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Conflict v. Functionalist Theories on Poverty and Crime

also state that group sports teaches hard work and patience, working toward a common goal and submission to authority, which are a...

William Sidney Mount and Samuel F.B. Morse and Their Approaches to American Art

were the most significant paintings for American to know and recognize. Nearly forty paintings and two sculptures can be found in ...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's Interpretation of Socrates' Trial and Death and I.F. Stone's The Trial and Death of Socrates

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these differing views on Socrates' trial for political subversion and execution. T...

Symposium by Plato and the Concept of Love

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

Deafness and Differing Perceptions

of the physical changes that can be made to repair or improve a deaf persons ability to perceive sound. For example, the developme...

Three Views of the Slave Trade in Africa

and time period under discussion. Eric Williams Williams begins his argument by pointing out that "unfree labor" in the New Worl...

Racism in Colonial America

Racism has been part and parcel of American society since its inception, and the colonial period featured racism in its most virul...

Annotated Bibliography: Origins of Greek Mathematics

is very advanced and demonstrates once again a close connection, in the ancient Greeks works, between mathematics and philosophy. ...

The Origins of the Blues

In many ways, the blues have a very "rich sense of origin" for a variety of reasons (Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2007). \...

A Comparision Between Laws on Religious Discrimination in the US and UK

by those wishing to discriminate by outline the ways in which they maybe able to legally avoid any recriminations for their action...

A Comparison of Five Religions

Koran, Jews follow the Torah or Tanakh (Rich, 2006), Buddhists follow the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama was is also known as the...

Confucianism Taoism and the Superior Man

Confucianism and Taoism are two of the Easts largest...

Aristotle and Human Origins

was also Aristotle who determined that in a beehive there was a particular leader, though he called it a "king" (Aristotle, 2006)....

Sacred Texts and 'Sacredness'

and how they should, in turn, love one another. Such a characteristic is present in the sacred texts of the world ranging from the...

Semitic Origins of the Hyksos

the Hyksos rulers (Redmount 68). Manethos text as interpreted by Josephus describes the Hyksos rulers as "sacrilegious inv...

Totalitarianism and How It Originated

the human omnipotence and the genuinely powerless. The books grim analysis of totalitarianisms origin leads the author to ass...

Medication and Cultures

This research paper describes how health beliefs and cultural views of medication influence health behaviors. Three pages in lengt...

Pursuing and Improving the Soul According to Socrates

control of the United States and establish a dictatorship. Most women in Gilead are infertile after repeated exposure to pesticide...

The Japanese Samurai

century, for example, the Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to overthrow the shogunate, the defacto government vying for power w...

Cosmos Origins, Religion, and Science

period of time? The purpose of this paper is to use various sources written about the topic in order to attempt to answer this all...

The Bible And The Koran

texts because it is accepted by a religion as the Word of God or the Word of Allah, in Islam. All religions have a sacred text upo...

Evolution of Christianity from Judaic Roots

scholarly and historical thought on this subject offers guidance on these issues. Christianity "was born of Judaism: it was the ...

Two Characteristics in Christianity and Islam

practice of prayer in the two religions is very different. Christianity calls for steady and ongoing prayer. They praised God, ask...

Rise of Islam

It only began to assume its own unique identity after combining various faiths and incorporating other cultural traditions. Traci...

Religion and World Construction by Peter L. Berger

"world-building efficacy of society must be explicated" and that this will aid the reader in understanding society in dialectic te...

Rastafarianism, Santeria, and Islam

islands as slaves (Crawford, 2001). It was created from necessity for the slaves to continue practicing their native religion with...

Faith or Reason in Belief in God

In five pages a dialogue between two people is explored with one who argues that a person believing in God must possess good reaso...

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Their Origins

to his god. Another is in the form of what is accepted by Jews as the first covenant. This laid the foundation for the Jewish re...

The Hellenistic Period

This paper explores the ways the ancient views of religion changed in response to the philosophical schools. There are three sour...

Motivation and its Origins

importance in contemporary culture and society, due to the rampant spread of obesity in the Western world, the prevalence of proce...