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    Western Legal Tradition

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    institutions of the western legal tradition influence the colony of New South Wales and‚ ultimately‚ the development of the Australian legal system? Australia inherited a legal system and a system of government from its colonial power‚ Britain. An understanding of Australian law requires tracing of development of law and legal institutions in England. Britain shares many of the basic concepts of law found in other parts of Western Europe. The underlying concepts and principles of law of Western Europe are

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    True Western Hero

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    The Measure of a True Western Hero What defines a true western hero? A typical western hero is usually a frontiersman‚ cowboy‚ or sometimes an authorative law abiding figure‚ such as a sheriff‚ who has qualities‚ ethics‚ morals‚ and talents that stand above common standards. What exactly are the qualities that separate the true western heroes from the character that has good intentions‚ but is not a true hero? In the classic Western film Stagecoach directed by John Ford‚ John Wayne’s character

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    The "Soul" According to Eastern & Western Religions The idea of the soul varies widely in religious tradition. While these variations exist‚ its basic definition is unvarying. The soul can be described as the ultimate internal principle by which we think‚ feel‚ and will‚ and by which our bodies are animated. The soul is seen as the core principle of life or as the essence of a being 1. Views on the permanence of the soul vary throughout religious tradition as well. While some view it as a mortal

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    Genocide In Western Sudan

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    act done to another person since 1915 in Armenia. After 1945‚ it was 49 years later that another mass genocide occurred in 1994‚ the Rwanda genocides took place. Most notably‚ in 2003 to present. There is still mass killing in the Darfur region in Western Sudan. Which is surprising to a lot of people.

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    Western Festival in China

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    | Western Festival in China Yurong | | | Since China’s opening up to the world in the late 1970s‚ western cultures flooded into China. Some foreign festivals were also imported to China‚ and became rapidly very popular. At the same time

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    through many new empires‚ events and groups of people which included the Muslims‚ the Catholic Church‚ the Barbarian invasion‚ and the Byzantium Empire. These people and events influenced the way Western civilization has developed today. One period in history that had many contributions to the way western civilization has developed today is the middle ages. The idea that the Middle Ages were "dark ages" has been exaggerated a lot. In fact the middle ages are split into three distinct time periods

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    Imperialism Near the end of the nineteenth century‚ there was a sharp increase in the need for people of Western civilization to expand their way of life across the globe. Colonization had begun in the 1600s as a method of economic gain for European countries. The reasons for expansion in the late nineteenth century‚ however‚ had deviated from only economical prosperity. The notion that evolution as well as the belief in their racial and cultural superiority caused many white Europeans and

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    The Western Empire seemed to derive most of its knowledge and theories from those of the Eastern Empire after the fall of Rome. Astronomy and medicine are two of the specific examples discussed concerning the backgrounds and beginnings of western sciences. The Greek and Islamic background to Western astronomy deals with realists and instrumentalists‚ the realists representing physical reality and the instrumentalists predicting concepts with the idea that physicist ’s models are mere convenient

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    Since opening its “doors” in 1852‚ Western ideals began to influence the way Japanese people saw themselves. Many did not believe a nation-state could be consolidated under the Tokugawa regime‚ and should therefore reform the government and the nation according to Western ideology. This is perhaps best exemplified in the Meiji Restoration‚ which began as a way to not only reform the old Tokugawa way of life‚ but to also transform Japan into a nation that could stand on equal grounds with the West

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    EASTERN AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY The subject of philosophy has always been divided along two lines of thinking – the eastern and the western. Though each line is concerned with finding the right path to follow‚ the methodology and teachings of the philosophers from either line of thinking has been distinct and different. This paper aims to examine the ideas of one eastern and one western philosopher – Confucius and Socrates respectively and compare the two for similarities and differences. One

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