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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Ibo Children

In six pages this paper examines what social, political, spiritual, and physical symbolism children represent in this acclaimed Ni...

Jesus and Adversarial People

the answers. Moreover, having sent His Son to lead by example, one has only to follow Jesus teachings when it comes to dealing wi...

Practices of Meditation

In fourteen pages this report considers meditation practices in an assessment of its spiritual impact, benefits, and effectiveness...

Spiritual Marketplace by Wade Clark Roof

Contemporary American beliefs and spirituality are the focus of this overview of Wade Clark Roof's Spiritual Marketplace consistin...

Dante's Purgatory Symbolism

In eight pages this paper focuses upon the Purgatorio section of The Divine Comedy in an analysis of Dante Alighieri's use of symb...

The “Journey Motif” in Literature

that merits the death penalty. The only way to understand his savagery is as the climax of the poem, and a reward for his struggle...

The Saver

could serve to sever Fern from her First Nations heritage. Fortunately, that turns out to not be the case. Fern actually grows s...

Christian Marriage Sacraments

In seven pages this research paper discusses the Christian marriage sacraments the spiritual journey of growth it represents. Thr...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

Spiritual Aspects of Fishing in Hemingway's, The Old Man and the Sea

mythical, whereas Manolins father simply catches fish and sells them for money without thinking too much about it. Manolin, despi...

Sexuality and Prostitution in the novel, Catcher in the Rye

This paper examines issues of sexuality in the novel, Catcher in the Rye. The author focuses on the spiritual and social beliefs ...

Taylor and Bradstreet, Two Puritan Poets

Puritans have a dour, unsympathetic reputation, so the idea of Puritan poets may seem rather odd. However, that faith tradition pr...

Evolution Of Gospel Music In America

anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...

Faith & Science/Human Need for Religion

note that he differentiates between "religion" and "spirituality." Hamer maintains that "spirituality is genetic, while religion i...

Theoretical Models on Personal Identity

subject. There is a great deal of argument as to what constitutes personal identity. Is identity ones mind or body, or is it, rath...

Attainment Failure of Gilgamesh, Its Spiritual and Psychological Ramifications

any further for Gilgameshs psychological implication than his unyielding ambition to attain what he hoped for on his journey after...

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Spirituality

the individual. For one to realize his best self he had to first discover himself and to learn to trust himself. He believed in ...

Mel Gibson's Cinematic Interpretation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

Literary Psychological Growth and Spiritual Transformation

no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...

Who am I? Self Concept Consideration

who one is, murder is deemed to be wrong. It is ones duty to find other means of solving ones problems than to simply murder the o...

Emily Dickinson's Religious Perspectives in 'Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church'

is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Spirituality in 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages the spiritual laboratory assistant Animadab is compared with the nonspiritual Aylmer as depicted in this short story...