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    ‘My Role In Creating A Peaceful World’ Nowadays our country has involved in an accelerating development programmes which functions to intensify the modernity in our beloved country. However‚ the enhancements made has extremely show the abuses of itselves. For an example‚ we see religion today in a state of havoc. Every religion is polluted with hundreds of sects all claiming to be the true one. People with different religious clash with one another. It is clear that greed has overcome these

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    The Importance of Religion Religion is a believe that relates humanity to spirituality. One of the major themes in the novel ‘Life of Pi’ is religion and the significance and importance of it is portrayed throughout the novel. In the novel ‘Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel‚ Martel shows the importance of religion in Pi’s life‚ as religion helped Pi understand the nature of animals‚ also helped him in his daily life and helped keep Pi from giving up on life. Yann Martel portrays the events as real

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    The Role of Women in Ancient Greece and Egypt Throughout history‚ most societies held women in an inferior status compared to that of men. This was often justified as being the natural result of biological differences between the sexes. In many societies‚ for example‚ people believed women to be more emotional and less decisive than men. Women were also viewed to be less intelligent and less creative by nature. However‚ research shows that women and men have the same range of emotional‚ intellectual

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     the sun god. Akhnaten wanted everyone to  worship Aten. Nefertiti supported Akhenaten’s decisions and beliefs‚ so they got rid of all  memory of the other gods.  The people of Egypt destroyed temples and thousands of people were  forced to change their religions and beliefs. Later after Akhenaten’s death King Tut brought back  the belief in many gods.   Around 1330 at age forty‚ Nefertiti disappeared and her daughter Meritaten took her  place as pharaoh‚ marrying Akhenaten. Nefertiti’s name was removed from inscriptions and was 

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    The Holocaust had a tremendous role in World War II. It was a mass murder of six million Jews‚ Gypsies‚ and homosexuals. However‚ the main people who were captured‚ persecuted‚ or turned into workers were the Jews. Adolf Hitler‚ the third reich at the time‚ thought that the Jews were a subordinate race and a threat to Germany’s racial community. Hitler believed that the other races didn’t harmonize with the Germans. The Holocaust began in 1933‚ the idea of the persecution of the Jews happened well

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    Began writing books and articles criticising the American way of living‚ criticising the Arab world for trying to become westernised * Criticised issues with an Islamic perspective‚ articulated the need for an Islamic state‚ free from jahiliyya (ignorance) * Tried establishing a shariah law in his society * Qutb lived in a period of political change‚ nationalism was taking over the Arab world * Arab countries were challenging rule and influence of western nations struggling for independence

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    Religion Page 8 Blue box 4 Major characteristics of religion: * Belief and Believers * All of the major world religions are founded by a group of believers with beliefs. Without these the religion would not exist‚ as the main element to any religion is the following. * Sacred texts/ Writings * At the core of most religions is a sacred piece of literature. It indicates the beliefs‚ rules‚ and how the religion should be portrayed in the modern world. * Ethics

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    life of Egyptian people‚ religion played a far more important part than modern man can imagine. Religion provided the stimulus to art and philosophy and a matrix for the development of moral principles (Wondering 28). This similarity between everyday tasks and belief in the gods lead to advances in numerous aspects of this society. Ancient Egyptian religion has been fully demonstrated through both Egyptian art and architecture. One of the most unique aspects of the Ancient Egyptian culture was the

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    World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945‚ although. It involved the majority of the world’s nations. It formed two opposing military alliances which were the Axis and Allies. Axis powers were Germany‚ Italy‚ Japan‚ Hungary‚ Romania‚ and Bulgaria versus Allies which were United States‚ Britain‚ France‚ USSR‚ Yugoslavia‚ Australia‚ Belgium‚ Brazil‚ Canada‚ South Africa‚ China‚ Denmark‚ Greece‚ Netherlands‚ New Zealand‚ Norway‚ and Poland. World War II was the most widespread war

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    We all have some experience with religion. Whether our parents are religious‚ our own religious views‚ or others who try and convert you to a religion‚ we have all come in contact with a religion. But what do sociology and religion have to do with each other? The answer to this question is that religion meets sociology in the affects that it has on an individual or society (Schaefer‚ Richard T‚ 2009‚ pg 323). What is a religion? A religion is defined by Richard Schaefer as a unified system

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