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Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

Meso American Civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca

In six pages this essay contrasts and compares these early Meso American civilizations in terms of organizational, agricultural, r...

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

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

Tirso's The Trickster of Seville

The religious environment of Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries, for instance, can be seen as a key factor in terms of the b...

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...

Change vs. Tradition in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...

Renaissance Challenges Responded to by Calvinism and Lutheranism

by choice but are instead dictated by an omnipotent source, the inherent faith and ability to think creatively of ones beliefs is ...

Cultural Practices Reflecting the Unity Between the Spritual and Material World Among the Indigenenous Cultures of Africa and the Americas

however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...

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 ...

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...

The Lottery by Jackson: Violence or Tradition?

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

Can A Sense Of National Unity Be Constructed Through Cultural Policy?

even simply a shared feeling of community which is aided by a common enemy. The increased fragmentation that has been seen today ...

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

The Law in England and China Compared

of binding precedent, but also in the lack of doctrines to act as a foundation of the law. However, there are many commonalities....

The Vernacular Tradition and African-American Literature

admiring the speech, the student could say something like the following. Martin Luther Kings "I Have a Dream" speech is one of th...

Jackson's The Lottery and Obsolete Tradition

principal rationalization behind the lottery when he says, "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon" (Jackson). Warner disparages thos...

Old South Traditions in Faulkner's 'A Rose For Emily'

And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...

American Perspectives on Christmas

when the U.S. hostages were being held in Iran, and that year only the top ornament was lit (American Christmas Traditions, Facts ...

Catholic Church, Tradition and Scripture

The leading priest of a particular region was elected by his fellow priests to serve as bishop. These bishops became increasingly...

Baroque Artistic Period and Meaning

describe the art from the baroque period they would include: spacious, dynamic, natural, colorful, passionate, sensual and versat...

Christ's Charge to Peter Drawing by Raphael

In seven pages this origin of this drawing is examines as Raphael's background in terms of what religious and social influences im...

Knowledge and Sexuality According to German and French Critical Theory

In twelve pages Michel Foucault's philosophies are featured in a discussion of critical theory pertaining to the French and German...

Life and Times of Michelangelo Buonarroti

In fifteen pages this paper examines how Michelangelo represented the Renaissance times in which he lived and that his art and arc...

Three Possible Ways to Live

This 6 page paper constructs three hypothetical lives, one based on the classical tradition, one based on the Christian tradition,...

Poe, Hawthorne, Irving and Romanticism Considering Romanticism in Literature By Examining Stories By Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...

Botticelli, Humanism and Renaissance Art

for aesthetic as well a religious purposes, and expressed the mythological subjects favored by the humanists, who enjoyed their hi...

Feminist Wiccan Tradition's Progression

In seven pages this paper examines how the feminist Wiccan tradition has progressed from a 'New Age' perspective. Five sources ar...

4th Century A.D. Religious and Political Influences Upon the Art and Architecture of Rome

of German and Roman culture just as there had been a blending of Roman cultures with the other cultures which she engaged in warfa...