Mandate of Heaven

Classical Rome was dominated by their ideas and institutions of law. The beliefs in God’s law or church law started out as an idea and ended up as an institution. The Judean section of the Roman Empire formulated God’s law. They accepted a “covenant, or pact between Yahweh, their God, and his people to obey the law, called the ten commandments.” These commandments were written in the Torah, the 5 Books of Moses. Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew that followed the Judaic message, but focused on…

We had seen “the largest and most systematic projects- centering in the 1820s and 1830s – stemmed from broad evangelical groups, first the Congregationalists and Presbyterians, then the Baptists and Methodists” (Butler, Wacker and Balmer 187- 188). On the other hand, “evangelical religion, espoused especially by lower-class and lower-middle-class whites and slaves, challenged the culture of honor….. Besides mission, evangelical reformers spearheaded the growth of literacy in general and the…

Peter & Paul Day is dedicated to two of the earliest leaders in the church. Additionally, music entertainment, fireworks, and fairs are just some of the ways they celebrate. The Feast of the Assumption is dedicated to the day Mary ascended into Heaven. Moreover, a statue of the Virgin Mary is carried through the town to a ceremonial arch of flowers, where a group of people holding a statue of Christ awaits her arrival. Both statues are inclined toward each other three times, and then the…

In Yezierska’s presentation of the Jewish community on Hester Street, the woman’s dependent role is imposed by hegemony rather than brute force. The oppressor can appear kind because the lack of violence also leads to a lack of response to the intangible abuse. Omi and Winant use Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain why using the people’s will against them is an effective way to maintain control. He [Antonio Gramsci], argued that hegemony was always constituted by a combination of…

history, humans have asked many philosophical questions, including the existence of divine justice. This concept was significant throughout the Elizabethan era, as religion played a major role in ordinary life. In the play ‘King Lear’, Shakespeare mandates that as opposed to justice being divinely ordained, it is up to humans to administer justice in this world. Shakespeare utilizes unfair punishment, character epiphanies, wrongly rewarded characters and the absence of justice to demonstrate…

From AD 1000 to AD 1600, China was united under the Song dynasty. The Song dynasty began in 960 and persisted until 1279. During this era, China became the first government in world history to nationally issue banknotes and was the first government in China to establish a permanent-standing navy. The Song dynasty is divided into two distinct periods, Northern and Southern. Following the Song dynasty was the Yuan dynasty, also known as the Great Yuan. This dynasty lasted from 1271 to 1368 and was…

God has created everything in best state of all but few of His creations leaves us wordless. But out of all His creations, the best of all are the humans whom he has blessed with senses and above all ability to talk. He created them with sense and ability to have their own opinion and debate over different matters. God has not just given them the ability to speak but also to use their brain and that human did and is doing till to date. They have done a lot of inventions and therefore improved…

American core values and beliefs have always included equality in the workforce and hard work to obtain success. Unfortunately African Americans did not receive the same civil rights as the American white man. W.E.B. Dubois captures this in his work “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”. By discussing how America can revolutionize the civil rights issues for African Americans. During the time of the writing Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others by W.E.B. Dubois, our society treated African…

practiced Daoism typically rejected government involvement. 10. Christianity started from Judaism, Jesus Christ was the founder. Christianity was monotheistic and taught that Jesus was the son of God, the 10 commandments, and the idea of an afterlife (heaven and hell). 11. Christianity spread through missionaries. It spread from the Mediterranean to different parts of Afro-Eurasia by 600 CE. 12. Greco-Roman philosophy emphasised logic, attempted to find rational explanations for the workings…

What ties all these important readings together? Each reading represents a form of religion, the creation of the world and describing the important events that happened in a certain era. From “Siddhartha’s Enlightenment” discussing meditation and the concept of the world. These readings point out how religion works out in each part of history and how they had to make decisions in the past. The “Epic of Gilgamesh (The Underworld)” was an interesting part of literature. This reading talks about…