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    KONARK TEMPLE

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    Konark Sun Temple Konark-Sanskrit word Kona- Corner Arka- Sun The Mahabharata‚ Ramayana‚ Bhagavad Gita‚ Vedas‚ Upanishads‚ Puranas and Smriti teach us the need and significance for loving and caring nature. Nature‚ or Earth‚ was always considered as sacred and wasn’t a hostile element. The basic concept of Sanatana Dharma is that ‘God is in everything and everything is God’. Each and every organism in our universe is considered divine. While taking a look back at

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    life. The former reflects their physical history‚ while the latter reflects their spiritual state. These were often at odds due to women being unable to marry for love and oppressed by society. Phillips then goes on to illustrate these physical and worldly oppressions as “blustering husbands to create your fears‚ pangs of childbirth to extort your fears‚ children cries for to offend your ears”.

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    Joseph Andrews as a Picaresque Novel Joseph Andrews as a Picaresque Novel Joseph Andrews‚ or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams‚ was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding and among the first novels in the English language. Henry Fielding along with Samuel Johnson is considered to be the founder of English novel. Henry Fielding was in fact a satirist and initially he was known for his satirical

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    Weber's Protestant Ethic

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    An analysis of Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” A. A HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE FORMATION OF THE TEXT: The writing of Weber indicates his sensitivity to diverse cultural meanings and his ability to find an ‘ethos’ or ‘geist” i.e. a spirit is largely indicative not of repudiating Marx’s economic analysis of society‚ but rather of rounding off Marx’s writings whilst valuing empathy‚ or understanding – ‘verstehen’ – in Weber’s native German. One of the primary questions

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    Theme on the Bean Tree

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    one text you have studied The main theme from ’The Bean Trees’ by Barbara Kingsolver is the burden of womanhood. This theme was expressed how the characters’ change. Firstly‚ Taylor Geer has changed from a strong and practical girl to become more worldly by a tough decision in her life when the woman from the reservation told her to ’Take this baby’. Secondly‚ Lou Ann Ruiz has changed from a woman that is insecure and frighten of everything to become self determined by the support of Taylor. Thirdly

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    Socrates – A Knight of Resignation Throughout Soren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling he describes two types of people. The first is a knight of faith and the second is a knight of infinite resignation. While a knight of faith grabs hold of the impossible and clings to it‚ believing that it will be fulfilled‚ a knight of infinite resignation realizes that the goal is impossible and resigns to it. However‚ despite this acquiescence a knight of infinite resignation builds the meaning of his life

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    Miguel Street

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    The Novel Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories‚ as a series of sketches‚ and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore‚ although each chapter is dominated by a single character‚ those major characters reappear as minor characters in other chapters. At the end of the book‚ all the characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator

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    Famous French Enlightenment writer and historian Voltaire was born Francois Marie Arouet into a Parisian middle class family in 1694. Voltaire was the youngest of five children to parents‚ François Arouet and Marie Marguerite d’Aumart. After his mother’s death at the age of seven; Voltaire’s father‚ a high-profile lawyer sent him to the infamous Paris boarding school Louis-le-grand. The school was run by Jesuit priests that lent him a background in early Greek and Latin‚ while also providing him

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    they could not find their salvation unless they let go of their worldly possessions. Lines eight through eleven are the ones that show this as they read‚ “Something we were withholding made us weak / Until we found out that it was ourselves / We were withholding from our land of living‚ / And forthwith found salvation in surrender.” (8-11). Perhaps this is why I relate this poem to the Native Americans‚ they did not believe in worldly possessions. They simply believed that the Earth watched over them

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    Is it too soon to talk about boy/girl relationships in elementary school? Of course it is‚ you say! Well‚ you may not want to hear about it‚ or you may choose denial over reality‚ but the fact remains that children are playing out the cultural role that they are being taught as early as 2nd grade. Therefore‚ the relationship between boys and girls at every school (Christian and non- Christian) is a topic that needs to be discussed from a Biblical standpoint. Recently I have observed an increase

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