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Differing Jewish Traditions

This 8 page paper discusses the differences among the various Jewish traditions. The writer details the differences among Chasidic...

Jewish Wedding Traditions

This 8 page paper discusses the traditions of the Jewish wedding ceremony, including the breaking of the glass and the role of the...

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 ...

Christian Progression of Celtic Paganism

In five pages the literary progression from Celtic paganism to Christianity is discussed through the ways in which the emerginc cu...

More Than Pastoral in William Shakespear's 'As You Like It'

The tradition of pastoral in Elizabethan literature is the focus of this paper that consists of 6 pages. However there is a psych...

Renaissance Tradition in Othello by William Shakespeare

In three pages this paper discusses how traditions of the Renaissance are represented in this Shakespearean tragedy. Four sources...

Victorian Tradition and Robert Browning

This research paper offers an extensive overview of the work of Robert Browning and this poet fits within the context of Victorian...

Past and Present Political Tradition Principles

In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...

African Colonialism

A. Abu Boahen gives an unusual view of the colonial experience in African Perspective on Colonialism. Most books take the European...

Urban Environment and Segregation

urban setting is critical to American life. The recent clashes between blacks and whites have gone unnoticed as time erases memori...

The Role of Tradition in the Works of T.S. Eliot and Derek Walcott

This 5 page paper discusses the role of innovation versus tradition in works by Derek Walcott and T.S. Eliot. Works discussed incl...

Sunset Landscape Painting by James Wells Champney

spirit of impressionism in his work The Artist as a Man Champney was born in Boston in 1843. At Lowell Institute he studied...

Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Literary Modernism

In 5 page this paper defines modernism and then critically applies the concept to T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' and 'Tradition an...

T.S. Eliot's 'Waste Land' and Its Cultural Influences

In a paper consisting of 10 pages the aethetic, scientific, and sociopolitical influences on Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is considere...

Foreign Countries' Market Entry Barriers

target country. Political risk exists when discontinuities appear in the business atmosphere, when they are hard to predict and w...

Western Cultural Influenced by Witchcraft

Witchcraft and how it has influenced Western culture are examined in a paper consisting of nine pages with prejudice and the tradi...

Venezuela's Indigenous Cultures

In five pages this paper discusses the Pemon and Yamamao indigenous tribes that inhabit the rain forests of Venezuela in a conside...

The Concept of Modesty in Islamic Tradition

This 20 page paper examines the concept of modesty in Islamic tradition, and the use of the hijab in this connection. The writer e...

Europe and the Protestant Reformation

In five pages this paper examines how Europe's sociopolitical structure was impacted by the Protestant Reformation in a considerat...

Maya and Gawa Societies

In 7 pages this paper discusses the desire of these societies to hold onto their time honored traditions ad described in Nancy D. ...

Issues of Morality in Louise Erdrich's Novel, Love Medicine

This paper discusses issues of morality, personal identity, and cultural tradition as seen in Erdrich's Love Medicine. This seven...

Controlling Populations in India and China

count of 6 billion (The Christian Century 1192). China, the worlds most populated country, accounted for an entire fifth of that ...

A Wife for My Son by Ali Ghalem

her time between home and school. But when her parents decide to marry her to Hussein, her only a choice is to submit to their wis...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...