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Time Magazine and Newsweek, were never officially on the list at King’s College Budo. But once in a while some young American on the faculty brought in a few copies. At times he threw in copies of Sports Illustrated for good measure. Sports Illustrated was typically American. Its pages filled with unforgettable photos of sportsmen in action, gave the Illustrated London Magazine a run for its money. The battle for world dominance was becoming a media war. The lone Indian teacher at the school had not the resources to showcase the sub continent’s rich heritage. Indians despite their commercial success in the country were shy those days. But this was a proud young man who enjoyed nothing more than to rattle a few nerves among the majority English on this White enclave on the shores of Lake Victoria.

Books and articles about how to write a family history are legion. They deal with gathering memories and records, and with the nuts and bolts of basic research. What the author must also consider, after the gathering and researching is done, is how to organize and present the material–that is, how to compose it into a shape that can give the reader pleasure. After all, what keeps the reader’s attention is the pleasure given by the text. The key to this pleasure is narrative.

I proudly clutch my Masai dancing stick. I earned it. I danced with the warriors. I’ve also paid for it.

This article will discuss the history behind China’s tea culture. It will explore how tea got exported to other parts of East Asia. The article will inform and educate the reader about the appeal behind tea drinking.

During the period of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, the Rosh Hashanah holiday service, consisting of sacrifices and appropriate Biblical readings as well as the sounding of the shofar ended fairly early in the day. Since Rosh Hashanah is not a pilgrimage festival, most Jews at the time simply read the appropriate verses corresponding to the sacrifices and accompanying the shofar blasts while gathered in their community centers (i.e. proto-synagogues). Fast forward to the present. Lengthy services often led by a cantor and choir are difficult to sit through for the average layman.

Confucius and his philosophy has had a profound influence on China over the last 2,500 years. This article looks at his life and how it influenced and moulded his philosophy.

Since the advent of Christianity, the Jewish people were an insignificant footnote on the world’s stage. To be sure there were expulsions and pogroms, but by and large Jews were largely ignored and kept to themselves. Jews lived in an insular and isolated world.

This article discusses the Harihara figure discovered in Cambodia. It is dated from the Preangkor period of the 8th century. The article will describe the related issue of Vishnu, which is probably what this figure is intended to depict.

Alain Locke understands the power that can be maintained when one realizes that the conundrum of the Negro experience is one that can be celebrated. African-Americans, while they do face many racial obstacles-discrimination, prejudice, injustices, and inequalities-also have a culture that causes them to be looked to for entertainment, enjoyment, and cultural diversity. While the positives exist alongside the negatives, they are still ever-present, and Locke presents both in an attempt to maintain the power, while perhaps minute, that African-Americans possess within a society in which the majority white race rules. Even minute amounts of power equate to success when one is being dominated by another.

What is it that comes to the mind when one speaks of Russia? Nesting dolls, icon paintings, fur caps, Russian writers…the list is endless. But Russian culture is much more than all of these put together. Russian culture is about the people living here, their food, their customs and traditions and of course their language.