History Answers

Which of the following is an example of a protective factor?

discuss how you can apply five Tbilisi principles of environment in teaching an environmental education topic of your choice...your chosen topic has to be an environment issue that environmental education will be responding to. you need to list five principles and for each principle explain

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Question 9: Contemporary Religious Developments (10/100)

Pick any ONE of the religions discussed in study unit 8 (atheism, Mormonism,

Wicca or the Baha’i Faith) and search the Internet for the following:

A YouTube or Vimeo video that clearly describes the basic beliefs and/or prac

Sacred texts (10/100)

Choose ANY ONE of the Semitic religions (Judaism,

Christianity or Islam) or ANY ONE of the Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism). Write a

short essay of at least half a page (150 words) and not longer than one page (300 words)

in which you explain the structure, role and importance of sacred texts in that religion in

your own words. Your essay should contain citations of at least TWO independently

discovered resources (which can be online resources) presented according to harvest method

Beliefs and Practices (10/100)

There are religions in which belief is more important

(orthodoxy), and there are religions in which practice is more important (orthopraxy). Write a short

essay of at least half a page (150 words) and not longer than one page (300 words) in which you

compare any TWO of the religions you have studied this semester. For each of these religions,

discuss the importance of belief (which includes the position of scriptures) and practice (which

includes festivals) and come to a conclusion which of these two religions favours orthodoxy and

which favours orthopraxy.

Question 6: Asian Religions (10/100)

Write a short essay of at least half a page (150 words) and not longer than one page (300

words) in which you consider the meaning of the word “karma” in ONE of the Asian

religions and how important it is in that religion. Then compare it to the role played by

karma in the other Asian religion.

Abrahamic Religions (10/100)

In this question you will be asked to work on pressing social issues connected to the Abrahamic

religions today. We strongly suggest that you select ONE of the three as the basis for your

argument, then bring in elements from the other two as required.

Write a short essay of at least half a page (150 words) and not longer than one page (300

words) in which you consider the evidence for and against the proposition that “The

Semitic religions all discriminate against women, and always will”, and come to a

conclusion of your own.

Your essay should contain citations of at least TWO independently discovered resources (which

can be online resources) presented according to the Harvard system as explained in Tutorial

Letter 302. “Independently discovered” means that the study material and any document cited or

linked from it does not count.

Question 4: History (10/100)

Write a short essay of at least half a page (150 words) and not longer than one page (300

words) in which you explain how the historical development of any ONE of the religions

dealt with in study units 2-7 (i.e. not Study unit 8, just one of Judaism, Christianity, Islam,

Hinduism or Buddhism) proceeded in terms of the phases in religious development

described in section 1.4 in study unit 1 (from the Early Stone Age to the Postmodern era).

TIP: Most of these religions started out in the Axial Age, while just two can be said to have

started in the Era of the First Cities.