...Amber Crawford Tim Jones Religion in the United States 13 November 2014 Unitarian Universalist I had the pleasure of attending a Unitarian Universalist service in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. At first I was intimidated by the thought of attending a religious service because I was not raised in the church, and do not currently practice a religion of any sort. My mentor, knowing my personality, suggested the Unitarian Universalist church. I had never heard of this religious organization before, so after doing some research, I realized that this was definitely the place for me to attend. I was pleasantly surprised by the service, as was my husband who is a diehard atheist. Unitarian Universalism is an organizational embodiment of the extremely liberal religious tradition in the United States (Hemeyer, 2010). The current Unitarian Universalist Association is the result of the Universalists and the Unitarians coming together (Hemeyer, 2010). To better understand the Unitarian Universalist we know today, we are going to look at origins of the Universalists and the Unitarians prior to when they merged. The Universalists believe that all persons will eventually be saved by God, which means that salvation is universal and not restricted to a certain number (Hemeyer, 2010). Universalism was already present by the time of the American colonies (Hemeyer, 2010). John Murray (1741-1815) has been referred to as the father of American Universalism (Hemeyer, 2010). He preached what may be considered...
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...Hindu Influences in America Many scholars have questioned the idea of a one religion in India. Some Indian scholars state that the term Hinduism is a misnomer because its origin derived from the word Hidu. The early American history is closely tied with Hinduism. Unitarians represented as a small, liberal sect of American Christians. In the period following American Independence many writers showed interest in religious ideas and texts of India. They belonged to the social and religious community of New England Unitarianism. Later they entered a uniquely American religious movement. Transcendental writers of the nineteenth century commented on Hindu texts. During that period the Transcendentalists were not alone who was interested in Hinduism. They were considered radical by the larger Unitarian movement from which they emerged. Their interest in Hinduism combined a modest tradition of earlier Unitarian writers. Those writers had been studying works of European scholarship on India in the 1790s. Unitarians are marked that they made a decisive American transaction with Oriental thought in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The early studies of Hinduism were written by Unitarians. They introduced certain biases in the general American understanding of Indian religiosity. In their early studies Unitarians initiated two ongoing traditions of response to religious pluralism. One of the first serious American studies of Hinduism appeared at the end of the eighteenth century...
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...How does N.C.F.C. Demonstrate Oneness When I look at the oneness, I think of numerous words such as the fact or state of being unified or whole, comprised of two or more parts. Oneness can also mean being one in number belief in the oneness of God. I don’t want to spend too much time defining oneness. As me being a member of the National Christian Fellowship Conference. I observe the oneness that the N.C.F.C. family has been displaying. The way the N.C.F.C. family display this oneness is by us coming together as one under one banner of unity, Praising and worshipping one God, and fellowship. I’m glad where able to come under banner one and man of God, because we have different demonstrations and teachings, but were serving one God. We live in a world where individualism is encouraged to the extinct, where we are sometimes forced to consider ourselves separate from one another. That’s why I’m glad I have Bishop James McNeal Jr. in my life. He knows how to bring the people of God together. N.C.F.C. also shows oneness by coming together @ 7:30 nightly to be together in the worship service. We all come to worship and honor the same God that’s able to bring us together, no matter what we are. If God was able to bring his disciples as one at the Last Supper. So that being said Bishop McNeal is able to gather his organization together. That’s my insight on how N.C.F.C. Demonstrate...
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...The Beginning of the Education of Henry Adams: The Inception of America’s Tutor “EXCEPT for politics, Mount Vernon Street had the merit of leaving the boy-mind supple, free to turn with the world, and if one learned next to nothing, the little one did learn needed not to be unlearned. The surface was ready to take any form that education should cut into it...” (Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, “Washington.”) Henry Adams grew up in a world trying to deal with the mutability and tribulations of the 19th century. The movement of Unitarianism flowered in Boston in 1825, which eventually grew from a Christian sect to a syncretistic, multi-devotional amalgamation of something like religiousness. They focussed on the inherent goodness of man, so that if they are given basic but...
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...that is seen in his book Nature and other essays and poems. Many believe that Emerson was the most inspirational figure that made his essays also made with the most optimism and confidence that draws in American’s support and Europe’s. I believe that he shaped American literature into what it is today. Without him and his influences on Transcendentalism and American literature I do not think that individualism would have taken place. I believe that he did transform the 19th century for the better. Before the 19th century American literature was some say to be bland and boring. Not many authors were well known because they did not intrigue their readers. Before the 19th there was Unitarianism which is the belief in one God and not three, it also is not Christian. Transcendentalism took over Unitarianism and that was when Emerson came into play. Emerson believed in individualism, non-conformity, and the harmony between man and nature. He never intended to be known as a philosopher but emerged as one though his most popular writing. Nature is about Emerson describing his Transcendental philosophy. Transcendentalism, being focused on nature, god in nature, and belief of the over-soul is the main beliefs. “To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between...
