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Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...

Segregation's Return

their schools," on average attending schools "where less than 20% of the students are from all of the other racial and ethnic grou...

1990 Case of the US Supreme Court v. Employment Div., Ore. Department of Human Resources v. Smith, 494 US 872

for ingesting peyote, a hallucinogenic drug. This was not recreational drug use, however, but rather, for sacramental reasons as p...

Student's Religious Studies' Intellectual Journal

S/he reveals that the professor opted not to talk about Judaism because there were Jews in the class, and in the students opinion,...

Analysis of the Increases in Fundamentalist and Conservative Religious Groups

first founded by Radcliff-Brown and Evans-Pritchard. While initially utilized to aid our understanding of Polynesian and African ...

Anselm’s Ontological Arguments

by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...

Nursing Student Evaluation/Social Issues and Ethics

and * Student presentations (50.6 percent" (Burkemper, et al, 2007, p. 14). Less than one third of the courses surveyed indicat...

Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" - Technology

is how science fiction portrays this futuristic idea. Indeed, the extent to which films and books have expounded upon the potenti...

"Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree

in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...

Nihilism: An Overview of Perspectives

moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...

An Article Summary of 'An Old New Immigration Policy'

a history of the country inviting low-paid workers into the country in times of need. During World War I, for instance, workers wh...

Conflict Between Religion and Science

that it is only through science and the scientific method of inquiry that human beings can obtain reliable knowledge (Nord, 1999)....

The Historical Jesus in 3 Views

the context of Jewish salvation history (Sanders 88). Nevertheless, the issue of Jesus supernatural birth, as related in the gospe...

Brian DePalma's 'Carrie' A Cinematic Analysis

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

Cognitive Science And Information Technology

ability to outreason and outlearn their human counterparts, leaving humanity open to an entirely unknown reality if that is ever t...

Contemporary Life and Science

see that science has emerged from the beginning of time itself, and has over the years transformed nearly every aspect of our worl...

Nokia Corporation Analysis

year (Lee and Raza, 2000). Since Russia had been a large purchaser of mobile phones, Nokias mobile division experienced severe los...

God's Existence Cosmological Argument

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

Prejudice and Social Psychology

Allport developed what is known as the contact theory, which asserts that attitudes are established and develop through certain ty...

Psychology and Shifting Paradigms

In five pages this paper discusses psychology in an overview of the contemporary paradigm shift in this field of science. Three s...

The History and Utilization of Acupuncture

In fifteen pages acupuncture or the ancient Chinese technique of stimulating pressure points is discussed through definitions, his...

Overview of Environmental Sciences

In nine pages environmental sciences are considered in this overview of history and contemporary concerns. Seven sources are cite...

Edward Lee Thorndike and Charles Darwin on Behavioral Science

In nine pages Thorndike's and Darwin's theories of behavioral science are discussed and contrasted and compared with contemporary ...

Author Michael Crichto

In eleven pages this paper discusses the author's life and the unethical interaction between science and medicine as portrayed in ...

Elements and Features of Management Science

In seven pages this research paper discusses contemporary management science in a consideration of such topics as diversity traini...

Modern Management Strategies

In seven pages the changes to management strategies in recent years are examined with such topics discussed as information technol...

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim

In five pages this text is considered with the emphasis being on religious practices being studied by sociologists as a way to und...

20th Century Theology, Homosexuality, and the Church

tossing very divergent prohibitions under one blanket, states that godless "women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and [...

Freud, Nietzsche, and Marx's Contemporary Attacks on Religion

In ten pages this paper assesses the religious attacks Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl Marx launched to determine whe...