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    It can be argued that traditions‚ as well the people who participate in them‚ are what make families different. There are many different kinds of traditions. They can be formed anytime‚ and for any reason. They can be as simple as watching TV together while everyone is on their phone‚ or as complicated as a traditional Chinese wedding. Traditions are fun‚ and they can bring families together. The tradition that I can count on happening at least once a day is a mean joke between my stepmom‚ dad‚

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    to keep their traditions preserved and flourishing thousands of years. And this is because every aspect of Mayan life seemed to be centered on religion. And their religion would be classified as animism. This means that their religion centers on the fact that virtually everything in the world contains sacredness. This shows the notion that all objects whether living or non were embedded with spirits. (Culture counts)This fueled their culture and influenced their language and tradition‚ as well as‚

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    People often see the scripture‚ Tradition of the Church and social situations as completely different entities. However‚ this is not true‚ the Catholic Social Teachings (CST) bridges these worlds together. The scripture is our main source of revelation‚ explaining how to reach the kingdom of heaven. For this reason‚ the Catholic Social Teachings rely heavily upon the scriptures as this leads to the Tradition of the Church. The Tradition and the scripture are highly intertwined.The Social Doctrine

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    There are a couple of critical issues when it comes to the study of what a religious tradition says. The first is to make a distinction between the oral tradition and the written tradition. Many well-developed‚ world religions have an established canon of sacred texts‚ as well as an oral tradition. In some cases‚ this also has come to be written down. For instance‚ in Judaism‚ there is the tradition of the Oral Torah and the written Torah. The written Torah has become the Tanakh or the Hebrew

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    TRADITION AND MODERNITY A.FOREIGN LITERATURE Various journals have pointed out different scenarios regarding the conflict of traditions and the advent of modernity in certain societies. One in particular by Freund and Band- Winterstein (2012) explored how a Jewish society in Israel belonging in an ultra- orthodox society adapt and modify their behaviour toward social work which is cultural‚ western and secular in form.People belonging to the ultra- orthodox society have strong sense of faith and

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    Story telling has been used as a staple for human development. Oral storytelling traditions varies from place to place‚ and has lessons to share with everyone. For centuries‚ stories have been used to guide people with advice through the main point of a story. They can tell about one person’s experience in certain situation. The tradition of oral storytelling is used to inform a community of member’s unique experiences in certain situations. “Storytelling that’s verbally expressed can be counted

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    of the Romans”. But there are also Hungarians‚ Germans‚ Serbs‚ Tartars‚ and Russians who make up the rest of the population. The official language is Romanian‚ the only language of Latin origin in Eastern Europe. Brought up to respect religious traditions‚ the majority of Romanians is Orthodox (nearly 87 percent). Protestants are the next largest denomination at 6.8 percent with Catholics making up 5.6 percent of the population. A small number of Muslims also live in Romania. Romanian Orthodox

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    Most all religions around the world contain a plethora of myths and narratives. Judaism‚ too‚ contains numerous stories and myths that are considered very important to the Jewish tradition. However‚ there is one story‚ the Exodus‚ which can be considered the "orienting myth" both in narrative‚ as defined by Mircea Eliade‚ as well as historically. To understand the Exodus as an "orienting myth" we must first asses what is meant by the term myth. According to Myth and Reality‚ by Mircea Eliade‚

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    For example‚ Christmas caroling has originated from the pagan tradition of wassailing. During wassailing‚ people went from door to door singing and drinking wishing hope to their neighbors. Caroling also has stemmed from when villagers would adventure though their fields shouting and singing to scare off the malicious

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    selfishness through a mankind behavior. In the other hand‚ P.W. Alexander‚ a writer and a teacher who oftentimes dedicated to community services‚ her article Christmas at Home‚ she talks about her own personal heartwarming life story and how her family tradition on holidays of acts of altruism have impacted her life and career. Each piece was based off of act of altruism but the intense logics between the two authors are slightly different than one another. By logic‚ Altruism Behavior written by Desmond

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