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    How does one determine what is a religious versus personal belief? Religious exemption is a written form that certifies a parent’s objection to immunization for religious reasons, and exempts the parent and child from the state’s vaccination requirements. Unfortunately, this is a highly flawed process. The debate on vaccinations versus religion has been ongoing for almost a century, and is not going anywhere. While one’s opinion can never be considered wrong, it can be misguided and in some…

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    My Heritage

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    ”. She replied by saying “yes, I went to my mother’s every year to eat schnitzel with her and my 8 brothers and sisters”. My mother’s German family landed in America in Honeybrook, Pennsylvania in Amish country. Therefore, the food memories that I have of my mother’s family are associated with Amish foods such as shoo-fly pie, chicken corn soup and pickles. My mom has made chicken corn soup, which is not nearly as good as my mom’s, from the Honey Brook Church’s Centennial cookbook.…

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    The Tempest Research Paper

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    example, Caliban’s idea of a utopia would to have things go back to before Prospero and Miranda came to the island. He wishes that things could be like they were in the past. This can be related to one of the few utopian societies around today, the Amish. The Amish think that the technology and lifestyle from the past is better than current society for various religious reasons. Another character such as Prospero, we can infer his utopia is where he has the power and keeps his daughter Miranda…

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    From time immemorial, human race had wandered the length and breadth of the earth in search of food, shelter and suitable climatic condition. Some of our ancestors had left strong imprints on the face of the Earth to be exhumed, discovered, and deciphered by us. Thus, History had begun recording most of the events and continues recording even in our present day. Upon carefully analysing the History of our past and present we realise that man has experienced cultural crisis, dislocation,…

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    Geographic isolation is a form and one of the components that lead to reproductive isolation that refers to a population of animals, plants, or other organisms that are separated from combining genes with other organisms of the same species. This kind of isolation can have resulted from either a coincidence or an accident. The main components of geographical isolation are isolation by distance, isolation by separation, isolation by barriers, and isolation by an event. One of the main examples…

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    common in people that live in Ashkenazi (eastern and central Europe) Jewish heritage than in those with other backgrounds. The mutations responsible for this disease are also seen more in certain French-Canadian communities of Quebec, the Old Order Amish community in Pennsylvania, and the Cajun population of Louisiana. Mutations in the HEXA gene make the Tay-Sachs disease. The HEXA gene makes instructions for making pieces of an enzyme called beta-hexosaminidase A, which plays a critical role…

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    1. I believe there were some positive aspects of my speech. Firstly, I was not a nervous when speaking in front of the audience. This allowed me to have the speech flow smoother than last time. I was not expecting the audience to be as large as it was this time; but I think the increase of people might have helped easy some of my anxiety. My video seemed to be clear enough, the audio was not as good as I had hoped. I am proud I finally got the laptop to work with me and stayed relatively calm…

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    • Suryavanshis – The Suryavanshis are followers of Shri Ram and the Solar Calendar and try to lead a life that is as ideal as possible. The Suryavanshis believe in Satya, Dharma, Maan—Truth, Duty, and Honor.[13] • Chandravanshis – The Chandravanshis are followers of the Lunar Calendar. Traditionally the Chandravanshis and Suryavanshis are enemies.They are democratic dynasty who believes in Shringar, Saundarya and Swatantrata- Passion, Beauty and Freedom.[14] • Naga – A cursed race of people who…

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    The Mennonites were founded in 1536 by Menno Simons when he realized that his ideals were sounder than the ideals of the catholic church. The Mennonites is a protestant sect that is founded on a few main ideals. Anabaptism, which is the belief that baptism is delayed until a person admits faith, is the core belief the Mennonites were founded on, and also one of the main reasons they split from the Catholic Church. Another ideal it was founded on was pacifism, which entails that they never…

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    Non-American Immigrants

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    Colonies. The German immigrants were also very ignorant of English politics and remained with their own traditions, language and religion. The diverse amount of religious groups in the Middle Colonies and the Pennsylvania Dutch Colony included, the Amish, Quakers, Lutheran, Brethren, and the Mennonite. Transportation played a factor in the growing economy by the mid-18th century. Trading centers in Boston, New York, and Charleston were created as a more efficient source of transportation for…

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