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Leisure Activities Philadelphia Pa
597 wordsPeiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of -the-Century New York (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1986). Kathy Peiss describes the leisure activities of young working women living in New York during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in her book Cheap Amusements. The book explores the emergence of a young female working class and the conflict the women encountered with the "Old World" traditions. Peiss also explores the commercialization of lei...
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Modernism And The Great Gatsby
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Chinese New Year Bad Luck
888 wordsEvery country has its amazing culture and tradition. It is an amazing experience for me to be able to be deeply connected with my own culture and also learn about American culture at the same time. I found out how important the traditions and customs are for a country. They are the strongest force that can bring people from the same country anywhere on earth together and become tightly united. It is how a country can be sustained and recognized by others. So, it is important to know about your o...
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Ho Chi Minh World War Ii
1,563 wordsVietnam War was a war that had the many of the world stumped on how it accrued and what it was for. Many lives were lost and destroyed for a war that had no real purpose. As to why the US got involved is still a controversial issue to this day. Pin pointing exactly when the war started is a heated debate among historians. The war was not only in Vietnam but also right at home. Society was divided and conflict began. Was Vietnam a lost cause for the US? In 1941, Ho Chi Minh, a communist activist,...
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Judaism Christianity And Islam Century Bce
1,089 wordsThe five books of Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy), for example, traditionally are ascribed to Moses. But by the eighteenth century, many European scholars noticed problems with that assumption. Not only does Deuteronomy end with an account of Moses' death (a tough assignment for any writer to describe his or her own demise), but the entire Pentateuch shows anomalies of style that are hard to explain if only one author is involved. By the nineteenth century, most scholars agreed that the Pentate...
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1 St Ed Marriage Ceremony
1,705 words... marriage, she pauses. The questions repeated three times and it is only at the last time that she will say yes. To make the bridegroom wait for the brides answer is to signify that it is the husband who seeks the wife and is anxious to have her and not the other way around. During the service female relatives of the couple (mainly the bride) hold over the couples head a fine scarf or other delicate fabrics like silk. Two different actions take place at the same time. Two pieces of crystalliz...
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Dead Person Middle Ages
1,884 wordsDeath ends a life, Not a relationship. - Jack Lemmon Pagan roots of modern funeral practice Perhaps discussing of death and burial process is a welcome subject for most people, but it is an integral part of our life so we are to talk about these subjects. Some of the old practices were lost when indigenous religions encountered militant Christianity and were forced to go underground for survival. But however, parents transmitted their traditions to their children. I think in this way some old tr...
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Cultural Activities In Puerto Rico
1,181 wordsCultural Activities in Puerto Rico In her book Sponsored Identities, Arlene M. Davila discusses the dynamics of cultural politics in Puerto Rican society. She examines how culture and cultural nationalism have been used to promote consumer goods and political viewpoints. Arlene Davila asserts that cultural nationalism has been used by corporate advertisers to promote consumer goods (Davila 1997: 7). Similarly, the parana has been used as an advertising tool. Images related to the parana are bein...
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De Mott P 123
1,553 wordsDogon Masquerades The artistic interactions between the Dogon people of the Niger Delta and their neighbors who dominate Southeastern Nigeria to the north and east are not difficult to demonstrate. Art objects, including textiles, bronze shrine sculpture, and masks, have been traded between these regions for generations. More than objects alone, numerous masking and figurative traditions have crossed ethnic and regional boundaries and are practiced in both areas. Dogon Masquerades are by far one...
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Pagan Elements In Beowulf
1,153 wordsPagan elements in Beowulf Old poems and ballads have become an essential part of the history of every nation. From the critical point of view, careful analysis shows that every folk experienced a creating of ballads, songs, legends and poems. Necessity to keep the culture, customs, traditions and, especially, values of society and to pass them through the hands of history for the future descendants, - those are the main reasons for epic work. Poem Beowulf was not a notable exception. Like many o...
