Religion Essays

In “The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins and “The Oven Bird” by Robert Frost, birds are compared with different meanings conveyed through the content, presentation, and observation style. Hopkins, a Jesuit, uses windhover’s characteristics to describe Jesus Christ while Frost’s “The Oven Bird” depicts the change of seasons and questions of life and death through […]

“Beowulf” is a novel authored by Robert Nye and is about Paganism Beowulf and Christianity Beowulf that was written in England sometimes in 8th century that explains the time when the people were being converted to Christianity from paganism. Beowulf has both paganism and Christianity influences because the paganism and Christianity are closely interrelated in […]

According to popular belief, the First War of Independence in 1857 acted as a catalyst for the rise of nationalism in India. This resulted in a sense of liberation that gradually intensified into a forceful movement, as documented by historical records, ultimately resulting in the downfall of British colonial supremacy. The Indians experienced a painful […]

‘Araby’ is the last of the Dubliners epiphanic tales that intends to ‘unveil’ the layers that the theme of the story is consisted upon and which let the unnamed identities of the characters to live in the world of illusions which eventually seduce them into reality of their secluded unknown identities. This game of epiphany […]

In many ways, religious organizations and political organizations vary with their approach to society and their distinctiveness provides their definitions that segregates them from each other. Though many factors differentiate religion from politics, they both serve the society in ways that can bring forth order. Both political and regional organizations have capabilities to undertake means […]

In the Tired chapter, “The City as Diagram”, he explains that the design intent that determines the eventual form of certain cities. With the contemporary Eco village of Arcosanti and the Medieval period Palmanova in Italy, he contrasts two distinct forms, tracing their diagrammatic evolution. The diagram of the two cities is very specific, addressing […]

Traditions represent the Actual Identity of particular society, while getting rid of them is supposed to be a sign of modernity. Traditions, quite often, keep us United, but modernity, usually, takes us apart from each other. A tradition implies belief or custom, passed on to us by our ancestors. Much of what we do today […]

The theorist that I resonated the most with was Viktor Frankl. Reading Frankl’s biographical influences on his theory really inspired me. Through all the horrific struggles, Frankl never lost hope. He always had a good head on his shoulders and the right mindset. Frankl’s theories developed after surviving the Holocaust, believing that “those who had a […]

The Amish tradition known as “Rumspringa” means “running around” and typically involves Amish teenagers, typically at 16 years old, exploring life beyond their community and indulging in activities that would otherwise be prohibited. Unbeknownst to many, Rumspringa entails indulging in English customs and traditions, including trying out new things, getting married, and going back to […]

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and the first shogun of the Tokunawa shogunate. He was able to seize power in Japan in 1600 after the battle of Sekigahara between Tokugawa and the other daimyos that were against him. Although Tokunawa was essentially the ruler at that time with his headquarters in Edo (present-day Tokyo), it […]

The intellectual concerns of late nineteenth century Europe was built around the notions such as rational and irrational or as Nietzsche states, Apollonian and Dionysian. Europe was entering a new intellectual phase of questioning logic and imagination. Controversial topics such as religion and science were now being targeted in the Apollonian and Dionysian theories. Sigmund […]

In the Theogony, the initial state of the universe was said to be formless and contained nothing (Chaos). Chaos spontaneously gave birth to all other objects of existence, ultimately creating the cosmos. The significance of the fact that the Greeks believed the four powers Chaos, Gaia, Tartaros, and Eros came first was to portray the […]

Gran Torino, my name is Clint Eastwood and I’m the director and protagonist of the film Gran Torino. My character Walt Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, Korean War veteran who has an Intensely strong oplnlon on different races because of experiences from the war that haunt him from his past. Having also directed the film […]

Mystic Monk Coffee was established in Clark, Wyoming by the Carmelite Order of the Catholic Church, who needed funds for a new location. The Order’s members originated as pilgrims and crusaders who traveled to the Holy Land but stayed near Jerusalem to seek God. Carmelites used to live a solitary, silent, and prayerful life before […]

Edward Rochester is an upper-class British gentlemen of 19th century Britain. The character of Rochester features heavily in both Bronti’s Jane Eyre and Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea: similarly presented for the most part, but with differences which result in quite different conclusions. The culture and society that each novel is portraying can be considered to […]

Faulks and Wolfe present the perpetual desire and greed, imperatives which have driven characters within their novels “A Week in December” and “Bonfire of the Vanities”. Faulks presents London as multicultural though distinctly uncultured metropolis in the opening page of his latest novel “A Week in December”. From the opening sentence, we as the reader […]

In the book by the recognised Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba, the main character is an avatar of the Dionysiac nature and practitioner of the Epicurean philosophy of the pursuit of earthly hapiness. The word dionysiac is derived from the name of the ancient Greek god Dionysus, who was the god of wine, fertility and […]

The poem Comprehensive consists of seven stanzas and each stanza has a different voice. Carol Ann Duffy uses the idea of conflict and differences in race and culture in 1985. Comprehensive is written in seven stanzas of six or seven lines. All verses are similar in structure to emphasis the fact that whatever the culture […]

“The Imp. .. ” is a story that demonstrates on many levels the theme of Perversity. It begins with a very impersonal, discursive tone, examining humanity’s tendency to be perverse in the style of a metaphysical essay. The language here deliberately unsettles the reader with its use of rhetorical questions and superfluous repetitions: “If we […]

This is the first of these stories and there are several elements within that hint at the dull lifestyle experienced by the young boy that the story focuses upon. Near the start of the book it talks about how one boy’s parents “went to 8 o’clock Mass every morning”, leaving the boy behind on his […]

This paper is in response to the 2001 documentary, “Conquistadors: The Fall of The Azetcs” hosted by Michael Wood. The film tells the story of Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes in his conquest of Mexico. Cortez is credited with the discovery and destruction of the Aztec empire by co-operating with enemies of the Aztecs and exploiting […]

Both Marxist and feminist theories are based upon conflict that is there are groups exploiting other subordinate groups, and they both see things from a macro point of view (the wider society). Marxist believe religion is part of the superstructure it’s economically determined, as the infrastructure (economic base) controls the rest of society. Marxist see […]