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life. The strength of Richard Dawkins is that he is able to relate to his audience with science as his religion. Dawkins explained his several point of views by applying scientific concepts and the concept of Darwinism. He grew up in an Anglicanism Christian upbringing. He mentions that in his biographical introduction, he realized that there are other religions as well in the world and that it was an accident that he was born in the Christian faith (The God Delusion Debate). What I…

INTRODUCTION “We fight, we get beat, we rise, and we fight again.” This research project will explore the evolution of Nathanael Greene, as a paradigm, from being a prominent Quaker pacifist to becoming one of the most active members as General of George Washington’s military unit during the American Revolution in order to understand how Quakerism could potentially be faithfully compatible with pacifism and the struggles of a “just” war. As an activist for the same principles of the American…

Commencing in the late nineteenth century, the modern era sought to discard the certainty of Neoclassicism, rigidity of Industrialism and the ingenuity of Romanticism while developing contemporary socio-cultural norms and attitudes capturing revolutionary expressions of artistic innovation. The philosophical movement saw society’s tenuous fear of technological modification arise from an existential crisis following the First War period, sparking a newfound physiological state centring on the…

especially increased in western Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. The current Presbyterian, which belonged to the Pilgrim Fathers US, denotes a line of Calvinism. In England, although partially preserved ecclesiastical context of Catholicism, Anglicanism (which gave birth to the United States to the Episcopal Church) is based, also on the Calvinist doctrine. John Knox, Calvinism has also spread to…

Literature in this society that we have all come to know, love, and hate, has drastically changed. There could be multiple and various possibilities to why that is true. It could be a change of author, such as how it went from Edgar Allen Poe’s rise of fame as he portrayed his sick and twisted views into stories, to Stephenie Meyer’s rise in fame as she created a timeless love affair that made adolescent girls dream of marrying vampires and werewolves. It could be the theme, such as gothic like…

As one of the most prominent literary figures of the early seventeenth century, John Donne has engendered widely differing views regarding the merits of his work. His reputation stands on two distinct accomplishments: the witty, sensual love poetry of his early career and the serious, devout religious writing of his later career as the Dean of St. Paul 's. Donne 's poetry was influential enough to be considered the basis of the metaphysical school of poetry, as characterized by later writers…

Often times, within a certain community, nation, or society, there is a strong human tendency to believe that one’s own culture or way of life is normal, natural, and therefore superior to the beliefs and principles of others. This sociological concept, called “ethnocentrism,” has been present throughout human existence and has caused both growth within and conflict between various groups of people. It has also caused reflection and reevaluation of one’s own culture based on interaction and…

Since Pope Urban II sold the first indulgence, a “ticket” out of purgatory, in 1095, the Catholic Church has been overrun with corruption and malfeasance. Popes and priests took advantage of this broken system, in which they would profit at the expense of the common man. It was not until 1510 when Martin Luther, a devout Catholic monk who was having trouble with his faith, visited the holy city of Rome that change truly began. Instead of finding a holy city, he found ubiquitous greed, corruption…

There are different meanings about the meaning of the Western World. Western civilization was born thousands of years ago with the rise of the Greek city-state, influenced by Middle Eastern culture. EAST East (Latin orens, oriri participle: appear birth) is the name of the direction from which the sun (and other stars) minted in antiquity, namely the East rises. By extension, it refers to those regions that are east of the benchmark. In the "Western" culture he was given this name to Asia.…

transplanted to England” (Schaller, et al., 78). They had hope that the possible transfer of power from the monarchy to Parliament would also accompany a change in official state religion, because English reformers sought an alternative religion to Anglicanism. From 1641 to 1643, to persuade the English that Puritan life was appealing, printers in London published at least 20 favorable works about New England; most recommended the religious life there. Unfortunately, in 1644, Roger Williams and…