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Overview of the Missouri Compromise II

In five pages this paper examines past and present issues pertaining to the Missouri Compromise and favors the views of scholars s...

Sonny Boono and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

In a paper consisting of five pages the ancient Roman scholar Boethius's philosophy is applied to Congressman Sonny Bono's untimel...

Exposition of a Trust Psalm

we should trust in the Lord at all times. 1. The Psalmist explains that men are lowly creatures and cannot trust themselves. 2. M...

Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene Married

some would believe that Mary and Jesus were married and Jesus traveled to a small village in France carrying Christs child (Jennin...

Jewish History and Customs

Christian Bible. They are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (Rich, 1999). These are considered the Five Books of...

A Book Review of a Classic

and that He should have in todays world. unfortunately, that statement made in 1950 is even more true today, more than 50 years la...

On The Trinity by Augustine

Shedd (1886) points out that Augustine is especially guilty of this in the last eight chapters/Books. This may be because the firs...

Language Development and the Effect of TV Viewing

screen media, but that this learning is dependent on three interrelated factors, which are the: "attributes of the child; characte...

Terrorism and Our Involvement in the Middle East

This paper questions whether our current war on terrorism is valid. To answer the question the author examines the history of ter...

Islamic View of Holy War

who do not fight "with severe punishment in the hereafter" (Gould, 2005, p. 15). But the Koran does not make it clear whether Musl...

Globalization and the Nation-State

of the traditional nation-state, includes the topic of how nationalism should be perceived. Basically, nationalism can be divided ...

Who Is Mona Lisa?

comprehend it with ease" since Leonardo had captured "all the minutenesses that with subtlety are able to be painted" (Halsall). T...

The Value of Podcasts and RSS Feed in the Research Act

older formats, such as printed formats, video or radio. Pod casts are already being used by some universities in the United States...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

Rewriting the Ending to the Book of Acts

version of history must be selected. Therefore, the following "addition" to Acts is based on scholarship in the Catholic Encyclope...

The Nature of Research, Sexuality, and Cultures

The Declaration specifically addressed topics such as homosexuality and female circumcision, topics surrounded by considerably dif...

On Slavery: A Comparison of the Works of James McPherson and Stanley Elkins

of Elkins (1969) is not shared by most. Most people do not blame the institution of slavery for everything that has gone wrong sin...

Religious Quotations

This is the lesson here: that we cannot be full of self-importance because its misplaced. The second quotation is: ""Praise be to...

Luke 2:1-14 - The Birth Of Christ

that Luke did write this text himself and he did associate the birth of Jesus with a secular historical event. These debates have...

Mummification

as a critical component in the embalming process from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty onward. Natural forces, animals, and other...

Global Warming, Climate Change and War

what experts believe about the relationship between war and changes in the climate caused by global warming. The results of this l...

Christian View on Immigration

increase in immigration of roughly 120 million from 1990 (Martin and Widgren 3). The vast majority of the worlds 6.1 billion peopl...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

Biblical Scripture's Doctrine of Inerrancy

unique personalities and writing styles (Thiessen, 1979). Theissen explains that the Holy Spirit supervised these writers to insur...

Christology of Paul Johannes Tillich

biography provides insight as to the factors that led him toward his particular christological perspective. Biographical backgrou...

Transcendental Abstracts

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Preserving Irish and Douglas Hyde

centuries, Irish became the language of a disenfranchised people. It reentered the lives of the privileged classes with the advent...

Questions on the History of China

huge country (Kaplan, 2001). Wihtin this country were seven great powers (competing with one another in both military and economic...

Freedom Determinism More

Different theological philosophies attribute free will and freedom to different other theories. This paper explores libertarian fr...