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Accenture employees bring a wide range of skills and backgrounds. Find out where your skills fit in at Accenture.
Business Analysis and Strategy Skills
Professionals with business analysis and strategy skills will find rewarding opportunities in Management Consulting.
Change Management and Human Performance Skills
Professionals skilled in change management and/or human performance (also known as Workforce Performance) will find rewarding opportunities in Management Consulting.
Customer Relationship Management Skills
Engaging opportunities in two workforces await Professionals with customer relationship management skills: Management Consulting and Accenture’s outsourcing business.
Enterprise Resource Planning Skills
Professionals with enterprise resource planning skills will find rewarding opportunities in two workforces: Business and Systems Integration Consulting or Accenture’s outsourcing business.
Finance Skills
Accenture offers finance individuals engaging careers in three workforces: consulting, our outsourcing business and internal company roles.
Human Resources Skills
Individuals with human resources skills will find rewarding careers in two of our workforces: Accenture’s outsourcing business and internal company roles.
Information Technology Skills
Individuals with information technology skills will find rewarding careers in Accenture’s four main workforces: consulting, programming and technology implementation with Accenture Technology Solutions, our outsourcing business and internal IT roles.
Internships
Learn what a consulting career is really like while you are still in school, with an internship at Accenture.
Legal Skills
The legal business practice provides and manages all legal advice and support for Accenture – working closely with client engagement teams to find ways to maximize revenues and manage risk.
Marketing and Communications Skills
Marketing and Communications develops and implements initiatives that help build our global brand, increase industry esteem and preference, and establish ownership of the market space.
Office and Facilities Management Skills
Individuals with office and facilities management skills will find rewarding opportunities in Facilities and Services.
Operations Skills
Professionals skilled in operations will find two main areas in which you can work: Accenture’s outsourcing business and business operations and architecture within the Enterprise workforce.
Procurement Skills
Individuals with procurement skills will find rewarding opportunities within the Procurement-part of the Enterprise workforce-at Accenture.
Records and Data Management Skills
Individuals with records and data management skills will find rewarding opportunities in Accenture’s Archives and Records Management team.
Research Skills
The research work group is dedicated to the creation of original research and authoritative insights on strategic business issues and technology advances shaping the future while aligning with Accenture's business strategies.
Safety and Security Skills
Individuals with safety and security skills will find rewarding opportunities in a dedicated workforce called “Enterprise” that manages and operates the Accenture business and supports our client-facing professionals, outsourcing units and other businesses.
Sales Skills
Consisting of sales and sales support professionals who lead and manage the selling process of Accenture’s consulting and outsourcing capabilities, the Sales Development group manages alliance business relationships, and actively promotes alliance offerings.
Supply Chain Management Skills
At Accenture, professionals with supply chain management skills will find challenging opportunities in Management Consulting.
Travel Services Skills
Individuals with travel services skills will find rewarding opportunities in the Business Travel Group at Accenture.
Accenture employees bring a wide range of skills and backgrounds. Find out where your skills fit in at Accenture.
Business Analysis and Strategy Skills
Professionals with business analysis and strategy skills will find rewarding opportunities in Management Consulting.
Change Management and Human Performance Skills
Professionals skilled in change management and/or human performance (also known as Workforce Performance) will find rewarding opportunities in Management Consulting.
Customer Relationship Management Skills
Engaging opportunities in two workforces await Professionals with customer relationship management skills: Management Consulting and Accenture’s outsourcing business.
Enterprise Resource Planning Skills
Professionals with enterprise resource planning skills will find rewarding opportunities in two workforces: Business and Systems Integration Consulting or Accenture’s outsourcing business.
Finance Skills
Accenture offers finance individuals engaging careers in three workforces: consulting, our outsourcing business and internal company roles.
Human Resources Skills
Individuals with human resources skills will find rewarding careers in two of our workforces: Accenture’s outsourcing business and internal company roles.
Information Technology Skills
Individuals with information technology skills will find rewarding careers in Accenture’s four main workforces: consulting, programming and technology implementation with Accenture Technology Solutions, our outsourcing business and internal IT roles.
Internships
Learn what a consulting career is really like while you are still in school, with an internship at Accenture.
Legal Skills
The legal business practice provides and manages all legal advice and support for Accenture – working closely with client engagement teams to find ways to maximize revenues and manage risk.
Marketing and Communications Skills
Marketing and Communications develops and implements initiatives that help build our global brand, increase industry esteem and preference, and establish ownership of the market space.
Office and Facilities Management Skills
Individuals with office and facilities management skills will find rewarding opportunities in Facilities and Services.
Operations Skills
Professionals skilled in operations will find two main areas in which you can work: Accenture’s outsourcing business and business operations and architecture within the Enterprise workforce.
Procurement Skills
Individuals with procurement skills will find rewarding opportunities within the Procurement-part of the Enterprise workforce-at Accenture.
Records and Data Management Skills
Individuals with records and data management skills will find rewarding opportunities in Accenture’s Archives and Records Management team.
Research Skills
The research work group is dedicated to the creation of original research and authoritative insights on strategic business issues and technology advances shaping the future while aligning with Accenture's business strategies.
Safety and Security Skills
Individuals with safety and security skills will find rewarding opportunities in a dedicated workforce called “Enterprise” that manages and operates the Accenture business and supports our client-facing professionals, outsourcing units and other businesses.
Sales Skills
Consisting of sales and sales support professionals who lead and manage the selling process of Accenture’s consulting and outsourcing capabilities, the Sales Development group manages alliance business relationships, and actively promotes alliance offerings.
Supply Chain Management Skills
At Accenture, professionals with supply chain management skills will find challenging opportunities in Management Consulting.
Travel Services Skills
Individuals with travel services skills will find rewarding opportunities in the Business Travel Group at Accenture.
