... your family; this is the only way to look at it." This statement of Krishna's readiness to deny his divine status and project himself as an ordinary mortal, playing an inferior role to his true identity, can be seen as a lesson to the villagers, particularly those of higher castes, to assume ... his mythology devoted to his childish pranks, whether it be stealing butter or hiding the clothes of the bathing cowherd women. The frivolity of the people during Holi is thus justified by the fact that even the divine resorts to such behavior. As Marriott mentions, the men and boys even imperson...

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... 's language, for suffering is dukkha. The Buddha said there are three kinds of dukkha. The first two are inevitable and the third is optional. The first is dukkha-dukkha, or ordinary suffering. This include what the Buddha calls the three great teachers: sickness, old age and death, and the loss of a loved one. The second is viparinama-dukkha. In life even ... the most unrelenting. It is our attachment to self "who we think we are, how we want others to be, and how we want life to treat us. Some people expect life to make them happy; others expect life to make them miserable. Our emotion...

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... the streets she would not want to talk to me, but rather found pleasure in sleeping or studying. After six months the gal stopped coming out of her house, and people started thinking she was mad. One day in the ninth month I saw a glimpse of her in her room window staring out in space. Surprised, the girl looked like a sponge being ... of the book. Right after I read the ancient writing, I burned the book down. Later my friend's dad told me that she had stolen the book from his out of the ordinary chest. The books in there are never to be sold because they are either cursed or too valua...

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... of adoration and worship. The sun brings life; everything is dependent on it. When the sun is personified, as it is in this poem, it is usually so that the people on Earth can idolize it. However, in this case, the sun is portrayed as an antagonist. An idol is not usually described with words such as "busy old fool [and ... . Line 25 jolts the reader because it breaks the pattern: it has an extra syllable. "Thou, sun, art half as happy as we," (25) would initially appear to be an ordinary love-sick statement that belongs in a love poem. The extra syllable in "happy" causes the reader to ...

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... his wife. That child was named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, later known to millions of Indians as the father of their nation. He lived an ordinary boyhood in the seaport town and attended school in nearby Rajkot. As a boy he attended temple near his home and readings were taken ... once thrown out of a railway car although he held a first-class ticket, and he was forcibly removed to the van car, where the "colored" people rode. The degradation of being less than 2nd class, imposition of a poll tax on them, and the government's declaration that all non-Christian marriages ( ... in his effo...

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... lightning strikes. Afterwards, they carefully isolate a small fire in a hollowed out tree. They are also semi-nomadic and move in bands of 40 to 50 people when they need to find more food and among their weapons are spears and bows and arrows (Web India). Every family belongs to a sept and each ... by qualities like generosity, skill at hunting and other work and wisdom based on age and experience (Web India). The Jarawa have no words for ordinary salutations, greetings or for expressing thanks, but instead on meetings they stare at each other until the younger person tells the other pe...

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... 3 religions until the spread of Christianity. Hinduism and Buddhism are vary similar but have some distinct differences. The Hebrews were one of the many people who lived in the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia. Over time they developed there own ideas which reflected a mix of many traditions. The Hebrews recorded ... were enslaved. Mosses led the Hebrews to freedom from Egypt. They wondered for 40 years and then entered Palestine and believed they were the chosen people. By 1000 B.C. the Hebrews set up a kingdom of Israel. The Hebrew beliefs evolved into the religion of Judaism. They a...

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