Marx's ideal of human emancipation, Marx's critique of contemporary morality and religion. ... The author develops his argument by using the animal's ability to forget or "live unhistorically," as a demonstration of pursuing happiness by living in the present (Nietzsche, 34). ... Furthermore, the author may argue that monumental history should not be depicted by empirical analyses, but rather as a phenomenon that is critically dissected and evolved. ... Therefore, the population will no longer allow predetermined morality to govern and limit contemporary life. ... The ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Rarely does it occur in the course of human events that an author of Akutagawa's analytical genius is able to live without persecution from without, in Ryunosuke's case, however, the distress came from within. ... Upheaval seems to be the late theme of Japan and its artistic community; the Meiji Restoration turned Japan every which way, just as Akutagawa and his contemporaries did to Japanese literature. ... Where the inspectors, who represent "society", are concerned the true villain is Tajomaru but the author uses the bandit to look deeper in upon "society" and critique it's...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even in contemporary Christian circles, the use of this language is becoming less accepted, (words such as father, king and son) due to the persuasive powers of the feminist movement. ... The author also identifies the generic uses of god in how religious courses are taught at both secondary and post secondary schools - and how they may pose a problem in the understanding of how the theological language is perceived. ...

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Greeley, author of An Ugly Little Secret this difference in populations and attitudes has caused waves of anti-Catholic sentiment since the country's inception and up through the present day, and this prejudice is the topic of his book. ... As to his thesis Greeley's abundance of anecdotal evidence both of well documented events in American history, and of more contemporary events go a long way to persuading the reader that their certainly is a serious issue at hand here, if not perhaps far enough to prove it. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the contemporary world, the foundation of an ideal society is love between the people that live in it, as it plays a tremendous and inescapable role in the cohesion of an ideal society. ... Love, as passion, is the essential attribute of intimate relationships, as well as the single acceptable foundation for contemporary marriages. ... The authors Augustine and Paul have covered this topic broadly so as to guide the society in the right direction. ...

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City of God is a novel with very little fluidity, lineation, or clarity - as was intended by its author, E.L. ... Often regarded as a post-modern author, Doctorow tends to show a sarcastic take on metaphysical themes in his novels, especially prevalent in City of God. ... His background translates almost seamlessly to his nomenclature as a post-modern author. ... "In Everett's notebook are notes on many other subjects – quantum physics, the Holocaust, movies, WWII, contemporary dictators, and even marital infidelity – which further emphasize the conspicuous absence of ...

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Poets like Arnold of nineteenth century started to hold a very pessimistic view about the Victorian crisis, and in almost all his poems, he seems to express only a negative attitude toward his contemporary age. But we see a quite dissimilar attitude in the poems of his most renowned contemporary, Alfred Lord Tennyson. ... He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. He tries to portray in his poems a real and clear picture of the problems of contemporary age in an implicit way, and t...

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• Grade Level: High School

Traditional African Rituals and Contemporary Times III. ... Traditional African Rituals and Contemporary Times During the fertile period of the gestation of Christianity in the Graeco-Roman world the early Christians, who are often referred to as the Fathers of the Church, attacked the mystery religions that predated Christianity because of the disturbing analogies that existed between the rites and practices of these religions and Christianity. ... On the one hand, the Fathers attacked the resemblances between the mysteries and Christianity as one of the activities of the demon who is both ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

1. The philosophes did not accept the scientific revolutionary notion that the laws of Nature express the will of God. The philosophes made it clear that God, revelation, Scripture, and all of the other ingredients of traditional Christianity were subjects of scorn. Scholars in many countries found...

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Akbar the Great was born on October 15, 1542, in Umarkot in Sindh. He was proclaimed emperor in 1556 under the tutelage of his father's (Humayun) trusted military commander, Bairam Khan. By 1560, Akbar took the complete reign of the empire into his own hands. Akbar's was an apotheosis of rule in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. The British who came few decades later found Akbar's system of administration as their precursor. ...

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