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    Pi survives through the lessons learnt during his childhood in India” In the novel ‘The life of Pi’‚ the author Yann Martel takes readers on an extraordinary adventure through the protagonist Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel. He describes the journey of Pi‚ a sixteen year old boy who survived 227 days on a lifeboat with an adult Bengal tiger as a result of their Japanese ship sinking. Pi displays the strengths he gained through his religious beliefs‚ knowledge of animals and zoology. These skills he

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    3 this changed the way she was thinking about writing how it was living like a maid. She thinks about her sons death and gets the courage to write because she wants to get revenge on whites for killing her son. Also another metaphor was when Minny gave hilly her pie and watched her eat it because she was done with the way she was treated by hilly and wanted to get revenge for telling the community that Minny was a thief. One of the reason Minny couldn’t get a job.

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    Religious Life of Planet Earth Kimberly L Brooks Rel 212 World Religions November 4‚ 2012 Leader Gavin recently sent a group of officers on a mission to planet Earth. The mission carried out on a planet Earth was to enquire about if that planet‚ much like our own has any religious life present. The Earthlings define religion as a set of fundamental beliefs and practices that relates their humanity to their spirituality and moral values. “In many cultures and times‚ religion

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    How Religious Education Influences My Life To be or not to be…religious that is! What is religion‚ and why do people really take part in becoming religious? I cannot answer for others‚ but for me‚ my religion reminds me every day that God has the power to show me who is in control…and it is not me! My parents teach me how to be a Christian through their everyday examples of how they live life and by worshiping God through prayer and attending church. However‚ attending a Catholic school allows

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    Artwork featuring religious themes is extremely beautiful and meaningful. When religion is portrayed through art there is rich symbolism and iconography. Because religious art is so important I decided to use such works in my exhibit‚ each piece is a wonderful representation of religions in art. All the artwork I chose had to fit the theme of world religion in art‚ so I found art that displayed world religions. I found a myriad of different artworks from different religions. For example‚ the statue

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    of the Religious Life‚ by Emile Durkheim This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it‚ give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

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    Pi reflects on religion constantly‚ but he does mention that he always goes back to his Hindu customs and rituals that he grew up with. Do you believe that religious or people with strong belief systems growing up always have that religion as their bases for many decisions in their life? Does that religious belief ever change? I feel as though the religion will always be the base for decisions. Even if the person may stray away from that religion‚ the foundation that was put into their mind

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    Life of Pi takes a Leap of Faith A leap of faith is the act of believing in or accepting something intangible or unprovable‚ or without evidence. Soren Kierkegaard once said‚ “A leap of faith is imperative for one’s spiritual well-being”. It is inspirational how Yann Martel’s portrayal of the significant motif‚ ‘Leap of Faith’ escorts Pi to a state of peace and contentment and as a result leading to a character shape of growth and maturity. The Life of Pi demonstrates this undertaking in numerous

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    Public Interest Lawyering Project A Survey on Substance Abuse among the Youth in India Contents 1. Introduction 4 2. Statement of the Problem 7 3. Objective of the study 8 3.1. Broad Objective 8 3.2. Specific Objective 8 4. Methodology / Research Design 9 4.3. Statistical tools employed 10 4.4. Geographical Coverage 10 4.5. Unit of Data Collection 10 5. Findings 11 5.1. Pie – Chart No. 1 11 5.2. Pie – Chart No. 2 12 5.3. Pie – Chart No. 3 13

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    Examine religious views of the nature of human life Christians tend to begin looking at the Bible to get such views of the nature of human life. It would seemingly begin in Genesis and notable Theologians nearly always begin with the Bible’s primary book when examining the nature of human life‚ the notable book ‘What is Man?’ written by Gresham Machen summarizes examples from biblical material‚ thus highlighting the trend. The first fundamental religious view of human life is the one that

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