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    The Veil

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    Why are modern Muslim women adopting the veil‚ hijab or turban even when their mothers did not wear it? How does veiling shape the identity of these Muslim women? Is such voluntary modern veiling necessarily more oppressive than the pressure Western women are under to always dress up‚ look good‚ feminine and desirable as they walk out of their front doors? Discuss with reference to literature on Muslim women in Western minority situations and/or in predominantly Muslim countries. Refer to essential

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    Islam and its Challenges in the Modern World Islam today is facing challenges from within and from the wider world. The critical problems are the fundamental tensions within Islam. The attitudes and criticisms common in the outside world can be ignored as misguided or hostile‚ but the tensions within Islam throughout the world must be confronted. In a simple geographical sense‚ Islam has to come to grips with its changing centres. The religious centres define the heartland: Saudi Arabia maintains

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    The Impacts of the Arab Revolution: The 2011 Arab revolutions are best described as uprisings for democracy and dignity. They are democratic in the sense that they are driven by a deep-rooted hunger for political empowerment on a mass level‚ specifically the replacement of elite rule with popular sovereignty. They are also about dignity in that the protesters are rejecting the humiliation and degradation that has accompanied decades of authoritarian rule. The indignity brought on by massive corruption

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    Rh Bill

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    Good grief! Less than two weeks after it was enacted into law‚ the still controversial Reproductive Health Law‚ otherwise known as Republic Act No. 10354 or the “Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of The RH law is now in the hands of our Supreme Court justices. Though I’m an atheist let me say this: “God help us…” 2012″‚ was challenged as unconstitutional in the Supreme Court on the ground that it “mocks the nation’s Filipino culture”. This is unbelievable. No‚ this ismadness

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    Age Of Exploration

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    The Age of Exploration The Renaissance brought an array of changes to the European continent. New innovations in the fields of science‚ math‚ arts‚ and literature were sparked during this time period. With the growth of humanism‚ secularism‚ and individualism‚ a spirit of curiosity and adventure developed amongst Europeans. As new innovations and ideas were forming during the Renaissance‚ it gave humans the ability to explore and travel to other parts of the world. The development of the compass

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    is open to interpretation. Moreover‚ this idea by Galileo acted as a turning point in history as more and more people started to question the true meanings of the bible as time went on in the early modern period‚ leading to an increased amount of secularism and eventually the separation between church and state in many countries (Mancia‚ Class‚ 9/21/15). Rather‚ Galileo believed that God gave us a brain in order to use it to help understand the world better‚ further promoting ideas of

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    Midterm Study Guide 1

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    of the demographic transition model to population growth‚ and by extension‚ population movements? Compare population growth in the last ten thousand years to the rates in the last 150. Compare the apparently contradictory global trends of secularism and fundamentalism. Questions from lectures‚ websites and films: Anthropology: “The science of humankind”

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    Paradise Lost is an epic poem written in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was first published in 1667 (but written almost ten years earlier) in ten books‚ with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674‚ re-divided into twelve books with minor revisions throughout it and a note; the majority of the poem was written while Milton was blind‚ and was recorded for him by another person (Bloom‚ 3). Paradise Lost is one of the greatest

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    Our Mother Language Day (21st February) UNESCO’s declaration of 21st February as the International Mother Language Day has brought fresh glory and prestige to Bangladesh which is making significant strides towards peace‚ progress and prosperity at home and discharging international obligations abroad. After 1952‚ the people of Bangladesh have been observing every year the 21st day of February as their glorious and unforgettable Language Martyrs Day. What happened on 21st February 1952 is

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    Human Experience Essay

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    of originality and rebirth that drew upon the ideas‚ arts‚ philosophies‚ and religions of former cultures as it strove to encompass the new developments of its society. It produced the four ideas that are still central to Western Civilization: secularism‚ humanism‚ individualism‚ and

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