1 The society of the Etruscans was ruled by………kings…… 2 How democratic was the Athenian democracy? Best description………………were allowed to chose their own city councils……………………… 3 The rise of private armies directly threatened the existence of the Roman republic. ……Julius Ceasar‚ MarkAnthony‚ and …… commanded private armies. 4 In Homer’s Iliad and odyssey the ancient Greeks were portrayed as ……powerful gods……… 5 Buddhism gradually lost its popularity in India because ……………………………………… 6
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http://hinduism.iskcon.org/concepts/202.htm http://www.minoritynurse.com/article/hindu-dietary-practices-feeding-body-mind-and-soul http://www.netplaces.com/hinduism/the-bhagavad-gita/self-control-the-dharma-of-the-ideal-man.htm http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/yoga.html Ethics forms the steel-frame foundation of the spiritual life Ethics‚ which concerns itself with the study of conduct‚ is derived‚ in Hinduism‚ from certain spiritual concepts; it forms the steel-frame foundation of the
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RL ST 001: INTRODUCTION TO WORLD RELIGIONS STUDY GUIDE FOR THE FIRST EXAM The most consistent feature of the various religions that originated in India is belief in karma and reincarnation. HINDUISM Hindus call their religion Sanatana Dharma‚ which means Everlasting Teaching. Hinduism has no single founder‚ and is not centrally organized. Who is a Hindu? A Hindu is anyone who • accepts the authority of the Vedas. • is a native Indian and not a Parsee (Zoroastrian)‚ a Jew‚ a Christian
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An individual’s ‘personality’ is their unique and relatively stable patterns of behaviour‚ thoughts and feelings. The key word is ‘relatively’. It implies that there is scope for change‚ that one’s personality is not necessarily constant. The influence of various aspects of our environment may affect our inherent behavioural traits‚ and can modify our personality. Personality development‚ therefore‚ is to allow new ideas to influence our personality‚ and to allow introspection to bring to the forefront
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CONTEMPORARY INDIA | The Great Indian Young Middle Class If you are living in the UK or USA‚ chances are that every time you lose your credit card‚ buy an insurance policy‚ report a fault on your mobile phone‚ you have probably spoken to someone who is unfailingly courtesy and impeccable English. And the chances are very high that the response satisfied you. Millions of faceless voices toil away nights at business process outsourcing companies across India at the end of a telephone line.
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Dayaram Dayaram ( (1777–1853) was a Gujarati poet. He belongs to middle age or " Madhya-kal " in Gujarati literature. He was known for his literary form called " Garbi " in Gujarat. He was a follower of Pushtimarg of Hindu religion. Dayaram‚ along with Narsinh Mehta and Meera‚ is considered as major contributor in Bhakti-kal in Gujarati literature.Although Dayaram has written in prose a major chunk of his published work is in poetry. The total number of his creations is not known and is still under
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IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 19‚ Issue 1‚ Ver. IX (Feb. 2014)‚ PP 71-74 e-ISSN: 2279-0837‚ p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.org Female Feticide: A Social Evil in India (Challenges before Us) Ms. Rajani Srivastava Research Scholar‚ Banasthali Vidyapith Abstract: In a modern time‚ Female feticide--the selective abortion of female fetuses‚ females not only face discrimination in this culture‚ they are even denied the right to be born female feticide determined
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The bizarre‚ horrific practices of the Aghori In this world there are very strange‚ unusual‚ and bizarre people who commit inhuman acts. One of them is a cult known as the Aghori. This cult lives a different and far from ordinary lifestyle to say the least. Their beliefs and practices are horrendous and nauseating. They do not get recognition as some other cults have gotten‚ such as the Ku Klux Wan‚ but they definitely can be classified as bizarre and unstable people. The
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The film The Legend of Bagger Vance‚ based on the novel of the same name by Steven Pressfield‚ is a movie that transports the philosophical Hindu text‚ the Bhagavad Gita‚ from a celebrated battlefield‚ approximately during the 4th century BCE‚ in India to a fictional southern golf course in Savannah‚ Georgia during the Great Depression. The predominant theme of dharma (or duty) is a major point that both these works focus on. The Legend of Bagger Vance is told from the point of view of Harvey Greaves
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Hinduism vs Islam Diffen › Philosophy › Religion › Hinduism Hinduism and Islam are the third and second most popular religions in the world respectively. They differ in many respects - including idol worship‚ monotheism and their history. Islam is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion that originated in the Middle East in the 7th century CE with Prophet Muhammad. Hinduism on the other hand is a polytheistic religious tradition that originated in the Indian subcontinent in the pre-classical
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