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Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

Eastern Philosophical Traditions and Aesthetic Experiences

in turn functions to accentuate the bodys passage through time. Myriad philosophers, psychologists and sociologists have at...

Mythical and Religious Themes in the Eastern Art Tradition

in regard to religious art. Religion, of course, is very diverse in India. Hindu is the primary religion (comprising 82.6 percen...

A Contemporary Feminist Critiquing of the Liberal Tradition

for the legitimacy of modern civil government is to be found by treating our society as if it had originated in a contract. The a...

Women In Chinese Culture: Historical Analysis

inasmuch as they were "fortunate to live at a time characterized by open-mindedness and liberal ideas" (Jianying, 2001). This exa...

Jewish and Christian Holiday Traditions

celebrate the holidays. It argues that each celebration is meaningful to those of that faith, but when "adopted" by the other, bec...

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

Artistic Traditions: Egypt and Greece

A 4 page paper which examines the reasons for differences in the artistic traditions of the Egyptians and the Greeks as suggested ...

A Sociological Analysis of the Janet Jackson Incident

Jackson family that invites confrontation, paparazzi and law enforcement? In some ways it seems as if this situation, and the situ...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

Doing Business in Russia

even less access to any goods and services other than those of the traditional culture. A class dichotomy quickly developed...

Argument Against Gay Marriage

to everyone, therefore, nobody is denied equal protection of the laws that exist (Benne and McDermott, 2004). Activists also argu...

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...

Values Axiom of Max Weber and the Immigrant Experience

Prestige is the degree of respect or importance attached to an individual or cultural group. As will be explained below, each of ...

British Company Cavendish and Diversity Management

Relations Act: if the organisation is perceived as supporting discrimination in this way, not only does it leave itself open to le...

Chivalry: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

the challenge but it is Gawain who understands that this is not necessarily a wise move for Arthur is king and it should be one of...

Cultural Practices Reflecting the Unity Between the Spritual and Material World Among the Indigenenous Cultures of Africa and the Americas

however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...

Silko/Setting in Ceremony

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

Hinduism

with God (Eck, 1991). One gets a sense that he people go because they want to and not due to a sense of obligation. Offerings are...

Media Imperialism in Asia

Asian countries (Moran & Keane, 2004). In other words, they dispute the idea that their people are affected by American media. Evi...

Change and Continuity During the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...

Comparing Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...

Irish Scholar Gareth Higgins

War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...

Hawaiian Kingdom's Ali'i Ruling Class

foresight that brought all of the various Hawaiian Islands together. He was to be the last of the great Hawaiian rulers, for after...

'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot from a Modernist Analytical Perspective

glimpses into an embittered world in transition, in which survivors of the war hoped of finding amid the debris and dead bodies a ...

Myth, Fact, and Early Christianity

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

Islam vs. Christianity, a Comparison

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

Intellectual Development and Don Quixote, The Mali Epic of Son Jara, and The Epic of Gilgamesh

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...

Jamila by Chinghiz Aitmatov

people to some extent. In the beginning he states that it is not a very great painting, and while he is not ashamed of it, he hide...

Structure of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...