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    care of the world. - Shiva is what Hindus believe is the destroyer. - Brahman is what Hindus believe is the energy that is everywhere. Hindus tend to believe that Vishnu appeared on earth 4 times to save the world from demons, naturel dis and mean/cruel people. They also believe that Vishnu can help people escape from being born again. Hindu believe that Shiva can destroyed and is the destroyer of all things that are evil that can hurt anything. This is why Vishnu and Shiva are the most worshiped

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    Mandala Religion Essay

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    The beliefs and symbols illustrated in my mandala are positioned in a way that they connect to each other. The first Hindu belief is Brahman. I put the symbol of Brahman on the bottom of the mandala to show that it “controls” and “connects” to the other four beliefs. Next, the belief of multiple gods will be placed on the right side of Brahman because he is one of the many gods that the Hindus believe in. On the other side of Brahman will be Dharma because they both have to do with balancing society

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    the religion large Shiva saved the world and there is a famous river called Ganga River in India. People who believe in this religion go there to take a bath in the river. The people who go take bath in Ganga River will get in paradise. Ganga River originally came from Large Shiva. They believe Large Shiva saved the world by drinking poison drink to save the world. So when people go to the river they put cold water on the river so they can flesh out the poison from Large Shiva. Another thing when

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    ‘Cutting for Stone’: Novel Review The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary and analysis of the novel, “Cutting for Stone,” written by Abraham Verghese in 2009. The authors biography and qualifications are explained. The novels back story which includes great suffering, abandonment, fate, the consequences of life, finding one’s identity, cultural awareness, and the strength of family connections is supported. Medicine takes the forefront to convey that practicing medicine takes more than

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    Mỹ Sơn is a temple complex located in central Vietnam consisting of over 70 Hindu temples constructed between the 4th to 14th century by the kings of Champa. The temples were built to worship the god Shiva that symbolizes the father/male realm. According to the Brhat Samhita scriptures of Hinduism, “The gods always play where groves are near, rivers, mountains and springs and in towns with pleasure gardens.” Hence, Mỹ Sơn was erected within several closed valleys that provide the watershed of the

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    Midnight's Children Essay

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    Midnight's Children essay Salman Rushdie's creation, Saleem Sinai, has a self-proclaimed "overpowering desire for form" (363). In writing his own autobiography Saleem seems to be after what Frank Kermode says every writer is a after: concordance. Concordance would allow Saleem to bring meaning to moments in the "middest" by elucidating (or creating) their coherence with moments in the past and future. While Kermode talks about providing this order primarily through an "imaginatively predicted

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    And so he did,his wife Parvati pressed his neck as he was swallowing. the halahala stayed in his throat,changing the color of his neck to blue.this is why lord shiva is also called Neelakantha. (Neela=blue, kantha=throat) As the churning progressed 14ratnas (gems) and many Devine objects and beings emerged from ocean including kamadhenu (the Devine cow),the white horse, kalpavriksha( the wish fulfilling tree)

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    The western world often touts multiculturalism as an ideal for society. However, only nations with centuries of cultural integration realize this goal. With the advent of the postmodern Earth, however, young nations are striving headstrong into the practice of cultural unification to cope with the massive influx of interconnectivity between nations, cultures, and peoples. In doing so they neglect people’s cultural that have stood for hundreds of years. Salman Rushdie, a man exposed firsthand to cultural

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    of demons that threatens the safety of the world. Men cannot slay them, and so Shiva calls for his wife to aid them in battle. Parvati accepts the responsibility, swallowing the poison stored in Shiva’s throat and morphing into Kali. However, she becomes too drunk with the poison and, after defeating all the demons, threatens to destroy the world herself with her berserk dance. In an attempt to subdue his wife, Shiva then lays on the floor in front of Kali, who in her delirious state does not notice

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    Education In India

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    the others. The untouchables are more definite. In north India only a very small number, doing scavenging or unclean work is considered untouchables. Fa-Hein tells us that when he visited the persons who removed human faces were untouchables. In south India, the numbers are much larger. How they began and grew to such numbers it is difficult to say. Probably those who were engaged in occupations considered unclean were so treated later landless agricultural labours may have been added" (Sharma, Nehru

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