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    divorce between academic and popular historians. As Margaret Conrad argues‚ popular historians have established the tension‚ by recreating “historical films without the involvement of trained historians”. This underscores the troubling gulf that sometimes separates public academics approaches to the past. Academic historians have been “too long focused” on professionalism‚ and discarded “generating” a “dialogue” (Conrad) with their contextual audiences. The substantial dissolution between academic

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    Conflicts in Everyday Use ​The main conflict in the story Everyday Use is that Dee wants the quilt to show off with her friends‚ but her mother to give the quilt to Maggie‚ because she thinks Maggie will “use” it every day‚ and not just to show off their heritage every day. Another conflict was that Dee considered herself to be more worldly and educated and that the everyday things should be hanged up and admired as antiques. The basic conflict is based on the difference of values between Dee and

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    CONFLICT OR COOPERATION? THREE VISIONS REVISITED by Richard K. Betts FOREIGN AFFAIRS‚ Nov/Dec 2010 “Practical men‚ who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence‚ are usually the slave of some defunct economist‚" John Maynard Keynes once wrote. Politicians and pundits view the world through instincts and assumptions rooted in some philosopher’s Big Idea. Some ideas are old and taken for granted throughout society. For most Americans‚ it is the ideas of the liberal tradition

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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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    ORAL TRADITION OR SPOKEN WORD The oral tradition constitutes the main element of transmission and coverage of the oral literature and history‚ music and dancing. This tradition begins with the internal context of the group and the communication through interaction which brings fourth a folkloric process. The Afro-Caribbean folklore of the Archipelago is a mixture of the African‚ the British‚ and the Creole aspects distributed through a cultural continuum of variations. The members of the elite develop

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    Conflict in Somalia: Drivers and Dynamics January 2005 The report has not undergone review accorded to official World Bank publications. The findings‚ interpretations‚ and conclusions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/the World Bank and its affiliated organizations‚ or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank does

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    Date: 19/04/2013 Roles of Tradition Pacific Society The essay presented here after a extensive research exhibit a wider range of variety of factors that has contributed to (ever) changing pattern that is irreversible‚ the topic touches some very sensitive issues in our society that perhaps has been the case into some very catastrophic changes that has forcefully bulldogged the roles that hold the structure of our tradition Pacific society. The fact remains that changes

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    As a matter of fact‚ there are a great number of things that parents and their children just cannot go along with each other and one of them is about career choice. We’ve seen so many incessant arguments between parents and children about career choice that it’s somewhat become inevitable. That happens simply because of the lack of understanding children from parents. A career choice reflects the children’s passion for something they’re very willing to carry out‚ to study for‚ to do research

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    Self Identity Shaped by Traditions The identity of one’s self can largely be defined by one’s culture and heritage. Family makes up the most part of your culture as well as the place you call home. To fully understand yourself you have to investigate all the cultures you are comprised of through your family and heritage. In “Everyday Use” Alice Walker takes a deeper look at the concept of heritage through the conflicted relationship of Mamma and her two daughters. The story shows was heritage

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