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- 2531: George Berkeley: His View of God
- ... above proposed argument, though, that same materialist is logically forced to agree that, because the "material substratum1" itself can not be sensed, its existence can not be treated as knowledge. The materialist belief has, in effect, become as futile as proving that the cyclops exists; his ideas have lead him into skepticism. Having proven that the materialist is, at best, a doubter, Berkeley goes on to offer the compelling argument that ...
- 2532: Three Important Qualities Of Christ's Life
- ... much love for us that he even gives us life. He could just let us Christians live our own life but, He helps us out with His great grace. Grace is part of the whole effect of God's love. Basically what grace is, is way that God deals with us. It has nothing to do with what we deserve or basis of merit, but it is giving out by how ...
- 2533: The Wiccan Religion
- ... to exist, without causing harm, so Wiccans look to fulfill this as closely as possible. A Wiccan attempts to make choices based on what will cause the least harm, and promote the greatest overall positive effect. Wicca teaches self discipline, personal responsibility kinship ith our plant and its creatures, open-mindedness and the virtues of diversity. Wiccans do not proselytize, as we believe that each must find the path that is ...
- 2534: Essay on the Intrinsic Flaws Inherent in Christianity
- ... accepted by Christians that god created everything. If this is true, then this same god created evil. It is written in the Bible that god is all-knowing (1 John 3:20). God is, in effect, omniscient. If god is omniscient and creates, he then knows all possible outcomes of all possible creations of all possible universes. If he created our universe, he chose what its destiny would be. In doing ...
- 2535: The Book of Mark: An Essay for Humanities Courses That Treat The Bible As A Historical Document
- ... hand, he somehow had to make a 'story' from basically Hearsay! Mark groups different parables and sayings of Jesus by topic; making a false impression that these things happened in order. This may have little effect on changing the meaning of the lesson, however it illustrates the fact that Mark was trying to author a "readable" story for people, rather than a book of facts. The best example would be in ...
- 2536: The Saginaw Song
- The Saginaw Song Here's a poem by a Michigan lad, Theodore Roethke, whose father ran a nursery and greenhouse business in Saginaw. This poem avoids all psycho-babble about love-hate relationships, childhood idealization of the father, family tensions and conflicts, the borderline between play and violence, whatever. It avoids those cliches and trite ...
- 2537: Mr. Flood’s Party: A Cry for Help
- ... of the severity of Flood’s drunkenness. These symbols help to convey the serious tone revolving around the overall theme of the poem. Robinson’s attitude towards Flood’s dealing with his alcoholism and its effect on his life is understood through the tone of his writing throughout the poem. The tone in the beginning reflects a man alone, but content with himself. Throughout the majority of the poem flood is ...
- 2538: Criticism of Keats' Melancholy
- ... the deleted first stanza’s inclusion is very vital to the symmetry and structure to the poem. He states, “With stanza one’s omission the poem ‘s original symmetry is destroyed, and we lose the effect of Keats’s careful balancing of equal stanza pairs to embody negative and positive locations and methods in the search of melancholy. Replacing the original first stanza ahead of the other three resolves theses problems ...
- 2539: “I had been hungry, all the Years”
- ... finally been giving a chance to draw near the “Curious Wine”. I see the “Curious Wine” as wealth, in terms of money. This is due to many reasons, one being that wine as an intoxicating effect on people; as does money. Wine is also a drink of richer people, who would (in most cases) have more money then her. Also because wine is curious, in flavor as well as in its ...
- 2540: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety"
- ... thought to be, is a sharp contrast to love in the bounds of reality (Nelson 119). The fourth age presents circus imagery "as a form of art too close to life to have any purgative effect on the audience." It is reinforced by Rosetta's definitions of life as an "impertinent appetitive flux," and the world as a "clown's cosmos" (Nelson 119). Malin conveys the image of man as "an ...
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