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Religion in Two Plays: “The Darker Face of the Earth” and “Oedipus Rex”

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

Teens Should Have Access to Contraceptives

as high as it once was in the United States, but its still a problem because of the effects of these pregnancies on the lives of t...

Volunteerism and Values

all creatures great and small."5 People seem to be looking for something today, something beyond their material things which many...

MONARCY AND FREEDOM: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

behind horrors, leading to situations in which there is censorship of the press, little education and "goodness trod under foot, t...

A History of Our Freedom of Expression

of the most important documents in US history. It is also considered one of the staunchest protections of the freedom of speech a...

Built in Conflicts in Religions

for our humanity". While religion can function to challenge and change prevalent social beliefs, it must also be remembered th...

1865-1945 U.S. Immigration from Europe

were confronted with the harsh realities that utopia only exists in fiction. From the earliest days of U.S. colonial history, Ger...

The Importance of Religious Stories

investigation of the dhamma, energy, rapture or happiness, calm, concentration, and equanimity" (Thera, 2009). The story entitle...

Working for Freedom - The Life of Frederick Douglass

and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant1. Because he has no way of checking his ...

Jewish and Islamic Customs/Head Cover and Menstruation

a mitvah, which resembles a small swimming pool. The water of the mitvah must be very pure and from a natural source, therefore, r...

Religious Pluralism and Christian Theology

2008, p. 394). This led to the consensus that "just one form of religion" had to be imposed on the native inhabitants of diverse l...

Freedom From British Rule and the Contributions of Paine and Jefferson

by the American readership who was eager to see a new direction forged in the colonies (Baym, Franklin, Gura, 630). Paine saw the...

Monotheism Versus Polytheism

do not even attempt to explain it. You either believe or you dont. The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity evolved over many years and ...

Abortion in South Korea and Religious Influences

was accepted as a method for achieving this goal (Beals, 2002, p. 24). During this era, the majority of women seeking abortions we...

My Community's Racial Overtones

live in a town overrun by religious zealots with little tolerance for anyone who is not of their ilk. Native Americans are more a...

Palka, Galgano, and Corson's Operation Iraqi Freedom

and resources for Iraqis, and helping the Iraqi people create the conditions necessary for a rapid transition to representative se...

Exposure To A Different Culture

towards culturally different practices. 2. The Event In order to understand the ritual it is important to understand a i...

Peach and Gale's Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs in the new religious landscape of England

in the United Kingdom" and focus on changes primarily between the middle to the end of the twentieth century (Peach & Gale, 2003)....

PROCEDURAL JUSTICE AND PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE: THE PROCESS

example, a religious institution. In this scenario, an employee was put on probation because of an inability to meet certain expec...

RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND JAPANESE LITERATURE

Century Japan. Much like Genji, Bridge of Dreams has the same lyrical, almost dreamy prose to it. But unlike the men in Genji auth...

Religious Concepts in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In four pages this paper examines how Hester Prynne's and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's daughter Pearl reflects the religious notion of...

Erik Erikson

to teach at Harvard Medical School, Erikson formulated his famous of psychosocial development. When he became an American citizen,...

A Review of The Structure of Christian Existence

This five page essay reviews the book by John B. Cobb, Jr. Two different views of Cobb are pursued. These views are formed around...

European Nation States and the Effects of Politics and Religion

In five pages this paper discuses how rising nation states of Europe can be attributed to various political and religious developm...

Ideology and Religion of Islam

In twenty one pages this paper discusses ideology and religious practices of Islam in a consideration of cultural misconceptions b...

What is a Religious Experience?

to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...

The Cloning Debate

(Habermas 164). The author also brings up questions of legality and how legal conundrums might erupt from cloning (Habermas 164). ...

Fair and Accurate? Evaluating Constantine’s Conversion

there is also the possibility that his refusal to do away with pagan practices entirely is because of his own adherence to them. ...

Questions of Religion

revelations of Judaism and then Christianity, but draws the story onward to yet another climax" (Neusner, 2006). Neusner says that...

Race And Public Policy

all across the country make their respective appeals for racial equity that much more poignant. Frederick Douglass What To ...