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    In Modernity at Large‚ Arjun Appadurai proposes several frameworks to understand the global cultural flow in the modern society. It includes ethnoscapes‚ mediascapes‚ technoscapes‚ financescapes‚ and ideoscapes (Appadurai‚ 33). Among these five categories‚ the idea of ethnoscapes indicates that the availability of job opportunities leads to human migration across the globe. The capital flow causes a direct change of an individual’s decision to migrate for an employment. This idea coincides with the

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    Invention and Tradition

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    Adaptations are widespread and universal. Adaptation problems - content‚ structure‚ and intertextual politics. Hutcheon wishes to consider adaptations as lateral‚ not vertical. One does not experience adaptations successively starting from the original work‚ rather the works are a large collection to be navigated. One might see an adaptation before the original. Hutcheon also wishes to view adaptations as adaptations‚ not as independent works. Three ways of story engagement: telling‚ showing

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    Quinceañera Traditions

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    A problem I solved was deciding whether or not I would follow my culture’s customs. I am of Hispanic descent and in my culture‚ females at the age of 15 are expected to have a celebration recognizing their transition into womanhood‚ also known as a "Quinceañera". Having a Quinceañera is the dream of most Hispanic girls‚ it is something they’ve anticipated their entire life. This ceremony is not only significant to the girl who is being celebrated but also significant to the girl’s family. In my case

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    It is hard to find a single definition for the word “abortion.” Dictionary.com states that an abortion is also called voluntary abortion and it is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy. However‚ google states that an abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy‚ most often performed during the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy. On the contrary‚ Merriam Webster defines an abortion as a medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and

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    Five Worldview Traditions

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    "Five Major Worldview Traditions"‚ then identifying my own personal worldview and relating mine with the others. The individual Five Worldviews are unique in different

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    Is Marriage an Outdated Tradition? In this essay I will be explaining whether marriage is an outdated tradition along with my opinion and the ones of Christians. In my opinion I believe that No‚ marriage is the same strong‚ important connection it was 100 years ago. The difference is the people who enter into it‚ and the way society no longer supports the couples who choose it.  We’ve become a “need it now” society and are ready to discard whatever doesn’t give us instant happiness. Divorce

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    execute them”. He also proposes two statements‚ and explains that if one of the two statements could be established‚ then the argument from desert fails (Nathanson‚ 1987). In my essay‚ I will assess and establish one of the statements that Nathanson proposes to invalidate the argument from desert. My reasoning against the argument from desert will be based on the statement proposed by Nathanson: even if people who commit murder deserve to die‚ it is wrong for the state to execute them. To show

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    Oral Traditions of Islam

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    Islam is a religion based on oral tradition. It is very important because many of what we know of Islam in the present is based on orally transmitted information. Even when it comes to the authorities of the religion it can be traced to oral tradition. In this essay the emphasis would be put on how oral tradition sets up authority in the religion‚ in both sunni and and shi’ ite sects. Why is oral tradition so important in Islam? During the time when Muhammad was alive‚ unfortunately nothing

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    sense of the differences between past and present. The process of modernity has proven to be inevitable in both the contemporary world‚ and throughout the course of history‚ especially since the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution and the First World War. Modernity is the “transition from traditional folk society to urban industrial societies‚” a transition that inevitably affects all factions of society. The term modernity encompasses many cause and effect reactions‚ with industrialization

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    Western Legal Tradition

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    To what extent did the concepts and institutions of the western legal tradition influence the colony of New South Wales and‚ ultimately‚ the development of the Australian legal system? Australia inherited a legal system and a system of government from its colonial power‚ Britain. An understanding of Australian law requires tracing of development of law and legal institutions in England. Britain shares many of the basic concepts of law found in other parts of Western Europe. The underlying concepts

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