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    comments‚ some people do and do not have the same opinion as the video. Some white men reported preferring non-white women over white women just like how the video had stated. Several comments agree that they find middle-eastern women attractive which was a response to middle eastern women being the most responded to group‚ 1 in 2 people. There are several people who found the statistics opposite to what the video stated. Most of the comments had people listing their racial preference. Black women in

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    largest ship of the time and its construction by engineer Isambard Brunel. This photograph is part of a series of the the Great Eastern in the newspaper‚ the London Times. Howlett was not biased because he was British however‚ his views are not reflected through his photographs. The Construction of the Great Eastern is for middle to

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    Informative Speech- Wedding Traditions around the world. Topic- Marriage rituals around the world. Purpose statement-Even though getting married is one of the things we all share in the world‚ everyone has their own unique way of doing it. Organizational Pattern- Specific Introduction     Attention Getter- Wasn’t the day of your wedding one of the most special days of your life? I got married last year‚ a big full traditional wedding‚ and it was definitely very special and very memorable

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    Contemporary Western Music Genres Blues Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals‚ work songs‚ field hollers‚ shouts and chants‚ and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form‚ ubiquitous in jazz‚ rhythm and blues‚ and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions‚ of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression

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    to an individual ’s culture and environment. Psychology also plays an important role in culture. Comparing and contrasting an American Culture from a Sierra Leonean culture‚ which is a very small country in West Africa will clear up a lot of stereotypical ideas that people believe in. Compare and Contrast Your Cultural Background and Another Cultural Background The culture that I will be comparing in the American Culture‚ where I currently reside‚ and the Sierra Leonean culture where I am originally

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    Living Religious traditions are integrated meaning systems which provide adherents with comprehensive and distinctive answers to the enduring questions of human existence through Sayyid Qutb‚ Islamic bioethics and Hajj. Islam is a living religious tradition which helps adherents to answer the question of human existence through the legacy and writings of Sayyid Qutb‚ abortion‚ stem cell research and contraception of bioethics and Ihraam‚ Tawaf and Sa’y of Hajj. The paragraphs below will describe

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    Concerning the study religious traditions‚ many critical issues will need a close attention to identify the distinctions between them. One critical issue is how the religious traditions are passed along from generation to generation. Many developed world religions have an established sacred text as well as an oral tradition. In some cases‚ these oral traditions have been written down. For instance‚ in Judaism‚ the tradition of the Oral Torah and the written Torah. The written Torah became the Tanakh

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    Tradition is an important part of everyone’s life. Some people follow traditions so deeply rooted in their everyday life that they don’t even recognize them as such. Why do you cook rice a certain way? Well‚ that’s the way Grandma always did it. Others hold tradition above anything else. They feel that it is very important to follow these established customs and cannot even imagine rebelling against them although they may be hurtful in some ways. They may not even remember the reason for these customs

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    Western Civilization‚ Chapters 14-17 Exam Study online at quizlet.com/_88jqf 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. ____ was a Jewish philosopher who argued that religion should be voluntary‚ that secular states should promote tolerance‚ and that progress for everyone would come through humanitarianism. Moses Mendelssohn ____ was the "new scientist" whose work laid the foundation for Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation. Johannes

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    The Lottery: Blindly Flowing Traditions There have been hundreds of social issues through the years that have grabbed the attention of the American public‚ but one that is still relevant today is the social issue of blindly following tradition. When someone follows tradition they are forgetting all the moral aspects of the situation and just doing the act because it has been done for years because it is a tradition. These traditions make the people participating it closer or so they

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