Ascension of Jesus

Authority; the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. This appellation is welcome in Salem, Massachusetts with open arms when vengeance and greed call its name. In this small, isolated town, religion gives God the ultimate authority, at least in the beginning. However, once the “witch” breakout began, much of the town’s authority is righteously given to many of its regular citizens, as well as the governing leaders. For those without this, the abuse of authority…

Sophocles’ original intentions for his play Antigone has been open to interpretation for thousands of years through different languages, morals standards, wars, revolutions, cultural beliefs and human emotion, leading to varied and perhaps even misinterpretations on part of both audiences and translators, much like the bible. Throughout 4th century B.C.E and the 21st century, there has been vast changes in culture, thus leading to the audience reading the play and seeing it through a different…

TITLE: “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story” will have you skipping to the theater “You can do anything else anyone can do, only you can do it better” A Christian like movie which, encourages and motivates children, adolescences and Adults to apply Gods inborn gifts which he has given to them, and with the help of god you’ll be able to overcome anger, prejudice and any other obstacle in your way. There is no offensive language, I only saw one instance of violence where a young man took up a…

INTRODUCTION The holy Quran is the last book of Allah or human guidance.it contains all the necessary principles for our guidance. We need to study Quran keenly to derive such principles for everyday application. I have studied Surah al Kahf to derive principles of life. Surah al kahf was revealed in Makkah and is the 18th Surah of Quran. It has 110 ayyah, 12rukus, 1583 words and 6425 letters. It means the cave. It was revealed after surah al ghaashiyan but in the order of Quran it comes after…

Introduction The Life of St. Antony by Athanasius was a very important book to the Christian Byzantines and was continuously read throughout the early Christian world. It was a biography that was also held up as a model of the ideal life in the Byzantine civilization. The author himself, St. Athanasius, was a man that would have preferred the monastic lifestyle, but was an important and influential man in the church and therefore, contrary to his wishes, had to live among the people. This…

killed because he sowed the seeds of communion among people who were stranded on a foreign land. His response to the murderer “ You fellas don’ know what you are doin’. You are helping to starve kids” (The Grapes of Wrath, Page—354) clearly echoes Jesus’ words on the cross ‘ Forgive them ,Father, for they know not what they are doing”. So also are uncle John and Mrs.Joad in the novel. Uncle John, through his severe sense of guilt and sin, is at times in bouts of depression. As an atonement to…

Sikhism is generally held to derive from the teaching of the first Guru, Nanak (1469-1539) who taught a doctrine of salvation through Divine Name. His oral versical messages in Punjabi attracted a larger section of people in India because simple Bhakti does not need any external arrangements for God worship. He proved that God is present everywhere, immanent in all creation, both within and without everyman. On the way of Bhakti, Kabir, actually, showed the way of internal peace which is very…

A good man is indeed hard to find. Flannery O’Connor is a strong believer in faith, and in this short story, she makes speculations about society and human nature. Using the character the grandmother in the tale, she exhibits her as a representation of all her observations about the inherent characteristics in people. A Good Man is Hard to Find questions the true qualities of human nature and sends readers messages that are most likely ignored and almost never uttered out loud. From this cynical…

Chapter 1 Introduction Mahabharata, a resplendent mythology, partially historical, has reigned in our hearts and minds with ages running down .Vyasa; the original writer of this epic has portrayed the controversial conjugal relations of the Pandavas and The Kauravas. Vedvyasa had written the Upanishads and Puranas which were not comprehended easily by the general mass. Hence, to make them more comprehensive he wrote Mahabharata, which provided a…

1. How do each of the Gospel authors use parables to describe the Kingdom? One of the most common topics for Jesus in the Gospels is the Kingdom of God. Through allegories, analogies and parables, the Gospel authors try to explain the nature, timing, and requirements of the Kingdom of God. Matthew most often refers to the “Kingdom of Heaven,” perhaps because of the Jewish custom of not saying the name of God, although Matthew is not consistent in this practice, occasionally using the term…