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Yoga in Buddhism and Hinduism

from around A.D. 300, which is one of six classical systems of Indian philosophy. The literature on Yoga stems from the set of sut...

Eucharistic Meal and Passover Seder

In ten pages this paper discusses the tradition represented by the Eucharistic Meal and Passover seder. Six sources are cited in ...

Jackson J. Spielvogel on the French Revolution

In five pages this paper examines the French Revolution and its definitive traditions of revolution, reform, and restoration as co...

An Arabic Language Overview

In ten pages the language of Arabic is considered in terms of development that is not different according to socioeconomic classes...

The Beginning and the End by Mahfouz

In three pages this novel that celebrates Islam is examined with modernity and tradition among the topics discussed. There are no...

Concepts of Immortality

This 11 page paper uses the Bhagavad Gita, The Dybbuk and The Monkey as sources to examine concepts of rebirth, the soul and the a...

Sub Saharan Regional Music

In six pages this research paper examines Nigeria and Cameroon in a consideration of the tradition laden music in these African re...

Religion and Christian Women

In four pages Christianity is discussed in terms of women's roles with references made to Her Story Women in Christian Tradition ...

The Use of Dialect by Swift, Blake and Conrad

Joseph Conrad's use of dialect and other literary techniques was influenced by many writers who came before. This paper links his ...

Roots of Avant Garde's Visual Arts

In eight pages the roots of avant garde regarding film are argued to be in the visual arts as opposed to the narrative cinematic t...

Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Fyodor Doestoevsky's Notes From the Underground

In five pages these two works are compared in terms of how the symbolism of researcher and doctor represents 'state' and tradition...

Early Greek Theater and Ritual

In eight pages this paper discusses Greek theater's traditions, rituals, and ceremonies with Oedipus the King among the topics cov...

Jane's Fairytale Sisters in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In six pages the ways in which the fairytale tradition is reflected in this novel is examined in terms of the female psyche and th...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In ten pages this research paper focuses on the novel's protagonist Okonkwo and discusses how he reflects his ideal society's trad...

Dark But Not Always Gothic Writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

English Culture Considered During a Visit to England

In nineteen pages this paper discusses the tradition and history of the English culture when on a trip to England, landmarks, Brix...

Tradition and Techniques of Leadership

In fifteen pages this paper discusses Peter Senge's theories in a discussion of core values, tradition, and new approaches to lead...

Oral Tradition, Slave Narratives, and White Readers

In five pages this paper discusses how the oral tradition is applied to slave narratives penned by Nat Turner, David Walker, Frede...

India Business Practices

In ten pages the India business market and its practices are discussed particularly as they relate to Americans who conduct busine...

Ancient Chinese Religion Known as Taoism

In nine pages Taoism is examined in an overview of its traditions, philosophy, practices, rituals associated with it and how it re...

The Rio Carnival

The writer describes the annual Carnival celebration in Rio De Janeiro, including some of the traditions and rituals that occur du...

Culture of Contemporary Greece

In ten pages this research paper examines modern Greece's culture in a consideration of tradition, ritual, religion, language, eth...

European Clashes and the Xhosa Culture

fifteenth century (Mostert, 1982). But some came from Natal later, and other groups arrived in the Eastern Cape as a result of the...

New Guinea's Folk Society and Evolution

In six pages the folk people who inhabit the highlands of New Guinea are the focus of this examination of evolutionary progress an...

Kenyan Woman

countries (33 out of 46), fertility remains at levels of six or more children per woman, while only in two small countries (Maurit...

'Dia de los Muertos' Traditional Mexican Ceremony

In five pages this research paper examines this 'Day of the Dead' Mexican ceremony in terms of its tradition and the meanings behi...

Story and Ritual Traditions of the Navajo Blessingway Ceremony

In five pages this paper examines the stories and ritual traditions that lay the foundation for the Navajo Blessingway ceremony. ...

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...

'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 ...