Two of the most prominent world religions today have their origins in the Indian subcontinent of Asia. Both the Hindu and Buddhist religions can trace their creation back to this vast area. Hindu was the predecessor to Buddhism, as the latter was created as an offshoot of the central religion. This can still be seen in the doctrines of the faith, though their practices are far different from those of Hindu followers. Each has very distinct religious texts, philosophies, and stories, which are expressed through their architectural works of art. ...

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(Bruner in Current Sociology 43, 1995: 161-177 and Bruner in Gay and Thompson, 1997: 145-159) As mentioned above, Bruner explains that the Self is a "cultural commodity" and is therefore of great importance. ...

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Like socialism, fascism sees the importance of how the individual and society are inseparable and must cooperate with each other to succeed. ... They can advocate for revolution to free the individual or they can expect the State to eventually diminish due to the enlightenment of more individuals, similar...

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The Tsar who defeated the French Empire was profoundly influenced by their domestic and foreign affairs, leading his vision of Russia to enhance and protect the revolutionary ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. ... Although it was never set in stone, the thought and plans to abolish it, was of paramount importance to move Russia out of their older regime. Catherine was attracted to the French Enlightenment, keeping herself connected with great French minds like Voltaire and Montesquieu. Voltaire summed Catherine up in two words calling her a "benevolent despot," me...

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The monks informed Usui that the route to uncovering the lost jewels of healing could only be found on the path of the Dharma, the Buddhist teachings, which illumine the path to Enlightenment (Stein 9). The life of Christ has many parallels to the life of the Buddha, and many of the brightest lights in antiquity have uncovered the seed of Enlightenment in the Buddhist manner (Stein 9). ...

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Among the better medieval histories was Bede's Ecclesiastical History, an early model in a branch of historiography that has been of great importance. ... The way was prepared for the beginning of modern history. 9 History in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The historians of the Enlightenment wrote broad accounts of social and cultural epochs. ...

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To Rilke, finding God was finding true enlightenment in the world. ... Whitman believed that religious enlightenment is achieved through observing the world around oneself, allowing oneself to connect with the life source. Since Whitman found enlightenment this way, he had little use for organized religion, just as Rilke didn't. ...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: The Legacy of the French Revolution The debate over Napoleon's role in the French Revolution is an incredibly fierce one. On one side you have people who claim he was a tyrannical despot who destroyed civil liberties. These people argue that he crow...

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It is becoming less of an importance and becoming increasingly seen as a disruption to the students' lives and academics. ... It is losing its importance in students' lives and is growing less popular in our schools. ... Music was also used to spread ideas of enlightenment through the western countries. During the period of enlightenment, music had grown to become popular within the church and community. ...

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During the Age of Enlightenment, liberal movement became a very popular notion amongst certain groups (Bourgeoisie), and individuals in the western world, thus promoting major events during this time as the French revolution. ... This era of liberalism took a major toll in foreign affairs, thus creating an atmosphere of alliances, which we discover later to be of relevant importance to France and the rest of Europe. ...

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INTRODUCTION: Japan is geographically described as having 47 prefectures, with 4 distinct main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. The distance separating Korea and Kyushu is only 200 km while the distance separating Hokkaido and Sakhalin is only 40 km. The formation of the Japanese ci...

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Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, is a complex narrative that challenges the reader on several levels. On one level, this book can be read as a story about Charlie Marlow's (the novel's protagonist) journey to discover his inner self, or as a commentary on human identity in general. To become fully...

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They founded the Institut d'Egypte with the aim of propagating enlightenment values in Egypt through interdisciplinary work. ... Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, Smith and Diderot were critical of the barbarity of colonialism and challenged the idea that Europeans had the obligation to ˜civilize' the rest of the world. However, before enlightenment thinkers could articulate a compelling critique of colonialism, they had to recognize the importance of culture and the possibility of cultural pluralism. ...

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. For this brief time, the culture of the avant-garde was synonymous with official cultural policy of the Soviets. Its leaders were empowered to establish government-sponsored art schools, and an entire system that espoused some of...

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African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. This social movement looked to outlaw discrimination towards black Americans and obtain their right to vote. The movement did not turn to violence to get what they wanted...

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ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to study development and broadcasting in Zambia, to draw conclusions as to the present situation of broadcasting and the direction it should move in the future. The study of the development of broadcasting in Zambia and its current structure are outlined together wi...

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The Vision of a Sustainable Society The Rio Conference on the Environment (1992) will live on in mankind's history as the occasion which put an end to obsession with economic development. That "development" was no more than misrepresented growth of wealth along with a corresponding frantic squandering of mankind's natural reserves. The irrational vision of an "affluent society", an earthly material paradise, had dominated the mind of peoples for twenty years, to the point of blindness: all countries had thrown themselves into a competition of ruthless development and were concerne...

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In a way, it might have begun with the Age of Enlightenment and its drive toward a mastery of nature and society, with human reason at the center of everything, since which rationality had been considered the key to justice, morality, control, organization, understanding and happiness. ...

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The importance of education of women, to develop reason, is so important and crucial for life experiences. ... "One of the most absurd notions taken over from the eighteenth century enlightenment is that in the beginning of society woman was the slave of man the overthrow of the mother right was the world historical defeat of the female sex. ...

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When the king's own cousin, the duke of Orleans stated that it was illegal to do so, the king replied, "That is of no importance to me...it is legal because I will it." # It was that statement that made others recognize that the king had crossed the line between absolutism and despotism. ...

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You Can Kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win" (Lowe 10). Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated...

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From the time of her birth in Japan, a women, will have a much different religious experience than one of her counterparts from another society. This is partly due to the rigid and strict society in which she lives, but also due to the rich and generous blend of religious traditions that make one e...

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What stirred my curiosity was when I stumbled upon an account in which the person said: I anticipate the legendary effects--inspiration, enlightenment, beautiful hallucinations. ... The main point here is that Van Gogh's case shows the importance of lifestyle, his illness, and the individual response. ...

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Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Linda McCarriston states that "poetry allows the individual experience to strike like lightning through the collective institutional consciousness and to plumb the depths of actual communal experience so that what people don't want said in fact get said". (Moyers p. 272). Her simplest defini...

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Raised in a post-Enlightenment household, Marx was heavily influenced by the revolutionary period in history. ... Marx notes that the main thing that gets fetishized in a capitalist economy is money, and that when people place too much importance on this, there becomes an imbalance in both the economy and the society as a whole (Marx, 1965). ...

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