Emotions have helped humans evolve and survive by changing the way we react to and think about our environment. Positive and negative emotions create patterned responses in both individuals and in whole societies. Emotions can help people understand the world, including other human beings,...

Throughout this course, in class discussion we have again and again touched upon the dilemma of God's character with relevance to the existence of evil. Various authors have tried to address this problem, taking many different approaches to try and reconcile the existence of an all-powerful, a...

What is Trauma? We all use the word "trauma" in every day language to mean a highly stressful event. A trauma occurs when people have experienced life-threatening or shocking events which overwhelm the individual's ability to cope. It includes responses to powerful one-time incident...

The film, Eureka, takes its main characters on a journey of how to cope with life. Of particular interest is the improvement and character building of the sister, Kazue. In the opening of the film, the characters are subjected to a violent killing on a bus. After this fatal tragedy, Kazue fall...

Life is full of challenges. No-one's life is ever totally free of troubles or struggles. People have to deal with illness, disappointment in love and relationships, natural disasters, war, even death. No one can grow in 'self knowledge' and 'self identity' without facin...

The book Magdalena and Balthasar by Steven Ozment describes the relationship between a married couple in the sixteenth century. Balthasar was a merchant who traveled a couple months out of each year for his trade. Magdalena, his wife, was very devoted to him and helped him with his business. Th...