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...school in Connecticut, became a practicing attorney in Boston in 1825. Mann's interest in politics and law and his views and skills as an orator soon catapulted him into the Massachusetts legislature. It was as president of the State Senate that he became intimately involved in the movement to concentrate control of education in the hands of state. The fight to bring education under the control of government was essentially a fight over the schools' role in shaping the character of the American people. The goal, implicitly religious, was social integration through the inculcation of certain common beliefs selected for their "uplifting" character. Mann, raised an orthodox Calvinist, came to bitterly reject his upbringing in favor of Unitarianism.[20] Unitarians of the time believed that they were preserving the essence of...
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...our constitution are in no way dependant on the centre for their legislative authority. The Centre and the State are co-equal in this matter. It needs to be specified that “only the spirit of ‘cooperative federalism’ can preserve the fine balance between the Union and the States and promote the good of the people and not an attitude of dominance or superiority. Under our constitutional system, no single entity can proclaim superiority. Sovereignty does not lie in any one institution or any one wing of the government. The power of governance is distributed in several organs and institutions, a sine quo non for good governance.”1 However scholars like Gledhill and Jennings held that federalism in India is a cover designed to conceal its Unitarianism: “India has only a facade of federalism without the substance of federalism”.2 It is the role of the governors as the central agent that tilts the federal balance in favour of the Union, thus providing validity to these assertions. The office of the Governor plays the crucial role of ‘a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part3 at the Centre ; keeping the Centre apprised of the developments of the State thereby assisting the Centre to perform its Constitutional obligations towards the State. However, this is merely the concept embedded in the pages of the constitution which is the culmination of...
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...actions are morally right because it produces a more total unity for the team. (Boylan, 2009) The similarities of each of these theories are that it involves how you act in your everyday life to follow what you believe to be the right thing to do. In all three theories your moral beliefs play a significant role. The difference would be the outcome of any particular situation in which you are involved in and how you come to the conclusion. With virtue ethics being about you character your goal is to strive for excellence whereas in deontology your goal is to perform your duty as other might see as being the right thing and in utilitarianism you have the best interest of others in mind. One major difference between deontology and unitarianism is that in deontology will recommend an action based upon principle which is justified through an understanding of the aqction, the nature of reason, and the operation of the will which results in a moral command to the act and does not...
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...PREFACE This major project examines the indispensable desiderata of Transcendentalism in comparison to the Dark Romantics background and how these technicalities prepare this work of art as an influential synthesis of human imagination incorporated with mystic facts. Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism were two literary movements that occurred in America during roughly the same time period (1840—1860). Although the two had surface similarities, such as their reverence for Nature, their founding beliefs were quite different, enough to make one seem almost the antithesis of each other. Moreover one’s genesis is ventured out from other; i.e. Dark Romanticism from the roots of Transcendentalism or precisely the lacunae are best determined for raising up the term called Dark Romanticism. Contents S. No. Page no. Chapter 1.........................................................................................................4-14 Chapter 2.........................................................................................................15-23. Chapter 3..........................................................................................................24-27 Resolution.........................................................................................................28-29 Work Cited................................................................
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...History Test Review Chapter 1-6 Vikings were the 1st white men to come to America, but not intently Archeological remains were found in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia Christopher Columbus effectively discovered America in 1492 Tried to find a water way to the East Queen gave him 3 ship Spanish completed the Grenada in 1492 “ “ ran the Muslims and Jews out of Spain 3 S’s Silk, Sugar, Spices Conquistadors (Spanish Conquerors)- wanted gold and silver Natives had gold and silver Magellan was the 1st to get around the Cape of Storms 2 Types of Tribes Arawaks Caribe- were cannibals ate arawaks Cortez conquered Aztec- Mexico Pizzaro conquered Incas- Peru 1580s- English made a colony on the outer banks of NC English and Scottish were not merged to British until 1707 Language of ancient Anglos merged with Saxon for Anglo-Saxon Irish- Catholic Scotch/Irish- Protestant Sir Walter Raleigh planted potato in England Leader of Virginia- John White Virginia’s capital was named after the King, Jamestown, in 1607 John Smith found the settlement of Jamestown 1588- Spanish Armada attacked England All colonies were founded with private money John Rolf brought in Tobacco (married Pocahontas) 1st English settlement in America was Virginia 1619 House of Burgesses (1st form of gov’t/ legislature) 1st boat load of women 1st boat load of slaves Grog- half rum and water 1620- Plymouth- settled...
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...Utilitarianism and the Kantian theory are both ethical theories that try to prove where the moral worth of an action lies. However these theories differ in a number of ways. Utilitarianism is a theory that “considers the pursuit of higher, distinctively human pleasures.” (Mill 115) With utilitarianism, morality is based on outcomes. An action is right if it results in the greatest good for the most number of people. Kant says you do good because you have a duty to do good; the consequences are completely irrelevant. “A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects.” (Kant 141) With Kantian morality one's intentions and good will is all that matters. The debate between Kant and Mill is precisely whether our sense of duty can be compromised by appeals to consequences. Utilitarianism and Kant’s theory both have similarities, strengths and weaknesses. An instrumental good is something that helps you achieve something else. If there are only instrumental goods, then A is good because it helps bring the outcome of B, which is good because it helps bring the outcome of C, and so on, therefore our notion of goodness has no anchor. To some people this seems irrational, and they think goodness must have an anchor, they want to posit an "intrinsic" good somewhere. Both utilitarians and Kantians agree there is an intrinsic good. They also agree in being monists rather than pluralists about goodness. There is one and only one intrinsic good for both of them. If asked...