101 Reasons to Use a Travel Agent
1. Convenient One-Stop Shopping
Travel agents can handle every aspect of your trip from airline tickets to lodging, ground transportation car rental, activities, tours and more.
2. Consumer Advocate
If you should have a problem during your trip, travel agents can act on your behalf to see that proper restitutions are made.
3. Expert Guidance
Travel agents are experts in helping travelers get where they need to go and helping to open up possibilities most people never would have dreamed were possible.
4. Save Time
Avoid the headaches and let the travel agents call around and do all the time consuming work of looking for prices, activities, and flights for youplanning a complex itinerary.
5. Choice
Travel agents offer you an array of options and price quotes from a variety of travel suppliers, giving you the upper hand when making your final travel decisions.
6. Less Stress
Planning a trip can be stressful. There are so many options and details to worry about. Travel agents do the work, so that resulting in means less stress for you.
7. Updated Information
Travel agents are in constant communication with the travel community. So they can give you the most up to date info on airlines, hotels, car rental agencies, travel visas, and other travel services to consider etc… as you plan your trip.
8. Customer Service
Travel agents offer that “personal touch” to your travel planning experience,- oOffering help and advice that a website cannot provide give.
9. Travel Documentation
Travel agents can help you to prepare and organize any necessary documents that you may need in order to travel outside of the country. They can direct you to your local passport office, and they know where you need a visa, as well as and any other documentation that you might need along the way.
10. Travel Experts Expertise
Many travel agents are considered experts in the area you are traveling to and have probably already been to where you are going.
11. Best Value for Your Money Spent
Travel agents can help you to make your dollars go farther while you are away. They have access to finding all sorts of deals ranging from flights to hotels to dinner recommendations.
12. Location, Location, Location!!!!
Travel Specialists can help you to find a place to stay pretty much anywhere you desire. So if it’s a hotel with a view of the ocean in Hawaii or a jungle hut in the Nilgiri foothills, a travel agent can help you make it happen.
13. Knowledge of All the Ins and Outs;
Travel specialists can help bring you up to speed on the local laws and regulations of wherever your travels take you.
14. Credentials
Travel agents attend all sorts of seminars and classes to prepare themselves for trip requests like yours., in addition to traveling to many places themselves to be as informed as they can on your places of interest.
15. Tourist Attractions
Travel agents can give you a list of all the not-to-miss spots, such as. Like amusement parks, museums, nature preserves, and historical locations etc.
16. Confusing International Connecting FlightsAvoid International Flight Confusion
Travel specialists can help organize those confusing international flights that the internet search engines don’t cover.
17. Where to Go With Kids
Travel agents can help you to find great locations that are kid- friendly.
18. Trip Cancellation
Something has come up and you need to cancel your trip? If you have used a travel agent they are the only person you need to call.
19. Travel Insurance
With all the countless options for travel insurance these days, it can become confusing. A travel agent can help you pick which package works best for your needs.
20. Personalized Trips
A travel agent can prepare you a personalized trip based on where you want to go and what you want to do.. They won’t give you generic website trips that are posted because the destinations are being pushed during a slow season.
21. Where to Go to Avoid Kids
Want to go somewhere without children running all over the place? A travel agent can help you to find excellent retreats that are open to adults only.
22. Good Senior Trips
Need a trip with a good balance of sightte-seeing, and rest and relaxation? Travel agents can help lucky retirees you to plan great extended trips that are senior-friendly. for those lucky retirees.
23. Student Discounts
Some Travel agents are an excellent go- to source for students looking to go on discounted trips.
24. Exotic Adventures
Travel experts can help to recommend great once in a lifetime experiences. They can help you to find the best/safest shark cages to dive into and the highest freefall bungees to jump off.
25. Great Deals without Sitting at a Time Share Presentation
Want an affordable trip to Florida without having to sit through a timeshare presentation? A travel agent can help you to exceptional deals without the stipulations.
26. What to Eat
Where are all the top chefs at your destination? Travel specialists give great advice on the best restaurants to hit on your trip.not to be missed restaurants.
27. What Not to Eat
Leaving your home country and not familiar with the new language? Travel agents can help give you some forewarnings so you don’t accidently order the local delicacy (which may or not be specially prepared bugs) without meaning to.
28. Local Traditions
Travel specialists can update you on all local traditions and customs of places you are visiting, so you make a good impression. For example, in Japan many people expect their visitors to take their shoes off before entering their homes.
29. Local Laws
Many countries have laws that are very different from your own., especially when traveling abroad. Travel agents can help give you a quick rundown of what you need to be aware of before you go.
30. Busiest Travel Times to Avoid
If you want a quiet trip, travel experts know what dates you should avoid and can help you plan your trip accordingly.
31. Avoidny Unexpected Expenses That Might Come Up
Travel agents know a lot of the little expenses that you might experience while on your trip, that you might not have even thought of.
32. Exchange Rate Knowledges
Travel agents are knowledgeable of what countries your dollar goes further.
33. Useful Travel Books to Have with You
A travel expert can give you advice on what travel books are the most useful to have with you. Some of these books list restaurants, customs, and small amounts of the local language.
34. List of Not- to- Miss Places
Travel specialists can give you a great list of not- to- miss hikes, waterfalls, and cliffs that may or may not be published elsewhere.
35. What to Wear
Many restaurants have different types of dress codes. If you are interested in dining at specific places on your trip your travel expert can advise you on appropriate dress wear for the occasion.
36. What Not to Wear
Travel agents can help you to be in the know of local dress code restrictions. So if a thong is part of your favorite beachwear you should know that they are illegal in places like the Isle of Palms.
37. Crime Rates
Travel experts are great at helping you to be in the know of the questionable parts of town that you may be heading to and give you tips on what to look out for.
