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Overview of Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

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...

'The Odyssey' by Homer, the Gods, and Odysseus

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

Literary Fiction and Self Discovery

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

'Image of God' and Humanity Implications

of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...

Gods and Monsters and Its Message Regarding Society and Culture

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

Early American Poetry

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

Comparing Sermons of Samson Occom and Jonathan Edwards

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

The God of Small Things and Sexual Transgression's Dark Reality Symbolism

so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....

Concept of God as Trinity

Chief among notable theologians to undertake study of this matter is Jurgen Moltmann, and his philosophy is often referred to as t...

Mortality in Epic of Gilgamesh

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

A Comparison of Machiavelli and Hobbes

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

Islam's Early Rise

East Asia (Fiero, DATE). This religion provided "spiritual unity and cultural cohesiveness to people of a wide variety of language...

A Comparison of the Tales of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf

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

Paul K. Conkin's When All the Gods Trembled

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

Gender Relations in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Sweat' and Their Eyes Were Watching God

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

Ancient Cultural Development and Anthropomorphic Gods

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

Religion Exploration

America, they worked very hard to convert the Native American Indians, who obviously did not believe in Jesus Christ. The new set...

Divisions Between Human Epistemology and Divine Epistemology

God that is insufficiently explained by philosophy is referred to as "knowing" (Christian Gospel and Our Culture, 2004). "Knowing...

Relationship Between Man and the Gods in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

but rather it is Poseidon who hates him. Zeus says, "...its the Earth-Shaker, Poseidon, unappeased,/forever fuming against him for...

Literature and Issues of Gender and Race

how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...

Critical Response to the Film The Gods Must Be Crazy

anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...

Religion According to Martin Heidegger

between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...

Zora Neale Hurston and the Fiction She Inspired

card ready, as this seemed to impress people and verify that, yes, an African American could be a public accountant. Mentally, Ann...

Feminist Views of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

her and keeps her confined out of jealousy. Things get worse as he begins to physically and emotionally abuse her. She eventual...

Nature Imagery in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston and William Wordsworth

are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...

Christ and the Theology of Karl Barth

of Gods existence; even in "leaving" God to come to earth Jesus remained with the Father. Though physically separate, spiritually...

The New South and the Black American Communities

groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...

Overview of Odin, the Norse God

also suggests that battle was not only crucial, but perhaps desired. We also note that in some legends Odin sacrificed one of h...

Hinduism and Mythology

came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...