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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder In Children
1,426 words
Obsessive-Compulsive disorder is a very common
disorder among adults. There are many people in
this society who do not realize that children can
also get this certain disorder. This disorder
affects about two or three people out of every
hundred. The two main symptoms are obsessions and
compulsions. Obsessions are upsetting thoughts,
pictures that keep coming into your mind even
though you do not want them to. Compulsions are
repetitive behaviors (e. g. hand washing,
ordering, checking) or menta...
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16 Th Century Rites Of Passage
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... Bali out of the entire universe); the man-lion
(Narasimha, who disemboweled the demon
Hiranyakashipu); the Buddha (who became incarnate
in order to teach a false doctrine to the pious
demons); Rama-with-an-Axe (Parashurama, who
beheaded his unchaste mother and destroyed the
entire class of Kshatriyas to avenge his father);
and Kali (the rider on the white horse, who will
come to destroy the universe at the end of the age
of Kali). Most popular by far are Rama (hero of
the Ramayana) and Krish...
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Child Is Born Father And Son
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Brianna Waste October 27, 1999 Sociology, Period 6
Toda Project Every culture in the world is made up
of six different stages of life. The stages
consist of birth, childhood, adolescence,
courtship, marriage, and adulthood. Each stage
differs in each culture making that specific
culture unique. Two cultures that display this
thesis best are the Toda and the American culture.
The Todas are people of the Nil girl Hills in
southern India, thought to be of the Dravidian
stock. There are only about 1...
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Native Indians Natural Resources
663 words
There is tremendous difference in the way the
native Indians used to live off the land and the
way American Settlers are destroying the land even
as we speak for the purpose of profit. The author
of this story is trying to convey the damage and
destruction wrought on by the Europeans in the
relatively few years of habitation of the lands of
America. The difference is not only cultural but
also spiritual. While Native Indians viewed the
land on which they lived as sacred, the European
settlers ar...
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Health Of Its Users Kinds Of Practices Sorcery
641 words
According to Merriam- websters Collegiate
dictionary, sorcery is defined as the use of power
gained from the assistance or control of evil
especially for divining. Sorcery is a phenomenon
that has spread all over the world. It mainly
consists of direction of the world into a
spiritual power which is mysterious and
unexplainable. In Morocco, sorcery is a very
popular practice. It is practiced especially in
the south of the country where people have strong
beliefs in superstition. Believers in sor...
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Point Of View Cause And Effect
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In a purely existential sense a religion or at
least an old religion is one that is based on
values and virtues that allow a sustainable
community to survive and thrive. Using the same
principals of survival of the fittest one can
deduce that any religion with rituals or
traditions that harmed or hampered the community
would die out and any religion that encourage
procreation and community would have a greater
chance of surviving. It is from these laws and
rituals that, over time, ethical standp...
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Guru Granth Sahib Hindus And Muslims
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A way of life and philosophy well ahead of its
time when it was founded over 500 years ago, The
Sikh religion today has a following of over 20
million people worldwide. Sikhism preaches a
message of devotion and remembrance of God at all
times, truthful living, equality of mankind,
social justice and denounces superstitions and
blind rituals. Sikhism is open to all through the
teachings of its 10 Gurus enshrined in the Sikh
Holy Book and Living Guru, Sri Guru Granth Sahib.
Who and What is a Sikh...
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Social Organization Human Activities
1,671 words
ter> Sam Vaknin's Psychology,
Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web
Sites If a lone, unkempt, person,
standing on a soapbox were to say that he should
become the Prime Minister, he would have been
diagnosed by a passing psychiatrist as suffering
from this or that mental disturbance. But were the
same psychiatrist to frequent the same spot and
see a crowd of millions saluting the same lonely,
shabby figure - what would have his diagnosis
been? Surely, diffe...
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God Or Gods Greek Temples
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As civilization has expanded and improved it has
gone through many different religions. Some of the
most interesting and different have been the
Mesopotamian religion, the religion of the Greeks
and finally Christianity. These three religions
were practiced in different areas and different
time periods and therefore they will be excellent
for a comparison. Religion is a key part of every
society and civilization. No matter how it is
organized or what type of God they worship, a
society would be ...
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Beliefs And Values Rites Of Passage
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The significance and meaning of the Dreaming is
central to Aboriginal spirituality. Each
Aboriginal group is connected with the Dreaming
and is aware its unique identity is derived from
it. Aboriginals today, continue to emerge from the
Dreaming, yet they are still intensely connected
with it till this day. The Dreaming includes all
aspects of Aboriginal life, and because of the
vast scale it encompasses, it is a challenging
task to link it entirely to a specific typology in
the study of religio...