38. Someone to Call if Having a Problem During Your Trip
An online travel agencyinternet site is not going to answer the phone when you call with any complications during your trip. A travel agent continues to give you that personal support even while you are away.
39. When You Shouldn’t Drink the Water
We are always told when you travel be careful of the water. Travel agents can advise you on when it is safe and when it’s not safe to drink the water.
40. Small Intercontinental Flights Delayed – What to do?
Travel agents can help you find somewhere to stay when you are left helpless at an airport overnight due to flight delays.
41. Saves You Precious Time on Your Trip
To avoid 36 hours in the airport, your travel expert can help plan your trip so your time spent getting to where you want to go is the shortest it can be.
42. Anticipating Trouble
Travel agents are extremely useful if you are planning a trip to a known weather troubled area such as the Caribbean hurricane plagued islands. In the event of a natural disaster, your travel agent can work to immediately reschedule or cancel your trip so there are no worries for you.
43. Complicated Itineraries Made Simple
Travel experts can take care of all the details for those complicated around the world tickets and all the extra headaches that go with it, such as hotel and transportation along the way.
44. Special Needs Travelers
Travel specialists can prearrange any wheelchair or special needs someone in your travel party may have. They can also take the time to make sure your reserved accommodations are safe and easily accessible for the special needs traveler.
45. What to Pack
Some activities you choose to partake in may require different layers of clothing throughout the day. Your travel agent can advise you on what to bring. A bike trip down an extinct volcano in Hawaii for example, may require you to start out with jackets and wool socks, but when you get to the bottom you may be down to shorts and a tank top.
46. Let Them Wait on Hold
By using a travel agent you no longer have to wait on hold and talk to automated systems while trying to book different parts of your trip.
47. Business Concerns
If the airline you are scheduled to use goes on strike or bankrupt while you are traveling, your travel agent can work to find you alternate travel means while you continue to relax at the hotel.
48. Transportation in Smaller Countries
Travel agents can arrange all your transportation and travel needs, especially in those smaller countries where you may not know if cabs or van services are safe.
49. Group Hotel Reservations
Travel agents can help to keep everyone in the group on the same floor at a hotel.
50. Charter Private Boating Trips
Travel specialists can help you to avoid paying top dollar for chartered snorkeling or fishing trips for large groups. They can often find great deals for large groups who want to do personalized tours.
51. Immunizations That May Be Needed
To enter certain countries you may be required to obtain certain immunizations first., Yyour travel expert can advise you on the steps you need to take.
52. Special Deals Worked Out in Advance
Travel agents may have a relationship developed with certain tour operators and could be able to get you a special price that might not otherwise be available.
53. Make Travel Meaningful for Children
Travel agents can offer fun information about your trip for kids to make the experience exciting and meaningful.
54. Where to Shop
Travel agents can offer excellent advice on great shopping neighborhoods in your destination city.
55. Avoid Scams
Not all 5 star hotels are treated equally. Many times photos are outdated and information about the hotel you are considering may not be true. Travel agents can have a network of opportunities to make sure that what you are seeing beforehand is what you get.
56. What You Can Buy Later
New airline restrictions make packing for long trips hard. Travel experts can give you advice on what you might be able to purchase while you are on your trip to avoid having excess weight in your luggage beforehand.
57. Advice on Where to Go if You Get Sick
If you happen to be unfortunate enough to get hurt or fall ill while on your trip, your travel agent can help to youfind you somewhere clean and safe for medical attention.
58. Trust
If you should have any questions after booking your trip you know how to reach your travel agent and can avoid the FAQ section on a website.
59. You Know How to Reach Them When You Need Them
Problems at the airport? Reservation issues at the hotel? Your travel agent is a phone call away from getting your problem solved.
60. Tips and Tricks
How early do you really need to be at the airport? What are the quickest ways to get through security? Your travel expert can advise you of the airport security levels the day of your trip and any new security checkpoints you may have to worry about.
61. Is the Upgrade Worth It?
Your travel expert can help you save money by helping you decide if certain upgrades at hotels are really worth the extra money.
62. Difference in Days to Save Money
Instead of playing around with dates on the internet for hours your travel agent can advise you on any changes to your travel dates that might save you hundreds of dollars.
63. Staying In-the-Know of Daily Promotions
Travel agents get emails and faxes of daily money saving promotions.
64. Enhancing the Trip withWith Extra Amenities
Your travel specialist can may be able to arrange for those little extras like a bottle of champagne to be waiting in your room when you arrive.
65. Using Clout in Impossible Situations
Whether it is air line seats, cruise reservations, or overbooked activities travel experts have more buying power than the average consumer.
64. Clarifying the Fine Print
Your travel agent can advise you of all the cancellation penalties and restrictions hidden in the fine print of your travel documents.
65. Detailed Itineraries
Your travel expert can help you plan your trip out day- by- day to give you a good mix of fun and relaxation.
66. Advice on Activities to Book Before hand
A travel expert can forewarn you of any activities that tend to sell out early so there are no unexpected disappointments when you are there. For example, character dining in Disney sells out months in advance. 67. General Ideas on Where to Go
A travel expert can offer excellent trip advice based on the details of what type ofa trip you want to take. Internet booking sites tend to require a destination up front.
68. A Trip to Nowhere…Sort of
Want to take a trip to get away to somewhere that is really not a normal vacation hot spot?. Your travel specialist can help you find that perfect place.
69. Great Single’s Trips
A travel agent can help you to match you withhelp find you exciting singles’ trips and cruises.
70. What to Pack
Your travel expert can give you great advice on what to pack to those exotic destinations.
71. Plan a Trip Where you Bring the Kids but Can Still Get Some Alone Time
Many cruises and resorts now offer activities throughout the day for young children that make the day fun for them and give you some time to yourself. Travel experts can help you find great family destination options such as these.
