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Religion and its Influence on the Law

Catholic canon law, after all, has a long history of development, a history stretching back some two thousand years in fact (Hartm...

Social Institutions and Criminology

gangs, organized crime families, and crime in general, sometimes the family is what instigates it. Travis Hirschi for example cl...

U.S. Church and State Relationship

2006). The statement is attributed to the father of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson, who feared that if such a ...

Amish Teenagers and Their Distinct Subculture

beliefs of the Amish revolve around the Bible, the major tenets of which include adult baptism, separation from the world, simplic...

Social Disorganization and Organized Crime

concerning problems of our time. It has both direct and indirect impacts on the physical and philosophical infrastructural featur...

A Doll’s House as a Example of an Oppressive Marriage

and rules governing marriage; these rules were very oppressive to women. This paper discusses what Victorian society expected from...

Four Dissertations on Interdisciplinary Social Work

as expressed through collaborative efforts, that seemed to exert the greatest benefit to the acquisition of communicative behavior...

A Review of Perkins' "With Justice for All"

issue of social injustice. While this is necessarily a broad and multifaceted topic, Perkins does a good job of hitting the key po...

The Symbolic Function of Marriage in Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"

literary works of early America, is awash with allegory and symbolic meaning. Ostensibly, the story tells the tale of a somewhat l...

Old Testament Devotionals and Contemporary Interpretations

poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and t...

Teachers' Roles in Character Education: Examining the Controversy

ongoing debate about how much and how far the educational system should influence children. Is it appropriate for that system and ...

The Church and the Empire in the 4th Century

in the late Third and early Fourth centuries. Diocletian had ruled with an iron hand. He established a four-fold division of power...

Women in Genesis and the Qu'ran

This four-page paper compares and contrasts women in the Book of Genesis in the Bible and the Qu'ran. Common topics regarding wome...

Religious Freedom Thanks to Rodger Williams

in large part because they wanted to be allowed to practice religion as they saw fit. Given that, its odd to note that the society...

Jefferson, Church, and State

The concept of just how related politics should be to religion has been one that has occupied the minds of the greatest thinkers o...

Lady with Lapdog

and one could well envision how Chekhovs character, Gurov, may well have married for something other than love. "He had been talke...

Methodist Church and Human Sexuality

to individuals, families and the social order" ("Human," 2004). The policy statement then goes on to indicate its opposition to ...

Comparing United Methodist to Russian Orthodoxy

"in the sacrament of Confession with a priest" ("The Sacraments, 2010). As with many Protestant sects, the United Methodist Chur...

Tom Jones by Fielding

out of necessity for many and Allworthy and Bridget seem content to go without marriage, although Bridget was once married. They r...

Case Briefs: Three Polygamy Cases

that there was not adequate referencing for many of the points in the appeal, and so granted an appeal based on only the following...

Sexual Orientation and Race Relations in Greer's Story of Marriage

Holland was a shell of a soldier, sitting on a bench at the beach in San Francisco when Pearlie saw him and recognized him instant...

Christ and Church - Sacraments

The Catholic Catechism explains that the sacraments are the visible signs of the mystery of salvation with salvation being the hid...

The Story of an Hour

outside of this reality. Prior to focusing on these elements within the story it is imperative that a person understand the Vict...

Comparing and Contrasting Family and Religion in Romania and the US

(Anonymous, 2011). Today marriages remain the mainstays of families, and while many of the older generations were married through ...

Providing Christian Witness is a Multi-Religion Environment

same region (Bilton et al, 2008). In many instances different ethnicities tend to have a traditional association with specific rel...

Jacobson and Gottman/Domestic Violence

informative and it concludes by offering specific, worthwhile advice on how domestic violence should be addressed, offering specif...

The Early Church, Part 3: Medieval Christianity/Gonzalez

New Order, Chapter 26 The Barbarian Kingdoms: Gonzalez points out that while, the Roman perspective was that the invaders were si...

Options for Christian Education

basic Christian doctrine; undervaluing talents of the more artistic members of the congregation; failing to connect the creative v...

Chapter 3, Gonzalez, The Early Church

of his text The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. Justin Gonzalez discusses "The C...

Chapter 4 in Gonzalez's The Early Church

Mission In this chapter, Justin Gonzalez elaborates further on the history of the early Christian church, as recorded in Acts, re...