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Gods And Goddesses Art And Architecture
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One of the most interesting aspects of ancient
Egypt is its religion. The depth of Egyptian
thinking and rich imagination displayed in the
creation of ideas and images of the gods and
goddesses is beyond compare. On elaborating their
beliefs, the Egyptians were working on the cosmic
plane searching for an understanding of the most
basic laws of the universe (Religion). The ancient
Egyptians instilled their religion into every
aspect of life including their art and
architecture. The Egyptians wer...
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Asherah The Goddess Of Israel
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... t: For (the goddess) Asherah (Hadley 179).
More items for cultic use were discovered at the
sites of Lachish and Taanach. At Lachish the
remains of a temple dating to the Late Bronze age
were uncovered, and among the finds there were a
gold plaque used as part of the temple equipment
which pictures a naked goddess standing on a
trotting horse, holding two lotus blossoms. The
figure wears a feathered headdress and her eyes,
pubic region and the eye of the horse are all
pierced, as if they onc...
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Hartford Pagan Publications Wiccans Believe Strongly Wicca
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... illative goes against the free will of another
is considered wrong by Wiccans. Are Wiccans
involved in Black Magick or White Magick? The
answer to that is simple: magic is just magic. As
far as good or bad magic is concerned, it is as in
any religious group, some are good and some are
bad. Each human being is completely responsible
for their own actions. To Wicca, evil is a choice,
a bad one, that someone might make, not a deity to
blame our actions upon. If someone chooses to do
evil, it is...
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Tannen 30 Men Men And Women Dont
853 words
People have different conversational styles that
are influenced by their parents, age, class, and
gender. Usually we are unaware that these and
other aspects of our backgrounds influence our
ways of talking. Since we dont realize that others
styles are different, we miscommmunicate with each
other causing problems and conflicts in
conversation. Conflicts are influenced by our
gender and experienced everyday in the workplace,
public, and private settings. Men and women both
have many different co...
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Death And Dying Survival Of The Fittest
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... compassion and love. The reason why we needed
to discuss this religious doctrine in this paper
is because the message of love serves as
foundation, upon which the contemporary Western
morality is based. Social attitudes towards the
issue of death in Western countries are affected
by this morality more than by anything else. (3)
Different cultures have their own social customs,
in regards to death and dying. Canadian Eskimos,
for example, were known to abandon elderly people
in the middle of ...
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Siddhartha Gautama Sri Lanka
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The origin, traditional Buddhism began in the 6 th
century BC with the historical personage born
Siddhartha Gautama, but better known by a variety
of titles including Shakyammi, Tathagata, or most
commonly Buddha, the enlightened one. The legend
of the Buddha s life has acquired plenty of
variations and embellishments over the years, but
the basic facts are accepted as traditional,
including the dates of his birth and death (563 -
489 BC by Western reckoning, 624 - 544 according
to Sri Lankan tr...
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Schools Of Thought Yin And Yang
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Who is Confucius? To some he may appear as a joke.
However, Confucius, in reality, was not a
laughingstock. He was a man who strived to bring
peace and happiness to a world ravaged by crime
and war. Confucius did not look for paradise in
the next world like other religions but rather he
was more concerned with achieving happiness in
ones own lifetime. A respected Chinese
philosopher, Confucius, or Kung Fu Tzu, began as a
teacher, stressing the importance of
self-discipline and generosity. He tho...
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Caribbean Islands African American
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A major source of concern affecting many African
Americans today is the loss of their heritage.
Gloria Naylor has written a novel about a timeless
society where African roots and heritage are
celebrated, even in a modern world that smothers
cultural identity rather than encouraging or
celebrating diversity. Mama Day, a 1988 novel
written by Gloria Naylor details the lives and
customs of a colony of former slaves who are far
closer to their African roots and cultural
traditions than any blacks li...
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Female Genital Mutilation Male Circumcision
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Female Genital Mutilation Almost no one who has
heard of the practice of Female Genital Mutilation
(FGM) is without some form of opinion of the
custom, which affects 100 million women in 26
African countries, and elsewhere in the developing
world. It has been declared a gross violation of
the human rights of woman and female children.
However at he same time some argue that the
procedures are part of time-honored cultural
rituals which mark the individuals as a full
member of there society, and ...
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18 Th Century Beggars Benison Clubs
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Libertines unite The Beggars Benison: Sex Clubs of
Enlightenment Scotland and Their Rituals David
Stevenson 265 pp, Tuck well Press Clubs were one
of the 18 th century's great inventions.
Clubbable, a word invented by Dr Johnson, was a
coinage for the age. For men, the club promised a
new form of sociability. Nowadays we associate
clubs with reactionary habits, yet once they were
self-consciously modern, allowing enlightened
gentlemen to socialise outside the narrow confines
of family or profess...
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