Omnipresence

The Tell-Tale Heart is a story written by Edgar Allen Poe and is a story which I’m pretty sure, much like many other mandatory school readings like Shakespeare and Thatcher, that many of you have read and most of you have forgotten, myself included. To recap the tale, and summarize for those of you who actually haven’t read it, the Tell-Tale Heart follows the story of a man who tries his best to convince us he is not crazy whilst he plots to murder someone for the sole reason that one specific…

. Another atheist argument is that if God was the first cause, God must himself have been the effect of some cause. If not, then the premise that every effect has a cause is untrue, and God could not have created the universe because he could not have been "the first cause." There is just as much evidence that some other phenomenon created the universe, such as the Big Bang. Another argument for atheism examines the presence of evil on Earth. If God is omnibenevolent, how can he allow such evil…

Processed foods have revolutionized America since they were Introduced in World war I, they served to help soldiers on the field that were in need of food supplies in the field. After World war II America was revolutionized by the changes that processed foods made to America. There was a time that of scarcity in America for food, therefore people were in poor health and the fats that the processed foods contained were easy and cheap to obtain to them. But in later years America had enough food…

Psalm 139 is written after the author has a divine encounter about God’s character and the intimate knowledge he has of them. The author’s word choice can be further understood by studying in the original Greek/Hebrew words within the text that carry deeper meanings. Psalm 139:1 English standard version translation says. “Oh Lord you have searched me and you know me”. Two words that are important in this particular verse are the Greek/Hebrew words for Lord and know. The particular word for Lord…

uncanny, the eyes surveil and judge those living beneath” (Meehan 86). The people who refer to the pair of eyes on the billboard as “the eyes of God” believe that God is always watching, and they believe they can always feel God’s judgement and omnipresence. Even though it is just an advertisement for an eye doctor, the pair of brooding eyes on the towering billboard are believed by some people to be “the eyes of God” because the inhabitants of the valley of ashes need something to have hope for…

With the exception of the few skirmishes in Latin America, the United States of America’s foreign policy during the early 20th century was monotonously consistent. Since there was, at the time, no pressing need for a bolstered military, when presented with the outbreak of World War I the involuntary reaction of the U.S. government was to plead neutrality. However, as the war progressed, opportunistic companies began to invest in manufacturing war goods both prior to, and during, the U.S.…

Comparison between The Birthmark and Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the famous American writers of the nineteenth century, whose works belong to the genre of dark romanticism. In both the stories, namely The Birthmark and Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne portrays the protagonists as idealistic. While Young Goodman Brown analyzes various themes, such as loss of faith in religion, proximity of temptation and societal ills performed by Puritan communities, The Birthmark emphasizes…

In 411 BCE, Aristophanes’ play L ysistrata, a tale of war, a sex strike, and the comedy that rises out of male and female conflict was first performed on the Greek stage. While Aristophanes’ work L ysistrata is indeed comedic, it echoes a valid sentiment of consideration: the submission women faced and the gender roles society socialized them to play Socially­defined norms of gender create a direct reflection on the way each individual views themselves, others in their gender, and their opposite…

Similar to the industrial revolution that vastly shifted the society that the canonical social theorists were living through, today’s society is going through its own revolution. This is a revolution of rapidly advancing technologies centered on the Internet and computer processing systems that have shaped the way that “modern” individuals communicate, connect and interact with one another. Central to this communication revolution has been the development of the mobile phone with internet…

Identity and one’s comprehension of the self are thought to be profoundly influenced by the individual’s memory. Hence, one may not only view the self as a concept or as an image, but also “think of the self as one’s memory for oneself” (Klein). Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind sets the focus on this dynamic, examining the impairment imposed on its characters’ perception of their own identity caused by the selective memory erasure. The film portrays the disruption of the consciousness…