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This paper describes how cleanliness and purity are very important in both Muslim and Zoroastrian cleansing rituals and it shows water has considered a vital part of theses cleansing rituals.

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"Islam takes cleanliness and purification very seriously. An article by Dr. Abdul karim, Naik states, ""Cleanliness is half of faith" - This terse statement by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) underlines the importance of purity and purification in the Islamic tradition (Shariah). A state of purity is a precondition for worship ("ubudiyah"). Every act of worship is an encounter with God, and the purification ritual is a form of preparation for this event. In fact, the purification ritual in Islam is one of numerous means by which sins and infractions are forgiven." He also states that purification rituals of the body culminate in spiritual purity as acts of worship, and that both the discipline of the ritual acts and their aesthetic dimensions contribute to the deepening of the purification process at the spiritual level and prepare for the journey that finally leads to closeness to Allah."

Tags:religion, bathing, water

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This paper examines the tensions that existed between Croats, Muslims and Serbs in Bosnia and examines the conditions that led to the recent war there. The paper also discusses the response to the conflict of the United Nations, the European Union and the United States and the reasons for the ethnic cleansing that took place during the conflict. Finally, the paper considers whether it was wise for the west to intervene in Bosnia and concludes emphatically that it was the right decision.

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"Nikolaos A. Stavrou, professor of International Affairs at Howard University and apologist for the Croatian factor of Yugoslavia writes that the Bosnian mess is getting worse by the day. According to Professor Stavou, a misinformation cabal and a masterful censorship of truth that would have made many dictators envious keep the American people in the dark. Instead of enlightenment, a new science of victimology has been developed to hide facts and force upon us a policy based on emotions. He writes that everywhere he traveled and at every conference he attended in the past four years, one question always popped up: Where is the other side to the Bosnia story? The professor has no answer, but feels a civic duty to attempt an answer."

Tags:former, yugoslave, federation, independence, islam, yugoslavia, albanian, islamic

Abstract
This research develops marketing and financial data relevant to the introduction of a personal care cleansing system for use in hospital, nursing home, home health care or emergency care environments. The data developed for this report are presented in relation to (1) product description, (2) competing or substitute products, (3) market potential and pricing strategy, (4) major cost considerations, (5) break even analysis, (6) master budget, and (7) support costs. The data developed are then summarized, conclusions are drawn, and recommendations are made.

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"At present, Incline Technologies charges comparable prices for Bag Bath. While Incline Technologies may believe that, because Bag Bath uses a non-soap cleansing solution, their product will be perceived to be superior to Comfort Bath, which uses a soap product as a cleansing solution. Incline Technologies may or may not be correct in assuming that a non-soap is superior to a soap cleansing solution. The important factor, however, is not the validity of this belief. The important factor is how the products are perceived by customers. Based on comparative sales levels, it is obvious that users of basinless cleansing systems do not share the beliefs of Incline Technologies in relation to the superiority of a non-soap cleansing solution."

Tags:comfort, bath, Incline, Technologies

Abstract
When three years had elapsed, the Black Death took a third to a half of the European population. How was the world affected? For those who survived the Black Plague it would lead to the liberation of the old society into a new era of Renaissance. The new population of Europe was cleansed and could move forward. This paper explains how the epidemic led to many other improvements in spite of the fact that it also devastated the known world in the fourteenth century and left in its wake a population almost cut in half.

Outline:
Black Plague: The Origin
Population: Overpopulation to Shortage
Religion versus Science
A New World

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"During the fourteenth century The Black Plague entered the lives of Europeans like a ship that is hidden in the fog and suddenly appears. Once on land, the most devastating epidemic that the world has ever faced swept across Europe with no regard to political, social, economic or spiritual status of the individual that it encountered. When three years had elapsed, the Black Death took a third to a half of the European population. How was the world affected? For those who survived the Black Plague it would lead to the liberation of the old society into a new era of Renaissance. The new population of Europe was cleansed and could move forward."

Tags:epidemic pandemic, bubonic plague, Europe

Abstract
Discusses the attempt by ethnic Hutu to exterminate Rwanda's ethnic Tutsi population. The resulting slaughter of half a million people, destruction of the country's infrastructure, and population dislocation are examined.

