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Stevie Smith And Christianity
1,395 wordsDiscovering the essence of Christianity is too varied and diverse a topic for anyone to pin to solely one definition. How one approaches the topic of Christianity is often in accordance to their personal foundations of religious belief. Sometimes these beliefs are deeply seeded during childhood so, as children mature into adults, they seldom doubt that which has been taught to them for so many years. English poet, Florence Margaret Smith, was not one of these individuals. Smith, more popularly k...
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Polish Government Modern Times
1,107 wordsWhat was the Cossack Movement? Who were the Cossacks? Why is the Cossack experience important to the history of modern Ukraine? In the late 15 th and early 16 th centuries a new group of people formed in the country of Ukraine. This group wanted many new ideals and options in life that had been previously withheld from them. This was a group of freedom and fortune seekers who did not want to be subjugated to the land. These people had little or no interests in religion. Their interests concerned...
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Drunk Driving Accidents Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1,006 wordsThere are right and wrong choices to make when a person chooses to drink alcohol. A good choice would be to drink responsibly and make sure not get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. Designating a driver that will not drink during your outing is a good decision to make. A poor decision would be to get extremely drunk and decide to get behind the wheel of a car and drive anyway. It might be the persons opinion that they are capable of driving safely. This poor decision could seriously harm an i...
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Board Of Education Intelligent Design
801 wordsIf you " re planning a vacation later this year, better make sure it's not in Kansas. According to recent reports, the state's overall IQ has just taken a nosedive. What has caused this "giant step back into the nineteenth century" as one person called it? Quite simply, the State Board of Education voted to de-emphasize evolution in state testing and to give local school boards the option of deciding whether or not evolution would be taught. Nationwide, the reaction has been vehement. On ABC's "...
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Relationship With God Traditional Beliefs
641 wordsBy insisting on complete orthodoxy is society only hurting itself? I believe when a society demands orthodoxy it is asking for problems. Orthodoxy to a small extent can be helpful to society, but when it is required by the people, and they demand it to the fullest it can do nothing but cause problems. There is many reasons whey complete orthodoxy only hurts society. First off, it greatly diminishes all forms of creativity among the people and doesnt allow for new ideas that can help benefit soci...
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Days And Nights Life And Death
1,952 wordsIvan Ilyich's death in Tolstoy's novel speaks to more than the certainty and inevitability of physical cessation. Ilyich is dead as the novel opens, and the announcement of his death spreads and envelopes the entire novel. Yet this is not the entire breadth and scope of what the author reveals. Revelation occurs as the novel progresses and Ivan Ilyich's awareness of his wasted life grows. Not only has Ivan Ilyich died, but he has always been dead, and having died, he now lives. To understand the...
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Sex And Love In Orwell 1984
1,082 wordsGeorge Orwell's novel 1984 explores intimate human relationships in a bleak futuristic society as experienced by protagonist Winston Smith. Since there are few bonds stronger than those developed from loving relationships among family, friends, and lovers, the only entity acceptable to love in Oceania is the face of the Party, Big Brother. This restriction is necessary to achieving complete power and control over its citizens, as the Party must dissolve all loyalties derived through love, sex, a...
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Five Pillars Holy War
389 wordsIf to get deeper in understanding the concept of Jihad, it is possible to find that wrong understanding of holy war could cause some tensions. The original meaning of Jihad is to make an effort in order to achieve Allahs mercy. This means that every true Muslim should observe Five Pillars of Islam and should strive to do his best in obeying all the laws. Islam teaches that all the people are sinners (Koran 16, 61) and that salvation can be obtained only through observing the Five Pillars. This i...
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Alexander Iii Poverty Stricken
1,624 wordsFyodor Dostoevsky s novel, Crime and Punishment, is a reflection of life in St. Petersburg, Russia, during the rule of Czars Nicholas I and Alexander III. Though this topic only accounts for the reigns of Tsars Nicholas I and Alexander III, the reformative Alexander II also falls within the time period, 1800 s, so he will also be covered. Tsars Nicholas I and Alexander III showed no concern and elicited little progression for the condition of the poverty stricken in St. Petersburg. There are man...
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Neighbor Luther
2,948 wordsLutheran Orthodoxy and Pietism? So What? In many contemporary Lutheran circles, the labels? Orthodoxy? and? Pietism? are distinctly uncomplimentary. In popular usage, Orthodoxy means a fossilized over-intellectualized theological system that neglected the life of the people and distorted the heritage of the Reformation, synonymous with? ivory-tower unregenerate reactionary intellectual. ? One congregation, for example, had to listen to a sermon on Matthew 10: 30 (? And even the hairs of your hea...
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Jesus Christ Writings
3,151 wordsThe Canon of Biblical Writings For centuries now Christians have claimed to possess the special revelation of an omnipotent, loving Deity who is sovereign over all of His creation. This special revelation is in written form and is what has come to be known as The Bible which consists of two books. The first book is the Hebrew Scriptures, written by prophets in a time that was before Christ, and the second book is the New Testament, which was written by Apostles and disciples of the risen Lord af...
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Write A History Peter Stanford Heaven
732 wordsVanilla skies Heaven Peter Stanford 3844 pp, HarperCollins St Augustine thought nobody farted there. St Thomas Aquinas saw it as a celestial Trades Union Congress a place where the communion of the saints ruled co-operatively. But the Scandinavian version meant a lot of singing, boar-eating and mead-drinking. Heaven cant always wait. Peter Stanford's brisk popular theology a mixture of creeds, anecdotes and history shows how the waiting turns into imaginative star-gazing. To write a history of h...
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Mass Hysteria John Proctor
426 wordsHuman psychology and mental processes are different for each people because of their environment and their time. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, there is a psychological manipulation by the Church and other people producing a mass hysteria. Hysteria is considered a mental sickness because of too much stress or pressure, and if it is produced collectivity, an uncontrolled chain of hysteria is released. (Speak about context of novel, environment / time ) The mass hysteria of the Girls w...
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