums
  - one of the origins of any nation's culture
  - that in which the hand, the head, and the heart fo man go together
* is the art of genius
  - product of human creativity
* present themselves in various shapes and hues.