Armageddon

Globally, eighty-four percent of the population identifies with a religious group. This equates to approximately 5.8 billion adults and children who are religiously affiliated. So, one point that most of the world’s population can agree on is this: something exists beyond our comprehension. So what is that “something”? Christianity teaches it is the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) while Judaism and Islam teach it is Yahweh and Allah respectively. Paganism however tends to differ. An…

If anyone heard about a sloth being in trouble or hurt they called her. She would continue to get sloths every week until something major happened. In October of 2012, Monique was faced with a crisis. She called it “Sloth Armageddon.” It became news to her that a piece of forest near the capital, Paramaribo, was being cut down for farming land and was asked to remove 14 sloths. She thought she was only rescuing 14 sloths but it turned out to be two-hundred. Monique says she’s…

on Mars. Next, Green presents the idea that he agrees with, that we should colonize Mars because something could happen to Earth. He suggests the morality of having a second Earth to preserve the human race in the vast universe. He closes with an Armageddon…

Finally deciding that you will train your cat is not the only thing you need to get the training started. You will have to arm yourself with the right attitude, materials, and proper place. If you have a family, you will also have to let them know about the training. Let us start! The Right Attitude I can never stress this enough, you will need lots of patience. If you are used to training a dog then you definitely have to condition yourself that training a kitten or an older cat as a slightly…

streets and began committing minor crimes. He moved to San Francisco in the 1960’s when drugs were quite popular. Manson’s cult was named The Family and they killed for Manson. They, influenced by Manson, strongly believed in Scientology and that Armageddon was inevitable. What is mysterious about Manson though, is that he is not believed to have directly participated in any murders. Charles Manson wanted to commit a crime so shocking it would end the free love and peace legacy of the 1960’s.…

Many archaeologists and other researchers interpret the discovered figurines as being religious artifacts that were used in domestic rituals, Figurines such as these are especially used for ancestral veneration. ancestral veneration was a practice most probably carried over from Siberia from early Paleo-Indians, as it was commonly practiced throughout the Americas is a variety of forms. Besides appeasing household gods and venerating ancesters, figurines were also used to mark important…

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki drastically altered international politics by changing the scope and consequences of international warfare, as well as causing a widespread hysteria over the use of nuclear warfare that led to conflicts such as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. On August 6, 1945, the world was changed forever. On that fateful day the United States plunged the world into the chaos of nuclear warfare by dropping the first nuclear bomb in world…

Herman Kahn a preeminent futurist once remarked “Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.” Through this quote Kahn portrays an underlying theme of fear of destruction caused by The Cold War. The Cold War was a multi-decade long conflict between the U.S and USSR. To show their superiority both sides showed power through a nuclear arms race. Humanity evoked a tense attitude because of the probability of a nuclear war was…

Adam Gopnik in the article, “The City and the Pillars”, explains that there are different methods of coping when reacting to a tragedy like the one that occurred on September 11th, 2001. Gopnik supports his explanation by using extended metaphors, rhetorical questions, and allusions to describe the moments leading up to the attack, and the attack itself. The author’s purpose is to portray different forms of grieving in order to show people vary in response to catastrophic events. The author…

Carrying dust up to 200 miles off the Atlantic coast, the storm blackened cities and traveled at over 100 miles per hour. Animals and insects fled south and a woman believing the storm marked the beginning of Armageddon, killed her child to spare her the horror. And while Hugh Hammond Bennett was delivering a speech to Congress about soil preservation, dust rained down on Washington D.C. and blackened out the sun. Congress passed his legislation. This is something…