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" In early April of 1994, groups of ethnic Hutu, armed mostly with machetes, began a campaign of terror that embroiled the Central African country of Rwanda. For about 100 days, the Hutu militias ..."

Tags:rwanda, africa

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"The civil war in Bosnia and neighboring "republics" of the former Yugoslavia has led in 1992 and 1993 to the most violent fighting and greatest bloodshed that has been seen anywhere in Europe since the end of the Second World War. It has added the phrase "ethnic cleansing" to our lexicon of cynical political euphemisms, and introduced such new horrors to the twentieth century's already-long list as the reputed existence of "rape camps" where women are raped on a large scale and a systematic basis, as a component of political strategy in inter-ethnic strategy (MacKinnon, 1993).


The Bosnian civil war has also posed an intense challenge to the "new world order" that was proclaimed so confidently after the collapse of Soviet communism and the US.-led coalition victory in the Persian Gulf War. Did the concept of a new world..."

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"Hepatocytes
The hepatocytes are cells which comprise the liver parenchyma. They are its primary functional units. Each individual cell has the capacity for all functions. As a group, the hepatocytes perform a vast array of physiological tasks, all of which are necessary for the maintenance of biologic homeostasis.


In the normal adult liver, it has been estimated that there are about 250 billion hepatocytes (1:xxix). Indeed, the liver is the largest visceral organ in mammals; in man, its weight is approximately 1.5 kilograms (8:8).


The development of the liver parenchyma starts from entodermal cells. These embryonic precursors grow into the mesenchyma of the septum transversum (8:8). The organ itself generally performs two..."

Abstract
The challenges facing the war crimes tribunals in Bosnia are examined in this paper. The writer discusses these tribunals, established under the Dayton Accords, and presents their analysis as an example of the problems facing war crimes tribunals. The writer also examines the concept of ethnic cleansing.

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"... the fragmentation of the former Yugoslav Federation led to an outbreak of civil warfare and ethnic violence in the Balkans particularly in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Concentration camps, mass murders, mass expulsions and other indicators of genocide became widespread and the term ethnic cleansing was added to the century's lexicon of horrors. The international ...

Tags:bosnia, herzegovina, dayton, war, crimes, tribunals, ethnic, cleansing, human, rights, enforcement, ethnic, cleansing

Abstract
This paper discusses the need to examine genocides and create dialogues about them, focusing in particular on Hitler's Holocaust. The paper concludes that to learn the lessons of history, and avoid modern day ethnic cleansing campaigns such as in Bosnia Herzegovina, we must broaden the scope of our consideration of the lessons and impact of the Holocaust to address the cultural defects of our society, as opposed to a specific ethnic group.

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"Nineteenth century European colonialism is the source of genocide, because it is a market driven mentality that seeks to expand and justifies the murder of ethnicities for the very reason of an ideology that supports an expansionist mentality. Novick observed that the dynamics of the capitalist mentality that Lindqvist and Doubt observed was the manifestation of the means by which we all are mired in a social dynamic in the twentieth century where the ideology of expansion which justified murder of another ethnicity had transformed into a mentality of expansion that sought to subjugate others not for the sake of land expansion but for the sake of social domination."

Tags:morality, ethnic cleansing, society race

Abstract
The paper explains that the Rapture doctrine may not be spelled out in the Bible, but it is epistemologically and theologically consistent with the books of the Gospels and of Revelation, as well as the expressed notion of Jesus?s cosmological significance. The author points out that the Rapture is a physical action that is prefigured in the Old Testament and makes reference to what will occur during the Rapture, that is, a cleansing and a removal of the faithful from the world of idols into an equally, physically manifest world of heavenly life. The paper relates that, in John 14:2-3, Christ foretells his coming back to the earth after the crucifixion and resurrection of his body.

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"Although the word "rapture" itself, nor the doctrinal explanation of "rapture" in its strictest sense, is not to be found in the scriptures of either the Hebraic or the New Testaments, this does not invalidate its truth. It is true as well that the idea of the coming even where all the faithful will be physically taken up into the spiritual bosom of Christ is not specifically and literally cited in scripture, either. But the idea of rapture as expressed in the Christian community today amongst the faithful is an idea that is manifest throughout the Holy Bible."

Tags:epistemological, cosmological, physical, cleansing, foretells