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    The article “Tyranny of Tradition: How information paradigms limit librarians’ teaching and student scholarship” by Carrie Donovan and Sara O’Donnell‚ goes into deep discussion of the traditional paradigms for education changing and how it is impacting the learning of students. The article discusses how everyone is entitled to a higher education and one of the main principles of higher education is democracy. Democracy focuses on the actual content of study and how the instruction is delivered. I

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    Running Head: FAMILY CULTURE AND TRADITIONS � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �1� FAMILY CULTURE AND TRADITIONS � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �2� FAMILY CULTURE AND TRADITIONS Name: Institutions: Professor: Date of submission: In our family‚ there are several cultures and traditions that play a very important role in defining our family values and cultures. These traditions and cultures have been passed to our parents from our grandparents. The two most vivid cultural patterns that are present in our family have

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    Cross country camp is full of traditions. Our traditions vary from playing ninja in the woods instead of running‚ eating as many Oreos as possible‚ or running away from the seniors as they pelt underclassmen with icy cold water balloons. Canton Girls Cross Country has hundreds of unique traditions‚ but some of them are a bit more painful than others. My least favorite and the most agonizing tradition by far is something we call “Dunes Day‚” or as I like to call it “Doomsday.” This is the day in the

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    Elements of Religious Traditions Paper REL/134 Elements of Religious Traditions Living on the age of knowledge we have uncover a vast of information throughout the ages. We have now the advantage of choosing our own believes‚ let that be a believer to a god‚ a believer to two or more gods‚ a none believer‚ or simply acknowledge that there is a higher power. Although we have the power to chose what we believe on‚ sometimes this believes are planted into us since childhood

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    CHAPTER 2: American Traditions 8 3.1 Christmas Traditions 8 3.2 The Yellow Ribbon 10 3.3 The Window Candle 10 3.4 The Recipe Box 11 3.5 Thanksgiving Day 11 3.5.1 Origin of Thanksgiving Day 11 3.5.2 Thanksgiving Traditions and Customs 12 3.6 The Fourth of July 13 4. Conclusion 14 5. Bibliography 15 6. Annexes 16 1. INTRODUCTION Family and traditions have always played an

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    Elements of Religious Traditions Patricia McNeely REL/133 June 8‚ 2012 Dr. Victoria Yancey  Elements of Religious Tradition What a religious tradition says? Understanding religion beliefs and key characteristics on how religion manifest in some degree of belief a system where several beliefs fit together into a systematic interpretation of the universe and human being’s placed in it. Community is shared and its ideas are practice by groups. Stories that express the religious beliefs

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    Jewish Holiday Traditions

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    Every Jewish family has unique traditions when it comes to holidays. However‚ every holiday‚ like the Passover‚ starts with an important event in their history. When God led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt‚ they created the Passover to celebrate their release. After the Exodus‚ the Israelites followed God to the desert‚ where they praised him for rescuing them‚ received his laws‚ and built the tabernacle. The Israelites thanked God for rescuing them and sustaining them with food. After they

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    Tradition vs Modernism

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    Traditions represent the Actual Identity of particular society‚ while getting rid of them is supposed to be a sign of modernity. Traditions‚ quite often‚ keep us United‚ but modernity‚ usually‚ takes us apart from each other. A tradition implies belief or custom‚ passed on to us by our ancestors. Much of what we do today has its roots in the past. Modernism is in total contras with the ideas or methods of the traditional ones. Old‚ it is said‚ is gold and should be preserved carefully. But it is

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    Scholarly Article on “The Namesake” By Jhumpa Lahiri The article I chose is titled‚ “From Hybrids to Tourists: Children of Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake‚” written by Natalie Friedman. This in depth article focuses on the inner personal struggle of an immigrant family to the United States with emphasis on Gogol Ganguli. Friedman distinguishes “the Namesake” from most other novels of its kind. As opposed to stories about immigrants coming to the United States in search of financial

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    5th Grade Tradition

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    In Patrick elementary school (at Heidelberg Germany)‚ we had this tradition were the fifth grade class visit the first grade class‚ to show them what the older kids look like. As the older kids we had to act almost like an older brother/sister to the young kids‚ and tell them what to expect when they are the older kids. There were many young kids when my class went to visit them‚ some of the kids there were children that I already knew‚ for instance‚ Sahara‚ John‚ Cody‚ Trent‚ etc. Many of these

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