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Religious Worship of the Cultures of the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece (1314 words, 2 pages)

The cultures of the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece all had one thing in common religious worship. These cultures built temples to their gods and worshipped them with different customs and traditions. As a whole, they believed that the gods reside above the world of the humans, and to ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Culture of Ancient Celts (3951 words, 6 pages)

INTRODUCTION The Ancient Celts were not an illiterate people, but they transferred their knowledge orally. They had an alphabet of twenty letters called Ogham. Each letter was named after a tree from the land where they lived. Ogham was used on standing stones, primarily on graves and boundary markers. The ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life in Ancient Rome (749 words, 2 pages)

Life in Ancient Rome became the basis for many styles of living today. From the technology of aqueducts to the battle tactics of the military, life these days has many beginnings in Rome. One such beginning was the rise of the Christian religion. Although the exact beginning date on which ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Cruible by Arthur Miller (661 words, 1 pages)

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, duty is some kind of personal responsibility to save, protect, or prosecute the residents of Salem, Massachusetts. These duties range from personal retribution to trying to protect reputations to trying save family members and neighbors from the court. Their goals, actions, and obligations depended ... Read More

A Brief History of the Works of Emile Durkheim (666 words, 1 pages)

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) In the nineteenth century, as an attempt to understand the massive social and economic changes that had been weeping across Western Europe in the seventeenth, eighteen, and nineteenth centuries, sociology was developed as an autonomous subject, separate from philosophy and economics. With theories, sociology continues profoundly influence ... Read More

A Discussion on Cartestian Dualism (1291 words, 2 pages)

Dualism In this paper I will be discussing the philosophical perspective of Cartesian Dualism. To draw upon reliable sources my information will be base from the textbooks Doing Philosophy as well as the Unfortunate Dualist found in the anthology Minds I. I will make an attempt to show that Smullyans ... Read More

Faustus: Renaissance Martyr or Tragic Hero (3207 words, 13 pages)

Faustus Renaissance Martyr or Tragic Hero Faustus died a death that few could bear to imagine, much less experience. After knowing for many years when exactly he would die, he reached the stroke of the hour of his destiny in a cowardly, horrid demeanor. Finally, when the devils appeared at ... Read More

A Biography of Dorothy Day an American Journalist and Catholic Worker (576 words, 1 pages)

DOROTHY DAY Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8,1897. After the earthquake in 1906, her family moved to Chicagos south side. Into a place not as nice as the one in New York because her father, John, was out of work. When John Day got a ... Read More

A Summary of Religious Works by St. Thomas Aquinas (998 words, 2 pages)

St. Thomas Aquinas has written several important works. Some of them are The Disputed Questions on the Power of God, Exposition of Dionysius on the Divine Names and Disputed Questions on Spiritual Creatures. Most of Aquinas's works have been written to try to prove the existence of God. Aquinas has ... Read More

A Brief History of the Sexuality and Homosexuality in Ancient Greece (2718 words, 4 pages)

Sexuality is defined in the present day by the The American Heritage Dictionary of English as the condition of being characterized and distinguished by sex. However, the meaning of sexuality changes over time, in relation to the individual and his or her cultural background. Homosexuality, as practiced in Ancient Greece, ... Read More

A Religious Analysis of the Divine Command Theory (322 words, 1 pages)

Divine Command Theory The divine command theory is the view that moral actions are those which conform to God's will. Charity, for example, is morally proper because God endorses it, and murder is wrong because God condemns it. One way to test to see whether any action is right or ... Read More

Discrimination a Major Factor in the Columbine Shooting Massacre (1087 words, 2 pages)

Discrimination Leads to Pain On May 2, 1998, Rachel Joy Scott had written, "This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank you." In another entry she had written, "God is going to use me to reach the young people, I don't know how, I ... Read More

An Overview of the History of Jewish Religion (592 words, 1 pages)

Theology 1000 During the middle of the first century B.C.E. many Jews took different stances on important religious matters. These disagreements mainly concerned the Temple, Torah and the Messiah. These arguments caused groups to form, which were the Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes and Christians. Each group took different stances on these ... Read More

A Biography of Dionysus, the God of the Vine (2047 words, 3 pages)

Dionysus was the god of the vine. He invented wine and spread the art of tending grapes. He had a dual nature. On one hand, he brought joy and divine ecstasy. On the other hand, he brought brutality, thoughtlessness and rage. This reflected both sides of wine's nature. If he ... Read More

A Comparison of the Similar Situations of Arthur Dimmesdale in the “Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and of Ethan Frome in “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton (2017 words, 3 pages)

Arthur Dimmesdale of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter and Ethan Frome, the main character of Wharton's classic Ethan Frome, though separated by over a century of time, find themselves in remarkably similar situations--a bleak existence, punctuated only be intermittent glimpses into a life that might have been. However, a difference in character ... Read More

