It is occasionally performed within Aboriginal, Christian and Muslim families who have emigrated to the US or Canada from some Muslim countries where it is practiced as a social tradition. ... The Christian Scientist faith teaches how to rely on prayer alone for physical cure. ... But for parents who believe in the Christian Scientist faith would rather pray and keep their child away from the medical attention they seriously need. ... In some third world countries like Afghanistan and Africa, school officials use corporal punishment to gain classroom discipline and to punish children for poo...

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"A policy designed to move communities, and eventually all Aboriginal's from their helpless "savage" state to one self-reliant "civilization" and thus to make in Canada but one community - a non-Aboriginal, Christian one." ... The Davin report, in which Nicholas Flood Davin performed a report on industrial schools in the United States to establish the same type of the school systems in Canada, started the ball rolling, in many senses, for establishing Canada's Residential School System. ... The residential school system has a history that predates Confederation (the first school was...

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We see this with Joseph's predicament: Obi and Joseph had been class-mates at the Umuofia C.M.S Central School. But Joseph had not gone on to a secondary school because he was too old and his parents were poor. ...

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In the Christian faith we believe that the gravest problem in human life is sin which is the failure to live in harmony with the will of God. As Christians we also believe that when we die we either go to heaven or hell depending on how loyal you have been to what the bible says to do and what God wants us to do. ... I moved out right after high school and have been paying for all my expenses with no parent help ever since I moved out and have always been very Independent. ... In high school I was a three sport athlete doing volleyball, basketball, and track. ... As I got older I took on 3 jo...

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Goths in the media The literature reveals that, in regard to religion Goths are extremely diverse, ranging from atheist, pagan (a religion of nature), Christians, Jews, agnostic, Wicca (they follow the Pagan religion, as well as practising healing and magic through witch craft (Wicca, 2001) and so forth. ... The Columbine High School massacre is a prime example of this point. ...

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For example, the media has created the perfect mother/wife, specifically being the white, middle class, Christian, housewife. ... Then, you have the teenage son, who is captain of the football team, is dating the head cheerleader, receives straight A's, and he is the most popular boy in the school. Lastly, you have the younger sister, who is a beautiful teenager, but whose life revolves around dating, the mall, talking on the telephone and going to school dances. ... Not to mention, that her life is so preoccupied with the above, that she has no time for school, and she receives terrible ...

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This paper outlines the differences in the cultures of the United States versus Asian Indian and Vietnamese cultures. I will look at these countries and make not only a comparison based on cultures, but also comparisons from a business perspective. Although there are many differences in general so...

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