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    Big Fat Gypsy Wedding Audience and Representation Analysis My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding was a programme broadcasted on channel 4. At it’s peak Big Fat Gypsy Wedding drew in an audience viewing of up to 8.7 million people‚ making it Channel 4’s eighth highest viewed programme. There are many different opinions as to what makes the programme so popular‚ that it is able to draw in audiences of half a dozen million and more week in week out. One theory as to why the programme is so popular could be due

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    Greek Culture VS. Roman Culture Gabraille Driscol American InterContinental University HUMA215-1204D Ms. Cheryl Lemus Abstract Many people are unaware of just how alike the Romans and the Greeks are. They have many of the same cultures because they adapted them from each other. From modern art to the gods and goddesses. Everything that the Greek have the Romans also has. Yes there are a few changes that have been extracted throughout the two but they are similar to each other

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    Greek Wedding Traditions

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    Kate Schultz Composition 1 # 1535NA 17 July 2010 Greek Wedding Traditions I chose to focus my report on the observation of Greek Wedding traditions. It is different from our culture as where Greeks believe they should marry into their own religion. If for some reason they should want to marry outside their religion the outsider shall have to be baptized into the Greek religion to be married in a Greek church. The outside of a Greek church is similar to a catholic church. It reflects some

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    Greek people value family‚ church‚ work‚ and children. They have the passion for life and to live life to the fullest. They all wanted to come to America to have freedom and opportunity. Many people of the culture came little to nothing‚ but had big dreams. For example‚ some people would start from the bottom and work hard to end on the top. May business that opened in New York‚ such as restaurants were Greek. They brought their food and ingredients to the American culture to make profits. Furthermore

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    Throughout centuries‚ different cultures have developed their own beliefs about life and death‚ and therefore there is a wide diversity of what cultures value the most. While Greeks value life and glory‚ Egyptians believed in immortality and the soul. The views of these cultures can be appreciated through their art; and their views about death‚ specifically‚ can be seen in sarcophagi and coffins. Both Egyptian and Greek art had different approaches to the building of their coffins‚ and these differences

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    The Big Fat Liar

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    Big Fat Liar “It is not sad that you have lied‚ it is sad because from now on no one can believe you.” This must waken up all of us. Not all white lies can be harmless; it can affect many people especially the trust given to you by them. It maybe hard to face the truth but the consequences that follows are harder. Trust cannot be given‚ it should be gained. On the other hand‚ it can be gone in a blink of an eye. It all began when Jason Shepherd failed to pass his English assignment; he lied

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    Big Fat Liability 2. In your opinion‚ should the food and restaurant industries be held liable for the rise of obesity‚ or not? That is‚ which side do you support and why? The food and restaurant industries should not be held solely reliable for the rise of obesity. The individual should hold some responsibility for the foods they chose to consume. If it’s a minor that is obese than the parents should hold responsibility because they play a large role in the foods they eat. Restaurants

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    Ancient Cultures Ancient Europe—Part I Greece—Chapter 4; some on Powerpoint Lecture Bronze Age Civilizations of the Aegean (ca. 3000-1200 B.C.E.) 77-79 1. Greek city-states first emerged on islands and peninsulas a. in the Aegean Sea. b. along the coast of Asia Minor. c. in southern Italy and Sicily. d. All of these areas. 2. One link between early Bronze Age cultures and later Greek cultures is the a. profound respect for goddesses. b. continuity of written records. c. influence of volcanic

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    Individualism in cultures means loose ties. Everyone is expected to look after one’s self or immediate family but no one else. Individualism is about the rights of the individual. Dubrin (2004) noted it seeks to let each person grow or fail on their own‚ and sees group-focus as denuding the individual of their inalienable rights. Collectivism implies that people are integrated from birth into strong‚ cohesive groups that protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty. Hybels and Weaver (2007)

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    During biblical times‚ Israel was ruled by the Greeks and Romans. The Israelites had to assimilate to the Greco-Roman culture and try to maintain their own culture. The Greco-Roman culture focused on ideality. People from this culture strived to be the best person they could be; they believed that they had to do everything to the extreme. The Israelites were ruled by their strict adherence to the Halakha which is also known as the 613 laws from the Old Testament. They believed that they had to follow

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