Being a Hindu‚ growing up in a modern society‚ I have got this wonderful opportunity to research Hinduism in contemporary world. In this essay‚ I have explored Hinduism not only by juxtaposing it with modern Hinduism‚ but also with ancient religious practices. Modernity is not simply the western world‚ or connecting to contemporary and rejecting the old. Modernity‚ as David Smith says is theorization of modern world and according to modernity self is autonomous‚ and God is dead. This feature of modernity
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Life in Ancient Greece: Spartan men and women Bernice Gelin Professor Shepardson November 18‚ 2008 World History The ancient city of Sparta has had a lasting impression on the world today. Sparta was a model of discipline‚ conformity‚ militarism‚ and virtue. It was a prominent city state‚ but its society was unique from typical life in Greece. Sparta was a military state‚ believing in having only the strong and not the weak to maintain the
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practical and theoretical approaches that led to the creation of the modern world so we can understand the utility of it in the twenty first century. Technological ideas were exploited and diffused among ancient civilizations. The ancient Chinese civilization claims credit for many discoveries of technologies like gunpowder‚ or technology of manufacturing paper. Some of the other rare technologies that were invented in ancient China were firearms (crossbow)‚ seism scope (device used to detect earthquakes)
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How has our everyday culture and society of America been impacted by Ancient Egyptian culture and society? When thinking about the way of life during the Ancient Egyptian time period one can only wonder how so long ago would have a lasting impression on a culture today. How the Ancient Egyptian’s culture has carried over into the modern American culture is through their artwork‚ architecture and politics. One way the artwork has made a lasting impact on America is through the images they created
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The culture that influenced my project is the Greek culture. Ancient Greece was a Greek civilization and it belonged to an era of Greek history that persevered through the archaic period to the term of classical antiquity. After this period began it was followed by the early middle ages and the Byzantine era. Contained in ancient Greece‚ better known as the classical Greece period. This period blossomed during the fifth to fourth centuries BC. Classical Greek culture‚ mainly philosophy‚ had a dynamic
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like any other city-state‚ Athens began as a small Mycanaean settlement. The name came from the Greek goddess Athena. Athena is the goddess of wisdom and military. The people chose her to protect their city-state of Athens. These new city-states in Greece were not like older settlements‚ which were ruled by one king. Instead people who lived in a Greek state were considered equal. Citizenship for all free inhabitants‚ with the exception of the lower ranking of women and slaves. Although women were
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The Effect of the Internet on Modern Society In this day and age‚ the Internet is the new resource tool for the masses. It has changed the way we live in society and the way people interact with each other. As more and more people log on the Internet‚ it has undoubtedly changed the way people think and feel about each other and the world around us. When we begin to look at the ways it has changed society‚ we can clearly see many reasons to its assimilation into modern life. First‚ it has given people
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differences between the ancient civilizations of Greece and Egypt in term of education system‚ art and geographical regions. II. The Egyptian and Greece are different in term of their education system. A. Egyptian education system 1. age entering to school 2. subjects they learn in school 3. girls from wealthy family enter the school B. Greece education system 1. age of entering school 2. subjects they were taught 3. girls learn to do house work III. The Egyptian and Greece are different in term
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I believe that a lot of the traditions of western civilizations come from the Hellenistic periods of Greece. A lot of the Homeric values like heroism‚ skill‚ dominating warrior‚ and strength are still much valued in the western ways. Through math‚ science‚ society‚ and culture prove much of this point. Math and science are a huge part in modern western civilization. Most of the science we use is based off the founding made during the Hellenistic Age. The heliocentric theory of the earth rotates
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Adapting to Modern Times Today‚ there are various radio stations that are broadcasted throughout Tanzania. However‚ from the 1950s until the mid-1990s‚ Radio Tanzania was the country’s sole station‚ consisting of music‚ poetry‚ drama‚ and speeches. There are currently more than 15‚000 reels of these tapes that are sitting on the shelves of the BBC building in Dar es Salaam. Reviving the Radio Tanzania Archives is a project that has a goal of digitizing and preserving these tapes before they
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