In this piece Shapin discusses the two perceptions of scientific minds, the first being scientists as morally extraordinary and the second, scientists being morally ordinary. ... Most people of the general public believe members of the scientific community to be exempt from morality. ... For these people many of their projects could potentially solve some of the world's most significant problems. ... Scientists are as fallible as all other people are. ... He was eaten away by the guilt and knowledge of the fact that he had been part of the deaths of so many people. ...

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These pieces of writing are all on our ordinary women but yet so distinctive to each other. ... She had this sort of power over the people who were believers and those that were not, that they felt that they had to obey her immediately. It was also believed that she had special powers that perform miracles, that healed many people. ... How she had enough courage to show the world what she believed in not worrying about whether people would believe in her faith, she took that chance. ... (page 101) She allows her people to be different in expressing themselv...

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First, one is usually lead away by someone or some group of people that appears to be appealing or is doing precisely what you think you want. ... This isn't some ordinary fall or trip, but a chain of events which the person believes that he cannot and never will be able to recover from. ... His allegations are brought into doubt and although most people seem to be suspicious of him, Tommy is engrossed by him. ... These men are two specific examples of people leading Tommy to what he thinks he wants. ... In an ordinary religious conversion it is after all the evil is done to him and all t...

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Many people in this time could not read, without literacy reading about the lives of saints was not possible. ... These stories often presented ordinary people and how their lives were touched by God, and how this could be used as inspiration in everyday lives. One of the people that were included in these stories was Santa Claus. ... In response to the new practices being utilized by the people, the church began to claim that these people were heretics and pursue them. ... The church had become so driven by funds that they were worse than they people they were trying to condemn. ...

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When Oliver starts describing the grasshopper, a minute aspect of creation that she can empathize with, she uses clearly defined diction in paradox Oliver sees a picture of her "wild and precious life" in the ordinary doings of this sugar-happy insect, known more for its wanton destructiveness than its bliss. ... These people are secure with their Catholic catechism beliefs or those of other religious denominations, and thus are not as desperately curious as I am. ...

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The settlers, the Puritans and Pilgrims, were both very religious peoples. ... Those people that were out of the ordinary were either silenced or expelled from the colony. ... The people of New England had a very distinct culture. ... Two completely different peoples developed in the New England and Chesapeake regions. ... The people in New England were seeking religious freedom and focused on the important things in life, and the people of the Chesapeake areas were seeking gold and money, and other unimportant items., and they also differed on the issue of slavery. ...

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The settlers, the Puritans and Pilgrims, were both very religious peoples. ... Those people that were out of the ordinary were either silenced or expelled from the colony. ... The people of New England had a very distinct culture. ... Two completely different peoples developed in the New England and Chesapeake regions. ... The people in New England were seeking religious freedom and focused on the important things in life, and the people of the Chesapeake areas were seeking gold and money, and other unimportant items., and they also differed on the issue of slavery. ...

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The commentary of the people on a few issues such as suicide, alcoholism and religious faith show the people's attitudes. ... Very ordinary town, if you ask me... But our young people seem to like it well enough. ... The town's people's religion sets the standard for their morals and behavior in everyday life. ... They"re common people who live common lives and don't like change or interruptions....

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But it is known as an overpower ruling above the people of the world. ... A martyr that died for "God's People" so they can be saved. ... In the poem Nikki Giovanni converted to Christianity at one point, But not an ordinary Christian. ... She is more the people of the earth than the actual land. ... She is also implying that she is representing a particular type of people. ...

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For example, most people eat at least once a day, even if they do not brush their teeth after each meal. ... Beck explains that many religious people always seem to have a simple formula to explain why some people get help from angels and some get lobotomized by flying debris from freak wheat-threshing accidents (pg 98). ... Otterbein and Otterbein (1973) stats,"... believe in the Christian deity, and believe that God helps people; a few believe that God hurts or punishes as much as he helps". ... What she fell to realize, like most people, is this thing we call spirituality can only be expe...

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People watched their neighbors, went to church every meeting, and tried to be as devout a Puritan as possible in order to evade the wrath of the townspeople. ... The traveler takes Goodman Brown through the woods and shows him the people that he thought to be the most pious acting in a way that proved them to be contrary. ... The traveler may be portrayed as the character of the devil, but he opens Brown's eyes to the nature of his people. It is at this time that Brown begins to understand the true nature of the people around him. ... Young Goodman Brown represents any and all of mankind;...

