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Overview of the Catholic Church

in the earliest forms of the Roman Creed but it was not until 360 that the word Catholic was added to the Creed in the West (Thurs...

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and the Role of Women

has been a "very big thing" (Axelrod, 1995, p. PG). Even just a decade ago, a Jewish womans place was still in the home, although...

Cross-Cultural Awareness through Films and Interviews

still evident and part of the legal system in which case provided some legal standing for peoples separatist attitudes. Since the ...

Romantic Essence of 'Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

capturing the experiences of childhood. Wordsworths theories of romantic poetic structure have been both accepted and highly crit...

Change vs. Tradition in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...

Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven

love of this frightened child is the healing agent that helps Turtle to grow. The symbolism of Turtles name, for she has retreate...

South Philly Overview

(Learning Center/Philadelphia). However, shipbuilding still employed some 50,000 workers after World War II, but then began a pre...

Book Reviews on the Japanese Samurai

In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...

Muslim Holiday Eid

extreme importance to the members of the religion in question as well as being relatively unknown to those outside of that religio...

Southern Fiction and Manners

that manners and formal politeness will overlap: the way in which white Southern gentlemen treated white Southern ladies, for exam...

Traditions of Radical Feminism, Socialism, and Liberalism

19wright.html). It is a tradition that remains powerfully strong today and is, according to Wright (2001), "well represented by li...

Tenacity and the Jewish People

to Jeremiah, words intended for the Jewish nation: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you ...

The Upanishads and the Atman

same in his "Heart Sura" (Upanishads). The term "Atman" refers to the immortal aspect of mortal existence (Atman-the Soul Eterna...

Hinduism vs. Buddhism

four different occasions away from his palace he encountered the true pervasiveness of human suffering. When Prince Siddartha went...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and the Roles of Tradition and Myth

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

India, Africa, and the Effects of European Music

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

Expatriates and Their Writings

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

Chinese American Woman and the Conflict of Dual Roles

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

History and Traditions of the Ashanti

The capital of the Ashanti kingdom, Kumasi, was taken by the British in 1873 and the kingdom became a British protectorate at the ...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

Chinese and Mexican Communication Across Cultures

When addressing someone in China, one should remember that in China, family names come first. So for example, Mr. Li Hongjun would...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

The History and Operations of Alcoholic Anonymous

When Rowland returned to America, he found both spirituality and sobriety with an evangelistic organization called the Oxford Grou...

Comparing Buddhism's Different Forms

did not want to support the offspring of the religious leader. Yet, whatever the reason, attachment is a concept that is very impo...

Multiculturalism and the Curriculum

demands that change should take place in order for all students, regardless of ethnic or racial background, to feel that they are ...

Sundiata: The Text and the Man

in Africa. The importance of the character in the book is that he becomes a true hero. Conde frames the story of Sundiata "with g...

The Healing Properties of Native American Tradition

individuals, individuals who arrived from that continent we refer to as the "Old World". The precise determination of exactly who...

Elijah's Message

them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...

Mordecai: An Early American Family (Book Report)

North. The business this family chose to engage in, at least eventually, was education. They started a school. The school would be...

The Theory of Knowledge from the Socratic and Taoist Perspectives

would lead to an early death, he said, "... a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; h...