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them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...

war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...

their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...

War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...

foresight that brought all of the various Hawaiian Islands together. He was to be the last of the great Hawaiian rulers, for after...

that the political, social and revolutionary benefits of Hajj have been overtaken by mass production of ritual mismanagement" (Hae...

aspects of the people from whom it is spawned. Barthes views on the evolution and purpose of myth are echoed...

Wiccan traditions and have a long-standing history in centuries of community activity and ritual beliefs. During the Crusades, th...

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

glimpses into an embittered world in transition, in which survivors of the war hoped of finding amid the debris and dead bodies a ...

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

people to some extent. In the beginning he states that it is not a very great painting, and while he is not ashamed of it, he hide...

with God (Eck, 1991). One gets a sense that he people go because they want to and not due to a sense of obligation. Offerings are...

significance (Amerika Samoa). These dances are "elegant, vibrant and sometimes erotic" (Amerika Samoa). Author Robert Louis Stev...

Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...

fly, thereby saving time and energy they would have to expend to drive for three or four hours (Robinson, 2000). Organizational a...

Chestnutt skilfully exposes the irony of these attitudes through the interaction between the various family members, where the dis...

chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...

biblical theology," is central to Levensons position on Old Testament theology. This essay drew immediate attention. Barr (1996) r...

brought in a great many Chinese and Indian immigrants which had further influence on the cultures and traditions of the Burmese (A...

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

The weight of a mans conscience can be unbearable, as was made quite obvious by Rockwoods entanglement with direct military orders...

without them. The power in Umuofia society was deeply steeped in "masculine traditions" (Osei-Nyame 148). The reputation o...

Eating for the Germans is more than a physiological requirement; rather, the very act of sharing food symbolizes many things, incl...

has been a "very big thing" (Axelrod, 1995, p. PG). Even just a decade ago, a Jewish womans place was still in the home, although...

the changes which have occurred vary according to the specific African culture being discussed, there are certain commonalities wh...

Anabaptists were, in their early history, very prosecuted and many were even put to death by the Catholics and Protestants (The Am...

in the earliest forms of the Roman Creed but it was not until 360 that the word Catholic was added to the Creed in the West (Thurs...

her time between home and school. But when her parents decide to marry her to Hussein, her only a choice is to submit to their wis...