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Modernization Influence On Indonesian Culture
1,919 wordsModernization influence on Indonesian culture Indonesia has always been an object of curiosity and source of information for the Western scientists. Until modern times Indonesia faced a growing pressure of the world to move to modern development. The tourist industry is gaining popularity in Indonesia and becoming one of the primary sources of income as in many developing countries. Every tourist that went to Indonesia knows that dance is a big part of Indonesian culture is also a part of the to...
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Works Of Art Afro Cuban
2,587 wordsSyncretism The African presence in the Americas has left an indelible imprint not only on the region's economic, social, and ethnic aspects; but even more so in the cultural, artistic, and religious development of this hemisphere. The study of this presence and its influences has gained tremendous significance in the current century, as has the interest in syncretism or juxtaposed religions created by a blending of Christian and African religious beliefs, rites and practices. Hundreds of years a...
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Worlds Religions Jesus Christ
2,639 wordsIn explaining Buddhism, one must first understand Hinduism from which Buddhism grew. Buddhism is a reaction against Hinduism as protestant is against Catholicism. According to The World s Religions by Houston Smith, there are six aspects of religion that appear so often that a suggestion can be implied that they are seeds that make up humanity. In constructing this paper, first I will outline and explain these six aspects. Then I will attempt to explain why Buddha found them to be obstacles for ...
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Black Elk One Day
1,108 wordsWhat do Buddhism and Sioux tradition tell us about meditation and having a vision? First of all, we meditate in Buddhism because it gives us the nourishment for your spirit and nourishment for your body, (Hanh, p. 42). We also meditate to heal other or ourselves. In the Sioux traditions having a vision is like healing a person. Only the holy man can have the vision. The method of meditation and having a vision is like a method of relaxing and healing the state of conscious. Sometimes having a vi...
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Shirley Jacksons Human Race
535 wordsShirley Jacksons, The Lottery, has raised questions in the back of every readers mind towards the destructive yet blind rituals of mankind. A reflection of ourselves is what we see when looking through the pond of Jacksons mind. The Lottery clearly expressed Jacksons feelings concerning traditional rituals through her story, opened the eyes of its readers to properly classify and question some of todays traditions as cruel, and allowed room to foretell the outcome of these unusual traditions. Ja...
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Walk Away From Omelas Comparison And Contrast
1,229 wordsComparison And Contrast Of The Lottery And Comparison And Contrast Of The Lottery And The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Comparison and Contrast of The Lottery and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas The differences between The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin seem relatively minor when compared to the striking similarities they contain in setting, symbols, and theme. Each of the stories begin with a description of a beautiful summer day. The ...
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Lost Forever Today
1,739 wordsMost remember it as a time of dashing young heroes on horseback, fair damsels in distress, and majestic castles hidden from the vulgarity of daily life by the cool shade of fragrant magnolia and honeysuckle. It was a time and place so far removed from today? s fast moving, billboard covered world that one could easily imagine that this lost civilization existed on some far off continent, or perhaps not at all. However, the fact remains that once upon a time the old South did exist, and there are...
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John The Evangelist Betrayal
1,328 wordsThe neophyte stood in front of the altar with a large divine imagine facing her. On the alter was a folded white robe with a sword upon it. A initiated member of the inner circle lit white candles and incense while another switched on a powerful twin light to illuminate the divinely image. The highest member of the inner circle then took the sword, and preceded with the ritual initiation of the neophyte into the inner circle of the ancient mysteries. (Markides 124) This scene invokes the imagina...
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Left Hand Classical Music
1,144 wordsThe music of India is a mosaic of different genres and levels of sophistication. At one extreme, classical music is performed in the urban concert halls for purely artistic reasons, and at the other, many kinds of functional rural music accompany life-cycle and agricultural rites. In between are many other musical genres of different regions of the country, reflecting the diversity of its peoples. The origins of classical music can be traced to the Navy Shastra, a Sanskrit treatise on drama, whi...
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