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The Dangerous Nature of the Earth's Energy

mean they are not dangerous. Earthquakes, which are natural occurrences, kill hundreds if not thousands of people and ruin homes,...

Examples of Theodicies

boils and sores but Job continues to praise God. Jobs wife tries to get him to curse God. Then, friends suggest he is being punish...

The Inferno and its Classical Influences

Comedy", Europe was in the midst of a transitional period. The Christian church was already well established, but many of the most...

Various Approaches to Love in Literature

This essay presents an overview of how love is used thematic in various texts, which includes Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Can...

Freedom Determinism More

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

Pain of Exile: King Lear, Inferno

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...

Plato's "Crito" and "Apology"/Augustine's Confessions

This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

“Relinquish All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”

the Dark Ages, 2005). Most of the learning that took place was dedicated to organizing knowledge about the past; there was no atte...

Historical Consideration of Dante’s Inferno

He was relatively well educated, in both Christian and classical literature (Books and Writers, 2008). In addition, it is perhaps ...

Climate Change and Weather Forecasting

all energy within the balance is radiative energy, some of it is sensible or latent heat (OK-FIRST, 2004). Generally speaking, th...

Is God Good?

for them, allowing them to live in a state of perfection. But, in so doing Adam and Eve would not have had free will. They would h...

Upper and Lower Hell in Dante’s Inferno

character is a woman who had an affair with her brother-in-law. This circle is followed by a level of gluttony. The fourth "The Av...

The Function of Religion in Dante's "Inferno"

which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...

Augustine, Aurelius And Guibert

Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...

Rachel Carson's "The Obligation To Endure" - Analysis

"These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes - nonselective chemica...

Gregory of Nyssa and St. Augustine

Augustine Chapter X). He then notes that he learned many things through such examination concerning his behavior, behavior...

Peace as Defined by St. Augustine

as family, friends and personal interests, such as hobbies and projects, ahead of work related issues imposed by others, people ca...

Dante's Inferno and the Placement of 'Prisoners' Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, and Kurt Cobain

other "undesirables" including gypsies, homosexuals and others who were considered unfit. His crime then is genocide. Saddam Hu...

Human Nature According to Saint Augustine and Plato

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

The Influence of Ancient Literature on Dante's Writing

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...

Medieval Italian History and Literature

points out that "communal Italy" is "historians shorthand for the high urbanized areas of Lombardy and Tuscany between the twelfth...

Comparing Notre Dame to Hagia Sophia and Both to "Dante's Inferno"

But it also has a number of large clerestory windows that allow light to flood into the building. (A clerestory window is a window...

God's Perfect Judgment

did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...

Geology Questions

world. A never-ending process, it begins when water evaporates from the oceans surfaces and rises into the atmosphere, where it c...

Earth: History And Comparison With Other Planets

as the most significant astronomical impression made in the Greek period. Building upon the "wealth of knowledge" (Anonymous, 200...

Philosophy Topics

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

Meteorology

(vertical levels, horizontal grid spacing, and temporal), computational domain (what values go in the equations), and coordinate s...

Judas and Eve: Evil Deeds

is seen as a simple woman as well, a woman who loves her husband, is perhaps desiring of sexual relations with him, and ultimately...

Augustine’s Confessions

grace precedes faith."7 Augustine argues that it is impossible "to believe without having heard," yet is also impossible for the i...

The Problem of Evil and Augustine’s Idea of Free Choice

thinkers in the history of Christianity, and one of the most influential. After a youth spent in a frank enjoyment of sensual plea...