levels of reality‚ or‚ as Randall argues‚ their purpose is to bind communities together and urge us into action. The first advantage of using religious myth as a way of conveying religious truth is that it opens up a lot of boundaries between religion and science that are thus unbridgeable. Biblical stories‚ for example‚ might seem strange or absurd to the scientifically-minded modern believer‚ however‚ if they read the bible as a powerful piece of literature‚ which‚ although may not necessarily
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people have oppressed women in religion from the beginning. Women in religion has been a very controversial topic throughout many centuries. Although it has grown from years ago‚ women are still fighting for equal rights in their faiths. In many places of worship‚ men seem to be superior to women and have more privileges than women. Women are expected to obey and follow God’s word‚ as men do‚ but are still denied many options. Women are deeply impacted by religion because it seems as though it keeps
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Peoples and Cultures of Africa Religion in Africa All over the world‚ many religions exist and are found in the everyday lives of millions of people. These religions have many cultural influences on the life of a person but also have influences on the government bodies that govern countries. Religion is also an important look at the history of a nation and gives an inside look at how and why a country is run the way it is. In Africa‚ religion plays a tremendous role in everyday lifestyles. The
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you have—whether on politics‚ religion‚ science‚ culture‚ or even the media and entertainment—that might be regarded as being related to philosophy. The view that I am going to talk about which is related to philosophy is religion. The reason that I have chosen to write about this is because I like so many philosophers always asked questions on the different types of religion. I do believe there is a “god” but do not understand how many of the different religions act and can be true. I am not saying
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Question: Advantages and disadvantages of teamwork. Answer: There are many advantages of teamwork. First is about this way can train people about leadership. Everyone knows that county needs a leader to maintain the freedom of our people. Leadership is important to person especially students because in future they have their own experience about this. In fact‚ this way will help students to get a job in the future. Second is about teamwork can save their time to do task that has given. Take
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Brink of eternity Eternity has three aspects. It has the fear of the unknown when people feel they are not prepared to enter the next world. It has the hope of the unknown if people cannot bear the tribulations of life anymore. Lastly‚ it has the release of the unknown when people are well prepared to meet their physical death and go to the next world. Eternity is just a prayer away. In desperate hope the narrator went and searched for the spiritual door of eternity in all the corners of his room
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CONCLUSION Notice that where the solution of an ODE contains arbitrary constants‚ the solution to a PDE contains arbitrary functions. In the same spirit‚ while an ODE of order m has m linearly independent solutions‚ a PDE has infinitely many (there are arbitrary functions in the solution). These are consequences of the fact that a function of two variables contains immensely more (a whole dimension worth) of information than a function of only one variable. The method of characteristics is a
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The amount of active worldwide Facebook users as of June 2012 is 955 million‚ accounting for approximately a seventh of the total population on Earth. With such a mass population of the world checked into Facebook‚ it sparks question as to what kind of effect this has. There is no doubt that Facebook itself is a fantastically engineered social media‚ connecting just about one billion of people in the world with the simple action of logging into a website. But with the rapid growth of this social
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Humans have created urban areas right since the ancient times. Urbanization‚ as we know it now‚ began with the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century‚ and has only been on the rise ever since. Statistics tell us that half of the world’s people already live in urban areas‚ with that number set to expand in the years to come. Our cities have been luring people for various reasons‚ the basic one being the hope of a better life. People are drawn to the cities for the comforts they offer‚ the opportunities
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The ideas of globalization being the main cause of the spread of Global diseases is valid‚ however in these day and age it is mostly inevitable‚ we live in a time when people wants to travel to new places‚ where countries economies and food production depends on each other geographic location and their abilities to produce and trade such goods. In time where medicine and its benefits can also travel worldwide the negatives impacts that these global trading causes‚ does not outweigh the benefits.
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