The other group comes out strongly to refute this claim by saying humans are born bad and their nature is evil in general. Xunzi, the great Chinese Confucian philosopher, was the first to mention and advocate for human nature being as bad. ... The increasing cases land grabbing in developing countries, especially in Africa, are startling. Leaders with more land and wealth still want more and are even ready to thrust goods upon the poor. ... Hence, human nature is as bad. ...

• Word Count: 1051
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• Grade Level: High School

Instead of keeping possession of land for itself, the company introduced the head right system. ... As Virginia began to thrive, they became more populated and needy of more land. ... Now settlers spreading inland into Virginia would occupy Indians' land. This uprising showed the importance of land to the colony/colonists. ... The main reason for this outbreak was that if a person witnessed another person committing a Puritan sin (bad church attendance, and minimal worshipping), they would be reported as being a witch. ...

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When bad was to happen among them they would accept it and move on but when God's goodness showed they all praised him and celebrated. A perfect example is, "Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element" (22). ... They are just trying to get on God's good side so that nothing bad would to come of them. ...

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Not only that the poem uses various adjective and adverb to inculcate Christianity religion in the writing but also the imagination of Religious beliefs such as God love, kindness and hope in rewards for any consequences with idea of good and bad behaviors. ... King Hrothgar who sees to the protection of the land could be portraying as Lord. In addition to beginning of the poem, the writer uses an idea about how the God created the earth in a brilliant flat circle with water which is correlated to how God created the earth in the bible, and saw that light was good which represent the gleaming ...

• Word Count: 1284
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Puritans had an obsession and an unbalanced fascination with the unseen world and the bad omens of witches. ... He believed that the colony was committing an illegal act since it did not pay the Indians for their land. ... Some historians believe that Puritanism was a good cause that went bad. ...

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Odysseus fell asleep and his men unleashed a bag of bad winds, throwing them off path (Homer 315). ... It is believed that each of the ways that a person could be guided is similar to the Christian beliefs of heaven and hell and the beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians of weighing the soul for good and bad karma (McDonald 356). ... This is why many people wish to be buried in Israel, the holy land of the Jewish people. ...

• Word Count: 840
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• Grade Level: High School

Loss of land, species, wilderness, and native people are heartbreaking effects of our industrialism and overpopulation. ... Lopez thinks the land is like poetry because it is "inexplicably coherent" Another way of saying that is unexplainably understandable. I take this to mean that the land speaks to you. ... The point of this story might be the suffering that bad rulers can cause. ...

• Word Count: 1076
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Wiccans believe that what you do comes back to you threefold, so if you send out bad energy in the form of a spell or action, not only does it backfire on you, you get three times the consequence! ... There is a connection between the environment and all of the creatures that share the land, sea, and sky with humans There are many spiritual paths to one end, and that Wicca is not the one and only right path to God/Goddess/Truth/etc., nor is it right for everyone. ...

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To obtain this office he must help to spread the word of Christ throughout the new land of New Mexico. ... Throughout his travels he meets up with the good and the bad. ... After he befriends the young man, Jacinto offers to take him through an area of the land known as Snakeroot. ... Jacinto explained that just as Father Latour had knowledge of God's word he had knowledge of the surrounding land. ... In Albuquerque Father Latour encounters Padre Martinez, the ruler of the land. ...

• Word Count: 2184
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• Grade Level: High School

In Mesopotamia lived a man named Hammurabi who established the law of the land. ... He was given the title of "exalted prince- because he was sent by a God named Murdok to protect the weak from the strong and assure that true justice prevails through out the land. ... This religion is considered polytheistic because there is only one God, and also eschatological because they believe in a judgement day where eventually your good actions will be weighed against your bad. ... They see a female God who is in charge of all the land, or maybe all of love, and are now inspired to take a more activ...

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Settlers fled to this land in order to be able to practice religion as they pleased, here they had the opposite to what they had in Europe. ... The treatment of the slaves was bad and even the treatment of the small African-American children were treated badly. ... America is the land of the free. ...

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Good or bad, big or small, in the profession we choose these things do not matter to us. ... For example, a soldier's duty is to defend our freedom, our land and our bases and our people and county. ...

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It can also be looked at as a sign of Fate because besides the bad sea he's confident that he'll survive. ... Though life takes many unexpected turns on the sea, he does not feel comfortable on land. ...

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Specifically, the Puritan colonies were working to please God, and did such in a very strict and disciplined manner trying to keep the colonists clean of sin.10 Pirates avoided the strict religious colonies, like New England, because of the Puritan's involvement in the maritime world.11 On land in the New England and Chesapeake colonies, some of the most prosecuted crimes were sins, like drunkenness, swearing, and theft. ... Though the reports of piracy continued to show the moral side all through the century, such as drunkenness and swearing, because clearly those problems continue to be...

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This observation is especially important to Douglass because it further enabled him for the opportunity to manipulate his way out of the oppressions of the slaveholding religion of the land. ... Douglass writes: "What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference- so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other...

• Word Count: 1984
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is therefore necessary for him to encounter these evil forces to be able to make a distinction between the good and the bad in order to recognize and resist the immoral. ... While his resolve to remain good is strong, he must decide only after encountering the evil, if his true passions lie in the woods, the land of evil, or if they lie in his Puritan way of life. ...

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It was not a bad surrounding in Haran, and nobody knew if Canaan is truly as good as God described, but Abraham just followed God's shepherd and moved. ... But Abraham believed that God would give him the best land just as he promised, so he allowed Lot to stay in Jordan. ...

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Mather also gives his own evidence of people going into the dark side, saying "yea, more than one twenty have confessed that they have signed unto a book, which the Devil showed them and engaged in his hellish design of bewitching and ruining our land." ... The passage leaves the impression that signing this book is like giving your soul to the Devil or doing a bad deed. ...

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Many men and women, overworked and malnourished, where practically owned by the Lords and Kings to whom their land belonged. ... The Monks believed that by bleeding an afflicted person, the bad blood which caused the disease would be removed. ...

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Throughout the book there are indictments of the conflicts between countries over what should be small issues like religion and land. ... No matter how often something bad happens or someone treats him badly, Candide finds the need to look back on Pangloss' ideas and arguments and try to work it out based on them. ...

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Religion is difficult to define. People have their own ways of definition religion. According to Karl Marx, religion is a drug or a force that pacifies the poor and the oppressed, enabling them to accept their lower status in this life and to hope for a better future in an afterlife, in heaven. Reli...

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It implies that the Cherokees are a problem, and their ownership of land and liberty is a threat to the growing community of Americans. ... Something could have been done about this, but it is the way of people to sit around and watch as bad events occur. ...

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This means it would be define as what is considered wrong and bad by most people. ... After being created by Victor Frankenstein, The creature wandered around the land for a long time, surviving off whatever he could find. ...

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Comparing and contrasting Marx" belief on religion as a social opium, along with Emile Durkheim and Max Weber's understanding and account of religion within society. How do we account for religion - its origin, its development, and even its persistence in modern society? This is a question, whi...

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To approach any text we must first have some understanding of what it is we hope to take away from it. In approaching a religious text this understanding becomes even more muddled due to the vast complexities and differences that exist between religion and contemporary thought. To accurately approach biblical thoughts we, as moderns, must learn to "unthink many thoughts" resulting from our present alienation of religion and spirituality. God in Search of Man, a text written almost half a century ago by Abraham Joshua Heschel, is the subject of our present inquiry. This text will, no doubt,...

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• Grade Level: High School