Every moment of every day art is created. A person can look at anything for a period of time, and eventually find some artistic quality to it. Will that quality that he or she finds be the same as the artist's, or even the same as the person standing right next to them? Of course not. But ...

Martin Zank of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy proclaims the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber to be one of the most important, yet also one of the most obscure of all modern theologians. Zank notes that the "preponderance in Buber's writings of abstract nouns such as 'experience,&a...

Many existentialist philosophers find their way into discussing religion in their writings. Philosophers speak about religion, because it is a subject that has the most affect on people. The affect is has is large because, many people including philosophers have attempted to shed light into such an...

Here's a report on John Updike and some of the things that he has written. If someone wants to use it, be advised that they should change all of the "its" referring to morality and etc... to something else. My extremely anal english teacher marked me off a point for every "it" that I used. Janice ...

Identifying Rhetorical Devices A foreign policy expert? What marvelous irony that a man who couldn't name the president of Pakistan or find Yemen or even Iraq on the world map is now considered a foreign policy expert. Someone in the administration should tell Bush the word is "nuclear" and n...

God is Dead?My grasp of Nietzsche's statement "God is dead" fluctuates between an almost enlightened comprehension of what he means to a virtual stupor of confusion. However, during my more lucid moments of understanding(which I like to believe outweigh the moments of stuporhood), I see his point on...

William Blake was a member of a social class with a long history of radical dissent. The Artisan class which he, as the son of a hosier, was born into and consequently remained in as an engraver later in his life, had opposed in turn first the landed mercantile aristocracy in the late eighteenth cen...

Religion Through the Ages Has Both Unified and Divided Civilizations Internally and Externally The role religion plays in world history is, at best, tremendous. Through the ages, religion has both unified and divided civilizations often bringing extreme human casualty, in the case of division, or ...

Focus Question: How does More comment on his times through Utopia?Syllabus outcome: Describe the interrelationship between the religious environment and the social and cultural context on which the literature draws.Introduction: When I chose to review Utopia, I can honestly say that I had no idea of...

"Order, I suggest, is something evolved from within, not something imposed from without; it is an internal stability, a vital harmony, and the social and political category, it has never existed except for the convenience of historians." -E.M. Forster This quote explains how a man can f...

Existence is like a creature that hides and then reveals itself. Existence is defined in Webster’s New World Dictionary as the "state or fact of being." This existence strives to reach truth which is located beyond space and time, yet truth must be grasped by existence nevertheless. This is ac...

Humanism during the Renaissance During the renaissance, there was a renewed interest in the arts, and the traditional views of society came into question. People began to explore the power of the human mind. A term often used to describe the increasing interest in the powers of the human mind is h...

Religion in SocietyIs the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints (Mormonism) a cult?The nature of Latter Day as a religion has been doubted; furthermore many are those that have claimed that this doctrine could be a cult. In this essay we would analyze the main controversies against this relig...

Socrates believes that the everyday world is an illusion compared to the world of knowledge. People are often too distracted by money and materialistic things to appreciate truth and reality. Socrates says, "the capacity for knowledge is innate in each man's mind." This exemplifies the point that ma...

The curriculum framework of historyaE"social science for kindergarten throughgrade twelve is an effort to strengthen education system by building on thebest practices contained within previous frameworks. The revised frameworkfocuses on the chronological study of history. Placed in its geog...