INTRODUCTION Oppression used as a tool of religion, society uses religion as a form of social control, people behave well not only out of fear of their friends and families disapproving but also out of the desire to remain in their god’s good graces. Durkheim explains that sacred does not mean good and profane does not mean bad. Christianity and Judaism, for example, have ten commandments as a set of rules for behavior that they believe we’re sent directly from...
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Historically, humanity never stopped thinking about God, or about the Creator. As a consequence, the disciplines of today are in fact quite new. The responses in doing theology typically acts out of an angry disposition towards the ‘other’. White people going to Americas took Natives on a path of destruction because they had nothing of value to offer to Natives. Their attempts to enculturate Natives and make them embrace Western culture is nothing but an example to this angry disposition...
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Buddhism has frequently been perceived as a stable and singular tradition with the goal to overcome suffering and transcend the cycle of death and rebirth. This common notation of seen “Buddhism” as a “world religion” has been rooted in the perspective of Western scholars . It is important to take a step back and look at Buddhism in different lenses. Especially, if we are trying to understand how it contributed to the development of Japan. For instance, from the moment...
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As we have learned, religion is very difficult to define. Each different religion comes with their own specific set of rules, beliefs, and practices. The religion that I chose to learn about was Buddhism. Buddhism was founded over 2,500 years ago in India. Since then it has evolved to many different parts of the world and has formed different sects within the religion itself. Siddhartha Gautama created the religion and throughout his practices he reached Nirvana, becoming the Buddha. Siddhartha...
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In the contemporary time period, roughly the 7 per cent of the World population stick to the Buddhism doctrines and consider themselves as the followers of Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama - the founder of this philosophy. In fact, Buddhism is considered to be one of the earliest religions which has been first introduced between the 4th and 6th centuries of B.C. period. As all the other philosophies, Buddhism is composed of several principles, whereas, the 4 Noble Truths constitute the backbone...
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Suffering is strictly the response to something – physical or mental – that occurs to a person. Yet, faiths worldwide have sought answers to this phenomenon, in hopes to decipher; why humans suffer and its necessity to life. Eastern faiths such as Buddhism cite that it is due to human’s attachment to material objects (Littlefair, 2017); whereas, Western religions, such as Christianity state suffering is inevitable due to sin, free will and humans needing to be tested for their second...
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Buddhism, one of the most famous religions, has more than 600 million followers across the world in the present day. Its core value focused on reincarnation, immortality, and spiritual practices, which required followers to separate themselves from the secular world. It was first introduced into China during the Han Dynasty (100 C.E.) and quickly spread out through China with support from the Han government. However, it met several problems even persecuted by the end of the later Tang Dynasty (600...
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Located in Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum is a Buddhist figural sculpture titled Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara). The sculpture is on display in a room filled with Buddhist relics which have survived from China’s past. Guanyin, a bodhisattva (Buddha to be) is displayed next to Dashizhi, another bodhisattva type which shares the same wood carving and polychrome composition and rests on the same display plinth. In the gallery space, as in the religion itself, these two sculptures are aspects of the larger narrative...
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In the article “The Political Economy of Women’s Support for Fundamentalist Islam”, the authors (Bladyes & Linzer, 2008) state that religion is the major contributor of fundamentalists in the political economy. Women in Islamic religion are forced to tolerate some beliefs to be considered religious and respectful. Despite that other religious countries have become compatible with gender equality most of them still have beliefs concerning how citizens should be treated. Other Muslim states such as Egypt are still categorized by...
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Abstract Working with people of the Muslim culture can be very difficult if you do not know and understand their religion. They require specific cares tailored to meet the needs of their culture. Muslims would rather use home remedies and prayer to prevent or cure an illness rather than using prescription medications because they are not created by their God (Allah). It is important to understand this culture because it does affect the way that they care for themselves. Islamic...
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To parent another human being is one of the blessings, gifts and at the same time challenges from our Maker Allah Azjawjal wa Taala. Patenting is a blessing in the sense that our input as a parent the modelling our our children, goes a long way in the result of the adult they became later in life with the permission of Allah Azjawjal. LINKING PARENTING TO MARRIAGE The pre requisite to every effective parenting is an effective basic foundation of...
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Every religion have a really big history behind it. Every religion is a piece full religion and modest. Every religion is different but some believe are same. Such as they all believe on God and some how if you look carefully in every religion women have to cover head before they start praying. In order to respect God. Muslim is someone who practices Islam, believes on Allah and it’s a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.Muslims have holy book called Qur’an.muslims pray 5...
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From being the most despised, oppressed, illicit religion to becoming one of the worlds most noticeable and practised religion in the world. After enduring 300 years of hostility, Christianity conquered and overcame social suffering and persecution as one emperor named Constantine the Great came to power. This dates back to the year of 272 CE when ‘Flavius Valerius Constantinus’ was conceived by Saint Helena empress of the Roman Empire. Constantine the great was one of Rome’s most powerful and successful...
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Gender has been a huge divider in society since time can remember. The way men were raised was completely different than how women were raised. Women were raised to be gentle and also how to be a housewife while men were the ones who were brought as being better than woman simply because they were stronger and could do more. Over the years some of those things have changed however women are still being mistreated and brought up in a...
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Abstract This philosophical research paper aimed to describe and find out whether being a student-athlete is worth the additional effort. The study analysed and evaluated this by comparing the positive effects and negative effects of student-athleticism. This was achieved by handing out questionnaires that garnered the opinions of current student-athletes and their perceptions and experience of student-athleticism and the impact it has on their lives. This paper supports the stand that being a student-athlete has a big positive impact to...
