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- 2361: The Case For The Existence of God
- ... to "give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you..." (I Peter 3:15), but an obligation to carry the Gospel message to a lost and dying world (Mark 16:15-16, et al.). There will be times when carrying the Gospel message to the world will entail setting forth the case for the existence of God. In addition, we need to remember that Christians are not agnostics. The agnostic is the person who says that God's existence is unknowable ... spark of religious capacity which may be fanned and fed into a mighty flame." If, therefore, man is incurably religious--and has the idea of God in his mind--and if we assume that the world is rational, it is impossible that a phenomenon so universal as religion could be founded upon illusion. The question is highly appropriate therefore: what is the source of this religious tendency within man? Alexander ...
- 2362: New Hreligion And Medieval Lit
- ... The similarities and differences between the two plays make up what can be termed as "characteristic" of medieval drama. Everyman and The Second Shepherds' Play both contain ideas that illustrate how people in the medieval world of England viewed the rest of the world. One of those ideas is each play's sense of the state of the world. In Everyman this sense is described by God in lines 35-45 when he says, "now I see the people do clean forsake me...the seven deadly sins...now in the world be made ...
- 2363: An Analysis of The Glass Menagerie
- ... Analysis of The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a play that is very important to modern literature. Tennessee Williams describes four separate characters, their dreams, and the harsh realities they faced in the modern world. His setting is in St. Louis during the Depression-Era. The story is about a loving family that is constantly in conflict. To convey his central theme, Williams uses symbols. He also expresses his theme ... Laura does not like to socialize at all. She has a slight limp and is extremely shy with people. When she does leave the apartment, she falls. She is unable to function in the outside world. As previously stated, symbols play an important role in The Glass Menagerie. Symbols are substitutions that are used to express a particular theme, idea, or character. One symbol that is used over and over is ... has different meanings to the characters. For Tom, it is a place where he can escape to. It is where he goes to escape from his mother's nagging. He is open to the outside world when he is on the fire escape. It is his way out. For Laura, it is where the gentleman caller enters and where the outside world is brought inside to her. But to Amanda, ...
- 2364: The War at Gettysburg
- The War at Gettysburg Getting There On the way to Gettysburg was tough. It was a long hard and tough journey getting there because there was no other way to get there for the army besides walking ... trip there was very long. Only about half all the people going there survived. The most of all people that died were Confederate men. The Population There was a lot of people involved in The War at Gettysburg. Major Joseph Hooker had 115,000 men in his army. Major Robert E. Lee had only 70,000 Confederate men in his army. Brig. General John Buford had opnly 4,000 men in ... life. Almost all of the soldiers worked night and day.They all risked their life to defend their armys and Union. Most of them got scared. Most died because they either got shot or the war was to hard for them. Some ran away, because they got scared, Their goal was to defend their Union. What Happened The Confederate went to war with the union in a small town called ...
- 2365: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- ... access to electronic mail for sending and receiving data, and file transfer for copying files from one computer to another. Telnet services allow you to establish connections with systems on the other side of the world as if they were next door. This wealth of information opens the minds of society to new possibilities and opportunities. With the explosion of the World Wide Web, anyone could publish his or her ideas to the world. Before, in order to be heard one would have to go through the struggle of obtaining a publisher to get something put into print. With the arrival of the Internet, anyone who has something ...
- 2366: The Development Of Dance And Theatre In The East Asian Nations
- ... form is restrained, gentle. and elegant. Some Peking operas are Yuan plays or kan-ch'u operas adapted to the new northern musical system. Many plays first staged as Peking opera are dramatizations of the war novel San-kuo chih yen-i (Romance of the three kingdoms), written in the 14th century by Lo Kuan-chung. Mei Lanfang, the most famous performer of ching-hsi female roles in the 20th century ... indicate an army. A black flag whisked across the stage means a stormn, a light blue one a breeze or the ocean. Chinese opera is one of the most conventionalized forms of theatre in the world. It has been suggested that the poverty of troupes and the need to travel with few properties and little scenery led to the development of many of these conventions. Confucian morality underlies traditional Chinese drama ... the universe, has no place in Chinese drama; the typical play concludes on a note of poetic justice with virtue rewarded and evil punished, thus showing the proper way of human conduct in a social world. 20th century. With the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, court support for Peking opera by the Manchu dynasty ended. Troupes, however, continued to perform for private patrons and in public at ...
- 2367: Abortion Should Be Kept Out of The Criminal Code
- ... end of six months of pregnancy, it is technically a premature birth. The practice of abortion was widespread in ancient times as a method of birth control. Later it was restricted or forbidden by most world religions, but it was not considered an offense in secular law until the 19th century. During that century, first the English Parliament and then American state legislatures prohibited induced abortion to protect women from surgical ... the termination of unwanted pregnancies for medical, social, or private reasons. Abortions at the woman's request were first allowed by the Soviet Union in 1920, followed by Japan and several East European nations after World War II. In the late 1960s liberalized abortion regulations became widespread. The impetus for the change was threefold: (1) infanticide and the high maternal death rate associated with illegal abortions, (2) a rapidly expanding world ...
- 2368: The Life Story of Nikita Khrushchev
- The Life Story of Nikita Khrushchev His story is something like a fairy tale. A humble young peasant boy, born to a world of famine and poverty with 100 million peasants just like him, works and fights his way up the political ladder of Russia to one day become its most powerful force, simultaneously holding the offices of ... made him want to remain near Yuzovka. However, in 1919, that rebellious, power-seeking inner sense of Nikita's got the best of him, and he went off to join the Red Army. When the war ended, Khrushchev, whose main objective had been to emerge as a politician until he found how difficult it was to compete with the "higher-born," at least had succeeded in proving himself to be a ... which he gained a reputation as an expert. When he gained full membership in the Politburo in March of 1939, Khrushchev became one of the most powerful men in the U.S.S.R. With World War II came more accomplishments and recognition for Khrushchev. He supervised the annexation of Polish territory, helped supervise the evacuation of Ukranian industry when Germany attacked, and eventually helped to expel the Germans from ...
- 2369: Christianity And Judaism
- ... and certain fundamental beliefs (monotheism) and ethical principles (the Decalogue) would, at least to an outsider, have looked much the same, as would their wariness of, and communal attempts to demarcate themselves from, the outside world. While conflict did exist between the early Christian church and believers of Judaism, the two were quite similar, from fundamental beliefs to the way the church/synagogue appeared to outsiders. Christians were much more active ... private and public; 5) obedience to the moral law expressed in the commandments at Sinai; 6) the witness rendered to God by the "Sanctification of the Name" in the midst of the peoples of the world, even to the point of martyrdom if necessary; 7) respect and responsibility in relationship to all creation, committed zeal for peace and for the good of all humanity, without discrimination. It seems without question that these two world religions are extremely similar. While this is true, we can not neglect that which separates one from the other. However, these differences arose from the same place. Where once the two religions coincided now ...
- 2370: Florence Nightingale
- Florence Nightingale is remembered throughout the world for her heroic, almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. A brilliant child, Florence attained outstanding academic achievement in ... allowed to become a nurse. Florence, now thirty-one went to work at Kaserworth Hospital in Germany, and was later promoted and moved to a hospital in London. In 1854 Britain, France and Turkey declared war on Russia, marking the begging of the Crimean War. The allies had the upper hand in the war but there were vast criticisms of the medical felicities for the wounded soldiers. In response, Florence asked and was granted permission to take a group ...
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