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expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
divided by the church members among themselves "on the basis of status and seniority, laying out central villages like Deerfield a...
Inquiry" 18). This aids the researcher is presenting data in an accurate and personalized fashion that helps the reader discern no...
Rene Descartes, who formulated the innovative idea that sensory information is not a reliable foundation on which to base knowledg...
leads to the meditative absorptions states known as jhana (Novak, 1989). The second, insight meditation, contemplates the "true n...
Said argued that this enabled the West to use this part of the world as "a benchmark" to measure its own progress while at the sam...
of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...
has her husband, children, sisters and other extended family, as well, who provide the missing link to her cultural roots back in ...
This paper discusses the disintegration of cultural tradition as it relates to the physical disruption of people's communities and...
This paper explores how different cultures and different religions deal with death. One study revealed differences among three dif...
This essay reports the explanations of each of the Ten Commandments are interpreted by one scholar in a book. Other topics include...
In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Lakota Sioux traditions. An analysis of marriage practices and the sacred pipe ritua...
This research paper/essay presents an overview of Passover that focuses on how the rituals of the holiday transmit this tradition ...
This essay pertains to Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views, which is edited by P.C. Kemeny and presents five perspectives...
In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Hebrew and Egyptian mythologies. A discussion highlights similarities between the tw...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Dracula". Comparisons are drawn to examine the differenc...
This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...
This essay presents a discussion of specific traditions and beliefs relevant to the Hinduism and Christianity. Seven pages in leng...
This essay draws on the philosophy of Kant and Fichte, and argues that science freed humanity by offering a means to understand re...
aspects of the people from whom it is spawned. Barthes views on the evolution and purpose of myth are echoed...
that the political, social and revolutionary benefits of Hajj have been overtaken by mass production of ritual mismanagement" (Hae...
Wiccan traditions and have a long-standing history in centuries of community activity and ritual beliefs. During the Crusades, th...
chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...
having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...
without them. The power in Umuofia society was deeply steeped in "masculine traditions" (Osei-Nyame 148). The reputation o...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
glimpses into an embittered world in transition, in which survivors of the war hoped of finding amid the debris and dead bodies a ...
war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...
their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...
War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...