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    wall speakers‚ I walk the fine line between being conservative Indian - those of Ivy League chemical engineering PhD ’s‚ of having no less than 50 cousins‚ of spending every spare moment in life with family - and being a Westerner‚ coolly expressing my ever-apparent condescending attitude towards those of the East‚ looking in disgust at the seemingly uncouth Indian parents who smooch their children at every chance. I have been on this line my whole life‚ torn between two cultures - the Indian‚ and the

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    In the eastern and western religions there are so much rules that you need to follow‚and there are similarities and differences between the religions. In these 2 religions there can be facts that are alike‚but in this way there is differences in these religions. First‚ Christianity to Hinduism. In these 2 religions there are some differences that you would have never even thought of and some similarities‚ one similarity is that Monotheism is 1 god and (several) also both of their goals were to

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    Eventhough Eastern and Western Europe have monogamously different social aspects; both share political and economic factors. Eastern and Western Europe have alterations when environmental factors are compared. In Eastern Europe factories produce acid rain from the voluminous number of factories‚ while in Western Europe radiation from the Chernobyl disaster has devastated divisions. Economic factors for each region are very different if consideration is taking into the fact that Eastern Europe was

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    Eastern and Western Religions: Differences and Similarities On this vast planet with billions of people occupying its space‚ we can see that people have many differences‚ yet we are similar at our core. People always strive to find why who put us on this Earth and and we have gone to many lengths to find those answers. Religion has answered many of those particular questions for use. People feel at peace knowing that through religion we have found purpose in life and death. Much like people‚ religion

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    There are two major fronts in WWI. The Western Front and the Eastern Front. These two fronts were both alike in many ways and different in many ways. The Western Front was the region in France and the Eastern Front was a part of battlefield along the Russian and German border. It was a difficult thing to face war on two fronts‚ especially when both sides were hard to adapt and battle through on. For example‚ the Germans or Alfred Vin Schlieffen created a Schlieffen Plan ‚ which called for a

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    Eastern Philosophy By Jennifer Carter Eastern philosophy is the philosophies of the eastern continents. Many postmodern philosophers believe the only variant of Eastern and Western philosophy is that of Geographic’s however some scholars will disagree that it is not geographical but of natural language and investigated thinking. Eastern philosophy touches base with three traditions —Indian‚ Chinese and Persian philosophy—which are just as different from each other as they are from Western philosophy

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    Differences between the philosophies of the east and west Western philosophy has its roots in Athens‚ Rome and Judeo­Christianity while Eastern philosophy is derived from Confucianism‚ Taoism and Mahayana Buddhism. As Greek and Latin are to Western civilisation‚ so classical Chinese is to East Asian civilisation. I will focus on four major differences between Eastern and Western philosophies. 1. Western Individualism and Eastern Collectivism In the Greco‑Roman tradition‚ the image of Prometheus

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    and west differences emerged from the Greco-Persian war. The idea was that the east stood for despotism and that the west stood for freedom. The eastern and Western conceptualizations still exist but the idea of the East and West in a literal sense is a thing of the past. Today‚ both the Western and Eastern Civilizations influence each other heavily. Western civilization can be compared to modern day Capitalism and the Eastern Civilization can be considered communism. The relationship between the United

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    of service to others‚ education and the arts were supremely important. I attended an independent Church of England primary school. Much of the time I felt ‘different’ and unable to articulate or express my culture. This manifested itself in many ways‚ for example‚ feeling unbearably ignorant with items of ‘common knowledge’ such as the Pope‚ of whom I had never heard‚ allusions to church and chapel of which I had no experience or reference to food I had never eaten. I vividly remember (at the

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    (1978) identified four fundamental patterns of knowing which are (1) empirics‚ or the science of nursing; (2) personal knowledge; (3) esthetics‚ or the art of nursing; and (4) ethics‚ or the moral component of nursing. The purpose of this discussion is to explain how each pattern of knowing affects this author’s practice‚ and to identify the author’s preferred paradigm and provide justification for choosing this paradigm. Empirical knowing is based on the belief that what someone knows is objective

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