Essays Tagged: "unexplainable"

Manet's Olympia

ssion of the painting has included lines that look elementary, dull color, poor subject matter, and unexplainable meanings. Others feel that the simple lines, lifeless color, unique subject matter, an ...

(6 pages) 131 1 4.6 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays

The Clash of Titans

ages and to around the 18th century, religious ideology was the most accepted way of explaining the unexplainable. During the next couple hundred years, many members of academia, using science to back ... of man's ability to reason and think.Religion has held the upper hand in ways of thinking about the unexplainable. It has been that way until the 18th century when revolutionary views on society were ...

(5 pages) 50 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Joseph Campbell and Comparative Religions

g of humans. Magic, init's essence, were the powers wielded by these superior beings that caused theunexplainable to happen.Fast forward a few thousand years to the present. In our age and time there ...

(6 pages) 225 2 4.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

The Bermuda Triangle

of ships and airplanes on a number of occasions. Thesedisappearances have led to speculation about unexplainable turbulences andother atmospheric disturbances. Violent storms and downward air current ...

(5 pages) 132 1 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Is religion a justification for fighting?

Religion has been created to explain the unexplainable. For thousands of years, countless number of people had jeopardized their lives for th ...

(3 pages) 92 0 4.1 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

This essay is about Hawaiian people.

The Hawaiian people much like any other people have beliefs that explain the unexplainable. They believe in these gods to help themselves understand their origin and the reasons ...

(2 pages) 65 0 4.5 Sep/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Essay on UFO's and whether or not they are real; includes works cited.

to be explained and some were even elaborate hoaxes. But still, there are a few out there that are unexplainable and could quiet possibly be visitors from somewhere else in the universe. Even the gov ...

(7 pages) 151 1 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Alternative

Origin Myths

I 101: Cultural DiversityOrigin MythsOrigin Myths are one of the ways people attempt to explain the unexplainable. With the development, modern technology the myth has been much less used. According t ...

(3 pages) 53 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

How Nazi policy changed the lives of Jews.

ey blamed the Jews for Germany's loss of World War 1, for the Black plague, and for basically every unexplainable disaster that happened. This was the fuel that fired Germans hate for Jews, and why Je ...

(1 pages) 23 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

"The Story of an Hour" summay, analysis, and commentary

me. Her eyes fixate on the blue sky that peeks out through the grey clouds in the west and feels an unexplainable, unavoidable event is about to occur. Suddenly, she becomes enveloped in ironic though ...

(3 pages) 119 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Creation Myths

eation myths are all similar due to the myth's basic goal to give a satisfactory explanation of the unexplainable. The people who had had created the myths whether the Greeks, Egyptians, Native Americ ...

(1 pages) 63 0 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The review of the shining

e most apparent of these is when Jack leaves the locked pantry in which Wendy has confined him. The unexplainable nature of the escape he manifests calls into question nearly everything we've seen so ...

(6 pages) 60 0 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

An analysis of one complicated poem in the book: Twenty Prose Poems by Charles Baudelaire. Poem "Which is the True One?", describe the complexing image.

yme. This seems to fit Baudelaire's style almost perfectly because he often wrote controversial and unexplainable poetry. Many of the poems have an initial meaning, visible to the reader at first glan ...

(8 pages) 45 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The gods must be crazy" movie analysis

harmony with both themselves and the land. They have strong belief in their gods, and when anything unexplainable happens, for example a plane in the sky, they believe it is just gods up in the sky. ...

(4 pages) 115 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

WitchCraft and Wicca

at the stake if she or even he was believed to be a witch, be possessed by a spirit or do something unexplainable. Throughout history, witches have been hated, persecuted, tortured and even killed as ...

(3 pages) 430 15 4.5 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Discuss differences between procedural and episodic memory in humans and nonhumans and the associated problems of storage (where and how) and recall.

c are two types of memory subsystems that have been classified. Procedural memory can be defined as unexplainable memories of skills, actions and so on. Procedural memory is unconscious. You are unawa ...

(12 pages) 124 0 4.8 Aug/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

The Holocaust

to slaughter all of the Jews in Europe, every last one of them, they were already being blamed for unexplainable things and things that made the economy even worse than it was. For example, they were ...

(1 pages) 55 4 2.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

My tongue, my language!

e. Only one thing I don't comprehend. What is this one meaning? The true meaning, so simple, yet so unexplainable and difficult to understand --What is it?A regular dictionary definition of languag ...

(2 pages) 74 2 4.5 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." Albert Einstein

rth the answer. Human nature stimulates and provokes people to search willingly for an answer to an unexplainable question.Albert Einstein is examining human nature in this quote. Einstein, through th ... r. A scientist takes pleasure in exploring the mysterious and unknown as for it generates a sort of unexplainable delight and thrill trying to determine the answer. Although a scientist's ultimate goa ...

(2 pages) 38 0 4.8 Oct/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Why does religion exist?

seems that religion exists as a belief system to help people explain events that would otherwise be unexplainable. In fact Kenneth Dick said in "Man, Father of the Gods" "All religions start as a mere ... as a whole.While understanding the intellectual component of Religion as an attempt to explain the unexplainable is helpful, obviously there is more to Religion than just explanations. The sociologic ...

(4 pages) 89 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith