Secularity

Since the human community emerged, some questions have always been difficult and interesting for all people. Actually, most of these unanswered questions are related to whether heaven, hell, the life after death, reincarnation etc. exist or not. If we collect all emphasized topics under one title, it should be called as religion. Different religions exist on the world and all of them have their supporters. Those people express their religious beliefs mainly with the help of religious symbols.…

There is no doubting that medicine and our medical knowledge is constantly evolving. We are making new discoveries each and every day that are undeniably changing the world. There is a big gap between the medical knowledge that was available for past generations in contrast to our present knowledge. This is especially proven when taking a peek into the medical beliefs and practices during the medieval period. Many would scoff at the methods used and find it crazy how clueless they seemed to be…

In the words of the lead actress- Kirron Kher, Khamosh Pani “deals with women and how few choices they have in life. How all their choices are related to the men in their lives-whether their fathers, or their brothers or husbands, ultimately their sons. They are answerable to all of them…they seem to be the keepers of their morals and their values.” The nation is the sentimental, ideological and collective sense of belonging towards a territory by a group of people who have a shared history and…

liberation.” It is clear, while Luzer addresses the centrists and moderates of each side, and the National Review seeks out far right conservatives, the targeting of vastly differing audiences points to a common societal struggle: religiosity and secularity. Ultimately, each author seeks, through use of evidential support, argument structure, language and emotional appeal, to convince audiences of the necessity of change in a modern…

against others, and turned the movement into something entirely counterproductive from what it originally set out to do. Some feel that the rights they were given in the First Amendment are being violated as society begins to shift towards favoring secularity, while some believe their religious freedom is being violated…

Societies around the globe are experiencing an overwhelming wave of urban growth; it is this urbanization that allows for the modern world to undergo such an extensive demographic transition as cities become the core of our future. In his best-selling novel, Planet of Slums, Mike Davis highlights one key obstacle of urban success: the uprise of the informal working class, more commonly known as the slums. Firstly, Davis analyzes how slums have caused four main macroscale shifts between societies…

Carole S. Vance, who wrote the Please and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality in 1984, provides a historical account of the issues surrounding societies perceptions, beliefs, and expectations of women sexuality. Vance explores several factors that bring light to the ways in which women’s sexual non-conformist behaviour remained invisible. Vance begins her paper stating, “the tension between sexual danger and sexual pleasure is a powerful one is women’s lives” (Vance, 1). This statement reinforces…

Metaphysics is defined through abstract concepts such as knowing, being, cause or time by a multitude of philosophers. A miniscule selection, of German heritage explain their own thoughts and theories upon the subject. The first, George Wilhelm Hegel- a German noble paved his way into philosophical history in the early 1700’s. In contrast, Friedrich Nietzsche was a German Philosopher whose peak of fame was evident in the 1870’s-80s. Although, both from different time periods and upbringings,…

6.3 Terrorism and Al-Qaida The terrorist organization Al Qaida was established in 1988 in Pakistan by Osama ben Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. The term al Qaida refers both to the physical base of the organization in Afghanistan and to the database to identify volunteers for jihad. Most of the Jihadist are all young men between the ages of 20 and 31. They are almost all from large siblings (cf. analyses of Dr. Rik Chopra for the Guardian, echoes 11/2015). And they were almost all raised in a…

To his only son and every person of color, Ta-Nehisi Coates pens an open letter within the pages of Between the World and Me. Reliving a year full of tragedy found in 2015 and remembering a lifetime of pain, Coates offers to his readers through vivid storytelling, an almost entirely pessimistic perspective of life in a black body. The strength of black bodies is often circumvented by the frailty projected onto them by those with “the need to be white.” In the gaps of Coates’s pessimism is an…