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    In Griselda Pollock’s article Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity‚ she elaborates on her beliefs that modern art history selectively celebrates normalized gendered stereotypes of females and female artists and their works1. She makes four arguments to support her beliefs based on references to works of art and literary works. The arguments are structured in a way that allows the readers to understand them through long discussions with added evidence from referenced works or personal experience

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    support on the basis of cultural traditions preservation. As cities have major business‚ industries its governments responsibility to provide good infrastructure in cities. Cities have dense population‚ so there should be all good facilities provided for peoples.cities help in development of country. Government should consider all these things while financing. In cities there are many people from different counties‚ states; and the try to preserve their tradition. because of this in many cities

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    “The American Political Tradition” published in 1948 was written by a well-known historian at Colombia University. Richard Hofstadter was born on August 6‚ 1916‚ in Buffalo‚ New York. He attended both the University of Buffalo and Columbia University where he studied philosophy and history. Hofstadter was married twice and later in 1970 died from leukemia. Throughout his life Hofstadter had a lot of published works including Social Darwinism in American Thought‚ William Leggett‚ Spokesman of Jacksonian

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    elements of tradition are smoothly bonded together in Eastern Orthodoxy‚ and this tradition serves to give the church a sense of direction and identity as followers of Christ (McGuckin 102). Scripture takes its place as one of the fundamental bulwarks of the Eastern Orthodox faith (McGuckin 100) and while scripture is the highest expression of tradition‚ Eastern Orthodoxy does not close itself off to the ever-flowing river of divine inspiration in the ways that other Christian traditions so often seem

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    Changing the Tradition of the Senate Filibuster There is a long-standing tradition that sets the U.S. Senate apart from all other government institutions‚ the filibuster. The term “filibuster‚” from Dutch origins‚ became popular in the 1850’s when it became attributed to efforts by Senators to hold the Senate floor in order to prevent the vote on a bill (U.S. Senate). Since then‚ unlimited debate has continued to characterize the Senate and allow any senator the right to speak endlessly. As of recent

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    Traditions are beliefs that are kept around for centuries‚ and are passed on from generation to generation. There are all sorts of traditions around the world. Traditions are made up by one person‚ and no matter how stupid the tradition is it is still followed. Traditions are supposed to be memories‚ and who would want to remember such a gruesome tradition. The murder of Tessie hutchinson was one that never would be forgotten. In “ The Lottery” they had a tradition that was chilling. Of course

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    The article “Tyranny of Tradition: How information paradigms limit librarians’ teaching and student scholarship” by Carrie Donovan and Sara O’Donnell‚ goes into deep discussion of the traditional paradigms for education changing and how it is impacting the learning of students. The article discusses how everyone is entitled to a higher education and one of the main principles of higher education is democracy. Democracy focuses on the actual content of study and how the instruction is delivered. I

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    Cross country camp is full of traditions. Our traditions vary from playing ninja in the woods instead of running‚ eating as many Oreos as possible‚ or running away from the seniors as they pelt underclassmen with icy cold water balloons. Canton Girls Cross Country has hundreds of unique traditions‚ but some of them are a bit more painful than others. My least favorite and the most agonizing tradition by far is something we call “Dunes Day‚” or as I like to call it “Doomsday.” This is the day in the

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    Elements of Religious Traditions Paper REL/134 Elements of Religious Traditions Living on the age of knowledge we have uncover a vast of information throughout the ages. We have now the advantage of choosing our own believes‚ let that be a believer to a god‚ a believer to two or more gods‚ a none believer‚ or simply acknowledge that there is a higher power. Although we have the power to chose what we believe on‚ sometimes this believes are planted into us since childhood

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    Elements of Religious Traditions Patricia McNeely REL/133 June 8‚ 2012 Dr. Victoria Yancey  Elements of Religious Tradition What a religious tradition says? Understanding religion beliefs and key characteristics on how religion manifest in some degree of belief a system where several beliefs fit together into a systematic interpretation of the universe and human being’s placed in it. Community is shared and its ideas are practice by groups. Stories that express the religious beliefs

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