...Sikhism and Christianity have many comparisons as well as differences. Starting with the comparisons, Sikh religion believe that there is only one God, much like what the Christians believe. Christians believe that there is only one God who sacrificed his son for us so that we can have life. Another comparison would be that in Sikh religion, they have Gurus, those who God has chosen to deliver his message. Much like Christians who believed the deity of Jesus Christ, who had followers that helped deliver the message of God. In Christianity, pastors, preachers, etc. believe that they were chosen to deliver the message of God. Sikh religion and Christianity both believe that all human races are equal. They believe that no one is superior nor inferior. “Followers of the Sikh religion believe in reincarnation, a cycle...
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...Analyse the distinctive responses of two religious traditions to the issue of peace by linking their relevant sacred text to their principle teachings Sacred texts are fundamental sources of information for adherents in Islam and Christianity. They demonstrate principal teachings about peace and inner peace as well as supporting the ultimate aim of World peace. Both Muslims and Christians are guided by their sacred texts to make informed decisions regarding everyday activities in relation to their principle beliefs. One must act peacefully to receive peaceful treatment in return; this is elucidated in the Christian sacred text, The Bible, as Jesus’ ‘Golden Rule’ is ‘Do unto others as you would have done unto you’. Through the act of placidity and stewardship, one can attain inner Peace. One of the key teachings regarding peace is to respect all humans; acknowledge equality, including your enemies. This teaching is demonstrated in John 14:27 ‘If possible, so far it depends on you, be at peace with all’. In order to attain a sense of inner peace, one must follow the 5 principle beliefs of Christianity; this includes the belief in one God, In doing this adherent follow in the footsteps of Jesus as God commands humanity to live in peace, 1 Peter 3:11 ‘Turn away from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it’. Salvation is a prominent principle teaching which promotes the notion of inner peace, ‘Now, Master, you are letting your servant go in peace as you promised; for my...
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...Christianity and Social Responsibility Social responsibility is a term used in the business world that helps define the impact businesses have on society. Although there are many benefits to social responsibility, there are also some hindrances. Many people believe government involvement is not necessary when it comes to businesses making decisions around social responsibility. There are two opposing views of social responsibility that businesses take stances on: the economic model and the socioeconomic model. Within the realm of social responsibility it is equally as important to consider all notions as both a Christian and a business partner. When corporations donate funds to help disaster relief it is considered to be both a positive and negative thing. As Christians we should consider providing relief for people in need as an...
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...There is no Christianity without Jesus of Nazareth. Many saw Jesus as the messiah who would save them and believed to be a false prophet by others. Since his views and religion came as a threat to the Roman rulers of Palestine, they all castigated him and had him arrested. They shuffled Jesus off to Pontius Pilate, who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus. The Roman government thought that the public crucifixion of Jesus would put to rest anyone having the idea to follow and spread the words and lessons of acceptance and love that were taught by Jesus. In fact, it had the opposite effect. His loyal disciples were certain that Jesus died, came back to life and then went to Heaven. This belief became the most important part of all the Christian...
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...poverty but there are multiple ethical principles that can drive this conversation. Christianity, liberal egalitarianism, Thomas Aquinas’s natural law and unequal development are prime ethical pillars that can inform debates on poverty. Christianity provides interesting insight on poverty and ones attitude regarding those in need. The absence of material goods is the rudimentary definition of poverty. Christians believe that “Humans are created in the image and likeliness of God.” This infers that people...
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...Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity helped me to comprehend the events of psychology and theology. Entwistle’s (2010) book presents psychology and Christianity should itself. The book offered actualities from the past that has helped shape our society today. The events that were mentioned, displays how the information todays may be a reflection or reaction of what happened then. This book clarifies just how the Bible can be combined to offer the essentials for man. The writer says that all truth is God’s and all that he prepared is good. Psychology is human behavior and theology is religion; both viewpoints are things that are learned. Integrating the two gives us another outlook of accepting human behavior as a whole. Christianity...
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...Kristeller, "the writers of the period were keenly aware of the miseries and ills of our earthly existence". A representative quote is "I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself." He opposed the conquest of the New World, deploring the suffering it brought upon the natives. Citing the case of Martin Guerre as an example, he believes that humans cannot attain certainty. His skepticism is best expressed in the long essay "An Apology for Raymond Sebond" (Book 2, Chapter 12) which has frequently been published separately. We cannot trust our reasoning because thoughts just occur to us: we don't truly control them. We do not have good reasons to consider ourselves superior to the animals. He is highly skeptical of confessions obtained under torture, pointing out that such confessions can be made up by the suspect just to escape the torture he is subjected to. In the middle of the section normally entitled "Man's Knowledge Cannot Make Him Good," he wrote that his motto was "What do I know?". The essay on Sebond ostensibly defended Christianity. However, Montaigne eloquently employed many references and quotes from classical Greek and Roman, i.e. non-Christian authors, especially the atomist Lucretius. Montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children, but disliked the strong feelings of romantic love as being detrimental to freedom. One of his quotations is "Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside...
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...Each year the United States consistently became more and more diversified, and has now become one of the most pluralistic nations in the world, with over 2,000 different religions and denominations spread throughout. “Even within Christianity, the diversity and range of belief is startling” (Boston 1). Therefore, it should come as no surprise that students and teachers attending public school systems come from various religious backgrounds. Still, however, many public schools favor Christianity over all other religions. This has only caused several citizens of the United States to take the educational facilities to court, and fight against the constitutionality of teacher led and student led prayer in public schools. Throughout the past 20 years, many states have made it illegal for teachers to lead prayer in public schools, and have tried to take religion out of the public schools entirely. The government scrutinizes teachers with its many laws and regulations to ensure that they will follow the First Amendment. Ironically, as the government remains to oppress teachers with enforcing many laws...
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...Since the thesis is a three-prong, each prong stands for an individual topic within my primary topic for history day. It is also organized in a sense where the order of each prong is the order in which they will appear in the essay. The beginning of the thesis serves as a sort of introduction to the topic and gives a short context on what it is. When looking at the organization of the thesis, I believe that is it set up well but can be changed and improved with simple syntax and diction additions, changes and/or removals. In the first two body paragraphs, I will talk about how the Spanish had manipulated and then forced the Ohlone Indians into conversion to Christianity. In the third and fourth paragraphs, I will talk about how the Spanish violated the basic human rights of the natives. Finally, I will address how the Spanish wished to change their day-to-day life routines and change their “savagery” into prime Spanish citizens. In the conclusion I plan on pulling them all together in order to fully explain the results of everything and connecting it all to the theme. Overall, I believe that my thesis is pretty solid and simply lacks in word organization and...
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...Putting Cruelty First Author(s): Judith N. Shklar Reviewed work(s): Source: Daedalus, Vol. 111, No. 3, Representations and Realities (Summer, 1982), pp. 17-27 Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of American Academy of Arts & Sciences Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024800 . Accessed: 20/08/2012 16:09 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . The MIT Press and American Academy of Arts & Sciences are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Daedalus. http://www.jstor.org JUDITH N. SHKLAR Putting Cruelty First friend said to me, with deeply religious Roman Catholic must you liberals bring everything down to cruelty?" irritation, "Why What could he have meant? He was, and is, the most gentle and kindly of men, and a principled defender of political freedom and social reform. As a Christian, as a dreadful vice. He was not he obviously defending cruelty regarded cruelty or abandoning liberal politics; rather, he was explicitly rejecting the mentality abhor brutality...
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...The search for truth ponders the mind of religious believers. Therefore, spiritual welfare lies between Christianity, religion and the Islamic faith. Christianity and Islam differences bring tremendous conflict in religious committees past and present. For centuries the debate which religion symbolizes the true religion has taunted the minds of followers. And still today this question continues to divide God’s people. Religion shapes the very existence of people. The belief of a higher power challenges the heart of the young and the old throughout the world. The desired feeling of purity gears ambition to seek truth in God through religion of Christianity or Islamic faith. Much disgrace, rage has surface the mind of believers leading non-believers...
