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Easter Day
Easter Day, also known as Resurrection Sunday, is a central celebration in Christianity, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Beyond its religious significance, Easter encompasses a rich tapestry of cultural, economic, and social traditions worldwide. This article explores the historical origins of Easter, its theological foundations, diverse global customs, and its contemporary relevance, drawing upon peer-reviewed literature to provide a comprehensive understanding of this multifaceted observance.
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  • 17 Apr 2025
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Pedagogical approaches for developing students' three-dimensional thinking
The cultivation of spatial thinking in students encounters several challenges. Firstly, there is a notable lack of systematic methodologies and techniques specifically designed to effectively enhance this cognitive skill. Secondly, resources are often limited, including access to contemporary tools and technologies such as 3d modelling software and virtual reality platforms. Psychological barriers also contribute, as transitioning from two-dimensional to three-dimensional perception demands significant effort and time. Despite these obstacles, several proven strategies can help mitigate these difficulties. The implementation of visual aids and materials, such as graphic diagrams, drawings, and models, facilitates students' comprehension and visualisation of three-dimensional structures. Additionally, interactive technologies like virtual reality and 3d modelling software offer substantial opportunities for advancing spatial thinking. Types of thinking. In analyzing various cognitive styles, the significance of spatial thinking as a crucial element in the educational framework for future designers is emphasized. Spatial thinking enables the detailed and three-dimensional visualization of objects, encompassing the following abilities: Distinguishing essential elements from less critical ones; Integrating diverse elements into a cohesive whole; Abstracting from specific details to perceive the overall context; Representing the structure of objects within space; Concrete realization of ideas and concepts. This mindset is integral to the development of future designers, as it supports the creation and manipulation of three-dimensional objects and structures, thereby enhancing both their creative and analytical capabilities.
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  • 16 Apr 2025
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Jallianwala Bagh: Roots of a Historic Massacre
Today, April 13th, 2025, marks the 106th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, a day etched in the collective memory of India as a brutal and defining moment in its struggle for independence.
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  • 13 Apr 2025
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A Comprehensive Guide to Slope Game
If you are a fan of online games that require both skill and reflexes, then Slope Game is one you must try. 
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  • 24 Mar 2025
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Dignified, Powerful, and Respected Old People in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: The Worthy Hero and the Wise Old Person Versus the Old Fool
To understand the topic of old age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, we can draw much information from relevant literary texts among other sources because the poets operated with general notions commonly subscribed to by their audiences. Old people appear in many different roles already in the pre-modern world, but here the focus will rest mostly on worthy, dignified, mighty, and even ferocious old warriors in heroic poetry. Those stand out because of their strength, their knowledge, their resolve, their wisdom, and their extensive and varied abilities, but this does not automatically mean that they were flawless. To round off this entry, the attention will finally turn to remarkable examples of old but highly respected people in the verse narratives by the German poet Heinrich Kaufringer, in Boccaccio’s Decameron, a harbinger of the Italian Renaissance, in Christine de Pizan’s didactic writings, and in the Old Norse Njál’s Saga.
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  • 10 Mar 2025
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An Introduction to the Foundation of the Concept of the Individual in Western Ways of Thinking Between Antiquity and Medieval Times
The individual, as found primarily in modern Western civilization, is defined as “the independent, autonomous and thus (essentially) nonsocial moral being”, “the rational being” who is “the normative subject of institutions”. This is the definition of the individual we adhere to in this text. This text delves into the intricate dimensions of the concept of the individual by exploring the theological foundations inherent in Western thought. Rooted in Max Weber’s assertion regarding the theological meanings of Man’s self-perception, the entry emphasizes the pivotal role of theological understandings in shaping the concept of the individual. Focusing on the influence of Christian perspectives on the development of the concept of the individual, the article traces the historical entwining of theology and the concept of Man between antiquity and medieval times.
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  • 10 Mar 2025
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A Caribbean Genealogy of "Energy"
The story of the rise of “energy” usually centers on the Industrial Revolution and the coal-powered steam engine in nineteenth-century Western Europe. Although it often escapes notice, the Caribbean was actually the site of the first known use of a steam engine to power industrial manufacturing (on a sugar plantation) and the world’s first oil well (drilled by a US company in southern Trinidad). These “firsts” point toward energy’s roots in colonial and imperial projects of extraction in the Caribbean, revealing the centrality of race and the plantation in understanding energy capitalism and the current climate crisis. This article traces a Caribbean-attuned genealogy of “energy”. Today, energy is taken for granted as an abstract universal, but the concept was bound to specific forms of racial governance during the transition from sugar to fossil fuels as apex capitalist commodities. In tracing this genealogy, I rewrite the first two “laws of energy” as ethico-political statements on racial governance rather than descriptions of a pre-existing natural order. Adding to scholarship that has laid bare the relationship between biological sciences and race, I argue that energy sciences have also been central to sustaining (while occluding) racialized hierarchy. I then look at conceptions of energy in perhaps the world’s oldest petro-state (Trinidad, with brief comparisons to neighboring Venezuela) to elaborate Caribbean-attuned, speculative alternatives to the “laws of energy”.
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  • 04 Mar 2025
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Shivaji Shahaji Bhonsale
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, a name etched in the annals of Indian history, stands as a symbol of courage, resilience, and unwavering devotion to the principles of justice and self-rule. Born in the turbulent 17th century, he carved out an independent Maratha kingdom, challenging the might of the Mughal Empire and laying the foundation for a powerful regional force. His life, filled with daring
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  • 20 Feb 2025
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Quan-Hoang Vuong
Prof. Vuong Quan Hoang (who will be identified as “Vuong” throughout this biography piece) is one of the most important figures in contemporary Vietnamese social sciences and humanities, especially after 2000. In the early 2000s, his publications focused on applied econometrics and probability, with some examples being [1][2][3][4]. Study [1] was the first academic paper to report anomal
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  • 06 Feb 2025
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The Historical Inaccuracies of the Movie "AGORA"
The movie «Agora» is a study on the life of the Alexandrine philosopher Hypatia, during the turbulent era from the end of the 4th to the beginning of the 5th century A.D., in Alexandria of Egypt. To begin with, it should be noted that the director of the film, Alejandro Amenabar, is an atheist. By his own admission, he was born and raised in a Christian family, then became an agnostic and later on an atheist. This information is being highlighted, so that it will be comprehended why the movie - albeit seemingly not turning against the Christian religion - is in fact portraying the Christians as fundamentalist, obscurantist, ignorant and fanatic, and ending up with an innuendo that a very important Christian saint, the Patriarch of Alexandria Cyril, was nothing more than a fanatic clergyman and the moral instigator of the assassination of Hypatia.
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