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Control and Authority Reflected in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and 'The World of Margery Kempe' by Margery Kempe

In twelve pages the issues of legal, religious and social limitations are considered as they relate to the concepts of control and...

Literature of Early America

In nine pages the religious messages of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of...

Virtue, Justice, and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas

In seven pages this paper discusses how this preeminent religious philosopher defined virtue, justice, and the common good. One s...

Slavery as Presented in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

many ways, this novel is the quintessential slave narrative. The character of Uncle Tom has come to epitomize the racial st...

Overview of Hasidism

In five pages Hasidism is examined in a consideration of the lifestyle, beliefs, and religious practices that are associated with ...

Fundamentalism Religion and Its Roots

In five pages Israel and the United States are the focus of this discussion of the roots of religious fundamentalism with such top...

Constitutional Provisions and Freedom of Religion

In six pages this paper presents a fictitious situation in order to consider the U.S. Constitution's provisions regarding religiou...

Rastafarian Culture of Jamaica

In seven pages this paper examines the reggae and Rastafarian culture of Jamaica in a consideration of religious orientation defin...

India's Zoroastrians and Survival

In twelve pages this report discusses how India's Zoroastrians have managed to survive and keep their religious beliefs intact. E...

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Religious Symbolism

In six pages this paper examines how Jim Casy represents Jesus Christ in this religious symbolism analysis of John Steinbeck's nov...

1920 to 1921 Neighborhood of South Boston

In seven pages this paper examines how South Boston's predominantly Irish neighborhood, also dubbed 'the Irish Ghetto' developed d...

Christian Church and Capital Punishment

the topic, some history is in order. How has the death penalty been treated in Christian religions, particularly among the Protest...

Comparing Jesus Christ to Paul the Apostle

churches, though many were convened in his name. Most of the accounts of Jesus in the Bible talk about large crowds of people that...

Outmoded Concept of Registered Marriage

Kong, as Leung (2003) points out, registered marriage was welcomed by women as an integral part of their acquiring equal rights....

Religious Beliefs of Indigenous Africans

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

'A Prayer for My Son' by William Butler Yeats

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

Children's Stories Analysis

this argument we see that the giant is the handicapped child. The entire town is frightened of him because he is a giant. He does ...

Islam Perceptions

In three pages this paper discusses the media's role in shaping perceptions and misperceptions of outsiders regarding Islam in a c...

God According to the Ancient Greek Philosopher Xenophanes

all, but rather only the world (Burnet ch2bii). Modern terminology used by those sharing Xenophanes views would be that there lik...

Taylor and Bradstreet, Two Puritan Poets

Puritans have a dour, unsympathetic reputation, so the idea of Puritan poets may seem rather odd. However, that faith tradition pr...

Various Aspects of Hate Crimes

In ten pages hate crimes are examined in terms of various aspects that include statistical analysis, legislation, perpetrator info...

'Prayer' by George Herbert, Structure and Metaphor

In 5 pages this paper examines the sonnet structure of this 17th century poem and considers its use of religious metaphor. There ...

Confucius and Chinese Religion

This paper consists of three pages and discusses Chinese religious concepts according to Confucius with his Dao understanding cons...

Comparative Analysis of the French Revolution and the Protestant Reformation

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the Protestant Reformation and French Revolution from religious, political, cultura...

Decline of the Dark Ages

In five pages this paper discusses the Medieval civilization's end from the perspectives of 2 important religious leaders. Three ...

Middle East and Women of Islam

In fifteen pages this paper discusses Islamic women in a consideration of law, attitudes, female identity, religious and social va...

Global Business and Religion

the predominant religion of the land. Confusion of Culture and Religion Repression of women is...

Business Behavior and Religious Values

the perception of how humanism has been a necessary yet missing element within the business society. "Ethical humanism cuts out t...

Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

In five pages this paper examines this question 'For Frankl, is the human search for meaning necessarily a religious search?' with...