72. Higher Productivity Benefits
You have your trip planned while you are hard at work in the office.
73. You Get to be the Boss
You get to tell someone what to do for a change.
74. Great Group Trips
Trying to organize a trip for big group of people? A travel expert can help get all the details finalized and do the work of updating everyone in the group.
75. Someone to Complain to
If that slim chance were to occur that you do not get what you were promised, you have a real person to go back and complain to. Travel agents will work hard to rectify the matter. They will work as hard as they can to make sure you are happy so that this doesn’t happen and so you will use their service next time.
76. They Are Considered Travel Experts and Specialists
Wouldn’t you rather have a travel expert plan your trip rather than a preprogrammed website?
77. Best Pre-Sseat Assignments Possible
Travel agents can talk directly with the airline to arrange for you to get the seats with the most leg room that might not otherwise be released until the day of the flight.
78. Mapping Routes Out Ahead of Time
Not really good at reading maps? A good travel expert can help you map out any basic directions you might need on your trip ahead of time.
79. Family with 3 Small Children and Only Want 1 Room?
A travel expert might be able to find a way to help a family with small children get around the hotel policies of only 4 to a room.
80. Help, I’m Lost!!!!!!
If you should get lost somewhere along the way your travel agent could be a good outlet for help.
81. It just Makes Sense to Use a Travel Agent.
82. They’re There… Use Them
Why do the work if someone else like a travel specialist can.
83. Possibility of a Free Gift
Some travel agents offer free incentives. Who doesn’t like the possibility of free presents?
84. Even if the Internet Goes Down Your Trip Can Still Be Planned
Your travel agent is still getting your trip planned even if your internet at home or at the office is not working.
85. Back-up Distributor of Documents
You can give your travel agent a copy of all your travel documents so if anything were to get lost you have someone to call that can send copies.
86. Because We Said So
Our business is to help you find a qualified travel specialist.
87. What to Expect on the Flight
Your travel expert can give you good answers on what to expect long flights to be like, and maybe some interesting activities to do while flying.
88. It is Their Job
Travel agents actually work to get different accreditations to increase their qualifications as a travel expert.
89. Lost Baggage
If the airline should lose your baggage, your travel agent can get on the phone and make sure the airline works as quickly as they can to solve the problem allowing you to at least go relax at the hotel.
90. Travel Agents Must Be Doing Something Right. They Sure Have a lot of Business
Travel agents still sell 51 percent of all airline tickets, 87 percent of all cruises, 81 percent of all tours and packages, 45 percent of all car rentals and about 47 percent of all hotels. * (ASTA http://www.astanet.com/news/article_goodreasons.asp)
91. Don’t Like Letter Writing?
A good travel agent will send a letter to the airline or hotel for you if you should have a bad flight or poor service at a hotel.
92. Sound Important When Talking About Your Trip
After a bragging about a great trip to coworkers or the neighbors, and they ask how you got all those details organized you can say, “My agent did it.”
93. Forbidden Fruit
Your travel agent can forewarn you of items not allowed to be brought back into the United States. –Yes, you have to smoke those Cuban cigars before you leave to come home and you can’t bring that “rattling rose apple” back with you from India!
94. Financial Planning
Travel experts can help you work out a budget to work off of while you are on your trip, so you can have a good time and not break the bank.
95. Good Babysitters
Travel experts might be able to help you find a local babysitter in the area you are traveling to if you want to plan a night out alone.
96. Good Lounge Recommendations
Travel specialists can help you decide if purchasing access to an airline lounge is worth it or not.
97. Good Airport Hangouts
Travel agents travel a lot. They can probably help you figure out what to do with that extra time you have in an airport after getting through security.
98. Where to Watch Your Wallet More Carefully
Although you should always take extra care to hold onto your wallet when traveling, travel agents can warn you if pick- pocketing is common at your future destination.
99. What to Put in the Hotel Safe
Travel agents can give you good advice on what you should be keeping in that hotel safe while you are out exploring the sites so there is nothing important missing when you return.
100. Altering Your Travel Arrangements
If you have already booked your trip but want to change some details your travel agency can help get all the necessary steps done, --Lleaving you without the headache and confusion.
101. It Makes Traveling Easy
Travel agents make your dream vacation a phone call away. Once you find a good travel agent, your dream vacation is just a phone.
RELIGIONS IN INDIA
India is one of the most religiously diverse nations in the world, with religion playing a central role in the lives of most Indians.
80% of the people in India are Hindus, considered one of the oldest religious and philosophical systems in the world. Islam is practiced by 13.4% of all Indians, Christianity by 2.4%, and Sikhism by 1.86%. Buddhism and Jainism both arose on the Indian subcontinent and have a world-wide presence; in addition, Zoroastrianism and Judaism have a long history in India, but their present-day numbers are small.
HINDUISM
Hinduism is supposed to be 'apauruseya', i.e., of impersonal origin & so also are the Gods of Hinduism. They are eternal & though the deities appear to be different & independent, they are really facets of the same Brahman, the Supreme God.
As Sri Ramakrishna says, there can be as many spiritual paths as there are spiritual aspirants & similarly there can really be as many Gods as there are devotees to suit the moods, feelings, emotions & social background of the devotees.
The Hindu scriptures were eloquent while describing the qualities of God. He is all-knowing & all powerful. He is the very personification of justice, love & beauty. He is ever ready to shower His grace, mercy & blessings on His creation.
From the Rig Veda, we come to know of the vedic gods eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Adityas, Indra & Prajapathi, being the Gods of earth, the heavens & the space.
The main Hindu Gods as we accept today can be broadly classified as Saiva Gods (Siva, His consort, His sons, His other forms), Vaishnava Gods (Vishnu, His consort, His various avatharams)& Sakthi or Saktha (Forms of Goddess Sakthi).
