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Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and Ethics

In five pages this 1989 movie's portrayal of ethical and moral considerations is examined along with a discussion of how it portra...

Southern Fiction and Manners

that manners and formal politeness will overlap: the way in which white Southern gentlemen treated white Southern ladies, for exam...

Protagonists' Waiting in Waiting for Godot

up life. Most people will not do this, although there are some who are willing. Some of the kamikaze pilots who crashed into build...

Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God and a Consideration of Ulu

which the British officer solicits his aid illustrates the bipolar reaction of Ezeulu verses the office who has been appointed to ...

Godly Encounters

means "face of God" (NIV). These verses record that a "man" (exact origin is unstated) wrestled with Jacob until daybreak. Jacob ...

Holy Spirit, Church, and Faith

Jesus Christ, trusting enough so that one obeys their commands.3 We demonstrate our faith in Jesus through Baptism. This is repe...

Belief and Disbelief in an 'Accidental Century'

and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...

Contemporary American Novel

Penn Warren, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton. All of these novels ...

Images and Energies of Apollo and Dionysus

the purpose of allowing the repressed feminine or nurturing side of man to come forth and for the brutal or aggressive side of wom...

God, Science, and Religion

on through infinity. However, at some point, there had to be a first cause, which set these wheels into motion, which is the bein...

Religion and Anthropomorphism

out of favor as a more philosophical approach took over. In more recent years, however, the fundamentalist and evangelical movemen...

Ancient Literature on the Life's Meaning of Moral Order

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

The City of God - Two Cities

of his time period would see the end of the one city, the city of man, and the reign of another, the city of God. One author state...

Questioning Who Jesus is and What He Represents

accompanies a mortal existence, one will reap the benefits of living a pure life; indeed, whatever trials and tribulations one exp...

'The Holdfast' by George Herbert

from grace. I threatend to observe the strict decree Of my dear God with...

Contemporary Product Name and the Greek God Apollo

their strong financial record demonstrates a doubling in their enrollments and their gross revenues between 1995 and 1999 (Company...

Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

Evil, God, and David Hume

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

God and Suicide

In five pages this paper argues that in certain situations God would not condemn a person for committing suicide. One source is c...

Dictatorships and Foreign Policy of the United States

its right-wing allies, "he may be a son-of-a-bitch, but is our son-of-a-bitch" (Schmitz 4). Schmitz traces the origin of this ch...

Reconsideration of Incarnation

"Christians" would gather before dawn and recite a "hymn" to Christ, as if "to a god" (Shelley 22). These hymns, which can be date...

God, Nature, and Human Knowledge and the Philosophies of John Locke and Rene Descartes

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

The Similarities in Thinking of Bonhoeffer, Luther, and Augustine

In a paper consisting of six pages the writer argues that despite living in different times these men's concepts and thoughts were...

Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein

In five pages this paper discusses Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein in a consideration of the author's number theory of risk...

Catherine of Siena and Bernard of Clairvaux

of God, and of the salvation of her neighbors, exercising herself in humble prayer, after she had seen the union of the soul, thro...

God and Morality

In five pages this paper examines the role of God in morality. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

God, Understanding Morality, and David Hume

In five pages David Hume's definition of morality as a sympathy concept is applied to his contention that moral views do not stem ...

Mechanistic and Teleological Views of the World

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...

Black Literature and Its Portrayals of Sexual Molestation, Domestic Violence

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

Gilgamesh, Genesis: Comparing Floods

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...