Have you ever wondered why you do something in a particular way? Or even why your family members act a certain way different from you? For years, it has been an age-old question. There are many reasons for this occurrence. Generally, they are because of physical appearance, emotional aspects, and so...

"No abortion is ever completely safe", says the National Right to Life Committee. Many people are not aware of the serious dangers associated with abortion. Women may suffer many physical effects from having an abortion. In many cases, a woman may also have severe emotional and psycholo...

Miracle The Afterlife is an area of human consciousness we all enter upon leaving the physical world at physical death. Throughout history we've questioned if there is a life after death. Along the way, our religions and various philosophers offered beliefs and opinions to answer this commonl...

There are many assesments you need in order to succeed. You will need a spiritual assesment, a professional assesment, and a physical assesment. Success is a important task in life. Everyone should succeed.First, a spiritual assesment will help you get closer to God. If you goto church alot, yo...

Abortion Abortion is one of the most controversial issues. In America, two groups are seriously debating this issue; pro-choice and pro-life. While pro-choice saying that abortion is the individual choice of free will to do what they think is right, pro-life objects are morally wrong and are also a...

SLAVE RELIGION When it comes to religion most people feel they have a belief in God or a "higher power". This belief helps sustain them in times of mental and emotional turmoil and many times physical pain. The slaves of North America brought with them a belief in their sacred beings, in...

Metaphysics The term metaphysics came from the writings of Aristotle that came after his writings on physics. Traditionally, metaphysics refers to the branch of philosophy that attempts to understand the nature of all reality, whether visible or invisible. It seeks a description so basic, so esse...

This paper will examine the scientific view verse religion. I feel support for the big picture is shallow and untenable. I believe in science but I also have faith. Scientific research has lead to dramatic and more humane treatments of persons suffering from mental disease, depression, and physica...

As J.W. Apps once said, \"A belief is what we accept as truth.\" Defending this claim forces one to redefine the way that he or she views personal beliefs. This statement holds a universal meaning, in that it defines all beliefs as truth. In all of our \'isms\', whether they are religious-isms...

John Wyndham's The Chrysalids gives the reader a dramatic sci-fi experience, and a whole lot of violence. Wyndham thought up a great idea and plot. As one is reading the novel, it is clear that there are many stereotypes and prejudices. The Chrysalids criticizes various stereotypes in the wa...

She encourages them to find what they always longed for, a king who will help organize their kingdom. Instantly, all the birds see the ornament on her breast, the "symbol that she had entered the way of spiritual knowledge" (Attar, The Conference of the Birds, 234). The importance of this ...

What does it mean to be what we are? What is it that makes us human? Is there some facet of existence beyond our fragile corporeal vessels that separates us further from what we perceive as other species? More importantly is exactly why we are what we are, while others are not. Such is the primary ...

CALL OF THE WILD BY JACK LONDON ANALYSIS OF A SELECT PASSAGE FROM CALL OF THE WILD This passage is taken from page 10, I selected it as I believed it was one of the primary openings in the book that showed Jack London's ability to describe both the psychological and physical characterist...

Shrouded Christianity The Bible is a "roadmap" that shows how one ought to live their life. It contains the mind of God and gives Christians moral guidelines and examples of which to abide by. Although the oppressors in both "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" written...

Utopia is completely attainable. Utopia, derived from the Greek words meaning no place, was always thought to be a model to strive for. Unfortunately human pessimism has never allowed Utopia to become a tangible place. Strangely enough it is this human aspect that is the barrier to a perfect existe...

Does Ones Belief Require Evidence For Others? No one individual, or group of individuals for that matter, can provide a visual stimulation or a physically felt piece of evidence to give grounds for the claim of God's existence. Many occurrences or sights can be "interpreted" to b...

In this world, there are many aspects of blindness whether it is mentally or physically. Either way, each blindness brings out the disability in each person. Such portrayal was shown throughout the play The Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare presents more than one form of blindness, which complicat...

In Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" the setting is set many years into the future. This future describes a world where science and technology have been allowed to progress unchecked. There are no moral or spiritual obligations and the good of society is placed above individ...

We are living human beings, one species out of a million others that exist simultaneously on this planet. Life is something that has been a mystery to us higher beings since the beginning of our existence. Are we merely living beings, or do we have an afterlife existence? The precision of the bio...

Are There Any Universal Values? When a person encounters a crisis, a problem, or a questionable situation, they look at experience and decide what action to take. In order to determine whether an action is right or wrong, a person must enter into an ethical experience and consider the motivati...

The Tempest - Duality between Nature and Society One of the essential themes of the Tempest is the duality between nature and society. This is made evident through the character of Caliban: the disfigured fish-like creature that inhabits the island at which the play takes place. Caliban lacks civil...

Man does not know freedom. From the moment man is born through the moment he dies, man abides by the laws laid down by society. Freedom is a notion, a term used by idealistic teens, a term used to describe a political state often equated with democracy, a term used by men and women to break off a r...

Prayer and meditation have always formed the core of the mystical life, but they have all too often been left in the realm of the "vowed" adherents, the monks, the priests, and such, other than for that occasional gathering in church or other event. Meditation and prayer are probably humanity's mo...

For centuries, society has placed stereotypes on those individuals who are different. Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is an example of one specific stereotype, which is the discrimination of a person because of a physical deformity. Frankenstein shows how social prejudices against physical de...

The ScaffoldThe scaffold where Hester was put on display was a physical example to the people of what could happen to them. The Puritan beliefs were strongly against what Hester did. The community displayed Hester and made an example of her to reassure themselves that they were doing the right thi...