CHRISTIANITY:
Christianity is a world large religious main god is Jesus Christ. It’s holy book is Bible. The title for our lecture, "The Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith," was coined over a hundred years ago, in 1892, by Martin Kähler to distinguish between the historical Jesus, or the Jesus of Historie, and the Christ whom the church proclaimed in its Gospels, or the Christ of Geschichte.1 Fortunately, English has only one word for History, and so English-speaking scholars cannot on a linguistic basis easily make the distinction between "history" and so-called "meta-history." Theologically, however, Christians have always asked the question: How are we to understand relations between the historical Jesus and the Christ proclaimed in the New Testament?
The question includes issues regarding the relationship of an academic study of Jesus and a confessional affirmation of Jesus. It is also part of the larger question regarding how to understand the humanity of Jesus and the divinity of Jesus in speaking about Jesus as the God-man. It is, in fact, implicit in the question that Jesus himself first asked his disciples: "Who do you say that I am?" (Mark 8:29, par); that he then asked the Pharisees: "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" (Matt 22:41, par.), and that he continues to ask all people today: What do you think of Jesus? How should he be understood both historically and religiously? Of what significance is he for our lives - and for the Church and the world today?
The attempt to understand Jesus has produced a massive number of critical studies during the past two centuries, with certain distinctive approaches evident. In what follows I would like to divide my lecture into two parts: first, setting out a brief history of some of the most significant approaches in the critical study of Jesus; then, second, offering "some contemporary reflections" (as our title has it) on the matters raised - with a short appended "affirmation of my own convictions" at the end.
MUSLIM:
The single most important belief in Islam, and arguably the central theme of Islam, is that there is one God. The Muslim name for God is Allah, which is simply Arabic for "the (al) God (Ilah)." The term is related to Elohim, the Hebrew word for God.
Muslims believe that God is the all-powerful Creator of a perfect, ordered universe. He is transcendent and not a part of his creation, and is most often referred to in terms and with names that emphasize his majesty and superiority. Among the 99 Beautiful Names of God (Asma al-Husna) in the Qur'an are: the Creator, the Fashioner, the Life-Giver, the Provider, the Opener, the Bestower, the Prevailer, the Reckoner, the Recorder, and the King of Kingship and the Lord of the Worlds.
Although the God of Islam has revealed his will through the prophets, his actual nature remains ultimately unknowable. According to one Islamic scholar, God's will "is all we have, and we have it in perfection in the Qur'an. But Islam does not equate the Qur'an with the nature or essence of God. It is the Word of God, the Commandment of God, and the Will of God. But God does not reveal Himself to anyone." In the words of another writer, "only adjectival descriptions are attributed to the divine being and these merely as they bear on the revelation of God's will for man. The rest remains mysterious."
Despite God's transcendence and ultimate un know ability, however, the Qur'an does not teach that God does not know us, or that he remains aloof in some distant heaven. Quite the contrary: He is present everywhere and "as close to a man as the vein in his neck."
1. Convenient One-Stop Shopping
Travel agents can handle every aspect of your trip from airline tickets to lodging, ground transportation car rental, activities, tours and more.
2. Consumer Advocate
If you should have a problem during your trip, travel agents can act on your behalf to see that proper restitutions are made.
3. Expert Guidance
Travel agents are experts in helping travelers get where they need to go and helping to open up possibilities most people never would have dreamed were possible.
4. Save Time
Avoid the headaches and let the travel agents call around and do all the time consuming work of looking for prices, activities, and flights for youplanning a complex itinerary.
5. Choice
Travel agents offer you an array of options and price quotes from a variety of travel suppliers, giving you the upper hand when making your final travel decisions.
6. Less Stress
Planning a trip can be stressful. There are so many options and details to worry about. Travel agents do the work, so that resulting in means less stress for you.
7. Updated Information
Travel agents are in constant communication with the travel community. So they can give you the most up to date info on airlines, hotels, car rental agencies, travel visas, and other travel services to consider etc… as you plan your trip.
8. Customer Service
Travel agents offer that “personal touch” to your travel planning experience,- oOffering help and advice that a website cannot provide give.
9. Travel Documentation
Travel agents can help you to prepare and organize any necessary documents that you may need in order to travel outside of the country. They can direct you to your local passport office, and they know where you need a visa, as well as and any other documentation that you might need along the way.
10. Travel Experts Expertise
Many travel agents are considered experts in the area you are traveling to and have probably already been to where you are going.
11. Best Value for Your Money Spent
Travel agents can help you to make your dollars go farther while you are away. They have access to finding all sorts of deals ranging from flights to hotels to dinner recommendations.
12. Location, Location, Location!!!!
Travel Specialists can help you to find a place to stay pretty much anywhere you desire. So if it’s a hotel with a view of the ocean in Hawaii or a jungle hut in the Nilgiri foothills, a travel agent can help you make it happen.
13. Knowledge of All the Ins and Outs;
Travel specialists can help bring you up to speed on the local laws and regulations of wherever your travels take you.
14. Credentials
Travel agents attend all sorts of seminars and classes to prepare themselves for trip requests like yours., in addition to traveling to many places themselves to be as informed as they can on your places of interest.
15. Tourist Attractions
Travel agents can give you a list of all the not-to-miss spots, such as. Like amusement parks, museums, nature preserves, and historical locations etc.
16. Confusing International Connecting FlightsAvoid International Flight Confusion
Travel specialists can help organize those confusing international flights that the internet search engines don’t cover.
17. Where to Go With Kids
Travel agents can help you to find great locations that are kid- friendly.
18. Trip Cancellation
Something has come up and you need to cancel your trip? If you have used a travel agent they are the only person you need to call.
19. Travel Insurance
With all the countless options for travel insurance these days, it can become confusing. A travel agent can help you pick which package works best for your needs.
