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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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    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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    It can be argued that traditions‚ as well the people who participate in them‚ are what make families different. There are many different kinds of traditions. They can be formed anytime‚ and for any reason. They can be as simple as watching TV together while everyone is on their phone‚ or as complicated as a traditional Chinese wedding. Traditions are fun‚ and they can bring families together. The tradition that I can count on happening at least once a day is a mean joke between my stepmom‚ dad‚

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    to keep their traditions preserved and flourishing thousands of years. And this is because every aspect of Mayan life seemed to be centered on religion. And their religion would be classified as animism. This means that their religion centers on the fact that virtually everything in the world contains sacredness. This shows the notion that all objects whether living or non were embedded with spirits. (Culture counts)This fueled their culture and influenced their language and tradition‚ as well as‚

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    British Literature II March 2‚ 2012 Final Paper Romantic and Victorian Literature and writers have an endless about of similarities that make both of them the overall most influential eras of literature. It is in following paragraphs I will attempt to bring together the most fascinating points and authors that built the road on which future writers try to compare their works to these masterminds. It is in the social issues‚ religious doubts and social prosecutions that have previously withheld

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    People often see the scripture‚ Tradition of the Church and social situations as completely different entities. However‚ this is not true‚ the Catholic Social Teachings (CST) bridges these worlds together. The scripture is our main source of revelation‚ explaining how to reach the kingdom of heaven. For this reason‚ the Catholic Social Teachings rely heavily upon the scriptures as this leads to the Tradition of the Church. The Tradition and the scripture are highly intertwined.The Social Doctrine

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    * Customs Union Theory ------------------------------------------------- (18th century) A customs union is a grouping of countries with a common external tariff‚ but with free trade‚ free movement of labor and capital among themselves. Customs union theory examines the impact on trade in general following the removal of barriers (such as quotas and tariffs) between the countries and their establishment against other countries. --- Advantages of Custom Unions : Consumers get a wider choice of

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    There are a couple of critical issues when it comes to the study of what a religious tradition says. The first is to make a distinction between the oral tradition and the written tradition. Many well-developed‚ world religions have an established canon of sacred texts‚ as well as an oral tradition. In some cases‚ this also has come to be written down. For instance‚ in Judaism‚ there is the tradition of the Oral Torah and the written Torah. The written Torah has become the Tanakh or the Hebrew

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    The British Raj was the rule of the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947. Raj is the term used when the British government stopped the Sepoy Rebellion and took control of India during the reign of Queen Victoria. Back then India wasn’t a nation it was divided into various parts which where governed by different kingdoms and different rulers‚ even if they had the same language. But just some of the kingdoms where actually powerful‚ and the ones that had it where excelled

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