Sustainable tourism: learning from Indian religious traditions Vasanti Gupta Director of Insight India‚ Headington‚ Oxford‚ UK Keywords Ethics‚ Green issues‚ India‚ Tourism The context Pilgrimage to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion is an age-old tradition‚ followed by religions all over the world. The fact that it is often carried out on foot‚ is an older form and has many religious connotations‚ has made people overlook it as a form of tourism. Apart from the devotional
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What is Good Teaching? What is Teaching? As teachers we may find this bald question strangely difficult to answer. It’s just what we do‚ in lectures‚ classes‚ seminars‚ workshops‚ tutorials‚ others. We study literary text and movements‚ theoretical and critical works‚ performances and so forth. We analyze and discuss them with our students. We try to help our students become better at expressing their thoughts‚ ideas‚ and feelings verbally‚ creatively. What is Good Teaching? Aims/Objectives:
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Personal Myth A boy once lived in a small town. The small town there was not many people. The people there knew everyone. The small town there was almost no crime and no drugs. When the boy was young his parents would take him to school. The parents told him as long as he believes in God‚ God will protect him. As the boy grew up‚ he never missed a school day. He was still young‚ maybe the age of six. The boy was good‚ he always went to school. The boy never missed a day‚ he always did his work
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In the short story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona” written by Sherman Alexie‚ there is a character named Thomas Builds-the-Fire who is considered an outcast in his community. The story starts out with Victor who you would assume is facing some hard times losing his job and having his father pass away. After finding out about his father’s death‚ Victor has to go to Phoenix‚ Arizona to pick up his father’s ashes‚ pickup truck and money from his saving. Unfortunately‚ Victor doesn’t have
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What are the fundamental teachings of Sufism? Discuss the main stages of the Sufi path and its final goal Any discussion of the Sufi way‚ its methods and goals (and indeed those of any mystical tradition) will inevitably come up against certain difficulties‚ and these should be addressed immediately. Perhaps the most problematic issue we face is raised by the intrinsic ineffability of mystical experience‚ whether a moment of divine revelation or the lifelong quest for understanding. QUOTE
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“They Say/I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing In the introduction to “They Say/ I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing‚ Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provide templates throughout the first six chapters in the book. The writers specifically designed these templates to make it easier on the write on how to write a professional and well written paper. It structures and expresses your own writing in words you couldn’t think to express. A unique feature is the way they
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HIST 17A-01 Spring 2013 Course # 00960 US History‚ Origins to Early National Era MTWR 10:30-11:20 AM in MLC 105 Instructor: David Howard-Pitney‚ Office F21Q‚ Phone 864-8559 Office Hours: M 11:40-12:30‚ T & W 9:00-9:50‚ Th 2:30-3:20 or Appointment E-mail: howardpitneydavid@fhda.edu REQUIRED MATERIALS: 1. Roark‚ et.al.‚ The American Promise‚ 4th Compact edition‚ Vol. I. 2. Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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refuse that submission to the claims of God’s own Word that marks true Christian faith. We offer this Statement in a spirit‚ not of contention‚ but of humility and love‚ which we propose by God’s grace to maintain in any future dialogue arising out of what we have said. This Statement consists of three parts: a Summary Statement‚ Articles of Affirmation and Denial‚ and an accompanying Exposition. I. SUMMARY STATEMENT 1. God‚ who is Himself Truth and speaks truth only‚ has inspired Holy Scripture
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Teaching has no rewind‚ no replays. What you do will affect the learner and eventually how he acts in a social environment where the teacher also dwells. In any event‚ if the teacher was able to communicate what is good‚ true‚ and beneficial‚ he is imparting goodness to the world. On the other hand‚ if the teacher was not able to deliver the goods of the earth‚ the world is deprived. The main goal of teaching is not encapsulated only in the learning of the basics of life but delivering them and
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African Literature: What Tradition? by Es’kia Mphahlele It all started when Africa was shanghaied into the history of the West in the late nineteenth century. What were we coming into? ----- a long line of continuity going back some 9‚000 years since the civilizations of the great river valleys of the Nile‚ the Tigris and Euphrates‚ the Indus‚ and the Hwang-ho had launched man on a long intellectual quest. We had been discovered by an aggressive Western Culture which was never going to let us be
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