20. Personalized Trips
A travel agent can prepare you a personalized trip based on where you want to go and what you want to do.. They won’t give you generic website trips that are posted because the destinations are being pushed during a slow season.
21. Where to Go to Avoid Kids
Want to go somewhere without children running all over the place? A travel agent can help you to find excellent retreats that are open to adults only.
22. Good Senior Trips
Need a trip with a good balance of sightte-seeing, and rest and relaxation? Travel agents can help lucky retirees you to plan great extended trips that are senior-friendly. for those lucky retirees.
23. Student Discounts
Some Travel agents are an excellent go- to source for students looking to go on discounted trips.
24. Exotic Adventures
Travel experts can help to recommend great once in a lifetime experiences. They can help you to find the best/safest shark cages to dive into and the highest freefall bungees to jump off.
25. Great Deals without Sitting at a Time Share Presentation
Want an affordable trip to Florida without having to sit through a timeshare presentation? A travel agent can help you to exceptional deals without the stipulations.
26. What to Eat
Where are all the top chefs at your destination? Travel specialists give great advice on the best restaurants to hit on your trip.not to be missed restaurants.
27. What Not to Eat
Leaving your home country and not familiar with the new language? Travel agents can help give you some forewarnings so you don’t accidently order the local delicacy (which may or not be specially prepared bugs) without meaning to.
28. Local Traditions
Travel specialists can update you on all local traditions and customs of places you are visiting, so you make a good impression. For example, in Japan many people expect their visitors to take their shoes off before entering their homes.
29. Local Laws
Many countries have laws that are very different from your own., especially when traveling abroad. Travel agents can help give you a quick rundown of what you need to be aware of before you go.
30. Busiest Travel Times to Avoid
If you want a quiet trip, travel experts know what dates you should avoid and can help you plan your trip accordingly.
31. Avoidny Unexpected Expenses That Might Come Up
Travel agents know a lot of the little expenses that you might experience while on your trip, that you might not have even thought of.
32. Exchange Rate Knowledges
Travel agents are knowledgeable of what countries your dollar goes further.
33. Useful Travel Books to Have with You
A travel expert can give you advice on what travel books are the most useful to have with you. Some of these books list restaurants, customs, and small amounts of the local language.
34. List of Not- to- Miss Places
Travel specialists can give you a great list of not- to- miss hikes, waterfalls, and cliffs that may or may not be published elsewhere.
35. What to Wear
Many restaurants have different types of dress codes. If you are interested in dining at specific places on your trip your travel expert can advise you on appropriate dress wear for the occasion.
36. What Not to Wear
Travel agents can help you to be in the know of local dress code restrictions. So if a thong is part of your favorite beachwear you should know that they are illegal in places like the Isle of Palms.
37. Crime Rates
Travel experts are great at helping you to be in the know of the questionable parts of town that you may be heading to and give you tips on what to look out for.
38. Someone to Call if Having a Problem During Your Trip
An online travel agencyinternet site is not going to answer the phone when you call with any complications during your trip. A travel agent continues to give you that personal support even while you are away.
39. When You Shouldn’t Drink the Water
We are always told when you travel be careful of the water. Travel agents can advise you on when it is safe and when it’s not safe to drink the water.
40. Small Intercontinental Flights Delayed – What to do?
Travel agents can help you find somewhere to stay when you are left helpless at an airport overnight due to flight delays.
41. Saves You Precious Time on Your Trip
To avoid 36 hours in the airport, your travel expert can help plan your trip so your time spent getting to where you want to go is the shortest it can be.
42. Anticipating Trouble
Travel agents are extremely useful if you are planning a trip to a known weather troubled area such as the Caribbean hurricane plagued islands. In the event of a natural disaster, your travel agent can work to immediately reschedule or cancel your trip so there are no worries for you.
43. Complicated Itineraries Made Simple
Travel experts can take care of all the details for those complicated around the world tickets and all the extra headaches that go with it, such as hotel and transportation along the way.
44. Special Needs Travelers
Travel specialists can prearrange any wheelchair or special needs someone in your travel party may have. They can also take the time to make sure your reserved accommodations are safe and easily accessible for the special needs traveler.
45. What to Pack
Some activities you choose to partake in may require different layers of clothing throughout the day. Your travel agent can advise you on what to bring. A bike trip down an extinct volcano in Hawaii for example, may require you to start out with jackets and wool socks, but when you get to the bottom you may be down to shorts and a tank top.
46. Let Them Wait on Hold
By using a travel agent you no longer have to wait on hold and talk to automated systems while trying to book different parts of your trip.
47. Business Concerns
If the airline you are scheduled to use goes on strike or bankrupt while you are traveling, your travel agent can work to find you alternate travel means while you continue to relax at the hotel.
48. Transportation in Smaller Countries
Travel agents can arrange all your transportation and travel needs, especially in those smaller countries where you may not know if cabs or van services are safe.
49. Group Hotel Reservations
Travel agents can help to keep everyone in the group on the same floor at a hotel.
50. Charter Private Boating Trips
Travel specialists can help you to avoid paying top dollar for chartered snorkeling or fishing trips for large groups. They can often find great deals for large groups who want to do personalized tours.
51. Immunizations That May Be Needed
To enter certain countries you may be required to obtain certain immunizations first., Yyour travel expert can advise you on the steps you need to take.
52. Special Deals Worked Out in Advance
Travel agents may have a relationship developed with certain tour operators and could be able to get you a special price that might not otherwise be available.
53. Make Travel Meaningful for Children
Travel agents can offer fun information about your trip for kids to make the experience exciting and meaningful.
54. Where to Shop
Travel agents can offer excellent advice on great shopping neighborhoods in your destination city.
55. Avoid Scams
Not all 5 star hotels are treated equally. Many times photos are outdated and information about the hotel you are considering may not be true. Travel agents can have a network of opportunities to make sure that what you are seeing beforehand is what you get.
