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Heredity or Environment

Consider criminals who could blame their crimes on their DNA. Several years ago, scientists seemed to agree that sexual orientatio...

Debate: All U.S. Citizens Should Serve in the Military

before determining their lifes work"; second, it "instills discipline"; third, it provides training that will be of significant he...

Paying College Athletes and the Ongoing Debate

athletes unfortunately do not have the grades to attend some of these schools. The obvious reason for this phenomenon is that mone...

Debate on a Postwar Consensus

In thirteen pages the postwar consensus debate is considered in an overview of the texts B. Pimlott's The Myth of Consensus, Antho...

Yearley's Religious Plurality Perspectives in 'New Religious Virtues and the Study of Religion'

having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...

Religious Theories of Emile Durkheim in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

premises the concept that religion is rooted in the nature of things and that any system of belief which dos not have this groundi...

Reason and Religious Belief An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Michael L. Peterson

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

The Chosen by Chaim Potok and Religious Pluralism

In five pages this paper discusses religious pluralism within the context of Potok's novel and the religious patterns featured in ...

Explanatory and Descriptive Reductionism

experience in religious terms, then it is not appropriate for others to describe it in terms of a purely physical experience (noti...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

Public School System and the Issue of Religion

be learning about other religions and religious tolerance. In August of 1995, the Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley ...

Comparative Analysis of Mohammed, Moses, and Jesus

In seven pages this paper attempts to determine the religious mythos' origins by examining these religious leaders in terms of the...

A World View and Personal Faith

14). Consequently, Barth began to formulate a personal theology based solely on scripture, virtually ignoring the theological prin...

Religious Change in America by Andrew M. Greeley

In five pages Greeley's text which discusses the changes in American religious observances is considered and reveals that contrary...

Influence and Impact of Reverend Billy Graham

In nine pages the major political influence and religious impact of minister and evangelist Billy Graham are discussed within the ...

Religion in Early America

In five pages the original 13 American colonies are examined in terms of their diverse religious practices with the effects on wom...

Religion in the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages the religious views of the Sumerians as represented in the Epic of Gilgamesh are contrasted and compared with contem...

Magic and Primitive Religion

In six pages this paper compares Catholic religious practices with the magic used in primal religious rituals with Kenneth Kuykend...

Religious Discrimination Or Not

it will not bode well with most major corporations. Religious discrimination is found in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 19...

Religion: Symbols, Systems, Thought and Practice

strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he des...

Religious Rights In The Workplace

heretofore been clean-shaven for the previous fourteen years of employment. His abrupt demand to be allowed to serve food with fa...

Iraq, North Korea, and American Ill Will

the United States (Culture of North Korea, 2010). The capital of Pyongyang, which had been severely bombed by the United States d...

Marx, Live Sex Acts by Chapkis, and the 'Job' of Sex

In four pages this paper discusses how sex represents work in a consideration of Marxist theories and this text by Chapkis. There...

A Review of the Eighteenth Century Play The Love Suicides At Sonezaki

only option it seems is for him and Ohatsu to commit suicide. In the last lines of the poem he laments:...

Place Of Religious Experience In Lawrence Kohlberg's Ideas Of Human Development

social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...

Sex Offender Profiling and Multiphasic Sex Inventory II

patterns of response throughout the test. The scales by which alleged or admitted sexual offenders are assessed work in slightly ...

Political Correctness: A Negative Impact on the Holidays

the season to mere consumerism" (Dwyer, 2004). As noted above, it is this "hypersensitivity" and our attempt to avoid offending an...

Hallucinations, Possession Trance And Religious Authenticity: Hollywood's Accurate Interpretation

benefit of any mutilating tool; Sands (2001) notes that to suggest this trance - or hallucination - is motivated by anything other...

Discrimination of Religion

Christians, Muslims, and Jews are the most discriminated religious groups in the world. This essay provides data about religious d...

Arranged Marriage's Psychological and Physical Perils

have a voice in the ultimate selection of their marriage partner nor the time or circumstances that surround the marriage. It is ...