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From their genesis to today humans have been fascinated with how and why the world was created. As a species we seek a way to make sense of the world we live in and, to find a purpose for our lives. From celebrating religious figures to dedicating millions of dollars and countless hours to scientific research we have spent a great deal of our time trying to find purpose and meaning beyond ourselves. Our need for a higher power or an explanation of the creation of the universe crosses cultures…

Political party polarization is a topic of great interest to political scientists. There is a myriad of research on the subject that explores both its generalities and specifics, from explanations of how a party system can become polarized to attempts to quantify levels of polarization in particular nations. In his article “The Quality and the Quantity of Party Systems,” Russell J. Dalton defines the phenomenon as reflecting “the degree of ideological differentiation among political parties in a…

threatened the West, “Soviet troops were crushing a rebellion in Hungary just as the British, the French, and Israelis—without informing the Americans—had seized the Suez Canal in an abortive effort to overthrow the anti-colonial Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser” (Gaddis 70). In order to distract the world from the bloodbath in Hungary, Khrushchev demanded the withdrawal of British, French, and Israeli troops from Egypt. If his ultimatum wasn’t met these nations would face nuclear annihilation…

This story map was adequate as a cartographic visual communication tool. It had personal narratives on all the slides and also included a couple of pictures along with a video to further explain the slide. I am interested in religion so I thought this story map was very interesting as I was able to learn about the sites that are important to Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. I was somewhat able to traverse through Jerusalem, however, it would have had more of an impact if the author was able to…

written by Jason Odell Williams, with Hebrew by Charlotte Cohn , directed by Kit Wilder, created a perfect Jewish Christmas story. The story takes place in a motel room in Goodview, Virginia on Christmas Eve. In the beginning of the play, a young Israeli woman, Ayellet, is arguing in Hebrew with the delivery man, Terrence, who called his childhood friend, Josh, to help him. Ayellet uses her body language to show how she was frantic because Terrence lost her grandmother’s remain that was inside a…

This novel was an honorable effort by Richard Holmes in discovering the essential issues persuading the nature of man's behavior on and off the battle field. This writing is well-researched and recognized logical studies of the soldier's feelings and behavior during their basic training, his experience in battle, and its aftermath (p.30). The study is well covered: during battle, he argues the factors that encourage soldiers to keep them going in the face of weakness, fear and death. Further…

Charles Kimball is Presidential Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma, he is also the author of the book When Religion Becomes Lethal. Moving from chapter 1 in which Professor Kimball introduced Islam, we move on to chapter 2 which is titled, “God Gave Us This Land” digs deeper into the roots of religion and politics in Judaism. We begin the chapter by discussing the Islamic Mosque of Abraham, the mosque if 30 miles south of Jerusalem. This mosque is the…

the 1940's when Zionists took charge, Arabians grew frustrated and declared war on Israel which led to the war of 1948. A combined invasion by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, entered Palestine and took control of the Arab areas and immediately attacked Israeli forces. This resulted in the victory of Israel.…

The Zealots • The Zealots were more of a nationalistic movement than one of religion; • They were committed to the overthrow of the Roman rule (acts 21:28 NIV); • Known mostly for their defense of Masada; then committing mass suicide rather than surrender to the Romans (NSW Board of Education, 2012). The Scribes Most likely the first Jewish scribes emerged during the Babylonian captivity. At first, they were professional copyists of the law. This gave them the opportunity to learn about the…

SIMON WIESENTHAL 1908-2005 At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in the systematic murder of some 6,000,000 Jews and millions of Gypsies, Poles and other "inferior" peoples, slipped through the Allied net and escaped to countries around the globe, where many still live in freedom. Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Nazi death camps, dedicated his life to documenting the crimes of the Holocaust and to hunting down the perpetrators still at large. "When history looks…