Ganges

immersing statues as well as throwing flowers, pots, ashes and disposing of cremated bodies into the rivers (Idol immersion polluting India's waters, 2012). India's holiest river named the Ganges is considered to be a source of spiritual purification and healing which can have restorative powers for devout Hindus. The Ganges runs for 1,550 miles and has more than two dozen urban centers located on its banks. 400 million people live along this river. Around two million people are ritually bathing in the

Introduction: Good morning everyone. Today I want to talk to you about pilgrimage. I want to focus on two pilgrimages in particular; the Hindu pilgrimage to the Indian city of Varanasi, and the Catholic pilgrimage to St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. To quote Steve Branmn and Jim Rawls, “A pilgrimage is a journey inward as well as outward. Pilgrims seek to strengthen and renew their faith through travel." Therefore today I want to try and prove that the religious significance of a pilgrimage to

Imagine strolling to the local grocery store, taking a morning run, or merely gathering the daily mail wearing a mask as a shield against gassy smog. Think about the terror that strikes some people when they turn on their faucets only to see a string of tainted, brown solution. Pollution affects thousands of human individuals, animals, forests, cities, and ecosystems. With shocking effects and staggering statistics, our water sources, the air we breathe, and the land upon which we live suffer from

earthquakes and cyclones and repeatedly suffers from two types of flooding, namely river flooding, and coastal flooding from storm surges in the Bay of Bengal. The majority of the country’s 162 million population live on the flood plains of the Rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra. The floods actually help the farmers by depositing fertile silt and this enables them to grow rice, sugar, jute and other crops. However, when the floods are too intense, the inundation destroys lives, crops and animals. Bangladesh

with the Yangtze River in the south. While in India, they had the Indus River and the Ganges River. Both ancient civilizations were isolated. Ancient China was geologically isolated by the Southern China Sea, the Yellow sea, the Gobi desert, and the Himalia Mountains. India is isolated by a ring of mountains comprised of the Himalia's and the Hindu Kush, as well as two great river valleys, the Indus and Ganges. and a Southern peninsula. The religions of the Ancient Civilizations of China and India

Mankind can destroy nature, but when nature strikes, it can be more powerful than any modifications that humanity makes on it. Baraka depicts the overwhelming strength of nature through action shots of Kuwaiti oil fires and their devastation in the post war state. In the Persian Gulf War of 1991 between Kuwait and Iraq, conflict over oil and petroleum led to catastrophic environmental degradation and consequences. Burning for about 7 months, fires engulfed and towered over the Kuwait landscape as

Death, dying and grieving is an experience every culture, religion, or race will face. How each culture or person chooses to deal with it and what belief system they choose to embrace also depends on culture, religion, and spiritual beliefs. For the sake of this paper it we will take a look at death, dying and grieving of the Hindus of India. Hinduism is the oldest known religion that has been practice for over 8,000 years according to their ancient scriptures. Hinduism has no leader or founder

sex using phallic imagery when saying ‘vegetable love’, this makes it humorous which will affect the mood making it less tense and relaxing. Marvell uses many different tactics, such as exaggeration, by comparing her to the Indian Ganges; ‘Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side’ This affects the mood of the poem making it flattery, imagery such as this will flatter the girl and persuade her to have sex with him, and this establishes that this technique is persuasive. Marvell is Romantic in the

Stereotypes and the Monster They Make As seen through history, people of different racial, social, ethnic, and religious groups are made into monsters to be feared by the American media. The Irish were drawn as scary, violent drunkards who should not be trusted. The Japanese were classified as enemy aliens, and believed to be untrustworthy. Chinese were lazy, evil, womanizing workers stealing jobs. Xenophobia took a strong hold, causing mass panic of the white men at the sight of the orange and yellow

imaginable. If the passing of time was not inevitable, their relationship and his thoughts toward love would be very different. He would sit “by the Indians Ganges’ side / Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide” (l. 5-6), implying that there is no limit to the amount of time he would wait for her love. Similar to the uncharted and mysteriousness of the Ganges River, her sexuality is very unfamiliar to him. He continues to try to entice the mistress by stating, “I would / Love you ten years before the Flood;