Cain and Abel

Arthur Miller’s theatrical allegory play The Crucible (1953), represents the individual political situations and ideas arising from the democratic Salem community; regarding to the complexity of societal pressure to conform, the power struggle amongst individuals and personal integrity that are influenced by the corrupt social justice system and the community’s moral values through the conformity of theocracy. The ideas delivered from his play challenges the Communist fears by paralleling Cold…

The name of this workbook that these text summaries are from is called Envisioning World Civilizations. The book includes many documents with many different viewpoints. All of the documents from this assignment are related because they all deal with creation in some form or another. Comparing these documents can help give us different creation examples from different time periods as well as different religious viewpoints. In this chapter of The Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu tells Gilgamesh of the…

As a finance major, I agree with Dante’s warning or hoarding and squandering wealth. From a more economical point of view, our world consists of two types of people, lenders and borrowers. The economy can only function when the people with money can lend to the people without money. Through this process people with money can be good stewards of their money and help those with less afford things they need, like houses. This whole process is built upon stewardship, justice and love and…

Dante Alighieri who was a prominent Italian author of the 14th century wrote Inferno to give insight on the society of Florence as the 14th century was notorious for its corrupt governments and rivals among groups of people. As being called the The Cautionary Tale, Inferno can be relevant today as it serves as a message of people committing sin will be punished depending on the severity of their wrongdoings. Even though the poem exaggerates the punishments, it serves as a message that people…

Throughout history storytellers have taken events from their own lives to make stories to teach about the world. John Ernst Steinbeck is one of many examples of this. Steinbeck is an American novelist who used his own life experiences to inspire, and create his works. Steinbeck through these works has taught about human nature, the natural world, and shone light on social issues. Three of his works exemplify these: “Of Mice and Men”, “East of Eden”, and “Grapes of Wrath”. John Steinbeck was born…

Behavior Therapy was develop by B.F. Skinner, he was considered to be the father of the behavioral approach of psychology, Skinner emphasizes his efforts on the effects of environment in behavior, and he believed that behaviors were a result of cause-and-effect between environmental conditions and behavior. In essence, Behavior Therapy is a method that centers primarily on learned behaviors, and on determinants of behavior, the goal of the therapist is to change that undesirable behavior. (Corey…

Whether the world was created from the corpse of an ice giant, nothingness, or the songs of a supreme being's thoughts, similarities remain between these seemingly very different myths. This paper will compare and contrast the spontaneous creation of the world from nothingness, Ex Nihilo, from the biblical account, the creation of the world by Iluvatar's Ainur, and the splitting of the corpse of Ymir to form the Earth. Similarities that shall be covered are birth, mother and/or fathers of…

demon haunting the marches, marauding round the heath and the desolate fens; he had dwelt for a time in misery among the banished monsters, Cain's clan, whom the Creator had outlawed and condemned as outcasts. For the killing of Abel the Eternal Lord had exacted a price: Cain got no good from committing that murder no because the Almighty made him anathema and out of the curse of his exile there sprang ogres and elves and evil phantoms and the giants" Grendel was evil because he just was, he…

Pseudonymity is best described as the practice of using forged documents to create new works of writing bearing a deceased writers name, instead of the current writer claiming the credit for the work. Many of Paul’s writings and letters have been said to have not actually been written by Paul himself. Many scholars believe that some letters were creations of Psuedonymity(Harris,2014). The Psuedonymity practice was quite popular among apostolic writers and was widespread among Hellenistic Judaism…

Abraham by Hrotsvitha and a Play for Representing Adam, author unknown are both similar and different to one another in a variety of ways. Adam is directly based on the Bible text, while Abraham has references to God and the Bible, but takes place in its own time and place. Each are effective of communicating the messages they intend to in their own way, in construction, in their use of Representatio, and in the use of dialogue, staging, humor, wordplay, metaphor and characterization. A special…