When most people think of reading, they think of either reading for entertainment, or for academic gain. However, in Saint Augustine's Confessions, he urges us, through his example and explanation, to view reading as a path to understanding truthâ€"almost as a spiritual pra...

Evolution. Is it just a scientific theory or fact, or perhaps a source of philosophical thought which one adopts as an evolutionist or chooses when one has a particular worldview? Evolution actually has philosophical ramifications, ones I want to examine in this essay. Evolution means several things...

Give Me Liberty or Give Me a Piece of Fruit? The Liberty (or Lack Thereof) of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. -Milton, Areopagitica, 1644 If we are to take any one moral from Milton's P...

"Zaabalawi" by Nagiub Mahfouz On the surface, "Zaabalawi by Nagiub Mahfouz is a classic story. By looking deeper, one finds strong religious and social undertones. The main religious themes in the story appear through the characters of Zaabalawi and the Narrator. The social theme...

The story opens with Ruby Turpin entering a doctor's waiting room with her husband Claud who has been kicked by a cow. As she and Claud wait, she takes hard stock of the other people in the room. There was some white-trash, a "red- headed youngish woman" who was not white-trash, just common, a wel...