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    Richard Nathaniel Professor Jamy 21 January 2015 Food Memory Smells like Nostalgia I chose to share a story about my past experience this summer with memory being triggered by taste and how the two senses work together to bring back a unique memory from a certain time period. During my time from K-8 I had a really great friend that I would always hangout with after school. We would walk to his house each day after school and when we got to his house the first thing we would always do is raid

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    The concept of changing perspectives in the text "Pleasantville  is explored through the use of colours and the technique of comparison. The director‚ Gary Ross‚ has employed the use of black and white and colour in order to emphasis the character’s changing perspectives. He has also used the technique of comparing Pleasantville with today’s America to highlight these changes further. Pleasantville is set in the 1950’s when wives stayed at home to serve their husbands dinner every night‚ when

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    Jesus Camp Reflection

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    In this film‚ titled “jesus camp”‚ we see religious fundamentalist indoctrination in action. In this film‚ it is shown how the organisers of the camp “Kids on Fire” plan on indoctrinating children in the camp with the “right message”.. They (especially Becky Fischer‚ a Pentecostal minister) want to create a parallel to muslim training camps in Palestine (which in reality don’t exist anymore than in any other place) but with the right message of evangelical Christians. In this film we see quite

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    for cultural and spiritual independence from the West‚ and the desire to succeed as a modern nation in competition with the West. In the 1990s‚ economic demands and labour force necessities created some changes in the attitudes and goals of the fundamentalist administration (Salehi- Isfahan‚ 2000). Both former presidents‚ Rafsanjani and Khatami‚ began to stress the need for expertise in the workforce‚ cultural awareness of western ideas‚ and a revitalized concept of modern Islam. This change

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    Although America had great economic success in the 1920s due to WWI‚ there was a large amount of social tension due to many different ideologies. America was experiencing nativism due to many Americans believing that America no longer needed a large influx of immigrants. Fundamentalism was causing issues in schools and was creating the idea of Social Darwinism. After WWI‚ America wanted to be isolated from the rest of the world to keep America prospering. This created the idea that only Americans

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    The Handmaid’s Tale and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Marjane Satrapi‚ in Persepolis writes about a memoir of a little girl growing in Iran. She refers to a secular pre-revolutionary time through contrast‚ the oppressive characteristics of the fundamentalist government upon women in specifics. In comparison‚ her work is very similar to Margaret Atwood’s‚ A Handmaid’s Tale‚ in which the central character‚ Offred‚ reflects upon her former life’s freedom‚ cherishing her former name and in doing so‚ emphasizes

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    long-standing tradition of the lottery. They are stuck with the past and refuse to change the box even though “the black box grew shabbier each year” (Jackson 2). Shortridge agrees that “small town culture began to be labeled quaint” (41). Due to nostalgia‚ “the Midwest had become a museum of sorts” (41) and a place to “reflect on one’s heritage” (41). The Midwest is a place for one to take a trip down memory lane‚ reminiscing on the past and its forgotten culture which contrasts with today’s modern

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    Inerrancy In The Bible

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    The word "inerrancy" as defined in the dictionary means "that which does not err or is free from errors." The term "Biblical Inerrancy" is frequently used by the conservative and fundamentalist Christian religions‚ which specifically claims that the scriptures as written in the Holy Bible to be authentic‚ factual and entirely absent of any errors. For centuries the biblical stories of the Creation‚ Adam and Eve‚ Noah and The Flood‚ Tower of Babel along with others were believed by Hebrews and Christians

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    Secularisation

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    Secularisation is the process whereby religious thinking‚ practices and institutions lose social significance. Marx predicted that with the move to communism‚ religion would completely die away as people would simply have no need for it‚ whereas Durkheim saw the future of religion as a diminishing one‚ although he did concede it might ‘ebb and flow’. He saw education as partly taking over the role of religion‚ for example‚ in the promotion of the collective conscience. Rationalisation ‚ such as Darwin’s

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    Value Of Pakistani Culture Pakistani Culture is very unique in terms of its social and ethical values. These values are something which are given due importance. This culture revolves around the religion of Islam which teaches equality among every human being that exists on this planet. Pakistan’s culture is very diverse. It has been invaded by many different people belonging to different races. These people include the white Huns‚ Persian Arabs‚ Turks‚ Mongols‚ and various Eurasian

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