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2691: Body Modifications: ... forms of body art including, but not exclusive to; body piercing, tattooing, pocketing, and scarification. Body piercing is becoming one of the most popular forms of body art today. The history of body piercing is not well documented, however it has been practiced throughout the world for thousands of years. Traditionally, many piercing were performed for religious or spiritual reasons. For ... show social status. Whereas in Borneo women tattoo artists were marked with hand and finger tattoos to show their position as weavers in their culture (Leo 16). Also documented in history is tattooing for religious reasons. Burmese tattooing has been associated with religion for thousands of years. Tattooing among the indigenous North American groups including the Arapaho, Mohave, Cree, and Inuit ...

2692: Slaves in Rome: Low Level Servants or Overlooked Mental Force?: Slaves in Rome: Low Level Servants or Overlooked Mental Force? During Ancient Roman history slaves played a huge role in society. They served as accountants, secretaries, doctors, architects, and even held positions in the government bureaucracy. A typical stereotype of slaves is a low ... serve as a representative of the Roman Empire to other countries, they were skilled employers and quite intelligent, very contrary to more modern thinking on the intelligence of slaves throughout history. It would seem strange to see a whole empire run by slaves in most working levels and cultural jobs yet have to answer to a master. Would you ever think ...

2693: Female Infanticide in India: ... Indian girls, why their culture see them as temporary members of their natural family. Wissow (1998) states that parents who kill their infants date back to the beginning of recorded history. As recently as the early 1800’s in Europe and Asia, up to one-third of live born infants were killed or abandoned by their parents (p. 84). Infanticide has been a part of world history, but in the industrialized countries of the 20th century, it is very rare and shocking. I feel it is unfortunate that in India where strict traditions and social pressures on ...

2694: Race Relations in the United States: ... said in a statement that Mr. Clinton’s apology did not excuse the tragedy of the Tuskegee study, “but it may help close this unfortunate chapter in our nation’s history.” Why would apologizing for slavery not help close that unfortunate chapter in our nation’s history? It must be recognized that there are several differences between slavery and the Tuskegee experiment. Tuskegee experiment was a racist act of hostility that the government covered up and tried ...

2695: Terrorism: ... nearly all of them civilians. Within days the second world war has ended. Which of these four events was an act of terrorism? Which achieved anything? Which, if any, will history judge as justified? And whose history? Terrorism is not the simple, sharp-edged, bad-guy phenomenon we all love to condemn. No clear line marks off politics from the threat of force, threat from use, use ...

2696: Immigration: Pro: ... so infamous due to the fact that it was the first bill that discriminated against any one particular race. Restrictions on immigration may seem to have been eradicated from current history but that is an oversight. Even in the "politically correct" society we live in today allows for these discrepancies, for in the Immigration Act of 1990 which brought up controls ... were false based. After the Germans and Irish started to finally assimilate we needed a new scapegoat. The next were the Italians and Jews, following them were the Catholics. Throughout history there were always someone who got the blame put on them. Lately the blame has been put upon Middle-Eastern, Asians and Hispanics. Now that the basics has been laid ...

2697: Partner Abuse: ... learning theory. This theory examines the effects of either experiencing abuse as child or witnessing abusive between one's parents. Reachers of dating violence have found that there is a history of abuse is related to later involvement in an abusive relationship for both males and females. Also, found that having been abused as a child predicted later involvement in abuse ... were women in an abusive marriage. Similarly, found that although more abused wives, they still were less likely to have witnessed marital violence than had non husbands. Therefore, although a history of either witnessing or experiencing abuse seems of either witnessing or experience abuse seems prevalent between men and women in abusive relationships, the exact nature of that influence on men ...

2698: Family Values: Importance: ... becomes law. Civilization, over time, has brought about values which have become essential to all. Family values have brought considerable amounts of happiness onto us throughout the course of our history. Where would we be without love and compassion? We would probably be in worldwide chaos if there still even was a world left. People would only regard each other as ... fabric that holds our society together. We have had them since the earliest society on our Earth. They have provided a clear outline for religious, social, and moral values throughout history. They have formed a basis for our governments and cultures. It is of the utmost importance that these values are preserved for the sake of society and the common good ...

2699: Rites of Passage: ... for the sons of married men in their perspective villages. Within a section by A. W. Howitt, in Eliade's book, From Primitives to Zen: A thematic Sourcebook of the History of Religions , a ceremony known as the "Showing the Grandfather" is described(Eliade, p. 288) In this initiation the Kurnai have a formal way of bringing a man's son ... Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, China, and Japan. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993., xx 306-316 2. Extracts from Eliade, ed., From Primitives to Zen: A thematic Sourcebook of the History of Religions. (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1967.), xx 142-45

2700: Sexuality: ... view about sexuality relating to what the common people are thinking especially on the relationship between sexuality and mythology. The majority think that it is impossible to have a sexual history. However, the social historians state that sexual behaviour and its significance had changed time to time from their research, and therefore, they believed that sexuality has history. Sex relationship can be found among the Greek Gods in the Greek Myths. The Greek myths are an excellent example of the predominance of sexuality on human creativity. Since the ...

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