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Introduction A coach guides an athlete in a sport by evaluating the progression of the athlete, giving precise instructions and motivating them to do the best they can. However, there are such cases when an athlete needs more assistance to win a competition, a coach can be unprofessional. A coach may react to a certain degree which lead to an unethical conduct. Such behaviour is therefore unpleasant to certain companies, athletes and even parents of athletes. In this research, I...
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It’s known across the globe that the two genders have many physiological differences, but many of them are unknown to the common person. The level of testosterone is one of the main concerns of transgndered athletes competing in sports events, which controls a lot more within the body than one may at first think; such as muscle growth, metabolism reaction to workouts, and even the efficiency of the respiratory system. These are just a few of the anatomical differences that...
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Sports are a great way for youth to engage in the nature and their surrounding or environment. By studying the history of sports, we can learn about the social changes we have gone through in the past, as well as the transformations that sports in itself has undergone (Sports and Child Development, 2016). During our youth, we develop skills to help us be successful in life. Young people develop crucial skills and characteristics when playing sports and interacting with their...
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Introduction Leadership is when a group of people are motivated by an individual to reach a similar goal and capacity. “Leadership is about taking initiative and influencing those around you” (Kotter international, 2012). In order to be effective as a leader you have to be able to inspire others. Effective leaders are committed to building a team who want to achieve a common goal. As a leader, you need to nurture your strengths and those of the individuals that you...
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INTRODUCTION Life has many surprises and challenges, but sometimes we just have to follow through the many different things life throws our direction. Some people go out of their way to escape the many challenges they might have to face. You know, that’s okay because that’s why there are people out there willing enough to help them out. When you take time to understand someone’s struggle and the situation they are in then you will only understand them. It doesn’t...
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Ecology is the scientific study of the relationships between organisms and their environment. – Ernst Haeckel Ecology is a branch of biology that include interactions between organisms and their biophysical environment as well as with the members of the same and other species. It includes the relations among all the biotic and abiotic components of the environment but tends to exclude the context of human behaviour and civilization. The science of ecology has complex roots pertinent to three levels of...
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Judaism The start of Judaism is believed to have started in 1812 BC. in a place called Canaan and it is considered that Abraham is the founder of the Israelite nation. Judaism is the religion that Jewish people follow. Judaism is a monotheistic religion, you only believe that there is one greater being, the greater being has established a covenant. The Jews have a sacred book is called the Tanakh or also know as the Hebrew Bible. The sacred book...
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Skin makes up 16% of every human’s body weight, which makes skin the largest organ, therefore, the most vulnerable to our environment and actions. It monitors and controls the body’s thermoregulation. This is important as the body temperature needs to be maintained between an average of 37°C to 37.8°C, to be able to function at its full potential. Once the skin is damaged it not much loses this ability to be able to monitor the body’s thermoregulation Stem cells start...
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In today's day and age, the options for end of life care are countless and include nursing homes, at home hospice, live-in aides or visiting nurses and family support to name just a few. Most approaches regarding end of life care are often similar and include palliative care, living wills, aid-in-dying, “full code” and “DNR” in hospitals. Some people might argue that with more choices, deciding on an option can become overwhelming for either the patient or the family. The...
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Abstract Today, the every education faculty is going to take aid of ICT for meeting the current challenges in the world. Social Science is also achieving its goal through the application of Information and Communication Technology. The Modern trends in Social sciences are not effective without use of ICT. Teaching is the purposeful imparting of information or skills or both to another individual or to a group of individual. The role of teachers is significant for information and communication technology...
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Pride carries a broad variety of connotation among differing people. Pride can represent someone’s whole self worth or simply be another set of syllables in the English language. Pride may be someone’s support to get up every morning, and it is the backbone to their entire personality(Compound). Pride can represent whatever you need it depict, but everyone’s perspective is up for interpretation. Pride is capable of being an individual’s segway to propel a long lived goal or be the reason...
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Imagine Japan as a tree, towering and powerful. The most overlooked are the roots, as they are typically unseen by the human eye. Pushing past the reservations, roots are a vital part of the survival for a tree; without the roots, there would be no nutrients, no stability, no peace. Japan set a precedence of adaptation and harmony with coexisting beliefs. Shintoism is as old as the birth of civilization on Japan and changed by the beliefs of Taoism, Confucianism,...
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Description of Case and Major Issues Humans used salt for thousands of years but known as a mineral around the 20th century. Salt had been used for thousands of applications worldwide, in the USA it was primarily used for highway dicing, and as an input into the chemicals, food-processing, water-treatment, and agricultural industries (Henderson et al., 2009). Compass Minerals International, Inc a public company and a leading producer of minerals, including salt, magnesium chloride, sulfate of potash, and other plant...
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Introduction A normal biological characteristic of human body is its capability to fix hard and delicate tissues. Majority of tissues can fix and repair themselves within biologic restrictions. Though, regeneration is another issue. As in most situations, the tissues are unable to restore themselves to the former state after occurrence of tissue loss. That loss could be a consequence of birth deformity, sickness, injury, malignancy, surgical removal or atrophy. Substitution of missing body component has consistently been a worry to...
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Throughout the Middle Ages of the 5th through 15th centuries, the Holy Catholic Church has plagued Europe as one of its most corrupt powers in Europe’s history. Many issues regarding the Church had caused lost trust and power in the people. During the Protestant Reformation, many people rose up against the ideas of the Catholic Church including reformers such as John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, and John Calvin. The impact they had on Christianity forever shaped the different outlooks on the...
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