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    India's gift to world

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    "India’s gift to World" Swami Vivekananda‚ the Hindoo monk‚ delivered a lecture Monday night under the auspices of the Brooklyn Ethical Association before a fairly large audience at the hall of the Long Island Historical Society‚ corner Pierrepont and Clinton streets. His subject was "India’s Gift to the World". He spoke of the wondrous beauties of his native land‚ "where stood the earliest cradle of ethics‚ arts‚ sciences‚ and literature‚ and the integrity of whose sons and the virtue

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    us to understand what the theme of a story actually is. The theme of “The gift of Magi” is selflessness. Symbolism and Plot are two literary elements in this story that contribute to the theme. The theme in a story is associated with an idea that lies behind the story (R.W. Clugston‚ 2010) To understand what the theme of the story is we have to figure out what the literary symbols are and what they stand for. “The Gift of Magi” tells a story of what lengths Della and Jim would go to make each

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    Spirit Of The Gift Summary

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    Why has gift exchange been a seminal topic in social anthropology? Gift exchange within social anthropology became a more expanded and discussed topic after Malinowki’s writings on the Trobian Islanders throughout the period of the First World War. In this writing he discussed the rituals involved in the Kula ring in his ground breaking research write up in the book "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" (Malinowski‚ 1922). This was shortly followed by the writings in Marcel Mauss’ "The Gift". The text

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    Special Gift Poem

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    In my holy book the Quran there is a section where a prophet asks god who is most important in life. God says mom is first‚ he says mom second‚ he says mom third and finally on the fourth time he says dad. Moms are so important that god says they come first three times before father’s. In the poem I chose “Mothers Are A Special Gift” it compares mothers to gifts from god and I for one wholeheartedly agree. This poem incorporates so many different techniques in four stanzas‚ that made the experience

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    E-Gift Shopping

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    E-GIFTSHOPPY Abstract: E-Gift Shoppy is a very important feature used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online‚ similar to the US English term ‘shopping cart’. The business-to-consumer aspect of electronic commerce (e-commerce) is the most visible business use of the World Wide Web. The primary goal of an e-commerce site is to sell goods and services online. E-commerce is fast gaining ground as an accepted and used business paradigm. More and more business houses

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    Inuit Gift Exchange

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    defined rules or formal regulations holding the community together; the coherence of a group of Inuit people stems from shared values and the interdependence created by the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Appropriately‚ the Inuit have no formal rituals of gift exchange. But the concept of positive reciprocity lies behind many aspects of an Inuit community and is central to the relationships and behavior of the Inuit people. In an agricultural society‚ it is to the farmer’s advantage to accumulate personal

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    The Simple Gift Essay

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    How does Billy develop a sense of belonging in ’The Simple Gift’? In Stephen Herrick’s verse novel‚ The Simple Gift‚ the main protagonist‚ Billy Luckett‚ is a sixteen year old runaway who feels that he needs to escape after being constantly rejected and alienated in his own town and home by key people and places. He is traumatised by his abusive father‚ alienated by all his peers at school and disconnected from the neighbourhood where he has lived and grown all his life. Billy gradually finds

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    While reading the poem The Gift by Murielle Minard for the first time‚ I felt angry at first. I was upset at the fact that she was not allowed to play with the doll. If she received the doll as a gift‚ why can’t she play with it? She was only allowed to hold it in her arms‚ “…not to disturb its perfection in any way” (Minard‚ 1984). In my mind‚ she is a seven year old girl and if she receives a toy as a gift‚ why can’t she play with it any way she wants? And then‚ once her mother felt the daughter

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    The Value of Love in “The Gift of the Magi” I. Introduction. Introduce thesis: Short story written by O. Henry in which love is more important than any material item and the value of a gift lies in the sacrifice behind it‚ rather than its material value. Thesis: The main characters in “The Gift of the Magi” value love over material things. II. Plot. A. Della and Jim are a married young couple living in an $8 a week apartment. 1. Della only has one dollar and eighty-seven cents saved to buy the

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    Gift Giving in Japan

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    Acknowledge portion of the book‚ Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash‚ Connections. Cosmologies. After that she had her graduated training in the University of Chicago funded by the National Science Foundation and the University itself‚ including one year of support from the Committee on Japanese Studies. Before the writing of this book‚ Katherine Rupp took twenty months of field work In Japan which is funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education. She finally completed the manuscript of Gift-Giving in Japan as a postdoctoral

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