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    Unit 4: Keeping children safe P4.1- I have been involved in identifying hazards in my setting‚ such as in the water play area‚ the children accidently spilling water on the floor from splashing the water out of the water bowl and from trying to experiment with pouring and filling bottles. Therefore‚ because this happened I proceeded to use in initiative and clean up the spillage on the floor. The procedure I had took in this situation was that I asked the children to step away from the puddle

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    3. The Goal of Dharma Practice and Mind Cultivation What is the purpose of Dharma practice and mind cultivation? A lot of people have the answer to this question: to be reborn in the Western Paradise. However‚ specifically‚ to what extent should one cultivate so that he can be reborn in the Western Paradise? How can this be achieved? What will happen if we could not attain the expected level of cultivation? Many may not be able to answer these. In fact‚ it is a very lofty goal to be reborn in the

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    Pietas? Dharma? Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off! Written in 29 B.C.E. by the famous poet‚ Virgil‚ The Aeneid tells the legendary story of Aeneas‚ a Trojan warrior who travels to Italy to find a new home. As Aeneas makes his way across the ocean‚ he encounters a plethora of complications. In the face of all this adversity‚ Aeneas continues to exhibit the principal Roman virtue‚ pietas‚ which comprises the concepts of piety‚ public virtue‚ and duty. The idea of pietas bears an uncanny resemblance

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    School can take an enormous toll. With stress and anxiety‚ students almost never get a chance to just sit and relax. However‚ in the book Period 8‚ one can hang out‚ eat lunch and just talk. Almost nothing is off limits. Period 8 is a time of day in school where students can feel safe and comfort. The main character is a high school senior named Paul Baum. He is a guy who really wants to do the right thing‚ but ends up getting mixed up in both external and internal conflicts. He is committed to living

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    Terry overcomes the role of bum that others have marked out for him‚ do you agree? Terry is the main character in the movie‚ ‘On the Waterfront’. Terry is called a bum many times throughout the movie‚ for different reasons. Terry tries to convince himself that he is not a bum‚ although he opens up towards the end of the movie‚ and finally admits that he is one. Terry’s brother Charley and Johnny Friendly are shown to be responsible for Terry’s role as a bum. Although it is open to interpretation

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    How Did Buddhism Spread

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    down and only recited by monks (Buddha Dharma 2008). Councils were held regularly to make sure that Buddha’s teaching remained the same. It was not until the 2nd council of where a split between monks occurred. A group known as the “Great Community” led to a new evolution of two major forms of Buddhist tradition‚ the Theravada and the Mahayana. Why they differed is because the Theravada taught that the highest point people can reach is Arhat (Buddha Dharma 2008). The Mahayana tradition teaches that

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    Shugden followers assert that he is a Dharma protector who appeared for the sole purpose of protecting Gelug doctrine. He has the blessing and the recommendation of Tsongkapa. If that is true‚ why was he not allowed to enter the gate of Tashi Lhunpo monastery? Secondly‚ he speaks through a human medium. He said to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at Dromo Dhungkar Monastery in 1951 he came directly from the pure land of Lama Tsonkapa. Kyabje Pabongka also wrote it in the Life entrustment ritual

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    Recollections of the Past: From Pioneer Naturalist to Mountaineer Buddhist (Thoreau and Kerouac) An old adage says "never let the truth get in the way of a good story". However‚ where is the line drawn between embellishment and fabrication? Artistic privilege is just as it sounds; a liberty to manipulate and coerce verbs‚ adjectives‚ adverbs‚ and other parts of speech and sentence structure to yield a far more pleasing narrative. As with any privilege there comes responsibility‚ in this

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    Where Happiness Lies

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    Cited: Belliotti‚ Raymond A. Happiness is Overrated. New York: Rowman & Littlefield‚ 2003. Kerouac‚ Jack. Dharma Bums. New York: Penguin Books‚ 1986. Satre‚ Jean-Paul. "The Humanism of Existentialism." Essays in Existentialism. New York: Citadel Press‚ 1993. Thoreau‚ Henry David. Walden. New York: Barnes and Noble‚ 1993.

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    After studying briefly at Columbia University‚ he achieved fame with his spontaneous and alternative writing style‚ particularly the novel On the Road (1957). After the success of this work Kerouac produced a series of similar novels‚ including The Dharma Bums and The Subterraneans (both 1958)‚ Doctor Sax (1959)‚ Lonesome Traveler (1960)‚ and Big Sur (1962). His autobiographical works reflect a wandering life‚ with warm but stormy relationships and a deep social lack of expectation satisfied by drugs

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