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Community and Sri Lankan, Hindu Heritage

from Muslims and Arabs and in the United Kingdom, Hindus and Sikhs have insisted that they should not be collectively referred to ...

Why I Identify with the Disney Character Goofy

friendly and happy. The image of fun is helped with the movement of the character. Although presented as an animal, Goofy was actu...

Is It Immoral To Believe A Claim Without Evidence?

Of all the claims that lack evidence, none are as morally immense or elusive as whether or not God exists. Supporters contend the...

Jesus Of History, Jesus Of Faith

means of research" (Merrigan and Haers, 2000, p. 61). In other words, Meier was saying it is impossible for us, today, to obtain t...

Continuity between Judaism and Christianity

any connections to the Jewish faith or even that "Jesus himself was Jewish" (Sandmel 251). However, this situation was very diff...

Thomas Aquinas, On Law

reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...

Uncle Tom in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

their slaves to do so; they decide to sell Uncle Tom, who is middle-aged at the time, and a young boy named Harry, who is the son ...

Beloved and Personal Demons

She has attempted to find a place in herself wherein she can survive and go on despite her actions. It is a very cloudy place that...

The Mysterious Will Ladislaw

much loved by a young baronet, Sir James Chettam, she marries instead the Reverend Edward Casaubon, who is much older than she is,...

Caravaggio/The Entombment

to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...

Death in Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

Naming Conventions in "Beloved"

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

Congreve and Pope: Resistance to Marriage

draws a moments air independent on the bounty of his mistress. There is not so impudent a thing in nature as the saucy look of an...

Historical Jesus And Christ Of Faith

one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Green Knight is without fear, and without any weakness it would seem. He has simply come to dare any man to show that they are rea...

The Virtues Of Love, Faith And Respect

see past all the trappings. We see the essence of the other person. We see their potential. We practice what St. Paul wrote: "Love...

Theology of Missions

New Testament is diverse and encompasses multiple and, sometimes, conflicting perspectives. One of the most intriguing of these ...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

Faith-Based Prison Programs/Constitutionality

offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...

A View of Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View

how socially shocking they might be. Lucys mother always has the best intentions and willing to share openly her thoughts and fe...

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

Christian Ethics

In looking at the Bible, and better understanding ones approach, it appears as though John possesses something of a "present escha...

The Heart in The Story of an Hour

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

Questions of Religion

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

Moral Crises in “Huckleberry Finn” and “Silas Lapham”

We learn that he forced his partner, Mr. Rogers, out of the business just as it was becoming successful; Lapham and his wife run i...

Impact Of Edict Of Milan On Christian Liturgy

the Church and to members of the Church (NationMaster, 2008). This is an important part of the Edict because it set the stage for ...

Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians

is believed to be around 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, ...

Spiritual Traditions of Catholicism

In fact, rather than disregarding the authority of the Bible and scripture, Diana pointed out that some of the more controversial ...

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...