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    His beliefs though are another thing. George was a democrat and ran the government democratic when he was the president. There is no solid fact on what George Washington believed in‚ but historians believe that he was a Christian. He believed in the freedom of speech‚ equal rights‚ and freedom in general. When the other founding fathers were around Washington he rarely talked about religious beliefs or purposes. George Washington may have been an amazing

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    Living Religious traditions are integrated meaning systems which provide adherents with comprehensive and distinctive answers to the enduring questions of human existence through Sayyid Qutb‚ Islamic bioethics and Hajj. Islam is a living religious tradition which helps adherents to answer the question of human existence through the legacy and writings of Sayyid Qutb‚ abortion‚ stem cell research and contraception of bioethics and Ihraam‚ Tawaf and Sa’y of Hajj. The paragraphs below will describe

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    Tradition is an important part of everyone’s life. Some people follow traditions so deeply rooted in their everyday life that they don’t even recognize them as such. Why do you cook rice a certain way? Well‚ that’s the way Grandma always did it. Others hold tradition above anything else. They feel that it is very important to follow these established customs and cannot even imagine rebelling against them although they may be hurtful in some ways. They may not even remember the reason for these customs

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    Traditions should be kept alive Nowadays‚ many people in Thailand face an issue about losing traditions because of coming traditions from west countries. However‚ some people say that developing countries should change some traditions for existing in the real world In my opinion‚ the traditions should be kept alive because I believe that the traditions can reveal the history of your country and show what you are. In the present time there are lots of complex difficulties about traditions in

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    On the morning of June 27th‚ a tiny town of about 300 people‚ meet in the town square for a tradition they call “the lottery.” The kids come first to the square‚ straight from school‚ then come the fathers‚ and then the mothers after they finish the housework. They all stand waiting as they call the names of all the fathers in the families to the front to pull a wood chip from a black box‚ and the family with the black dot on their wood chip will participate in “the lottery.” Each member of that

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    The Lottery: Blindly Flowing Traditions There have been hundreds of social issues through the years that have grabbed the attention of the American public‚ but one that is still relevant today is the social issue of blindly following tradition. When someone follows tradition they are forgetting all the moral aspects of the situation and just doing the act because it has been done for years because it is a tradition. These traditions make the people participating it closer or so they

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    Modernity in the Indian sense is‚ in any case‚ a command from the West. India did not get enough time to develop an indigenous idea of modernity because of the intervention of colonialism. At the time of Independence‚ urban India had inherited a rather basic problem: this was a contradiction between imposed modernity and age-old traditional values. There were‚ as a consequence‚ three options for the average Indian urban man: whether to embrace the Western model of modernity; or to go back‚ if possible

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    What Does the American Flag Stand For? The American flag can represent many different beliefs of the American people. When the most recent version of the flag was made‚August twenty- first‚nineteen- fifty- nine‚ with fifty stars representing our fifty states and thirteen stripes representing the thirteen original English colonies. The American flag is a symbol that was produced from our country’s integrity and strive for freedom. As time has moved on after the American Revolution‚ the flag has

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    Belief and Worldview Project Questions 1.What do you see when you close your eyes? I see different colors like white‚ then goes into black. 2. What lies in your future? What will you believe when you can make your own choices?\ I mean we can’t really know for sure what lies in our futures there is fate and destiny. If you plan what your future is things can happen then it won’t always go your way. I’ll believe what I strongly think is right. 3.What are my dieties/gods? I only have one

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    Tiwi: Traditions in Austrailia by Holly Peters-Golden covers the major points in the tribes lifestyle. She covers their social organization and their religious and expressive culture. Under social organization fell kinship‚ marriage‚ Tiwi wives‚ power and prestige; religious and expressive culture covered beliefs‚ taboos‚ kulama ‚ sickness-reasons they became sick and how healing is common knowledge‚ death and pukamani . The most important points I believe this author has tried to make about

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