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sex, and they can be both works of sexuality, and still be considered works of art. Heterosexual women may paint women who are cle...

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

Within this framework of using the condemned mans impending death as a general warning, Occom also illustrates how alcohol had pro...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

journey home to his wife Penelope and son Telemakhos in Ithaka. The gods and goddesses also shape the poem structurally, and are ...

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

itself confirms those evils. Mark refers, of course, not only to the goodness of God but also the many evils which exist in our w...

verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...

human origins. He discusses the beliefs maintained by the three major Semitic religions and then discusses the role of Charles Dar...

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...

tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...

in the earliest forms of the Roman Creed but it was not until 360 that the word Catholic was added to the Creed in the West (Thurs...

afterlife, gods and worship, adventure and achievement, and legacy. The gender roles and children depicted in The Epic of Gilgame...

idea of a virtuous republican citizen similar to how one might consider a citizen today. To give power and authority to the indivi...

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...

humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and freedom from p...

It can be said that his treatises on this subject had great influence on the study of redemption in later years, or in the vernacu...

codified into groups of laws, established the basis of laws established in future cultures. While punishments were severe, they re...

job it is to perform certain sacred rituals, whereas in Judaism, the rabbi has no authority to perform rituals. Instead, Rabbis ar...

made quite the same impact as Hitlers oratory, personality and leadership. There can be no doubt that at the height of his popula...

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."9 The Lord says: "I am the God of your f...

to their patients. Mostly, these are not commitments that are verbalized and all too often, they are commitments the parties do no...

sanctified, that is set apart for Gods service (Griffiths, 1993). They are delivered for Gods use, by blood to the Lord. This ver...

arranges marriages, though she also comes from a culture that, according to Indian standards, "Kerala is well known for its relati...

by allowing some evils to exist, it makes possible greater goods that cannot be obtained by any other route (Honderich, et al 255)...