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as by feeding monks, building and maintaining temples, releasing birds and fish, helping the needy and other acts of selflessness ...

ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...

notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...

with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

embark upon myriad experiences that would otherwise never have existed. Being introduced to Buddhism by way of India in the 2nd c...

represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...

Although there are definite directions provided in the Bible as to the follies of splitting into separate religions and sects, mod...

doctrines of faith and hope as the two primary elements of Judaism (Schechter, 2002). Buddhism decrees outright respect for...

that their God will ultimately rule the world, that the Jews have established the doctrines of faith and hope as the "two most pro...

there are certainly differences between the two disciplines and this creates a source of conflict. That said, while Confucianism ...

This then introduces the debate regarding predestination and free will: if...

sex with a male, after the manner of sex with a woman, they have both committed an abomination, they shall surely be killed" (Quot...

years, was defined by a set of Vedic scriptures (Basham 8). Following a distinct separation from Hinduism, the Buddhists followed...

"white" churches despite the fact that acceptance is preached as part of the religion itself. A student wanting to embark on a ca...

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

do, and does if people are given the opportunity to study and read such work. While many could well associate Amy Tans work...

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

put the machine in his place. But the machine has not always been kind to man. In fact, labor unions came into being almost as so...

consciousness" (Sayadaw). These are the normal processes of perception, movement, and consciousness. With this concept Buddha arri...

the fact that "The Buddhists consider the world to be full of sorrow and regard ending the sorrow as the chief aim of human life" ...

anonymity and confidentiality. In any research that is expected to be effective, informative, and beneficial in any way it is impe...

riveter). But with the war, the demand for workers grew, and "everyone" agreed that women would work; they also agreed that the jo...

reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their par...

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

create such programs (The American College of Surgeons, 2006). There is the Committee on Trauma which "works to improve th...