A Backpack, A Bear And Eight Crates Of Vodk An Analysis

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Social responsibility is the theory of responsibility built in a sequence of ethics.Where one’s decision could cause a change in others attitudes towards diversity. After a semester of expanding research skills and discussing our reading selection A Backpack, A Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka we were introduced to an autobiography. Where the author gives a raw testimony to his experience inside the USSR and what he came to escape the Soviet Union. During the duration of the semester, we learned the diverse and complex elements that other cultures find important, in this case, the Jewish culture.
How does the culture from the Reading the Globe selection differ from your culture with respect to the topic you chose? In comparison to my research question, Reading the globe(name of book APA in-text citation) Describes Lev's own personal conflicts he faced for being Jewish. For example, Lev became a target
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How does your culture differ from the one you worked with?How are they the same? What struggles or issues does the culture you worked with have that you don’t? What action can you take to help address these issues or struggles? The Jewish religion has been persecuted with a baseless reason. Compared to my religion, Christianity has been oppressed by the Catholic religion, the controversy between one to many gods and saints remains to the particular religion view. Working with the Jewish religion has helped me gain insight into their past and their present. My culture compared to them are very different, our holidays differ greatly. For example, we celebrate Christmas as the day where our Christ was born, Jews don’t celebrate this day. In their culture, they celebrate Hanukkah a seven grace period where each day represents a different purpose. Yet it’s not hard to see that both our cultures are not so different, we praise and celebrate what we believe in and that is one common

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