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Drug Ecstasy

to medical science (Ecstasy, 2004). It wasnt until the 1980s that it was first introduced to the "streets" as an illicit drug (Ec...

Comparing Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

of this in the following lines which use that imagery in the comparisons: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who afte...

Questions About God

his book, Does God Exist God: The Oldest Question, that yes, God does exist 2000). OMalley seems to be addressing his comments to ...

Perspectives on Human Nature

the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...

Comparative Analysis of Buddhism

Self, in the sense that the term is usually understood, but that everything we are is made up of constructs of reality, interwoven...

Ministry Calling and Taking a Spiritual Journey

a place where she could just live with normal people, people with jobs, people with dreams, people who believed like she did. Desp...

Research Study Proposal on Christian Parenting

Ostensibly, the Pardoner is a man of God. However, in the prologue to his tale, the Pardoner goes to great pains to elucidate his ...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Social Values

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

Understanding Health - Two Approaches

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and its Biblical Theme

this world are not well educated and that is seemingly due more to a lack of caring than to a lack of knowledge. Coketown is foc...

Concept of a Spiritual Journey

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

Spiritual Growth and Soren Kierkegaard

between ethics and religion.4 Because this seems whimsical at best and cumbersome, even nonsensical at worst, Im very glad to hea...

'Big Two Hearted River' by Ernest Hemingway

the good place" (Hemingway 29). The same way in which nature balanced Hemingways perspective of the world around him, Adams aff...

Contemplation and Calmness in Philosophy According to Sebastian de Grazia and Aristotle

who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...

Nature as Used in Dante's 'The Purgatorio' and 'The Inferno'

II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...

Stadier and Confiniums According to Soren Kierkegaard

sweet unto me" (II, I). It seems that Augustine wants to review the past in order to share the journey to the present, and to rem...

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone and the Character of Herald Loomis

wrong with him. Seth states, "I dont like the way he stare at everybody. Dont look at you natural like" (Wilson 232). The fact t...

Summarizing Harold S. Kushner's 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People'

find faith during their times of troubles (Kushner, 1981; Muder, 2002). In the Introduction to the book "Why I Wrote This Book" K...

Interpreting 'Sailing to Byzantium' by William Butler Yeats

of life in our worldly form, of the power of the many mystical forces of our universe, and the concepts of reincarnation and life ...

Yearley's Religious Plurality Perspectives in 'New Religious Virtues and the Study of Religion'

having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...

Spiritual and Psychological Influence on Human Identity

dangers and that bad things only happen to other people (Rodriguez,1995). That is simply one example of how Piagets work may be ap...

Lasting Legacy of Leo Tolstoy That Goes Beyond Literature

into the dissipations of Moscows high society, which he candidly recorded in his diary with vows to reform" (Anonymous About Leo T...

Ahimsa, Dharma, and Spiritual Specialist Defined

a system of divination called ocule and is based on the binary system of ones and zeros (Ryan, 2001). Here the Orishasa are consul...

Dakota A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris

Lemmon, South Dakota. While Norris and her husband left New York to manage the family farm and cattle ranch after her grandmother ...

Spiritual and Psychological Impacts of Stigmata

Many go to these places to view the stigmata and to get healed or simply to worship there. But again, these are all questioned by...

Henry Cloud and John Townsend's How People Grow

theological or church background, but who come to the book with more questions than answers, will find this book as beneficial as ...

St. Augustine and Dante: Partners in the Spiritual Journey

engine of aesthetic development throughout Western Europe for much of history. This can be seen in the patronage of artists by Chr...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

and reinforcement. In her case, this led to fairly early experimentation with sex and drugs. Lamott doesnt sensationalize her exp...

Bio-Psycho-Socio-Cultural-Spiritual Assessment

refers to the persons culture and how that may affect their responses to life events, illness, etc. (University of Pittsburg, 2010...

John Ortberg's Philosophy

simplest gift of God" (Ortberg 67). In other words, celebration is when we stop to appreciate Gods wondrous gift of life, such as ...