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Women In Chinese Culture: Historical Analysis

inasmuch as they were "fortunate to live at a time characterized by open-mindedness and liberal ideas" (Jianying, 2001). This exa...

The Lottery by Jackson: Violence or Tradition?

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

"Season Of Migration To The North" - Influence Of Western Education

in contempt of threatening the cultural foundation of rural Africa. While the narrators intent was laced with good intention for ...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

Tudor Literary Tradition and Utopia by Thomas More

as long as the economy were flourishing, they reasoned they were prospering as well, so there was no need for rebellion (Kautsky, ...

Catholic Tradition Aspects

that the entire Christian movement was galvanized and energized by an unseen agency, the Holy Spirit (Ottati 1044). Believers in J...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

Eastern Philosophical Traditions and Aesthetic Experiences

in turn functions to accentuate the bodys passage through time. Myriad philosophers, psychologists and sociologists have at...

Mythical and Religious Themes in the Eastern Art Tradition

in regard to religious art. Religion, of course, is very diverse in India. Hindu is the primary religion (comprising 82.6 percen...

A Contemporary Feminist Critiquing of the Liberal Tradition

for the legitimacy of modern civil government is to be found by treating our society as if it had originated in a contract. The a...

Change and Continuity During the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...

Comparing Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...

Islam vs. Christianity, a Comparison

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

Intellectual Development and Don Quixote, The Mali Epic of Son Jara, and The Epic of Gilgamesh

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...

Jamila by Chinghiz Aitmatov

people to some extent. In the beginning he states that it is not a very great painting, and while he is not ashamed of it, he hide...

Structure of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...

Evolution of Myth

aspects of the people from whom it is spawned. Barthes views on the evolution and purpose of myth are echoed...

Wiccan Traditioins and Last Century's Witchcraft Perspectives

Wiccan traditions and have a long-standing history in centuries of community activity and ritual beliefs. During the Crusades, th...

Pilgrimages in Buddhism and Islam

that the political, social and revolutionary benefits of Hajj have been overtaken by mass production of ritual mismanagement" (Hae...

A Deuteronomy Structural Analysis

chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...

Religious Beliefs of Indigenous Africans

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

Irish Scholar Gareth Higgins

War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...

Hawaiian Kingdom's Ali'i Ruling Class

foresight that brought all of the various Hawaiian Islands together. He was to be the last of the great Hawaiian rulers, for after...

'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot from a Modernist Analytical Perspective

glimpses into an embittered world in transition, in which survivors of the war hoped of finding amid the debris and dead bodies a ...

Myth, Fact, and Early Christianity

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

The Clean Slate

be seen as lacking this soul. However, their lack of exposure to the great works and ideas also means that when they are exposed t...

Changes in Higher Education Due to the Internet

the graduates of these universities and is designed to deliver courses former students can take to "continue their education after...

Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas on Religion and Philosophy

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

Archaeology, Traditional Cultures and Oral History

and a cultural object" (Romer, 2006, p. 735). In her book, Sofaer "discusses the way skeletal material in the mortuary context act...