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About the Author Dwight Raymond is a student at the Clarendon College. He completed pri- mary school by passing his PEP exami- nation and he’s now studying at Claren- don College. 2

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of peo- ple, encompassing language, religion, cui- sine, social habits, music and arts. 3

Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, mor- als, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organiza- tions, that relates humanity to supernatu- ral, transcendental, and spiritual ele- ments; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. 4

Religious Education is a subject taught at primary and secondary levels that aims to develop children's understanding of the world's religions. Through religious educa- tion, children will learn about different reli- gions and their traditions, practices and be- liefs. Religious education also promotes chil- dren's tolerance and mutual respect in a di- verse society. 5

Supreme Beings are divinities whose na- ture reveals a unique quality of being— generally, a transcendent spiritual pow- er—in a culture's religious system. Such divine beings figure in many different re- ligious systems, yet they manifest values and symbolic associations that display re- markable similarities. 6

Morality is the differentiation of deci- sions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper. 7

Conscience is a person’s moral sense of right and wrong. 8

Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. 9

Virtue is the behavior of showing high moral standards. 10

Being is the nature or process essence of a person. 11

Creation is the act or process of bringing something into existence. 12

Creature is something created either ani- mate or un-animate. 13

Idol is an image or representative of a god used as an object of worship. 14

Steward is a person employed to look after the passenger of a ship. 15

Stewardship is the job of supervising or taking care of something. 16

Pollution is the introduction of contami- nants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. 17

Cloning is a technique scientists use to make exact genetic copies of living things. 18

Deforestation is the purposeful clearing of forested land. 19

Acid Rain is rain or any other form of pre- cipitation that is unusually acidic. 20

Dwight Raymond 1C THANK YOU 21