Essays Tagged: "Dogma"

Got an A. The teacher asked for a copy he was som Impressed. On Christianity in Africa

ian faith; however, like many other times in my life I have been proven wrong.Last winter the movie Dogma was released in theaters. One of the characters, Rupheus (played by Chris Rock), claims to be ...

(1 pages) 61 0 3.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

1.How can you achieve your personal, vocational, and/or educational goals within the structure of the M.A. Degree in Liberal Studies program?

linked together. It is really quite simple when you realize that I try to live my life by a certain dogma called "The Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer". Let me share with you a couple of key comp ...

(1 pages) 103 0 3.7 Aug/2002

Subjects: Art Essays

"Freedom of Will": comparing Chinua Achebe's "Civil Peace" and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "Meeting in the Dark".

ention and presence of God in human lives. Christianity perceives the issue of Freedom of Will as a dogma, explicated only through a theological statement: even though "Universal prescience" is an att ... ined for him. Moreover, the difficulty of the question was augmented still further by the Christian dogma of the "fall of man" and his redemption by grace, which many theologians postulated as the "Di ...

(7 pages) 109 1 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Money Does Talk

One dogma is now held widely by some persons who claim moral superiority. That is, money is not everythi ... moral superiority. That is, money is not everything. To some extent, there are some truths in this dogma, however, those people tend to fall into the oblivion of the fact that money is not everything ...

(2 pages) 572 21 3.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

Biography of Flann o'brien (a.k.a Myles na Gopaleen)

w of his books before, Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn, Myles Before Myles and The Hair Of The Dogma. Flann O'Brien and the way he wrote, (humour, now 50 years old) was like no other writer I hav ...

(3 pages) 29 0 2.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Marinetti's futurist manifesto: epigraph of pre-war Europe or the New Testament of 'Modern Europe'?

ry- thus idealism. Or it could take the broader, the more pragmatic route envisioned by Marinetti's dogma- one of eradicating the past in order to rejuvenate the future. However one thing was certain, ...

(6 pages) 72 0 3.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Effect of Post "Great War" Ideals on the Literature of the Times

and techniques, and, for the first time, began to disregard the rules of writing that had once been dogma. Events such as war, financial depression, major social problems, and developments in both tec ...

(3 pages) 101 0 0.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Arts and Culture: Art Critique Boyd Webb Darwin.

hy was concerned with the evolutionary process that the lesser should give way to the greater. This dogma was used to justify the slaughter of thousands of natives during a time of colonization. It al ...

(2 pages) 50 0 4.3 Jul/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

In Toni Morrison's "Paradise", what went wrong in Ruby and why?

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." Stated by Anais Nin, this quote reflects the men of ...

(10 pages) 42 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

This is a comparision of the Dravidian and ayran civilizations of india and how they relate to pantheism and theism

ons of IndiaIn today's world, the most common vision of religion seen by most people is primarily a dogmatic, overly structured skeleton of rules and ritualistic traditions. Theism is the belief that ... ands of bloody and unnecessary wars have been fought over the unending span of time for the sake of dogma (who's is right, who's is evil, who's is oldest, etc.). Pantheism is a metaphysical religious ...

(7 pages) 50 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Christian Religious Dissent before Luther

l dissenting movements prior to Martin Luther that revolved around questioning Church authority and dogma.In the early Thirteenth Century, the Albigensian heresy or Catharism became especially promine ...

(4 pages) 49 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Among School Children

haps life 'prepares us for what never happens'. Consistent with Yeatsean philosophy, it follows the dogma which states that wistlessness brings about innocence, whereas knowledge brings us ballyhoo. W ...

(6 pages) 62 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Role of the Victorian Society in the French lieutenant's woman by John Fowles

today, the Victorian Age was seen to be a Golden Age where Reason and Rationality were proclaimed asdogma and faith. People were beginning to question the claims that religion made about the existence ...

(3 pages) 66 0 2.5 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Equality

ubject can be either simple or short.On this issue the Society of HumanKind rests on the Axioms and Dogma. The First Axiom says that chance accounts for the origin of our species. The Treatise on Know ... era that will follow the achievement of the Aim of the Society. Achievement of the Objective of the Dogma will put humanity in possession of an ability to review and assess the value and worth of ever ...

(7 pages) 58 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Internalisation of power- an essay on cultural ideals of femininity, internalisation of gender power relations and the effect this has on woman's sense of self.

ecessary to purge my own previous conceptions of femininity and discern the actuality from societal dogma. In the wake of the women's liberation movement, it is difficult to admit that men are institu ...

(8 pages) 223 2 4.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Religious Parody Script called 'Heavens Above'. A comedy that raises issues about Religions impact on Mankind and Mankind in general.

. Computer: [MONOTONE] Good morning, - Visitor, and welcome to the Global Organised Dogma Corporation. Established since the dawn of time, the G.O.D. Corporation has remained committed ...

(8 pages) 109 7 4.5 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Religious Parody Radio Script called 'Heavens Above'. A comedy that raises issues about Religions impact on Mankind and Mankind in general. Formatted version.

cene 1:[SFX: ELEVATOR OPENING]Computer:Good morning, - Visitor, and welcome to the Global Organised Dogma Corporation. Established since the dawn of time, the G.O.D. Corporation has remained committed ...

(7 pages) 85 5 4.9 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Internalising gender power relations

ecessary to purge my own previous conceptions of femininity and discern the actuality from societal dogma. In the wake of the women's liberation movement, it is difficult to admit that men are institu ...

(7 pages) 140 0 4.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Do gene selectionist approaches in evolutionary theory entail genetic determinism?

lthough genomic structure is highly influential on an individual. Moreover the popular doctrine and dogma of genetic determinism needs to be revised in order to lessen confusion and clarify what genet ... ted.It must be remembered that science is and should be progressive; unfortunately dictionaries and dogmas are constantly attached to new paradigms, tending to stagnate progression in any given scient ...

(6 pages) 64 0 4.3 Aug/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Low wage Jobs: Walmart, capitalism, class.

es that workers avoid the dehumanizing aspects of the McDonaldization in a work place. The systemic dogma's of Efficiency, Calculability, Predictability, and Control through mechanization, accentuate ... uld say that Walmart has been immensely successful but stepping on everyone on the way there. There dogma cutting costs wherever they can has surely engendered their massive profits, but ignored the h ...

(5 pages) 181 2 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers