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collection of sayings which give a significant insight into Confucian thought and philosophy. The Book of Changes, for instance, i...

The Bible, on the other hand, has a much looser structure and was not written by a single author, or group of authors, at one part...

traveled to Lilliput, where there was a constant state of war between the Lilliputians and their bitter enemies, the Blefuscudians...

humankind, then all women, regardless of ethnicity, class, varying abilities, or sexual orientation, are a part of Gods very good ...

that appears to illustrate the story of Isaac, which is recorded in the book of Genesis in both Jewish and Christian scripture. Th...

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

there are two different types of magic as it relates to religions of the world. There is sympathetic magic and contagious magic. "...

Hindus in that they also believe that dharma is a natural universal law which is in and pervades everything. To live in harmony wi...

todays political system, consider the following "specific Machiavellian dictates"5 that are utilized in contemporary politics: * ...

its work in China but on an interdenominational level (Yang, 1998). The "official" Catholics in China began to ordain their own b...

man with fine moral sense when dealing with other human beings and is considered to be an admirable man not only because of his wr...

God had created an idyllic paradise for man, and it was only when a winged Satan invaded the peaceful calm and inflicted his exist...

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

theater is a reflection of the way people think and behave. It is also a precursor to where the society is going because it invol...

This then introduces the debate regarding predestination and free will: if...

lose weight for genetic reasons and that of course they would be thin if it were possible. Similarly, homosexuals claim that their...

impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...

between the teacher and the students. In the book, Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum, by Warren Nord and Charles Ha...

equal before God, including women. Indeed, the road to female freedom and self-expression has been paved with patriarchal intoler...

for his own wants as a man. Sir Gawains virtue is tested against the backdrop of religious implication when Bercilaks wife ...

This sacrifice, however, did not require the sinner to relinquish his life, for God realized that would be too great a cost, so He...

womb, is upon the world. These are issues of science fiction, but as time goes on they become science fact, a situation that has t...

the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...

four different occasions away from his palace he encountered the true pervasiveness of human suffering. When Prince Siddartha went...

means by which oppressed African Americans could expressed their extreme frustration, melancholy and longing. Intensely moving slo...

in a very "somber mood" due to his internal and external feud concerning "his mentor, Malcolm, and his spiritual leader, the Natio...

death of King Pepin; when Carloman died, Charlemagne annexed his lands and disinherited Carlomans two young sons, who ended up, wi...