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God is presented in ordinary everyday things, "I a child and thou a lamb, we are called by his name". ... People have to work for a living other vise they will die and after a while we would all die out. ...

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Yet, the majority of people in society are still unhappy with their lives. ... These mysticism's give hypotheses and add a supersensuous meaning to the ordinary outward stem of consciousness. ... People define the roots of these in their own existence. ... Yet, the majority of people in society are still unhappy with their lives. ... These mysticism's give hypotheses and add a supersensuous meaning to the ordinary outward stem of consciousness. ...

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O'Connor creates stories that instill her religious belief about how God's grace plays a role in the lives of ordinary people. ... "A Good Man is Hard to Find" shows how O'Connor viewed God's mysteriously works above peoples own will. ...

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It is not a missionary religion in the ordinary sense of the term. ... Its teaching has so far permeated people that an armed revolution has almost become an impossibility in India not because they as a race are physically weak, but because the tradition of ahimsa has struck deep root among the people (Nair 134). ... Gandhi believed that Christ belonged not solely to Christianity, but to the entire world, to all races and people Gandhi did not regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism were. ... Satyagraha has many different meanings, w...

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Here we see Seamus Heaney reflecting on himself as a patriot, fully seeing and understanding the sacrifices made by his earlier generations for the freedom of the Irish people. ... Man is made to own things, to transform objects, land, people?... People kill for revenges and for possession. ... He talks of isolation and exclusion from society in Punishment as the victims are brought out as a tribal humiliation, a tactic used to warn people to live by the law. Unlike people who physically fight for their freedom, Heaney is expressing his oppositions through words. ...

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"He spoke in ordinary language and conveyed the sense of Gods presence and caring by his own human presence and caring for others and by his own human way of living his life, establishing values and priorities, praying and relating to others." ... Once again, Jesus" life being exemplary for people and in the same instance the duty of his divine message. ... Jesus tells the people to love God "with all of your heart mind, soul, and with your entire being." ... "In him in what he was, in the way he lived and in what he said and did for them, people tended to find new life, hope, challenge, ...

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People are often too distracted by money and materialistic things to appreciate truth and reality. ... When people are consumed in the shallow world, they see reality as mere shadows compared to truth. ... Many people search for happiness by engulfing themselves in life's highest pleasures, others look for contentment by over-working themselves to try and be the richest. ... By surmounting the influence of society, one can withstand the evil displayed and look inside the ordinary, in order to find the extraordinary. ...

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People practice religion for several reasons, throughout the world it is practiced as it being part of their heritage. However many people seek religion for the feeling of security. ... The Huron's people were free to interpret and practice religion as he as she wished, with in the constraints of public opinion. ... (The Huron p. 107) The oki, or supernatural powers or spirits, animated the universe and possessed powers that ordinary man did not. ... Their thunderbird comes down to free people held by other spirits. ...

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[It] constraints, controls [and creates] boundaries. 3) Provides cohesiveness-brings people together, reaffirms their common bond and reinforces social solidarity. 4) Serves an euphoric function-it aids in establishing a pleasant feeling of social well-being. ... Durkheim affirmed that religion developed in society when a distinction was made concerning the sacred-the ultimate concern that is transcendental and extraordinary-and the profane-that which is ordinary. ...

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It explains why we are hesitant to try to put a value on a person's life, and why most people would refuse to even attempt such a thing. ... That it is part of ordinary moral consciousness that all actions and, hence, all maxims, must conform to (be derivable a from) moral laws. ...

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" To ordinary human beings, finally- the vast majority who exist for service and the general advantage, and who may exist only for that - religion gives an inestimable contentment with their situation and type." ... "God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow" (Kaufman 108). ...

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The foundation of Rome was its people, and its people were reliant on the gods they worshipped. Any disturbance to their stable social structure was unacceptable to the Roman people. The business of the state was also a major concern of the Roman people. ... This, though minute on detail, shows us of a glimpse of how important politics and the government were to an ordinary Roman citizen. For the state and people are one, as is immortalized by the Roman emblem "SPQR", meaning Senatus Populusque Romanus or the Senate and the People of Rome. ...

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