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Essays 181 - 210
Buddha identified Four Noble Truths. They may be briefly stated as follows: Human life is an existence of suffering. Human sufferi...
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...
owners, today one will find that Santeria is sprinkled with a mixture of both Spanish and African terms. That is based on this hi...
In five pages the notion of 'invisible cultures' as portrayed in Blues People by Amiri Baraka, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Sp...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...
of Hare Krishna, which partakes of the spiritual side of life by eschewing that which is overtly materialistic and shallow. Creat...
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...
(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...
no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...
who one is, murder is deemed to be wrong. It is ones duty to find other means of solving ones problems than to simply murder the o...
is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...
the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...
a place where she could just live with normal people, people with jobs, people with dreams, people who believed like she did. Desp...
wrong with him. Seth states, "I dont like the way he stare at everybody. Dont look at you natural like" (Wilson 232). The fact t...
sweet unto me" (II, I). It seems that Augustine wants to review the past in order to share the journey to the present, and to rem...
II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
between ethics and religion.4 Because this seems whimsical at best and cumbersome, even nonsensical at worst, Im very glad to hea...
the good place" (Hemingway 29). The same way in which nature balanced Hemingways perspective of the world around him, Adams aff...
In five pages the spiritual laboratory assistant Animadab is compared with the nonspiritual Aylmer as depicted in this short story...
A paper illustrating themes of spiritual order and disorder in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author dr...
This paper looks at the role of the mysterious St John in Bronte's Jane Eyre. The two characters are presented as having lives whi...
In fifteen pages this canto is examined in terms of its specific passages and how it provides the spiritual foundation for New Eng...
In five pages this paper considers how this imagery combines to represent lost vision and spiritual confusion in this tragic play ...
In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...
In five pages this research paper examines the path of nonresistance and noncooperation that Mahatma Gandhi began in South Africa ...
In six pages Jainism's history and belief systems are considered in an overview that also makes comparisons with the Buddhist spir...
In five pages this paper examines the Mecca pilgrimage of Malcolm X and the dramatic effects of this spiritual journey. Four sou...
In five pages Malcolm X's life, his Nation of Islam activism, subsequent disillusionment, Mecca spiritual enlightenment pilgrimage...
In nine pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of the shared theme of a spiritual quest. Seven sources are cited ...