When hearing is limited, it affects the individual in significant ways, limiting communication, access to orally presented information and independent living. ... This type of group they are referring to is the Deaf community and are united by the Deaf culture, a culture rich in heritage and traditions (Smith, 2007). ... Students that are the members of the Deaf community, use ASL as their primary language, and typically do not use oral language as their means of communication. ... Students who are deaf have a profound hearing loss, but they use oral communication when others are talking and ...

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Murdoch abhors the tradition of autobiography, which she views as misguided and self absorbed. ... According to Eakin, society has become so involved in the tradition of narrative and identity construction that it has developed an entrenched fear of "personless", post-identity states, or states where the ability to construct autobiography is lost. ... Hence, this argument can be understood in the tradition of autobiography, both oral and written: it further illustrates how autobiography is a cultural tool used to create a Self which is recognized and valued. ...

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Blues music originated from African Americans, used as a way of oral history chronicling their horrendous treatment at the hands of white men as they endured slavery and their subsequent mistreatment after the abolishment of slavery with poor economic and social status and opportunities. ... The following line "It's been so long since someone understood" refers to the inability of some Native Americans and non-Native Americans alike to understand Native American culture and traditions. ...

• Word Count: 2551
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After the Buddha's death, his teachings were orally transmitted until the first century B.C., when they were first committed to writing. ... A third school, the Vajrayana, has a long tradition in Tibet and Japan. ...

• Word Count: 2765
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It is comprised of the teachings of the Written Torah, the Oral Torah, and the teachings of the Rabbis that have guided Judaism through the ages and customs that have arisen through their long and storied history. ... The third code that is prevalent in Judaism is that of "Takkanah" or rabbinical law designed to maintain Jewish traditions. ... A study of the Jewish faith reveals that it is one of many rituals and traditions. ...

• Word Count: 3357
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Recent studies have begun to see the Homeric epics in the light of other epic traditions, notably epics from Mesopotamia, and have begun to look at striking similarities. ... The connections run from similarities in methods of transmission, namely the oral traditions, to themes, characters and formal structural components. ... The earliest Gilgamesh stories seem to come from Sumerian texts which most likely reflect the crystallization of earlier epic traditions, and was probably one of the most well-known and influential poems available (West 65). ... Enkidu does develop more than Patroclus, a...

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Throughout the years, slavery has played a dominant role within the Cherokee Nation, inevitably affecting thousands of African Americans, American Indians, and Europeans alike. Within the last decade, a vicious battle has come alive between the Cherokee people and freedmen. These freedmen, who have ...

• Word Count: 2752
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The Sagas of Icelanders have also been known, rather imprecisely, as Icelandic Family Sagas. They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). There are some forty in total (this being, for instance, the number translated in The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, 1997). Collectively, they cover events running from the mid ninth century to the mid eleventh and located in all inhabited parts of Iceland (and some uninhabited), though saga-writing flourished above all in the West and North. I...

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"Beautiful catecheses [oral teachings] that came down from the period are called mystagogic catecheses" (Lease, 1980, p. 1306) because they were presented entirely with the use of the mystery language. ... Among the Borana, who live in the same region and share similar initiatory traditions, there are five parallel streams or currents of generations instead of the two streams of alternate age-sets noted among the Maasai. ...

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Atlantis: The Lost Continent INTRODUCTION. For thousands of years a burning question has tantalized mankind: Did the lost continent of Atlantis really exist? Why did it vanish without a trace? Atlantis, said by some to be the world's oldest civilization, has never ceased ...

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For example, even if a particular written form has been selected and approved by the speakers of certain hitherto oral languages, it still requires decisions with respect to (i) the choice of a writing system (e.g., should it be Devanagari-based, Latin-based or Arabic-based), which can be a matter of considerable political significance (as in the case of Konkani); (ii) an authoritative spelling (or "orthographic") system (e.g., "colour" or "color", "xerox" or "zerox" "programme" or "program" (iii) a style man...

• Word Count: 4705
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How Sound are the Foundations of the Aggregate Production Function? Abstract: The aggregate production function has been subject to a number of criticisms ever since its first empirical estimation by Cobb and Douglas in the 1920s, notably the problems raised by aggregation and the Cambridge Ca...

• Word Count: 11086
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