56. What You Can Buy Later
New airline restrictions make packing for long trips hard. Travel experts can give you advice on what you might be able to purchase while you are on your trip to avoid having excess weight in your luggage beforehand.
57. Advice on Where to Go if You Get Sick
If you happen to be unfortunate enough to get hurt or fall ill while on your trip, your travel agent can help to youfind you somewhere clean and safe for medical attention.
58. Trust
If you should have any questions after booking your trip you know how to reach your travel agent and can avoid the FAQ section on a website.
59. You Know How to Reach Them When You Need Them
Problems at the airport? Reservation issues at the hotel? Your travel agent is a phone call away from getting your problem solved.
60. Tips and Tricks
How early do you really need to be at the airport? What are the quickest ways to get through security? Your travel expert can advise you of the airport security levels the day of your trip and any new security checkpoints you may have to worry about.
61. Is the Upgrade Worth It?
Your travel expert can help you save money by helping you decide if certain upgrades at hotels are really worth the extra money.
62. Difference in Days to Save Money
Instead of playing around with dates on the internet for hours your travel agent can advise you on any changes to your travel dates that might save you hundreds of dollars.
63. Staying In-the-Know of Daily Promotions
Travel agents get emails and faxes of daily money saving promotions.
64. Enhancing the Trip withWith Extra Amenities
Your travel specialist can may be able to arrange for those little extras like a bottle of champagne to be waiting in your room when you arrive.
65. Using Clout in Impossible Situations
Whether it is air line seats, cruise reservations, or overbooked activities travel experts have more buying power than the average consumer.
64. Clarifying the Fine Print
Your travel agent can advise you of all the cancellation penalties and restrictions hidden in the fine print of your travel documents.
65. Detailed Itineraries
Your travel expert can help you plan your trip out day- by- day to give you a good mix of fun and relaxation.
66. Advice on Activities to Book Before hand
A travel expert can forewarn you of any activities that tend to sell out early so there are no unexpected disappointments when you are there. For example, character dining in Disney sells out months in advance. 67. General Ideas on Where to Go
A travel expert can offer excellent trip advice based on the details of what type ofa trip you want to take. Internet booking sites tend to require a destination up front.
68. A Trip to Nowhere…Sort of
Want to take a trip to get away to somewhere that is really not a normal vacation hot spot?. Your travel specialist can help you find that perfect place.
69. Great Single’s Trips
A travel agent can help you to match you withhelp find you exciting singles’ trips and cruises.
70. What to Pack
Your travel expert can give you great advice on what to pack to those exotic destinations.
71. Plan a Trip Where you Bring the Kids but Can Still Get Some Alone Time
Many cruises and resorts now offer activities throughout the day for young children that make the day fun for them and give you some time to yourself. Travel experts can help you find great family destination options such as these.
72. Higher Productivity Benefits
You have your trip planned while you are hard at work in the office.
73. You Get to be the Boss
You get to tell someone what to do for a change.
74. Great Group Trips
Trying to organize a trip for big group of people? A travel expert can help get all the details finalized and do the work of updating everyone in the group.
75. Someone to Complain to
If that slim chance were to occur that you do not get what you were promised, you have a real person to go back and complain to. Travel agents will work hard to rectify the matter. They will work as hard as they can to make sure you are happy so that this doesn’t happen and so you will use their service next time.
76. They Are Considered Travel Experts and Specialists
Wouldn’t you rather have a travel expert plan your trip rather than a preprogrammed website?
77. Best Pre-Sseat Assignments Possible
Travel agents can talk directly with the airline to arrange for you to get the seats with the most leg room that might not otherwise be released until the day of the flight.
78. Mapping Routes Out Ahead of Time
Not really good at reading maps? A good travel expert can help you map out any basic directions you might need on your trip ahead of time.
79. Family with 3 Small Children and Only Want 1 Room?
A travel expert might be able to find a way to help a family with small children get around the hotel policies of only 4 to a room.
80. Help, I’m Lost!!!!!!
If you should get lost somewhere along the way your travel agent could be a good outlet for help.
81. It just Makes Sense to Use a Travel Agent.
82. They’re There… Use Them
Why do the work if someone else like a travel specialist can.
83. Possibility of a Free Gift
Some travel agents offer free incentives. Who doesn’t like the possibility of free presents?
84. Even if the Internet Goes Down Your Trip Can Still Be Planned
Your travel agent is still getting your trip planned even if your internet at home or at the office is not working.
85. Back-up Distributor of Documents
You can give your travel agent a copy of all your travel documents so if anything were to get lost you have someone to call that can send copies.
86. Because We Said So
Our business is to help you find a qualified travel specialist.
87. What to Expect on the Flight
Your travel expert can give you good answers on what to expect long flights to be like, and maybe some interesting activities to do while flying.
88. It is Their Job
Travel agents actually work to get different accreditations to increase their qualifications as a travel expert.
89. Lost Baggage
If the airline should lose your baggage, your travel agent can get on the phone and make sure the airline works as quickly as they can to solve the problem allowing you to at least go relax at the hotel.
90. Travel Agents Must Be Doing Something Right. They Sure Have a lot of Business
Travel agents still sell 51 percent of all airline tickets, 87 percent of all cruises, 81 percent of all tours and packages, 45 percent of all car rentals and about 47 percent of all hotels. * (ASTA http://www.astanet.com/news/article_goodreasons.asp)
91. Don’t Like Letter Writing?
A good travel agent will send a letter to the airline or hotel for you if you should have a bad flight or poor service at a hotel.
92. Sound Important When Talking About Your Trip
After a bragging about a great trip to coworkers or the neighbors, and they ask how you got all those details organized you can say, “My agent did it.”
