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    • Siddhartha Gautama‚ more commonly known as Buddha. • Focusses on personal spiritual development • They believe in no personal god • Four Noble Truths: The truth of suffering The truth of origin of suffering The truth of cessation of suffering The truth of the path to the cessation of suffering • (First) Dukkha - Suffering like old age‚ sickness and death. Life frequently fails to live up to our expectations • (Second) Samudaya - Causes of suffering = Greed and desire

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    Motivation Letter

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    descendants. Some of Indonesia’s biggest assets are water resources. The development of water in Indonesia deserves considerable attention from the government. The enormous probable mistake in management planning of water resources will be courting dangerous catastrophe. Fortunately‚ Civil Engineering in Indonesia already has water resources development in its sub-major and I want to study about it for the next year. My interest in Water Recourses Technology in Netherland started in

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    Raw written by Scott Monk and The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes. Both texts articulate ideas about decisions during Coming of Age define who you are‚ a group of people can help you grow and realise things and Coming of Age involves controlling your emotions and actions. The novel‚ Raw written by Scott Monk follows the story of a troubled male adolescent named Brett Dalton who is caught by the cops for stealing and sent to The Farm for rehab and to change him. Monk explores the idea of

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    temple. It was very different from when I go to my Christian church on Sundays. It was not as organized‚ with a set time of when it starts and end. You can go to the temple‚ pay your respects‚ and then simply leave. The people were friendly and the monks appeared to be humble. It was great that I got a chance to visit a temple‚ and I would go again if I am given the opportunity

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    Bebop music was the next evolutionary change of Jazz music that succeeded swing music. This paper’s aim is look at musicians who impacted this era‚ exploring more in depth Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In the early 1940’s‚ the swing bands began to all sound the same as well as work along predictable chord changes.1 The music was now not used for dancing. Some people believed that this would let the music go away from the elite social groups‚ and now be for everybody. Also just because

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    Barbarian to Humanist

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    monasticism to a time of humanism and secularism. The Renaissance gave the modern world secularism‚ humanism and individualism. Throughout the story we see Gargantua evolve into a respectable and honorable man and Frere Jean as a monk who defies all previous views of who and what a monk is. The story of Gargantua illustrates the transition from scholasticism to humanism and in a satirical account through the lives of Gargantua and Frere Jean’s. Humanism can be defined as the cultural intellectual way

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    Satire in The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the greatest English poets during the Middle Ages. He will forever be known as the leading author in English writing before the time of William Shakespeare. Chaucer wrote narrative poems in Middle English‚ the form of English used from about 1100 to about 1485. One of the keys to Chaucer’s continued critical success is the scope and diversity of his work. Readers of each century have discovered something new in Chaucer and have learned something

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    Buddhism in China

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    throughout East Asia. Between 220 C.E. and 570 C.E.‚ China suffered a period of political instability and conflict. Buddhism had very diverse responses in China. The reaction of Buddhism gradually diffused in China by sermons preached by the Buddha‚ monks that practiced the Way and substituted that for other worldly pleasures‚ and that Buddha did not understand the duties that bind sovereign and state. Buddhism’s appeal in China varied. Buddha was a profit that reached enlightenment. He spread his

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    Texts: Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie and Robin S. Sharma’s The Monk who sold his Ferrari 1. Thesis/Intro: Tuesdays with Morrie and The Monk who sold his Ferrari both imply that the impact of death on one’s life can change their whole outlook on life thus influence people following their life experience. a. Supports a. The desire to influence the people around them i. Tuesdays with Morrie

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    Thailand find it more appropriate to live in such an institution‚ as monks and nuns should have separate practices. Here‚ the nuns have the opportunity to practice things restricted in mae chi temple life‚ such as study‚ teaching‚ chanting and administration (Suanmokkh‚ 2006)The nunnery also provides educational opportunities for the mae chi‚ with schools beginning to be attached to the nunnery‚ and the university Mahidol allowing both monks and nuns to study‚ along with two Buddhist universities in Bangkok

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