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...Academic essay on Annie Proulx's "Job Story" Choices are something we all make. Not necessarily important choices, but there will always be a time to make them. It's not always good choices, but they have to be made. There will always be consequences, whether it's bad or good. Throughout the story, Leeland Lee has to make a lot of choices. Where to live, where to work and when to work. All the different choices he made, put him in the position he is now. Leeland Lee is an awkward-looking young boy. His face is heavily boned, which he has gotten from his mom, his neck is quite thick and he has red-gold hair. His eyes are as pouchy as a middle-aged alcoholic. His nose is broad and lays close to his face. Lori Bovee is Leeland Lee's wife. She has an undistinguished oval face, and hair of medium length. Leeland Lee is the protagonist of the story, because he is the main character. I would say Leeland is a flat and static character as he is an endless optimist. He doesn't give up when it comes to finding a new job, and despite his wife dying he still gets a job at Unique Eats. The reason he is a static character is because he doesn't change at all. After getting several different jobs he doesn't change anything, after his mom and wife dies he doesn't change one single thing except the fact he isn't listening to the radio anymore, but since that have been an important factor of the story all along, it can also show a lot about how he has changed. The story starts November...
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...Essay on “Job History” written by Annie Proulx In the short story “Job History” written by Annie Proulx, we follow Leeland Lee from the time of his birth, until he is about fifty years old. In the short story we follow Leeland through his harsh life, with ups and downs, in the form of thoughts, feelings, incidents, etc. Leeland is born in a ranch in Wyoming, and lives there with his wife Lori. Leeland does not look particularly good, in fact he is a very unattractive man; (page 91, line 12)“Leeland’s face shows heavy bones from his mother’s side. His neck is thick and his red-gold hair plastered down in bangs. Even as a child his eyes are as pouchy as those of a middle-age alcoholic, the brows rod-straight above wandering out-of-line eyes. His nose lies broad and close to his face, his mouth seems to have been cut with a single chisel blow into easy flesh” And in the top of that, we see how Leeland through his life, tries to find a successful career, but fails consistently. He moves various times from place to place, too seek occupation and good business. But it is hard when you’re a high school dropout, without a career. Leeland have to changes his job constantly, because of his lack of luck, and since he can’t get along white his bosses. He is never able to stay at one job or place for long, which lead to problems in the family. He has a hard time supporting his wife, and their children financially. Throughout the story the author, Annie Proulx manages...
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...An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal[->0] point of view[->1]. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism[->2], political manifestos[->3], learned arguments[->4], observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article[->5] and a short story[->6]. Almost all modern essays are written in prose[->7], but works in verse[->8] have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope[->9]'s An Essay on Criticism[->10] and An Essay on Man[->11]). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke[->12]'s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding[->13] and Thomas Malthus[->14]'s An Essay on the Principle of Population[->15] are counterexamples. In some countries (e.g., the United States and Canada), essays have become a major part of formal education[->16]. Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills, and admission essays[->17] are often used by universities[->18] in selecting applicants and, in the humanities and social sciences, as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams. The concept of an "essay" has been extended to other mediums beyond writing. A film essay is a movie that often incorporates documentary film making styles and which focuses more on the evolution of a theme or an idea. A photographic essay[->19] is an attempt to cover a topic...
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...We all know love. We have all loved in some kind of way. We love our parents, significant others and even our friends. But we can also love other things like animals or material things. But what is the difference between loving and liking? And is it better not to love and feel pain or to love and be hurt in the progress? Jonathan Franzen seeks to answer these questions in his essay “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts”. The essay “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” is, as mentioned, written by Jonathan Franzen and published in The New York Times, May 28, 2011. Jonathan Franzen is born in 1959, and he is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist. The essay is based on the commencement speech he delivered at Kenyon College in Ohio, USA. “Our technology has become extremely adept in creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an erotic relationship, in which the beloved object asks for nothing and gives everything, instantly. (…)” As Franzen claims in his essay, many people can feel like they love their technological object. It gives them a satisfaction, which human interaction maybe wouldn’t. Franzen however thinks, that people in general don’t love material things: they like them. There is a major difference between loving and liking – even though it might appear small. “Liking, in general, is commercial culture’s substitute for loving.” Products are made to be likeable, but if that concept in transferred to a person, you would instantly see...
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