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Essays 541 - 570

Comparing the Christian Account of Our Creation to the Yoruba Creation Myth

warm and light the new creation (Awolalu, 1996). Obatala then made human figures from dirt, human figures that were varied and co...

No Climate Crisis According to Author Michael Crichton

most entertaining books ever written, including Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and The Lost World among others. His 2004 "tec...

There’s Something About Mary

fool has a wondrous capability of truly providing many different elements of human nature to the audience. They can be ridiculous ...

Mythology for Nations and Individuals

the will to live together is the result of sharing past memories. These shared memories of common experiences, whether "of glories...

The Life of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels

King of the Jews. Mark places more emphasis on what Jesus did than what He said. He saw Jesus as a powerful servant of God. Luke s...

Christianity and Islam

which set the family in a state of poverty (Hooker, 1996). Mohammeds family was from the Hashim clan, which was one of the poorer ...

White Skin as Privilege?

generally focuses on how so many people have worked hard to become part of the white race. This, in and of itself, would clearly b...

Studying Creation Myths

studying it in the same way we study language (Csapo, 2005, p. 220). His theory puts more emphasis on the meaning of myth rather t...

Issues Facing the Transgendered Person

(2001). Duberman got his doctorate in 1957 and was firmly "in the closet" at the time, but when he wrote in 2001, he no longer had...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

Healing With Prayer

Are the criteria for the charismatic part founded on Scripture? If the criteria for the charismatic identity is not founded on Scr...

Mark 1:21-28

they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching-and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him (v...

American Immigration Paradoxes

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

Analysis of Beowulf

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

Greek Mythology, Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man, and the Story of Zeus and Other Olympic Deities

period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...

The Hero’s Journey: Moses and Jesus

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

Barriers Between Readers and the Other

West, who defined the native American tribes as "savages"; and by so doing, made it possible to justify killing them (in self-defe...

Mark 1:21-28/Healing in Capernaum

they can trust to help them. Do they have the authority, that is, the expertise necessarily to help them leave darkness and embra...

Three films about Jesus

his home, and is confronted by an angel who convinces him that Mary has told the truth. The next scenes dramatize the "birth of Je...

Karl Barth's Christology

more certain that any consideration of Gods relationship to humanity must also consider the presence of God as manifested in the p...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

Jesus and Mohammed

faith, was written after Jesus death by varied authors. Mohammed essentially started Islam and in the case of Jesus, his works and...

Payment for Donating Blood

the blood utilized by the pharmaceutical industry in developing vaccines, diagnostics, and drug products (114). That of course mak...

Views of Jesus

perspective is not the error, in this authors view, but rather approaching the subject of naturalizing Jesus from a preconceived n...

Jesus Taught About Love, Compassion, Justice, Hospitality, Hope

way to be part of the community.3 Each person had a role - the host would extend a graceful welcome to the guest and the guest wou...

Social Worlds: Maria Carolina de Jesus, C. Eric Lincoln and Bob Marley

work "Child of the Dark" and illustrates things such as how she lived in a world wherein macaroni was expensive, and then existing...

Luke 5:36-39

the old" (Luke 5:36). Jesus continues the lesson by discussing wineskins. If you put new wine in old skins, "the new wine will b...

Significance of Jesus Christ’s Death and Resurrection as Decay and Renewal in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...