Tag: culture
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December 04, 2006 01:49 AM EST --
I went to a Zoroastrian wedding last Friday; not my first one, of course, but I thought some of my fellow Gatherers might find a description interesting – perhaps amusing too.
The main . . .
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November 20, 2009 12:28 AM EST --
THE LEMON BASKET: THE BEST & WORST OF THE WEB #551 NOVEMBER 27, 2009 Copyright 2009 FRANCIS DIMENNO
http://dimenno.gather.com
francisdimenno@yahoo.com
TRUE WISDOM There are good . . .
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September 30, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
We started as an agricultural economy. Then we became an industrial economy, then a service economy.
As we become more and more a banking economy, not only is nothing put back into the society . . .
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January 11, 2009 07:29 PM EST --
Hello everyone!
I know I've been quite delinquent and to make it up to you I'd like to tell as much as I am able about my home and our language.
http://images.nationmaster.com/images/motw/americas/jamaica_pop_1968.jpg . . .
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November 19, 2009 11:12 PM EST --
By John W. Cassell
My copy of Jack Engelhard's SLOT ATTENDANT:A NOVEL ABOUT A NOVELIST came this afternoon. As I was reading another truly engrossing novel at the time and NEVER read more . . .
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September 10, 2009 11:31 AM EDT --
I just read that Ellen DeGeneres will be replacing Paula Abdul on American Idol. I rarely watch the show, but I think that this is a good move on their part. Ellen is very witty, and I think . . .
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January 19, 2009 01:50 AM EST --
Published in Ciao
The Kwakwaka’wakw also known as the Kwatiutl is a native, indigenous people found on the mainland and Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The Kwakwaka’wakw Nation . . .
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November 08, 2007 02:34 AM EST --
Diwali is a festival of prosperity. It is celebrated for the victory of god over devil. In Diwali the main decorations are of lamps (Diyas). Even the poorest’ house lit a clay lamp. These . . .
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September 20, 2007 11:12 AM EDT --
For my dear friend here on Gather and fellow pre Simulationist poet Amy George, to whom I turned for advice on a poem for the first time last night, and whose key suggestion changed this piece from . . .
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April 21, 2006 10:57 PM EDT --
...and not all of them well!
Two things have happened to me in the past week that I have decided to post about. They are both about the English language. I am in America, and I have traveled to many foreign . . .
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October 26, 2006 10:10 AM EDT --
Peace:
1. The absence of war and other hostilities.
2. An agreement or treaty to end hostilities.
3. Freedom from quarrels and disagreement; . . .
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September 15, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
A GREAT ANCIENT CIVILISATION
When the ancient cities of Harappa, Mohenjo Daro and Lothar were discovered, they were believed to be the heartland of the great so-called Indus Valley culture.
A recent . . .
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February 07, 2008 06:41 PM EST --
While reading the book, "Cultural Anthropology", I came across a question regarding morality, women and culture. So I would like to ask, "What relation is there between culture and morality? . . .
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May 04, 2008 11:24 AM EDT --
Those of you who have been reading my articles and blurbs have already learned a little of the history of my house. (Goodness knows, I talk about it incessantly.) For those . . .
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June 06, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
I think it's time to have another discussion. This time I'd like to talk about intercultural and interracial marriages. Please remember to keep your comments respectful to others. . . .
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November 11, 2008 02:47 PM EST --
I'm expanding my variations of submissions, trying different kinds of writing, different subjects. I've seen all the different kinds of recipes appear on gather, and wondered what I could contribute. . . .
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April 21, 2009 06:13 PM EDT --
Now that the good weather has come along I've noticed more and more bikers taking to the roads. In my area bikers tend to ride in the middle of the street on one lane roads, making it impossible to . . .
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January 09, 2008 08:02 PM EST --
I just finished watching The Last Time I Saw Paris , a 1954 flick starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dona Reed, Eva Gabor, and Van Johnson.
As my friend has said, I guess this my be 50s/60s movies month . . .
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December 19, 2005 03:22 PM EST --
I was cold as hell, frozen in place with a racing heart,
keenly indifferent, and aching to be well.
I was a losing winner.
Or maybe a winning loser.
A monstrous little building ambushed . . .
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February 26, 2008 12:06 PM EST --
It's like I always say, as long as there are women there's going to be trouble. (Of course I don't mean you, sweetheart.)
Adam started it all when he said, "The woman made me do it," . . .
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