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    Thanksgiving compared to how the first Americans celebrated. Our Thanksgivings are very different first off we use forks and spoons‚ the pilgrims mainly used their hands to eat their food. A thing the pilgrims did was the they ate the food closet to if it was across from them they wouldn’t eat it. We go around the table to get what we want to eat instead the pilgrim way of doing things. Thanksgiving became a holiday in the eighteen hundreds so it wasn’t really celebrated too often in the sixteen and

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    Sabarimala Case Study

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    Sabarimala entirely different dimensions in comparison with other pilgrim centers. The flow of pilgrims from various places especially southern states of India is increasing year by year. The needs of pilgrims for accommodation‚ parking‚ resting etc. resulted in increased number of constructions and damage to the forest environment. Thus a master plan was prepared for Sabarimala with a vision of providing required facilities for pilgrims and to mitigate the impacts of pilgrimage in the wider region of

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    Spiritual Baptist Mourning

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    spiritual travels‚ and refraining one’s self of the freedom to move about‚ to speak‚ to eat‚ drink‚ bathe or any other comforts‚ and the acceptance of the naked earth for a bed‚ and a stone for pillow (Peza‚ 1999‚ 73). During the mourning period‚ the pilgrim receives spiritual instructions through visions and dreams. It lasts from Sunday to Sunday and usually takes place in a special mourner room on the church compound (Laitinen‚ 2002‚ 113). A Baptist may receive a vision to go down on the ground to

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    Jackie Elliot is seen as a traditional man with anti feminist views. he sees that boys should be tough whilst girls should be more placid. Throughout the film Billy Elliot‚ the directer has created the character Jackie Elliot‚ a widowed father feeling the grief of the recent lose of his wife. This essay suggests that the grief could be a factor of how Jackie goes about supporting his son. The time that this film is set‚ is in the mid 80s. It could be that people who do not keep to the social norm

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    New England by John Smith The author John Smith‚ a pilgrim who arrived to the Americas‚ wrote a description of the new land in his book “ A Description of New England ”. In this book Smith shows a wonderful world of vast food and pleasure. Also‚ William Bradford another pilgrim who arrived to Plymouth on the coast of Massachusetts‚ wrote a book called “ Of Plymouth Plantation ” in which he describes what really happened‚ how the pilgrims actually lived. The purpose of this essay is to compare

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    Hacienda Luisita

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    What is a pilgrim? A pilgrim is a person who travels to a sacred place for religious reasons. Or someone who travels on long journeys. Now why are we called pilgrims? For me we are called pilgrims because we are the Church of God‚ we are a family of believers‚ disciples of the Lord united in one spirit. The person tries to search answers for his questions like on the first part. “tired of weaving dreams too loose for me to wear” so the person is confused of why is it so hard to achieve

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    Journey to the West

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    Journey to the West‚ Pilgrim and the woodcutter seem to be similar where they both feel that they have a purpose in life. However‚ their situations are different from one another. For instance‚ Pilgrim tries to better himself by seeking the immortals‚ as well as‚ gaining eternal youth. He is full of passion‚ desire‚ and excitement‚ which has lead him to have no worrisome thoughts. He has nothing holding him back from the tasks that he wishes to accomplish. Unlike the Pilgrim‚ the woodcutter continuously

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    Piety In Early America

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    respect and devotion to God‚ and people often demonstrated their faith rather than keeping it hidden and done in private. Even though piety was prevalent before the first Americans settled in the New World‚ it became even more crucial for them. To the Pilgrims‚ God was their protector who protected them as they made their way to North America‚ and so they believed having faith in God would shield them from danger in the new‚ unknown world. An example of this value is in “Of Plymouth Plantation”‚ “Being

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    Sabarimala Analysis

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    for the pilgrimage. The pilgrims

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    and accomplishments‚ but they also had different experiences as well. In the story La Relacion by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford‚ you can catch a glimpse of these similarities and differences. Although the Pilgrims and Spaniards had differences they were more alike. While La Relacion encounter a lot of sympothy from the Natives‚ Of Plymouth Plantation encounters a tradition we use now. Their arrival on the island they both landed during the winter‚ but had

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