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    Breaking Traditions

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    Youth Follow Traditions Cherry Traditions take a great significance in everyone’s life. Adults think that it is very important to follow the traditions which are passed by ancestors and cannot abandon these customs or allow children ignore them. However‚ as for youth‚ saidi a. (2002‚April 26)said‚“ Throughout the centuries‚ youth have been pressured by the "older" and "wiser" adults of their generation as they continue to accept traditions and customs ”. Youth

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    Tradition and Technology

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    PROVIDIAN TRUST: TRADITION AND TECHNOLOGY By Melissa Dailey and F. Warren McFarlan DPDN Paul Davidson‚ Brian Dyrud‚ Lindsay Neal‚ and Jennifer Paterson October 8‚ 2003 INTRODUCTION In 1994 Providian Trust was a company rich in tradition‚ experience‚ and a high level of personalized customer service. However‚ due to the lack of efficient business processes and information technology‚ Providian Trust was slowly slipping away from profitability and was allowing competitors to become more

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    organization with a copious amount traditions and has about a million different methods of conducting its business. Some are old and some are new‚ but possibly the oldest one that has been around since before the Army was officially established and still lives today is the Armys rules‚ regulations and policies on customs and courtesies. In this form of a remedial block of instruction given to me by my team leader‚ due to certain circumstances I am to explain the Armys customs and courtesies and the importance

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    Tradition In The South

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    Findings explain how traditions were formulated and carried out for so long with such importance. Traditions are strongly held up in the South and while some slipped through the cracks and there is a need to determine whether this was a positive or negative attribution to history in the South and contemporary Southern culture. All of this together will answer my question of; how did tradition in the South prevail and how it affected the culture. While there are numerous outlooks of the South‚ such

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    wedding traditions

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    Wedding Traditions American Intercontinental University Instructor: Cynthia Arms February 23‚ 2014 I. Introduction Different cultures‚ different customs very different traditions. That’s the way of weddings.

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    Traditions and Beliefs

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    tradition is a practice‚ custom‚ or story that is memorized and passed down from generation to generation‚ originally without the need for a writing system. Traditions are often presumed to be ancient‚ unalterable‚ and deeply important‚ though they may sometimes be much less "natural" than is presumed. Some traditions were deliberately invented for one reason or another‚ often to highlight or enhance the importance of a certain institution. Traditions may also be changed to suit the needs of the

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    Christmas Tradition

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    Christmas Tradition All over the world people have their own traditions and customs. Some traditions and customs have been passed on to generation to generation‚ others are beginning to build their own whether they choose a holiday‚ a summer vacation‚ or a special event to celebrate each year. My family tradition did not come from generations past; however‚ ours began when my parents started their own family as husband and wife. My parents did not have any traditions in there generation. My mom

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    Medieval symbols and customs are so unmistakably medieval because of their distinct traits. Many modern day interpretations of medieval society involve the use of symbols and customs that almost anyone can recognize as medieval. Some of these symbols and customs include armor‚ swords‚ thrones‚ jousting‚ and castles. Today‚ we might recognize medieval society as violent and barbaric‚ but that is because we perceive their ideas and customs through our modern lens. We also do not know if our modern

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    Technology and Tradition

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    as technology develops traditional cultures must be lost. Technology and tradition are incompatible-you can’t have both together. To what extend do you agree or disagree with this statement? I strongly disagree with this statement. There are several compelling arguments in support of the view that technology and tradition are indeed compatible. Firstly‚ we can today see many countries around the world where tradition and new technology live side by side very comfortably. Japan‚ for instance

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    Wedding Traditions

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    1. USA (believed by many to have begun during the Victorian era) white wedding dress- purity A black wedding gown was considered taboo in the last decades‚ but recently‚ this is also becoming an option for brides. A common superstition is that the groom is not supposed to see the bride in her wedding dress before the wedding day. There is also the superstition for the bride to avoid wearing the dress before the day and see herself in the mirror‚ because something that prevents the wedding may

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