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Shaunakay Clarke Professor Humanities 111 21 December 2016 Based upon the Hebrew Bible, evil in why do you think that there is sin and the world? How does the Creation story explain original sin? In what way does free will function in the development of sin? Why is free will, despite sin, necessary for a healthy relationship not only between God and people, but between people themselves? How would you explain Adam and Eve’s introduction of evil into the world? Before transgression entered the…

Stephen Reid is a criminal; a stone cold gang member and bank robbing criminal. He is also a father, devoted husband, friend and a writer. For those of us who have never been on the inside, Reid tells a story in his book A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden of how he was sentenced to many years in a maximum security prison and what life in prison is actually like. In addition to this, he also describes his childhood. Reid grew up very differently than most people. At a very young age he was already…

In the stories, “A Field of Wheat” by Sinclair Ross, and “A Garden of Her Own” by Shani Mootoo, we can see too similarly structured, yet contrasting marriages. The stories deal with the struggle of a partner being absent, both mentally and physically. The insight into these marriages are written from the perspective of the wife, Martha in “A Field of Wheat” and Vijai in “A Garden of Her Own”. Along with the similarities we see between these two stories, there are also differences to go with them…

Title & Subject Matter: Look, See, Create: Sculpture Garden This project titled “Look, See, Create: Sculpture Garden” consists of an activity book with various activities that young visitors can complete while visiting the sculpture garden at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. This project was completed in conjunction with the museum’s current program of activity books that highlight the permanent collection. Branding standards are consistent with the museum’s current look (bocamuseum.org). The…

Who Told You That You Were Naked? A Refreshing Reexamination of the Garden of Eden’ is a non-fiction spirituality book published by the Carpenter’s Son. It was written by William E. Combs, a retired Presbyterian Minister and a Doctor of Ministry degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary. The author’s motivation was to reexamine the events that take place in the Garden of Eden, whether they have effect on the corrupted human society today and to our Salvation. The book is highly recommended…

This literary analysis will define the religious significance of Paradise Lost by John Milton through the context of free will and the fallen state of man in this protestant epic poem. Milton’s protestant text was historically a countermand to the Roman Catholic Church, since it defines the freedom of different Christian sects to practice their own faith through free will. The fall of Satan in Paradise Lost defines the core values of rebelliousness against the Roman Catholic authority by,…

Lying is obviously a bad thing. It’s been in the world since the beginning, when Adam and Eve got kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Some articles say it’s good for kids to lie to their parents. That it’s a part of growing up and for the parents not to worry. However they don’t have an article about my current situation; guess the internet doesn’t have everything after all. Lying to your parents is a big “No-No” in our house. You lie your grounded, “no B?”grounded, “you didn’t hear the ‘s’ in yes…

In ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ Hardy presents the theme of innocence throughout the novel. This theme is directly linked to the character of Tess, and her loss of innocence, during the novel. Because of the pastoral genre, we expect as an audience for a loss of innocence to be a feature in the novel, which means Hardy presents this innocence as being dangerous and desirable. When we first see Tess, she is depicted as a girl of innocence, in her ‘white muslin’, as white has connotations of…

own discretion. Two texts that I feel deal heavily with free will are Paradise Lost and Oroonoko. In Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve experience the struggle for free will with God, as they go through trials and eventually end up being removed from the Garden of Eden. In Oroonoko, is about an African man who is taken from his home along with his wife, and is forced into slavery. He then tries to escape from his newfound servitude, which ends in his death. Both texts explore the main characters…

Adam had been a subject of much debate over the past couple decades probably more so than it ever has been before. One of the main reasons so many people have avoided him in today’s society is because they do not understand how they can be held responsible for another person’s sin. This must come to an end considering the impact he has on the life of a person. With all the different viewpoints of who he was, it has made it difficult for Christians and non-Christians alike to come to any kind of…