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material gain and technological advancement, while Islam is typified as highly traditional and driven by moral values rooted in an...

device to thematically distill the essence of war and genocide, present its reality in a way that is more humanistic than statisti...

moved forward at a great pace, especially since the 1960s and 70s and the increased level of production, it remains at the investm...

Louis LAmour was born in Jamestown, ND. He left home at age 15 and worked his way around the world. He worked as a...

friendly creatures. They are viewed much as other cultures view leprechauns, elves, and even angels. They have also become symbo...

educated in the finest British schools. With no knowledge of any Indian tongue, Kumar became completely an upper-class Britain, in...

The writer looks at a number of different influences on the employment relationship. The paper starts out with a definition and th...

in the 19th century. G. Stanley Hall was strongly influenced by Darwins theories of evolution. It was the catalyst for Halls scie...

in the article "Key Iraqi weapons official held" in relation to topics studied in the roots of Western Culture deal primarily with...

as nine thousand feet. Even though the western burrowing owl is a ground dweller, it does perch atop relatively short landing pla...

Shogun Yoshimitsu had developed trade relations with Ming China and indirectly acquired Western goods. However, the new government...

of alluvium, i.e., silt, which has been deposited as a result of the annual flooding of the Nile for centuries (Lau, 1991). Lower ...

of the Divine somewhat differently than do Christians, as while they believe in a variety of "celestial realms," which includes be...

His leadership alliances undoubtedly contributed to Romes preeminent world status, but at a price. His autocratic rule encouraged...

Eastern religions share numerous similarities but there are also many contrasts....

because of the construct of human nature, and the constant conflict caused by physical needs, sexual urges, and the desires for lo...

ethnic cleansing" (Huntington, 1998, p.35). To this author, the world is changing and the fact that terrorism has risen is simply ...

Mexico and other areas of central America, demonstrates a number of similarities with Egyptian culture: the main architectural for...

that the political, social and revolutionary benefits of Hajj have been overtaken by mass production of ritual mismanagement" (Hae...

or Ego" (Rahula, 1986, p. 23). Conze s (1959) Buddhist Scriptures is another book that is rather comprehensive as well. Conze is ...

Goudsblom, 2002). While many see that water is something very necessary and desirable, water poses problems as well. For example, ...

woman who had just inserted a foul-smelling crocodile dung suppository. Other adventurous women seeking to avoid pregnancy in anc...

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

the Greeks, which makes it all the stranger that it is the Roman Empire that grew and prospered, and not the earlier one. Part of ...

course, pregnancy is not contagious and while there may be something occurring in large numbers it is not the same thing as focusi...

Yet, this movement includes many who are in a minority. Today, regardless of religion, sex is everywhere. This was not always the ...

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

of centuries," and therefore, "far more fundamental than differences among political ideologies and political regimes" (Huntington...

18). The words of Buddha were not written down until several centuries after his death and the first divisions within Buddhist b...

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...