Blasphemy

"Piss Christ" it is one of the most famous works and the most controversial one made by the artist and American photographer Andres Serrano. The full title of the work is "Immersion (Piss Christ)". It is a picture taken in 1987 in Cibachrome print 60x40 cm. The presentation is a small plastic crucifix and wood submerged in a glass of the artist 's own urine. The photography belong to a series that Serrano had made that involved several classical figurines immersed in various fluids like milk,…

Early Islamic humanists put a great deal of importance into the acquisition and dispersion of knowledge. However, there comes to be alteration in the meaning of knowledge through the years and what the term exactly entails. Viewing the description of knowledge from the conservative perspective of the Hadith scholars and then from the collective epistemology of al-Kindi demonstrates this transition. Eventually this largely impacts the universalism of Islamic philosophy and the search for the…

This paper is a review of Jeansonne Glen’s biography “Messiah of the Masses: Huey P. Long and the Great Depression”. Glen doesn’t believe Long to be a saint nor a sinner; however, he does believe Long’s biggest priority wasn’t the people but himself. The author wrote this biography of Long as a young man getting his first start in politics, his campaign for governor, also his impeachment. In the book Messiah of the Masses: Huey P. Long and the Great Depression, the life of Huey Pierce Long is…

a) You might go online and try to research what Hinduism means. Then come to find vague results such as it’s a major religious or cultural tradition of South Asia, that’s very broad and has no particular practice. But, where does the word come from and how much do you know about it? You hear the word “Hinduism” thrown around everywhere, surprisingly, the term is roughly only two centuries old, which was constructed by the British during India’s colonial period. Hinduism stems from term “Hindu,”…

mixture of values beliefs and a completely new culture. Other than the interracial in the American family units now we also have a mixture of sexualities in the homes a family may now have two daddies or two mommies. In the 1950’s this would have been blasphemy against God and society. Other changes are the interaction with other people of different cultures and diversity of beliefs and values. The media, social media and the internet has played a role in grouping many together. Employers now do…

on how and why Mrs. Wender is such a likeable person. In this novel The Chrysalids character, Martie Wender is a mother whose child was born with an extra toe on her foot. This made Mr. and Mrs. Wender to live in fear of being caught hiding a ‘’Blasphemy’’, and having…

the trap of violence. The poem gives evidences of the poet’s horror-struck experience of the grim realities of life in the war. He had seen the destructive forces which were disturbing God’s peaceand blames himself and the entire human for the blasphemy. Tagore composed: … Whom do you blame, brothers? Bow your heads down! The sin has been yours and ours. The heat growing in the heart of God for ages…

If a solid story, and am favorable with the subject content, I tend to enjoy a good period piece film. In a way it's the closest thing we have to a machine that can go back in time, that we can actually see events unfold for ourselves. Researched thoroughly, it's contents can not only be entertaining, but a learning experience as well. Unless if based on a conspiracy theory, then all bets are off. And this is where the film, Moonwalkers, comes in. The premise being that the American Government…

gives him up.” Melville’s use of hyperbole here clearly highlights Ahab’s monomaniacal desire, as he declares his willingness to literally go to hell and back simply to destroy the whale. Therefore, even though others warn Ahab several times of the blasphemy of "be[ing] enraged with a dumb brute that simply smote [him] from…

Point of View Antigone is a play which involves two brothers who lead opposite sides in the Thebes’ civil war. They engage in a bloody siege whereby they end up dead. Oedipus dies while in Colonus. Antigone and her sister decide to return to Thebes with the intention of helping their other brothers. They avoid the prophecy which predicts that they will kill each other in the battle for the throne of Thebes (Honig, 2013). The play has a narrator. The narrator is called Antigone. The effect of…