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- 6321: Marriage Is A Sacrament
- A sacrament is any visible sign of God’s invisible presence. Matrimony is a sacrament of vocation and commitment to a life of mutual love and service. In the Roman Catholic Church the institution of holy matrimony was raised to the level of a ... due to the origin of the divine grace that made an indissoluble union, the union of Christ with his Church as his mystical body. The creation story in Genesis is the root of the Church’s understanding of the sacredness of marriage. “The Lord God said: ‘It is not good that a man should be alone’. …Therefore, a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and they ... 1:28) is directly linked to the union of husband and wife. It is also from this command that marriage in the Old Testament functions primarily for the begetting of children to preserve the husband’s clan. The Old Testament Jews considered children to be so important to marriage that not having children was something of a curse. “Peninnah, her rival, would torment and humiliate her, because the Lord have ...
- 6322: Alcohol and Driving While Intoxicated
- Alcohol and Driving While Intoxicated Alcohol is a drug, a very popular drug. Alcohol has been around for a long time, and people have always enjoyed it's effects. Many people have passions for alcohol, some people have refrigerators filled with beer, many others are wine connoisseurs. Alcohol always seems to liven up the party. But no madder what your preference is, alcohol ... dangerous when combined with the operation of an automobile. If you can remember only a few things from this report remember this: driving drunk is unsafe to you, and everyone else around you. The driver's of other cars, pedestrians, etc… Driving drunk can also be very, very costly: insurance surcharges, insurance rates, tickets, fines. You should understand what alcohol does to you before we go on. Alcohol is a depressant ... It is not good to drink and drive when you are in a good mood, but your driving is also influenced by your mood. It can make you drive faster, pay attention less, etc… Study's have shown that the combination of anger, and drinking is responsible for much of reckless driving. Not only can alcohol enhance your mood, but it has been proven that it can quickly alter your ...
- 6323: Wuthering Heights
- ... Image of the Book by Robert McKibben, and Control of Sympathy in Wuthering Heights by John Hagan, strive to prove that neither Catherine nor Heathcliff are to blame for their wrong doings. Catherine and Heathcliff’s passionate nature, intolerable frustration, and overwhelming loss have ruined them, and thus stripped them of their humanities. McKibben and Hagan take different approaches to Wuthering Heights, but both approaches work together to form one unified concept. McKibben speaks of Wuthering Heights as a whole, while Hagan concentrates on only sympathies role in the novel. McKibben and Hagan both touch on the topic of Catherine and Heathcliff’s passionate nature. To this, McKibben recalls the scene in the book when Catherine is "in the throes of her self-induced illness" (p38). When asking for her husband, she is told by Nelly Dean that ... in the name of all that feels has he to do with books when I am dying." McKibben shows that while Catherine is making a scene and crying, Edgar is in the library handling Catherine’s death in the only way he knows how, in a mild mannered approach. He lacks the passionate ways in which Catherine and Heathcliff handle ordeals. During this scene Catherine’s mind strays back to ...
- 6324: Compare And Contrast On The Pe
- ... meant wealth for the Indians. To the whites the pearl meant more power and wealth. Unlike the Caucasian, the Indians had many reasons for desiring the great pearl. In The Pearl it talks about Kino's dreams and plans. For example, he finds the pearl and the first thing that come to mind are the things he can give his family, seeing Jauna in a shawl and a nice dress with ... shoes. Kino could finally have a nice hat made not of straw but as of velvet. The whites on the other hand would most likely new businesses think of only making more money. When Kino's baby was stung by the scorpion, Juana and Kino took the baby to the doctor. When Kino told the doctor, he had no money the doctor told them he wasn't' going to treat his baby. Then when the doctor found out about kino having a pearl the doctor immediately went to Kino's house to treat the injured baby. In the story the Indians ...
- 6325: Black Like Me: Racism Is A Foolism Misunderstanding of Man
- Black Like Me: Racism Is A Foolism Misunderstanding of Man All men are created equal... or are they? John Griffin's "Black Like Me" shows how racism is nothing more then the foolish misunderstanding of man. White's current superiority hangs in the balance as Blacks become tired of being the minority, in the late 1950's. Even though this struggle isn't as dreadful as it was then, it still exists. The certainty of racism can't be ignored but it will soon disappear as generations mix. Racial discrepancies challenge ...
