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    worldwide have celebrated December 25 as their God’s birthday; however‚ Christians have held no historical significance to the holiday. Most customs involved in Christmas have originated from ancient pagan celebrations. The customs have dated back to events like Saturnalia and the Unconquered Sun‚ proving the ideas stemmed from pagan roots not Christian. For instance‚ the date of Christmas has held no significance to Christians. According to Elisha Israel‚ the Bible has provided no biblical evidence of

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    Story telling has been used as a staple for human development. Oral storytelling traditions varies from place to place‚ and has lessons to share with everyone. For centuries‚ stories have been used to guide people with advice through the main point of a story. They can tell about one person’s experience in certain situation. The tradition of oral storytelling is used to inform a community of member’s unique experiences in certain situations. “Storytelling that’s verbally expressed can be counted

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    The Tradition of Textiles in India | | India has a diverse and rich textile tradition. The origin of Indian textiles can be traced to the Indus valley civilization. The people of that civilization used homespun cotton for weaving their garments. Excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo Daro‚ have unearthed household items like needles made of bone and wooden spindles‚ suggesting that the people would spin cotton at home to make yarn and finally garments. Fragments of woven cotton have also been found

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    Chaucer challenges the anti- feminist traditions of his time through the wife of bath‚ discuss how far Chaucer makes us sympathise with the wife of bat hand the state of “wives” The prologue of The Wife of Bath begins with an automatic challenge to the traditional views and beliefs of women lines 1-6 ’Experience‚ though noon auctoritee Were in this world‚ is right y-nough for me To speke of wo that is in mariage. For lordinges‚ sith I twelf yeer was of age‚ Thonked be God that is eterne on

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    Oral Tradition vs. Written Tradition The Bible is one of the world’s greatest books. To believers and nonbelievers alike‚ this book has caused a massive stir in societies. Many do not know how this book came to be. For the most part‚ we are familiar with the stories of the bible and their moral lessons because we’ve been told them. From that experience the question would arise about whether oral tradition is superior to written tradition. Webster’s Dictionary says Oral Tradition is‚ “Cultural

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    Early Buddhist art were often aniconic as the Buddha was represented in art by using imagery and symbols and not as a person. Art pieces however‚ often contain religious message‚ iconography and symbols such as the lion. Other items in their art that reinforced the Buddhist religion was the wheel which or wheel of life which symbolized the religious belief of reincarnation‚ birth‚ and death which is helps to reinforce Buddha’s teachings. Stupas were also formed and created artistically to represent

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    Tradition and Modernity in Europe Europeans are well known for their firm traditions and their unwillingness to shift from old to new world ideals and changes. As the decades go by‚ Europeans are being bombarded with new world industry and new traditions. In 1976‚ through Susannah Hoffman’s documentary entitled “Kypseli: Women and Men Apart-A Divided Reality”‚ we are provided with the ultimate in European‚ namely Greek/Kypselian traditions. Hoffman shows the old world way of life when men

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    When coming from a place that a person has developed growing up to its traditions and culture‚ then going to a new environment and seeing a different perspective of the world and its tradition can change a person’s personality and their views. Peter the 9 year old little kid entering the wild with no knowledge about anything to a shift of responsibility and matureness‚ seeing new things that can never be forgotten or learning new knowledge or abilities can change a little boy. Formally‚ having to

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    The town people show their strong loyalty on tradition manifest itself in “The Lottery”. The plot of this story is simple but thought-provoking. In a clear and sunny summer morning‚ the people of a village began to gather in a square to attend a traditional activity‚ the lottery. Mr. Summer is the host of the activity‚ Mr. Graves is the postmaster and Old Man Warner as a reminder of it. Everyone has to attend it and has an equal chance to be the “lucky” one and then this one will be stoned to death

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    In reading my fourth response paper‚ “Injustice for Tradition; Justice for Love”‚ which was analyzing the last two acts in the Story of the Western Wing‚ I can see not only a significant amount of change in my writing from the beginning of the semester‚ but also further improvements I have made and could have made on this paper. With re-reading this paper‚ looking at with a fresh and further developed perspective‚ the first major thing I notice about my writing is that sometimes claims were made

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