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...Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 2 1.1 Introduction of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Corporation 2 1.2 Objective of Ethical Audit Report. 2 2.0 Identification of KFC's Ethical Dilemmas 2 2.1 Trans fats 3 2.2 Animal cruelty 3 2.3 Environmental concerns 4 2.4 Wages and working condition 4 3.0 Ranking and evaluation of KFC's responses to its Ethical Dilemmas 6 3.1 Ranking of KFC's Ethical Dilemmas 6 3.2 Major Ethical Theories 7 3.2.1 Teleology 7 3.2.2 Deontology 8 3.2.3 Virtue Ethics 8 3.2.4 Marketing Ethics 9 3.3 Evaluation of KFC's Responses to its Ethical Dilemmas. 9 3.3.1 Trans Fats 9 3.3.2 Animal cruelty 10 4.0 Evaluation of KFC Best Practices 11 4.1 KFC Colonel's Scholar Program 11 4.2 World Hunger Relief, from Hunger to Hope 11 5.0 Recommendation 12 List of Reference 14 APPENDICES 16 Ethical Audit Report on KFC 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Introduction of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Corporation Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Corporation is the world's most popular chicken restaurant chain, offering services to more than 12 million customers in 109 countries and territories around the world. KFC operates more than 5,200 restaurants in the United States and more than 15,000 units around the world. KFC began with Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952. Although Sanders died in 1980, Sanders remains an important part of the company's branding and advertisements, and "Colonel Sanders" or "The Colonel" is a metonym for the company itself...
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...Bobbs Lyonga Elive Solomon Polytheism in Christianity, true or false? 11th September 2015 Word Count: 4104 Polytheistic Overtones In The Bible Man was created a worshipper. It is a proven fact that there is a universal belief in God, god or gods in every nation on the face of the earth including the most primitive societies. The reason being that after the fall of man in the Garden of Eden as the bible describes in the book of Genesis, man was separated from His creator and became spiritually dead. With a fallen spirit and a blinded mind, man who was created with an intuitive belief and knowledge of the existence of God was drawn by the religious instinct within him to worship something or someone. Unable to find his creator, man produced deities out of his own imagination to worship. Deities of stone, wood, water, fire, air, sun, moon, stars, mountains, birds, kings, emperors etc. giving birth to several religions, the majority being polytheistic and some are still today. Man missed the object of his worship, worshipping the creation rather than the creator. The bible says “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever.”(Romans 1:25). God none the less had an elaborate and well-designed plan for the restoration of fallen man. A plan which existed from the very beginning even before man transgressed, to show the fallibility of proponents of Deism that...
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...Eliot regarded Four Quartets as his masterpiece and it is the work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It consists of four long poems, each first published separately: Burnt Norton (1936), East Coker (1940), The Dry Salvages (1941) and Little Giddings (1942). Each has five sections. Although they resist easy characterization, each begins with a rumination on the geographical location of its title, and each meditates on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical—and its relation to the human condition. Each poem is associated with one of the four classical elements air, earth, water, and fire.Outline Research Paper Thesis Statement: T.S. Eliot wrote poems that expressed his negative views of life, the human race, and the world around him by personifying" I’m not sure what this means: "comparing and highlighting the negative facts about them. The thesis statement should be able to stand alone so you would have to elaborate T.S. Eliot wrote poems that expressed his negative views of life, the human race, and the world around him by personifying and intensifying specific aspects and metaphors in his writing. Background Information Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 Sept. 1888-4 Jan. 1965), poet, critic, and editor, was born Thomas Stearns Eliot in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Henry Ware Eliot, president of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, and Charlotte Champed Stearns, a former teacher, an energetic social work volunteer...
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...obert Burns (January 25, 1759-July 21, 1796) is the national poet of Scotland. Since they were first published, his poetry and songs have never been out of fashion. Translations have made him a classic in other languages. In households where books have been few, an edition of Burns's poetry has often stood on a shelf with the Bible. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "The people who care nothing for literature and poetry care for Burns." With their writing Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott created an enduring Scottish identity at a time when the Scots might have been entirely absorbed into a general British culture. In particular, Burns preserved the Scots tongue in literary form. The most loved figure in Scottish history and literature, his birthday, January 25, is the annual occasion of "Burns Night" festivities. He is celebrated by the Unitarians of Scotland as a religious forbear. Robbie was born in a thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire. His father, William Burnes, was a moderately well-educated farmer who did some of the teaching of his children and occasionally provided private tutors. He wrote his own relatively liberal catechism for his children as an alternative to that of the Westminster Assembly. Robbie did a lot of reading on his own, including works by philosophers John Locke and Adam Smith. He worked on the family farm until his father's death in 1784 and continued farming with his brother Gilbert, 1784-86. As a young man Burns made a study of local religious phenomena...
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