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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Character Comparison of Levin and Anna

In six pages Konstantin 'Kostya' and Anna Levin as featured in Anna Karenina are contrasted and compared in terms of their moral p...

Issues in the Donation of Organs

consciousness that permits the individual to continue his or her own life in the mortal body of another by being an organ donor. ...

'The Flea' by John Donne

In five pages religious satire, the notion of metaphysical conceit, argument, and metaphor are all considered within the context o...

Middle East and Islamic Religious Fundamentalism

In eight pages this paper discusses the Middle East in a consideration of Islamic religious fundamentalism and its political impac...

Development in Japan and China From the Sixteenth Until the Nineteenth Century

In five pages the time period from 1500 until 1800 is the focus of a discussion of Japan and China's religious, economic, and poli...

Religious Autobiographies The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, The Confessions of Augustine and the Uses of Rhetoric

In four pages this paper examines the philosophical rhetoric associated with these 2 religious autobiographies. Five sources are ...

American Individualism According to Emerson, Bellah and de'Tocqueville

This 5 page paper examines various types of American individualism by analyzing literary works. The pitfalls of individualism were...

Ancient Egypt's Myths and Religious Beliefs

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how nature is reflected in the religious beliefs of ancient Egypt. Twelve sources are cited...

Ghana's Astante Group and Healing Practices

In eight pages the Asante of Ghana are examined in terms of their religious and medical practices with a comparison between those ...

Death Dream Interpretation

In five pages this paper presents the writer's personal dream and provides a psychological and religious interpretation of it. Tw...

Supporting Same Sex Marriages

but that indeed is the premise of Americas religious right. While the religious right condemns homosexuality, Christian churches h...

Contemporary Social Applications of the Human Rights' and Justice Theories of John Rawls

man with fine moral sense when dealing with other human beings and is considered to be an admirable man not only because of his wr...

Black Spiritual's Significance

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

theater is a reflection of the way people think and behave. It is also a precursor to where the society is going because it invol...

Contemporary China and Catholicism

its work in China but on an interdenominational level (Yang, 1998). The "official" Catholics in China began to ordain their own b...

Synoptic Gospels and Soteriology

Aquinas goes on to explain Christs sacrifice through suffering in that it came out of Christs love and obedience for mankind. This...

Modern Religion Evolution

have been formulated that propose how religious observance may have come about. One of the first theories proposed pertaining to ...

Religious Themes in the Butterfly Shaped Poem 'Easter Wings' by George Herbert

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

Feminist Perspective on Religion

ostensibly, the use of the masculine pronoun is suppose to encompass both men and women, Johnson argues that to consistently use t...

Book of Matthew's Sermon on the Mark and Buddhism's 8 Fold Path

Livelihood, 6. Right Effort Mental Development, 7. Right Mindfulness, 8. Right Concentration" (Anonymous The Noble Eightfold Path ...

What It Is Like to Grow Up as a Mormon

up at 5:00 in the morning and stop working at 9:00 p. m" (Gardner, 2002; gardner-con1.html). He illustrates that this is where he ...

The Separation of Church and State

todays political system, consider the following "specific Machiavellian dictates"5 that are utilized in contemporary politics: * ...

Cloning of Human Beings Should Not Be Allowed for Religious, Scientific, and Moral Reasons

womb, is upon the world. These are issues of science fiction, but as time goes on they become science fact, a situation that has t...

Hinduism vs. Buddhism

four different occasions away from his palace he encountered the true pervasiveness of human suffering. When Prince Siddartha went...

Blues and Spirituals

means by which oppressed African Americans could expressed their extreme frustration, melancholy and longing. Intensely moving slo...

Religion and Muhammad Ali

in a very "somber mood" due to his internal and external feud concerning "his mentor, Malcolm, and his spiritual leader, the Natio...

Religion and James Joyce

joyce.html). His mother, Mary Jane Murray, was "ten years younger than Stanislaus, was an accomplished pianist whose life was domi...

Debates Concerning Embryonic Research

developed fetuses, but are only the stem cells that differentiate into the various structures that eventually do become organized ...

Philosophers on Religious Ethics

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...