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History is one of the most important aspects of life. History assists us in understanding change and guides us to make the best decisions for our future by learning from our past experiences. I am a firm believer that history gives us insight on why things are the way they have become today. People, places, and events in history have shaped the world today and continues to do so as the years progress. Philip Jenkins is a religion scholar who views our world through a strong religious and…

Steve Macias Prof. Grundmeier English 1A 13 April 2015 The One Dimensional Arab Do Arab countries produce doctors, scientists, athletes, or actors? Scanning through western media reports, we might be tempted to think such occupations simply do not exist in Arabic speaking countries. Instead the phrase, “Arab” conjures images of missiles, turbans, and automatic rifles. Or perhaps we think of men laying prostrate facing Mecca or women dressed in Hijab as they veil their body in their cultural…

Interpreting the Constitution of the United States of America has always been a challenge for Supreme Court justices throughout America’s history. Many justices have tried to interpret the Constitution based on the social consequences of their ruling in comparison to the historical context behind the law being debated. The rift between adapting the Constitution in order for it to keep up with changing times and maintaining the original intentions of the framers poses many difficulties for the…

The book I read was called Breaking Loose Together and was written by Marjoleine Kars. It was published in 2002 by the University of North Carolina Press. Breaking Loose Together is a nonfiction historical book. The book is comprised of two hundred and eighty-four pages. It is a nonfiction and historical book because it gathers quotes, accounts, journal entries, and news articles from everyone that was in the western region of a Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. Its main argument is to tell the…

Several reform movements regarding the advancement of democratic ideals gained traction from 1825 to 1850. Activists were concerned with social and institutional issues, principal among these being temperance, abolitionism, women's rights, religion, education, and the penal system. However, this period also saw the emergence of decidedly anti-democratic nativist policies designed to oppress recently naturalized citizens. The pressure for social reform began as a response to perceived…

will be increased in the world if ISIS controlled Syria. They will kill everyone whom not follow, especially the Shia. ISIS classified themselves as Sunni, but they kill Sunni as well. Before the civil war, all Syrians from different religions and sects live together under one flag and loyalty to Syria's regime, yet the hatred born during the war. The hatred emerges from the war affects Muslims both side by making a gap and it expands. In fact, Syrian Civil War effects and involved other…

kill his older brother Sumisa. Afterwards, the Tarantha texts state that Asoka killed six of his other brothers. It was then that Asoka’s youngest brother, Tissa, realized that the only way to spare his own life would be to desert his home and join a sect of Buddhist monks, in the process throwing away any chance he once had at claiming the throne. Finally, after four years of quarrelling and killing, Asoka thought himself safe from treason and formally crowned himself as the King of the Mauryan…

Now, how did non-Sunni Kurds approach and feel about Kurdish nationalism during its nascent stages of development? For many non-Sunni Kurds, Kurdish nationalism was just another attempt at reinforcing religious dominance over other religious communities in the area, not much different from its ethnically diverse neighbors. These minorities mostly rejected Kurdish nationalism during this period. By the 1800s many sectarian differences had come to a head after subsequent battles between the…

The Superstitious Science of Shamans: Traditional Spirituality in South Korea Religion is an integral aspect of human life, but as one examines the different cultural, geographic, and social influences found among the varying peoples of the Earth, it becomes clear that it is not a uniform one. Humans have always sought to find the key that unlocks the secret of our very existence, and each civilization has formed its own narrative regarding the forces that rule and create life. We attempt to…

would voluntarily submit to white authority or they would perforce be removed from their lands, relocating elsewhere, and going through an extensive “reeducation” of what it meant to live in a moral and civil society. There have been numerous sects of Indians, just to name a few: the Chickasaws, Chippewas, and Choctaws, each with distinct “personalities”, rituals, customs and so on. To merely address the Indian problem as a general one without delineating the specific details which created…