Religious ecstasy

twelve percent of Asians. (http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/). Poverty leads to drug dealing as well as drug abuse. Marijuana abuse is on a forty-seven percent for Hispanics, thirty-nine percent for African American, and thirty-six for Caucasian. Ecstasy is thirteen percent on Hispanics, eight percent on African American, six percent on Caucasian. Cocaine is thirteen percent in Hispanics, eight percent African American and three percent Caucasian. Alcohol is sixty-two percent In Hispanics,…

Over the 16th and 17th centuries following the Italian Renaissance, literature in England began to flourish. Some of the most prominent writers were of this era, such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Donne and Robert Herrick. Together, along with additional writers they composed one of history’s most significant poetic movements. Movements that have been fundamental to change the course of poetry in and out of their eras. All throughout history, poets have emerged to exhibit their…

they were the worst targets of brutality inflicted by the men of other communities. The impact of the partition on women was much different and more traumatic and heartrending than men. Atrocities were enacted upon the bodies of women as men of one religious group sought to dishonour the men of another faith by declaring them impotent in their inability to protect their women.…

Christian mysticism is an aspect of Christian experience where Christians believe that they have had some contact with God (Boon, lecture, Aug. 24, 2015). It is through these extraordinary claims that give an individual authority, power, and an experience that goes beyond the human realm. Beatrice of Nazareth was an author, a nun, a Christian, and most importantly (for the purpose of this discussion) a mystic. In her writing of early mystic literature, the Seven Steps of Love, she eloquently…

Henry David Thoreau, born July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, was known to be an American transcendentalist and philosopher. Thoreau became known for the essay he wrote when he spent a night in jail due to his refusal to pay taxes in objection to slavery and the Mexican War. The essay was published and titled “Resistance of Civil Government” but also known as “Civil Disobedience.” It is unsurprising that the government is dirty and corrupt so the purpose of the essay was to influence…

every problem humanity faces they are gifted happiness one hundred fold, and that all arguments stating the contrary are exaggeration. Philo then begins his piece on why this is inaccurate. He allows that even if misery exists less frequently than ecstasy, it has the capacity to be perpetually more brutal and long lasting. An extended amount of time of common enjoyment can easily be overcome by a fractional amount of time of acute despair. There are very few peaks of happiness in our lives, and…

be as safe as many people think. Before going into detail it’s important to understand the history of marijuana, especially in the United States. The first written records of marijuana date back 4,000 years ago to Asia. It was primarily used for religious and spiritual purposes to help in meditation and calming one’s mind. It was also thought to have medicinal value at this time because of the pain relief it brought to people who ingested it. Over time it was spread across the world and was…

Euripides’ Bacchae is built on creating and exploring binary oppositions. A central opposition, sanity and madness, forces the reader to evaluate each character’s actions and motivations to judge them as sane or insane. By making these judgments, the readers assign different values to each character based on beliefs that they have acquired and cultivated since their early development and are affected by society and surroundings throughout their lives. For example, “good” values correlate with…

Norse mythology is a religion that the vikings believed in and it is very similar to Greek mythology and very different as well. The way the Greeks and Norse believed the world was created were far from similar. The believed in powerful gods and goddesses, they each have a part in the world. They also had a different belief on how the world would end. Norse mythology and Greek mythology are very alike but the stories are twisted around a bit to end with the same outcome. We all know about…

Beginnings The Expressionism movement is thought by many to have began on June 7, 1905 by four architecture students when they formed the group “Die Brücke” (The Bridge) (Die Brücke). The four students that formed the group “Die Brücke” were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl. Fritz Bleyl left the group shortly after (Die Brücke). The name, Die Brücke, was taken from writings of the philosopher Friedrich Nietszche, of whom the group greatly admired. It…