93. Forbidden Fruit
Your travel agent can forewarn you of items not allowed to be brought back into the United States. –Yes, you have to smoke those Cuban cigars before you leave to come home and you can’t bring that “rattling rose apple” back with you from India!
94. Financial Planning
Travel experts can help you work out a budget to work off of while you are on your trip, so you can have a good time and not break the bank.
95. Good Babysitters
Travel experts might be able to help you find a local babysitter in the area you are traveling to if you want to plan a night out alone.
96. Good Lounge Recommendations
Travel specialists can help you decide if purchasing access to an airline lounge is worth it or not.
97. Good Airport Hangouts
Travel agents travel a lot. They can probably help you figure out what to do with that extra time you have in an airport after getting through security.
98. Where to Watch Your Wallet More Carefully
Although you should always take extra care to hold onto your wallet when traveling, travel agents can warn you if pick- pocketing is common at your future destination.
99. What to Put in the Hotel Safe
Travel agents can give you good advice on what you should be keeping in that hotel safe while you are out exploring the sites so there is nothing important missing when you return.
100. Altering Your Travel Arrangements
If you have already booked your trip but want to change some details your travel agency can help get all the necessary steps done, --Lleaving you without the headache and confusion.
101. It Makes Traveling Easy
Travel agents make your dream vacation a phone call away. Once you find a good travel agent, your dream vacation is just a phone.
RELIGIONS IN INDIA
India is one of the most religiously diverse nations in the world, with religion playing a central role in the lives of most Indians.
80% of the people in India are Hindus, considered one of the oldest religious and philosophical systems in the world. Islam is practiced by 13.4% of all Indians, Christianity by 2.4%, and Sikhism by 1.86%. Buddhism and Jainism both arose on the Indian subcontinent and have a world-wide presence; in addition, Zoroastrianism and Judaism have a long history in India, but their present-day numbers are small.
HINDUISM
Hinduism is supposed to be 'apauruseya', i.e., of impersonal origin & so also are the Gods of Hinduism. They are eternal & though the deities appear to be different & independent, they are really facets of the same Brahman, the Supreme God.
As Sri Ramakrishna says, there can be as many spiritual paths as there are spiritual aspirants & similarly there can really be as many Gods as there are devotees to suit the moods, feelings, emotions & social background of the devotees.
The Hindu scriptures were eloquent while describing the qualities of God. He is all-knowing & all powerful. He is the very personification of justice, love & beauty. He is ever ready to shower His grace, mercy & blessings on His creation.
From the Rig Veda, we come to know of the vedic gods eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Adityas, Indra & Prajapathi, being the Gods of earth, the heavens & the space.
The main Hindu Gods as we accept today can be broadly classified as Saiva Gods (Siva, His consort, His sons, His other forms), Vaishnava Gods (Vishnu, His consort, His various avatharams)& Sakthi or Saktha (Forms of Goddess Sakthi).
CHRISTIANITY:
Christianity is a world large religious main god is Jesus Christ. It’s holy book is Bible. The title for our lecture, "The Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith," was coined over a hundred years ago, in 1892, by Martin Kähler to distinguish between the historical Jesus, or the Jesus of Historie, and the Christ whom the church proclaimed in its Gospels, or the Christ of Geschichte.1 Fortunately, English has only one word for History, and so English-speaking scholars cannot on a linguistic basis easily make the distinction between "history" and so-called "meta-history." Theologically, however, Christians have always asked the question: How are we to understand relations between the historical Jesus and the Christ proclaimed in the New Testament?
The question includes issues regarding the relationship of an academic study of Jesus and a confessional affirmation of Jesus. It is also part of the larger question regarding how to understand the humanity of Jesus and the divinity of Jesus in speaking about Jesus as the God-man. It is, in fact, implicit in the question that Jesus himself first asked his disciples: "Who do you say that I am?" (Mark 8:29, par); that he then asked the Pharisees: "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" (Matt 22:41, par.), and that he continues to ask all people today: What do you think of Jesus? How should he be understood both historically and religiously? Of what significance is he for our lives - and for the Church and the world today?
The attempt to understand Jesus has produced a massive number of critical studies during the past two centuries, with certain distinctive approaches evident. In what follows I would like to divide my lecture into two parts: first, setting out a brief history of some of the most significant approaches in the critical study of Jesus; then, second, offering "some contemporary reflections" (as our title has it) on the matters raised - with a short appended "affirmation of my own convictions" at the end.
MUSLIM:
The single most important belief in Islam, and arguably the central theme of Islam, is that there is one God. The Muslim name for God is Allah, which is simply Arabic for "the (al) God (Ilah)." The term is related to Elohim, the Hebrew word for God.
Muslims believe that God is the all-powerful Creator of a perfect, ordered universe. He is transcendent and not a part of his creation, and is most often referred to in terms and with names that emphasize his majesty and superiority. Among the 99 Beautiful Names of God (Asma al-Husna) in the Qur'an are: the Creator, the Fashioner, the Life-Giver, the Provider, the Opener, the Bestower, the Prevailer, the Reckoner, the Recorder, and the King of Kingship and the Lord of the Worlds.
Although the God of Islam has revealed his will through the prophets, his actual nature remains ultimately unknowable. According to one Islamic scholar, God's will "is all we have, and we have it in perfection in the Qur'an. But Islam does not equate the Qur'an with the nature or essence of God. It is the Word of God, the Commandment of God, and the Will of God. But God does not reveal Himself to anyone." In the words of another writer, "only adjectival descriptions are attributed to the divine being and these merely as they bear on the revelation of God's will for man. The rest remains mysterious."
Despite God's transcendence and ultimate un know ability, however, the Qur'an does not teach that God does not know us, or that he remains aloof in some distant heaven. Quite the contrary: He is present everywhere and "as close to a man as the vein in his neck."
