Book of Common Prayer

and although could view her poetry as having sensual links, this does not mean she is the persona. Sappho’s work has been criticised by many scholars, one of which being Nazianzen. Sappho's books were burned by Christians in the year 380 A.D. at the instigation of Pope Gregory Nazianzen (Hare, 2011). Another book burning…

C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898. He was a Christian author and most of his writing consisted of apologetics and philosophy. He is best known for his famous book series, The Chronicles of Narnia. He also wrote another classic novel entitled, The Screwtape Letters, which covers the many ways that a high ranking demon, who is called Screwtape, temps an ordinary man referred to as the Patient. Although it proved to be very difficult, the Patient perseveres in…

n without vision is only passing time. Vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world – Nelson Mandela INTRODUCTION The eagle is probably the most studied of birds’ super vision. According to research the eyes of an eagle is four to eight times stronger than that of the human eyes. This enables it see five colors compared to the human eye which sees just three basic colors. Because the eagle has such excellent vision, it is possible for it to find preys…

and regulatory principles taken several gods, according to related works, for every area of the god, and every act or phenomenon there a God for it. There is no specific founder for Hindu religion and most of their books they don’t know who the authors, the religion as well as the books have been constituted through the stages of a long time, the Aryans are the ones who carried the initial ideas that resulted in the Hindu religion then evolved again in the third century BC in hands of Brahmins…

dystopian genre. This genre typically takes place in a futuristic setting, with many works having themes of oppressive governments, advancement of technology, and sometimes even human evolution. Both novels, Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World, share a common overall theme of a unique, creative, and often terrifying dystopian society, though they differ in their approaches to this in several critical ways. Key points of human happiness, censorship, and government control over society are heavily…

A common definition of religion is a set of beliefs that is held by a group of people. A primary definition of religious which is available in standard dictionaries reads something like “of, concerned with, or teaching religion,” and this is what people normally mean when they say things like “Christianity is a religious belief system”. The terms religion and religious clearly originate from a similar root and one would think that it means the same, one as a thing and other as a descriptive word…

Despite such claims to republicanized monarchy in Great Britain, certain colonists and thinkers were not convinced. Englishman, and later colonial resident, Thomas Paine, for example, called into question the integrity of such claims in his pamphlet Common Sense. Written in 1776 and dispensed throughout the colonies, this seminal pamphlet attacked the absoluteness of the British monarchy. Unlike Wood’s interpretation of British monarchy—which is, granted, aided by hundreds of years of…

Colin Chapman, a professor of Islamic studies in Beirut, states, “Is the Christian idea of God the same as the Muslim’s idea of God? No. Is there anything common between the Christian’s idea of God and the Muslim’s idea of God? Yes. Is there enough in common between Christian’s idea of God and the Muslim’s Idea of God for us to be able to use the same word for “God”? This is probably the crucial question.” Chapman, considered a Parallelist, argues that…

Many great authors, from Shakespeare to J.K. Rowling, have used ‘foil’ characters, or characters who have a great contrast and opposition, in order to get their points across. Some authors may want to show that dogs are better than cats, while other may want to show that simplicity is key, in addition to a countless amount of other thought and ideas, but none the less these contrasting characters give great emphasis to their argument. In Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Waves, the foil characters,…

other poets who experience life first-handed like Shakespeare, Emily spent her life mostly isolated from society. Since she did not have direct contact with the outside world, her experiences of life came mostly from the people surrounded her and books, and they, nevertheless, has tremendous influence on her work religiously and psychologically. On the religion end, since her society is heavily influenced by Christianity brought up by the New England Transcendentalism movement, it is no surprise…