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Traditions in Hinduism

Water (Matritamah) represents the feminine or maternal aspects of life in the Hindu tradition. An integral function of the ...

Party Systems, Political Transition, and the Areas of the Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia

all too often what also comes with the concept of nationalism and cultural conformity is the requirement of just one culture; this...

Comparison of Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish Prayer

in the woods or when theory are alone or even when they are in a crisis situation. Prayer under the umbrella of many religions is ...

Paula G. Allen's Spider Woman's Granddaughters and Gordon Henry Jr.'s Light People

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

Traditional Practices and Child Abuse Distinctions?

an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Patriarchal Mongolia and Gender Equality

highly insulted. That is just one example as to why it is important to understand differences in cultural backgrounds, particularl...

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 ...

Hinduism vs. Buddhism

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Southern Fiction and Manners

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

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...

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...

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...

Patriotism by Yukio Mishima

a review of this text and how Japanese marriage traditions are reflected in the double suicide ritual are analyzed in five pages. ...

Turban Importance to the Sikhs

(2001,p.PG) of the population. That certainly constitutes a minority. Over time, life for the Sikhs in Canada and elsewhe...

A Review of The Romance of Arthur An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation

A 10 page essay critiquing several essays in the anthology by James J. Wilhelm. The focus is on Arthur in the Early Welsh Traditio...

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles M. Payne and Organizing Tradition

In five pages the organizing tradition as it evolved in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s as depicted in this text by Charles...

Traditions of Irish Folklore

The enduring customs and cultural traditions reflected in Irish folklore are examined in 6 pages with the sacred thorn, the Sidhe,...

Epic Oral Poetry Tradition

In seven pages this paper examines the epic 'Beowulf' in a consideration of the poetic oral tradition. Seven sources are cited in...