In fact, avoiding curiosity is a weighty part of the Western tradition.
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The need for one man (or, in this case, possibly woman) to make a difference has been part of the western tradition since the Iliad.
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But they are also a serious work of literature that are at the root of the Western comic tradition.
My job is to teach undergraduates to think critically and express themselves articulately while introducing them to some of the big ideas and seminal texts of the Western academic tradition.
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Dismissed or derided for centuries by the Western scientific tradition, it is ironic that paradoxical thinking is emergent precisely because science has been forced to turn to things like Hawkings Paradox to deal with the apparent contradictory nature of the universe.
Some Africans, indignant at the way western critics denounce the tradition as barbaric and primitive, defend it in the name of cultural tradition.
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For Yale, the venture provides a chance to extend the university's brand to fast-growing Asian markets and to help introduce the Western liberal-arts tradition to the region.
Her books document the transition from tradition to Western motifs and shapes, among them coffee pots and sugar casters, and also delves into the sources for the armorial pieces for which this Brazilian collector has a special fondness.
"The commission of this opera ... was to inspire and invite him (composer Him Sophy) to bring his own voice of the ancient Khmer sound into his own score that married his traditions with western pop and rock tradition, " Burt said.
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What a joyful heroic quest, and much in the tradition of the great American Western classics and Star Wars.
The comments reflect a practicality common among Western diplomats and officials trying to win hearts and minds in the Middle East and other non-Western countries where democracy isn't a tradition.
But within six months, Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare and meddling in Mexico led Wilson to send American troops to fight in Europe -- an enormous departure from the U.S. tradition of avoiding conflicts outside the Western Hemisphere.
Mr Raby said "what's extraordinary about Cyrus, is that he appears as a paragon of princely statesmanship in the two pillars of Western cultures, that is the Greco-Roman tradition and the Bible".
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