- 6326: Genetic Engineering: Correcting the Code
- Genetic Engineering: Correcting the Code Often there is a sudden breakthrough in a field of sciences, a key moment, an experiment, an event that changes people's lives all over the world. In September of 1990, the first genetic treatment of a human being with an inherited illness was they key moment or event for genetics. They injection of a genetically altered white blood cells into the child's body was little more than a transfusion. The child sat on a bed, an intravenous tube was hooked to her arm and her own white blood cells were infused into her circulation. Yet those white blood cells were like no other cells in history. They had been genetically engineered (Thompson 9). This girl isn't alone in beating the odds. Genetic engineering has grown and become more common. People with diseases, infertile men, and farmers especially should recognize the many benefits from genetic engineering. They could end up with ...
- 6327: The Scarlet Letter 2
- If one is to read Nathaniel Hawthorne s novel The Scarlet Letter, they will forever remember the remarkable tale of a woman who succeeds against all odds. It extraordinarily describes the life and times of early Puritan colonists in America and the sin ... to stand holding her child before Boston on a scaffold for three hours. She is interrogated as to who her fellow sinner is, but she remains strong. Many women of the town believe that Hester s penalty is not harsh enough and therefore, she is marked with the letter A upon her chest. She is returned to her prison cell and a doctor is summoned to help calm her. The doctor ... in appearance and many people believe that she could be a bad influence on their comfortable Puritan town. With hearing talk that Pearl may be taken away from her, she goes to the Governor Bellingham s office in order to talk him into letting her keep the child. Bellingham is displeased with Pearl s attitude of the church and Puritanism, and therefore decides to take her away. Just before he ...
- 6328: The Red Badge Of Courage
- In today's society, many people are faced with internal conflicts that cause them to wonder who they really are. These struggles sometimes allow people to realize their true self identity. During these mental battles the person can recognize what they can and cannot do. After undergoing this process, the person's views about a given situation may completely change. Their previous views may be based on how they think others will perceive them. In the novel Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, Henry Fleming underwent ... regiment, shortly after he ran, he wondered and cared about what they would say to him. "He wondered what they would remark when later he appeared in camp. His mind heard howls of derision... Where's Henry Fleming? He run, didn't 'e?" (97) After no one brutally questioned him, he thought, "He had performed all of his mistakes in the dark, so he was still a man." (111) Since ...
- 6329: Beach Burial - Kenneth Slessor
- ... such bewildered pity,The words choke as they begin – “Unknown seaman” – the ghostly pencil Wavers and fades, the purple drips, The breath of the wet season has washed their inscriptions As blue as drowned men’s lips, Dead seamen, gone in search of the same landfall,Whether as enemies they fought, Or fought with us, or neither; the sand joins them together,Enlisted on the other front. El Alamein. Although not blatantly obvious at first, Kenneth Slessor’s emotive and poignant poem Beach burial is a poem concerned with raising the awareness of national identity. Now I found this hard to believe at first – For me to be able to use this poem ... had actually CHOSEN to write about national identity. Basically a lot of windbagging- and as much I was looking forward to see how great my powers of persuasion were I finally realised that they wouldn’t be necessary. I realised that even though Slessor’s Beach Burial doesn’t ramble on about the Australian lifestyles and the Australian landscapes, It is a poem solely based on the importance of national ...
- 6330: Historical Psychoanalysis And Dream Interpretation: The Freudian Methodology
- ... are diagnosed as insane. See the same vision at night, sound asleep in your bed, and you will be judged perfectly normal; it is all but a dream. In the dreaming state the normal person's brain quite regularly mimics the most blatant manifestations of mental illness. In dreaming the sensory perceptions are akin to hallucinations; the false belief systems similar to the delusions of psychosis; and the aberrant thinking, memory ... did not originate the concept of dream interpretation, was integral in developing some methodologies of utilizing the dream as a means of deciphering the psyche of the dreamer, particularly in uncovering and analyzing the dreamer's psychological problems. In Freud's view, the purpose of dreams was to allow the individual to experience the instinctual urges that society deems unacceptable. Being that Freud was a product of the Victorian age, much of his dreamwork focused ...
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