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- 21611: Halloween and Christianity
- ... day did not have any real significance. In the year of 998, the abbot of the monastery of Cluny in southern France, St. Odilo added a celebration on November 2nd called All Souls Day. The new celebration was a feast whose purpose was to recognize those in heaven and in purgatory. The tradition of dressing up in costumes on Halloween is derived from the Feast of All Souls Day in France ...
- 21612: Positivism
- ... Vienna school of philosophy, prefer to call themselves logical empiricists in order to separate themselves from the stress of the earlier thinkers on scientific verification. They maintain that the verification principle itself is philosophically unverifiable.(World Book Encyclopedia)
- 21613: Buddhism
- ... enlightenment and death of the Buddha. Some people fast, but others are picnicking, dancing, acting and playing sports. Buddhism sounds like a funny religion, but in fact there are about 300 million Buddhists in the world.
- 21614: Buddhism
- ... a desire for them to do something as I would do it. Not letting them grow in there own way and watching as a helpful observer causes Dukkha within me. If the craving for a new car causes me to lose track of immediate needs, frustration knowing that I have a need that has a priority over a want also causes Dukkha. When I saw a colleague get a job that ...
- 21615: Charles Dickens Personal Experiences in Great Expectations
- ... 1997. Pickeral, Paul. Fantasy and Reality in Great Expectations. Readings on Charles Dickens. Ed. Charice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1998. 154-161. Thackerkay, William Makepeace. British Writers. Ed. Tan Scott Killver. Vol. 5. New York: British Council, 1987. 66-68.
- 21616: Betrayed By God
- ... God knew what He was doing. Even the fire was a blessing in disguise. Some of the equipment was getting old and things just weren't all in top condition. So now he will have new equipment, walls, ceiling and so on. He wouldn't have had the pocket money to do this alone. Now you might be thinking it was just an insurance scam, but he had many inspectors come ...
- 21617: Crime And Punishment 6
- ... to Sonya is not enough, and Sonya knows it. Sonya "asks only one thing of her beloved: that he should acknowledge the reality of . . . mankind outside himself, and should solemnly declare his acceptance of this new . . . faith by an act of confession to all the people." Sonya tells Raskalnikov to bow down at a crossroads, kiss the earth that Rodia had offended and say aloud " I have killed!" After repenting, Sonya ...
- 21618: Beowulf As A Hero
- ... fear. He set a noble example for all human beings relaying the necessity of brotherhood and friendship. But with a hero like Beowulf you must ask yourself, "What happed to all the heros of the world?" Well, I once herd that, "There are still real heroes, sometimes they just get lost in the headlines." Beowulf is most definitely an epic hero of epic proportions.
- 21619: An Analysis Of The Jehovah's Witnesses' Religion
- ... Witnesses believe in most all of the bibles of today, but stick to the traditional versions such as the King James or the King George versions. But as for the newer bibles such as the new testament, or the man's Bible, or the woman's bible, they consider these versions a misguided representation of the bible. As I see the Jehovah's witnesses religion, as friendly as they were, was ...
- 21620: To Kill A Mocking Bird
- ... short stories are told to get a realistic picture of what life is like living in Maycomb County. Only minor events occur such as the introduction of all the characters, Gem and Scout meeting a new friend Dill, Scout attending school, and probably the biggest: the introduction and old wives tales about the mysterious neighbor Boo Radley. Some small events that increase the suspense were Gems pants being mended by ...
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