“American Progress” John Gast’s painting‚ “American Progress”‚ illustrates many depictions of the early movement and development of the United States. This particular painting defines uniqueness and character throughout. Looking at it geographically the angel portrayed in the middle is floating westward as though she is exemplifying the Westward Expansion. She has the “Star of Empire” imprinted on her forehead‚ which better portrays the idea of her trying to move westward. This painting is a
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A Traditional Chinese Wedding In every culture‚ weddings are important. China is a very large country with 56 nationalities. Different nationalities have different marriage customs‚ but whatever the nationality is‚ the wedding ceremony is usually very complicated. Chinese traditional weddings usually have 6 steps for people to complete. First step is making an offer of marriage. If a man likes a woman‚ he should go to the woman’s home to ask her parents to agree with them to become couple
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Maintaining the abilities and knowledge necessary to provide a professional service has been voted as the greatest ethical challenge for Financial Planners. The results come from the latest monthly survey conducted by Financial Planet‚ a site developed by the Financial Planning Standards Board to bring together Financial Planners around the world. Second place was placing the client’s interest first and third was disclosing and managing conflicts of interest. Other ethical challenges included
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Good Evening ‚ I want to start by congratulating bride and groom‚ and thanking all of you for coming here today. When I look at the bride and groom‚ I feel such a whirlwind of emotions? I know that _____ has found her true match and I know that theirs will be a marriage of long standing. My heart is bursting with love for you two today. I know you have a wonderful adventure ahead of you. I never knew _____ before he dated my sister‚ so I can’t tell you horrible stories about him‚ but I can tell
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Mexican Wedding I was fifteen years old when I first saw a wedding ceremony in Mexico. All the people in the church were happy and animated. Everybody was sitting and waiting for the bride to arrive. The groom looked nervous and excited. Finally the bride arrived to the church‚ everybody was clapping and smiling to her; it was so beautiful to see that two persons were about to join their lives forever. However‚ nobody could imagine all the effort that the couple did to make the ceremony wedding happen
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Vietnam’s Wedding Ceremony The wedding is a particular ceremony day of a couple. On that day the man and the woman get married. A wedding in Vietnamese culture is not simple because it contains many steps. There are 3 important steps‚ a good preparation‚ a big party and a blessing first night. The families of groom and bride prepare carefully for the wedding. First‚ the groom’s parents choose the best day for the wedding ceremony. One week before the wedding‚ the couple
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Strange wedding traditions Wedding traditions differ from culture to culture‚ nation to nation. Some of traditions are actually quite hard to explain. Here are just few examples of such traditions. Let’s start with Korea. After the wedding ceremony‚ friends of the groom take off his socks‚ tie a rope around the ankles‚ and start beating soles of his feet with dried yellow corvina. Yellow corvina is kind of fish! It is done so to make the groom stronger before the first wedding night. Korean bride
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Victims of Progress Bodley wrote that many of us are “victims of progress”; I believe that he meant that we are allowing ourselves to get lost in our civilizations progress rather than withstand all the new intrusions (technology‚ social trends‚ etc.) and remain with our native culture. We are a civilization that is often introducing new ideas‚ scientific revelations and so much more that it is difficult to stabilize what exactly we believe. For instance‚ hundreds of years ago we were told that
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Sikh wedding Card Indian Marriages means lot of gaiety‚ frolic and good amount of expenses. It is very important occasion for both the families as they unite through various rituals and customs. And not only for one but for all the communities in India Wedding is no less than a big festival. All the communities have different customs and traditions with specific characteristics. Likewise‚ in Sikh community too weddings happen with lot of pomp and show. This community is very colourful and fun
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In “A Work in Progress” she didn’t care what others thought about her. “I refuse to hide something about myself that was true‚ and I refused to be embarrassed about something so that other people could feel more comfortable.” In “A Work in Progress” Aimee faces tragedy people judged her but she didn’t care what people thought. When Aimee told her dad otherwise her dad was surprised
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