Was It God That Created Evil or the Weakness of Man? (2431 words, 4 pages)

Did God Create evil or did man? Ever since the beginning of time, our reality has been based on the conflict between good and evil. From the story of Adam and Eve to modern day and everything done by the human race has been a battle between these two. Many ... Read More

The Love Affair between Aeneas and Dido in The Aeneid by Virgil (757 words, 1 pages)

The wretched love affair of Aeneas and Dido is one of the most prominent events in The Aeneid by Virgil. In The Aeneid, love is represented in the same manner as the gods. Love is shown as an outside force acting upon mortals, not a function of the individual's free ... Read More

A Letter Detailing the Experiences of a European Studying in America (576 words, 1 pages)

My name is Egreis (pronounced E-Grace) Gjergjani, but everyone calls me Eggy. I'm European. To be more specific I'm from Albania (Eastern Europe). I was born and lived there 15 good years of my life, then two years ago I moved to the US. It was a great experience all ... Read More

A Descriptive Summary of Rene Descartes’ Meditations (1044 words, 2 pages)

In Descartes' First Meditation he wants to demolish his opinions so he can decipher what is true and what is false with no biases. For example, today someone may hold beliefs in the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause but later in life will learn that these are false truths. In ... Read More

A Comparison of the Ideas on the Quest for Truth of Rene Descartes and David Hume (543 words, 1 pages)

There are three ways in which one is able to find truth through reason (A is A), by utilizing the senses (paper burns) or by faith (God is all loving). As the period of the Renaissance came to a close, the popular paradigm for philosophers shifted from faith to reason ... Read More

An Analysis of Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on the Method (968 words, 2 pages)

Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on the Method ultimately desires to achieve deep understanding about the nature of everything including God, the physical world, and himself. Indeed, it is only with a clear and distinct knowledge of such things that he can then begin to understand his true ... Read More

The Four Main Elements and Critical Theories Explaining Art in “The Mirror and the Lamp” by M.H. Abrams (1102 words, 2 pages)

In the first chapter of the Orientation of critical theories entitled The Mirror and the Lamp (1953) M. H. Abrams concentrates on four main elements the universe, the audience, the artist, and the work and relates them to four broad critical theories that explain the nature and worth of art. ... Read More

The Confusions in the Book of Zechariah in the Bible (1042 words, 2 pages)

The book of Zechariah is the most confusing book in the bible and took a lot of patience to understand it. It is based on the rebuilding of the Jewish temple and series of eight night visions that are shown to Zechariah by the word of the lord to encourage ... Read More

Deficits Are Benefitial for the United States and Other Countries (710 words, 1 pages)

Deficit Friend or Foe In the essay Why is the Deficit a God Send and Five Other Economic Heresies by Walter Russell Mead he discusses the concepts of national debt and budget deficit. Both the debt and the deficit have some positive and negative consequences. The deficit can play a ... Read More

The Pursuits of the American Dream in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1233 words, 2 pages)

The Pursuit of the 'American Dream' Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a tragic play about Willy Loman's pursuit of the 'American Dream.' This dream is the dream of wealth and success. The author's main character, Willy Loman, is a traveling salesman that spends his whole lifetime trying to ... Read More

Today Was a Good Day and the Best Day of My Life (277 words, 1 pages)

Today was a good day. It was the best day of my life. I was in the play. I was good. I was really good. Everyone who mattered to me was there. They all saw me doing those things, they saw me excel. Looking out into the sea of upturned ... Read More

McGuire’s Views on Death by Choice (391 words, 1 pages)

Death By Choice Who Should Decide? McGuires' references to prior cases and documents is done logically and clinically. After careful reading, and re-reading, I failed to understand his position on the moral issue. How can he perceive that by terminating a human life, this is acceptable moral behavior? Moral implies ... Read More

The Psychological Realities of Characters in the Novel “Life of Pi” (936 words, 1 pages)

In the novel "Life of Pi", Yann Martel dichotomizes the perceptual realities, and psychological realities of Piscine Monitor Patel. Martel is insistent in not "sacrificeing our imagination on the altar of crude reality"(Pi) and to do this, he sets forth in making us wonder whether we are reading an imaginative ... Read More

A Comparison of the Colonies on New England and the Chesapeake Region (575 words, 1 pages)

DBQ I Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. In 1607 when the New England and the Chesapeake region colonies planted was intended originally for the same purpose, becoming independent of ... Read More

A Summary of Inferno by Dante Alighieri and Its Relevance to the Society (1207 words, 2 pages)

Dantes Hell How is Dantes Hell relevant to todays society? For starters, though Dantes visions seem drastic, cruel and even inhuman, I feel that a lot of his thoughts are very relevant to society today. Perhaps in a different way, punishment being applied differently, but society in mind still would, ... Read More

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Published: Friday 25th of January 2013