René Magritte

The UCC is both a very young tradition and a very old church. We are four traditions with significant history, filled with both beauty and ugliness, that combined to create something new, in 1957. As a former Catholic, I love and appreciate history, and where history matters most and is most fascinating is looking at how different strands change or end or wind into the present and the future, often in surprising ways. The UCC traces its roots back to four different denominations, each of which…

We all know that the “establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at a minimum that neither a state nor the Federal Government can organize a church. Neither can they permit rulings which give encouragement to one religion, support all beliefs, or favor one belief over an additional belief. Neither can it neither force nor influence a person to go to or to stay away from religious dwellings in contradiction of their free will or coerce them to acknowledge a belief or distrust…

What is change? According to Merriam-Webster, the word change is described as, “to undergo transformation, transition, or substitution” (“change”). In other words, change makes the future different from the present. Change is what shapes our life and without change, life can be very boring and monotonous. No matter what happens, change is always present in some form or another. In life, there could be many ups and downs as well as twists and turns that we may all encounter to remain the same.…

Explain to what extent conflict in northern Ireland has now been resolved. Thy Good Friday agreement Northern Ireland has been subject to much conflict throughout the 20th century, the Good Friday agreement of April 10th 1998 was the latest attempt at bringing peace to the troubled nation. Its aim was to set up a power sharing assembly to govern Northern Ireland, by cross community consent; so essentially, Ireland could run itself again. It was reached after two years of talks, because the key…

Keral then discusses secularisation as a means of creating a sense of nationhood, suggesting that Ataturk 's principles are most clear in his ‘homeland ideology’. Keral uses quotes from Ataturk’s speeches as evidence for this idea, the crux of which is that ‘Old Turkey [is] like a dungeon and it ought to be a paradise’, loved by all Turkish. This aligns with ideas of Shinto secular, in that the aim was to create a sense of nationhood and to unify Japan, facilitated through the nation-state, in…

Secularity in France targets the public sphere, the treatment of religious symbolism in French law raises issues of how the maintenance of secularity should go about in a nation, forcibly removing ‘visible religion’ from the public sphere, implies a lack of pluralism in a nation, laïcité then could be considered relatively undemocratic. What exactly was meant by ‘ostentatious’ is a matter of much debate, to what extent must a symbol of religious affiliation be ‘ostentatious’. This year, a 15…

Throughout the course of these 10 weeks, I recorded my experience regarding the worldwide phenomena, Pokemon GO. Released July 1st, 2016, Pokemon GO is a smartphone game that uses GPS and real-time tracking to allow users to virtually traverse the world of Pokemon, collecting new creatures, items, and real-life interactions along the way. While the game is based on the original game series started in Japan in 1996, making its way to the United States in 1998, the game play is quite different.…

Romantic comedies have existed as long as film has existed. They often make a decent profit, and have lower than average production costs. They provide an easy escape from reality, with light hearted plots and an almost guaranteed happy ending. This genre includes a multitude of conventions, such as the meet cute and the grand declaration. This genre has also gone through many phases and eras. City Lights, released in 1931, is arguably the most famous romantic comedy of the silent era.…

Innovation The newest technology innovation I have recently read about featured bendable 3D-printed structures. The creators call the process 4D printing because the structures change over the fourth dimension, which is time. This happens when subjected to stimuli, which in this case is heat. “Engineers from Massachusetts Technology, (MIT) and Singapore University of Technology have devised this new fabrication that uses ultraviolet light to print these structures that…

Heather Reinders (ID 0228852): - Assignment One: French Songs After reading the assignment requirements, I was originally unsure of how to tackle such an open-ended assignment; with no specific goals posted I decided to create my own. A large part of why I want to learn to speak French isn’t just because we are a bilingual nation or because it will increase employment prospects after University; it was to start to learn and appreciate French culture. Growing up in the Guelph area we were never…