Conflicts between parents and children can be especially harmful when they occur at an early age. They open up emotional wounds that aren't easy to heal and determine what kind of a person you are bound to be. People are faced with many conflicts throughout their lives, some ...

In the small town of Zion, Indiana, lives a Depression-era boy named Buddy who is traumatized by his mother's drowning, an event that leaves him affected in several ways. The boy, Buddy has the mental capacity of a child and such a deadly phobia of water that he can't bear to be washed. ...

Ever wonder how life was created on earth and how we became what we are today? Was earth created by God or by the stars? Were we created by God's hand or did we evolve from apes? Throughout my life, I only know two ways how life, man, and earth we created. One of the ways is through my Catholic...

PAN GU vs. GENESIS The question of creation has always been asked throughout history and will be continue to be an enigma for the rest of time. How did we [Human Beings] come to be? Every culture in the world has it's own theory or legend on how we were created. In the United States, the Chris...

Nanabozho and Judeo-Christian In Judeo-Christian narratives you have God who created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. So God created light, and there was light...

The Missing Element The way the Gods created the world was amazing, but there was one thing they forgot. That was the fact that the things they created need water to survive. The Gods forgot to make water at first when they made the Earth. At first everything was ok in the world that the Gods m...

Man had been coming to the pool of Bethesda where t he sick gathered waiting for the angel to trouble the water and first one that step is healed Thirty eight years he has not walked it something about time the deepens the wound of your situation. 38 years of watching toddler practice what he n...

The Good and Evil in Lord of the Flies Do human beings understand good and evil? Or is it something they learn from society? The novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is about a group of boys who are stranded on a deserted island. Human beings learn the difference between right and w...

A Comp arison: Sumerian and Hebrew Views of the Afterlife For centuries religion has been a significant and intricate part of human societies. Some would say that religion is as important to mankind as food and water. While food and water keeps us going,religion provides a reason and purp...

Joseph Smith founded the Mormons other wise know as Latter-day Saints in 1830 at Fayette, N.Y. Joseph Smith was born in 1805 and died in 1844. As a child he went through many hardships and poverty on a rough frontier. He had documented later in his life that he had seen visions when he was a chi...

Saint Augustine, who lived in the late 4th and early 5th centuries, created a very interesting perspective on the notion of evil. Augustine first views of evil followed the doctrine of the Manichaen Dualists'. Their idea was that there were two omnipotent forces, good and evil, constantl...

Trinitarian Analogies St. Augustine was walking along the seashore, thinking grand thoughts of God and His nature, when he spotted a small boy several yards ahead. The saint watched, puzzled. They boy was laboriously filling up a bucket with sea water only to rush over and empty its contents i...

Man has always speculated about an entity greater then himself to explain his own existence and in someway to form a relationship with this entity to gain a better understanding of himself. Man views his relationship with god in a variety of ways. What god means to one man and what he means to anoth...

Bless me, Ultima Some say when a man grows with time, he sacrifices his innocence. This theme is reoccurring throughout the novel Bless me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya. The deprivation of Antonio's innocence, (the main character in the novel) is attributed to witnessing tragic de...

The story of creation is one known and believed by many, and though has not been proven factual, is harmoniously and readily repetitive throughout various cultures. While the many stories of creation do contain discrepancies, they are alike in numerous ways. In view of the fact that the stories cann...

In many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories, he creates characters with either a malicious or evil feature to relay to the reader a more allegorical meaning. In the story Rappaccini's Daughter he uses Beatrice as a carrier of the deadly poison. In Young Goodman Brown, Faith is the cha...

The Creation Stories Did the creation of the earth and life begin by itself? Or did God create them? In the beginning, civilization started to question who created earth. There were many different views. In Genesis, Jinasena, and Buddha have their own thinking. There were some differences...

The Creation Stories Did the creation of the earth and life begin by itself? Or did God create them? In the beginning, civilization started to question who created earth. There were many different views. In Genesis, Jinasena, and Buddha have their own thinking. There were some differences...

Genesis I have never read the Bible before, in reading the chapters I find myself even more confused about God then I was before. I wrote what I thought was going on in each chapter and even asked a few questions. If this is not what you are looking for please let me know so I can do it right f...

The creation of human beings has numerous myths and stories that were initially wrote in history. These are stories that tell how the first race of mankind came into being and the different things that the Gods had to encounter during their Creations. When we think of creation, we think of how thi...

"Dying Well" Death is one of the main pillars to Life because it proves that nothing is living forever, and everything in life even life itself will end. Death is part of the life every creature in this earth. Everybody is written to die someday by God either a good death or a bad death. Altho...

The problem of evil in the world often raises many questions about God and whether he is actually omniscient, omnibenevolent, and omnipotent. If God is so good, how can his world be so bad? Many people have even deserted their faith because of the problem of evil. Take September 11 as an example....

Zac Ment October 15th 2001 The Word The spoken as well as the written word, have extraordinary power. The word has the power to curse, to bless, and to do everything that lies between the two. The word also has the power to change the coarse of history. A very clear example of this is the situati...

Islam In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful. Praise be to Allah lord of the worlds. Some people claim that Muslims worship one of the pagan gods of the Arabs. Allah, according to these people, is only the name of those idols chosen by Muhammad as his god out of 360 idols worshi...

The last line of the Lord's prayer is, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." It is a key line in the Christian religion. The intention of this is reminding one of where we came from and to thank Jesus Christ for giving his life to remove humanitie's sin. ...