They were driven by religious belief and personal glory rather than trying to know each other better so that they could test their faith under hardship. ... Father Laforgue was one of the many to test his faith and attempt to persuade an entire culture to forget what they had grown up with all of their lives for generations to attempt to "enter paradise." ... After falling in love with the Algonquin chief's daughter, Annuka, he was scolded by Laforgue for falling away from his own beliefs; however, Laforgue lacked the words to reason with him about his love for her. ...

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"Time, love, and memory suggest an inner world, a private realm where science can't go," said Jonathan Weiner, a Pulitzer Prizewinning science writer (US News and World 126:25). ... Could we also be treading water in the vast ocean and God is coming by with a boat (the genetic testing) and we are not getting in the boat. Say you have a cancer test done, it shows that you have cancer, now what do you do? ... The government has come up with five main cases for cloning-to-produce-children: to produce biologically related children, to avoid genetic disease, to obtain "Rejection-proof" tran...

• Word Count: 1708
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• Grade Level: High School

People should emulate the faith and love that Abraham had in God. ... When Abraham is praised a lot of the praise is placed on the fact that he had great love and trust in God. ... Imagine if you were told you were going to have to kill someone you loved more than anything with your bare hands. This would cause so much stress and anxiety that alone could be a test of faith. ... The focus of Abraham's actions is on the fact that he had love and trust in God. ...

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To conquer this neurosis and growing lack of being we need love. In this modern world there has become a growing struggle between love and fastidiousness, love is a state of being and that requires scarf rice, for a little part of us dies to achieve being love. Love comes with commitment and is not something that can be given, like a gift, but rather love has too be achieved then ascribed. A loving relationship, whether be romantic love, parental love, or other kinds of love requires effort and time because time and effort is something that our society regards as too much an experience of deat...

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Knowledge, love and pleasure are transacted through the equipment of the intellect, mind and body. ... It is righteousness-a way of life which is guided by human and spiritual values like love, compassions, justice and non-violence which are universal. ... The spiritual basis are, to a large extent, similar and amenable to scientific tests. ...

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In Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France, Mercier asserts that "love of the marvelous always conquers us, because, sensing confusedly how little we know of the forces of nature, we ecstatically welcome anything that leads us to discoveries about them.""8 This excerpt depicts the populace as a body that will follow anything that seems even somewhat plausible. ... In the political arena, the rulers encouraged the collaboration amongst specific groups and provided the atmosphere to test these theories by building research facilities. ...

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The Argument from Spontaneity shows that there are not really two choices; morality is as same as e and self-love. ... Adopting the maxim of self-love is surrendering the position of spontaneity, and does require an action. ... Thus, not only are the two options not on a footing, but the choice of the maxim of self-love over that of morality is unintelligible. ... CI applies a test on maxims to conduct a necessary condition of their acceptability. ...

• Word Count: 1984
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I wanted to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one." Over the next several chapters Marjane was given situations that tested her faith, and forced her to choose between what she saw and what she believed. ...

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In the text, he misses chances of teaching the truth when he encounters a townsman, Talkative, who could not differentiate between "crying out against and abhorring of the sin"(P.65) when Christian tested him. ... Giving up on his family shows his selfishness to pursue eternal happiness and insufficiency of love over his family. ...

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The status, or "place," of women in society has been a well-debated issue that is as old as the earliest civilizations. The inequalities between men and women can be observed throughout society in varying areas such as income level, job opportunity, sexual double standards, and rights to hold office...

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" Now, forty years of age, Trevor is returning to his incredible past where he must face the darkness of the terrible memories, and as he approaches his past, he meets a familiar voice in his head, one that Trevor must now test his morals against as he chooses to go back to his stirring town with this mysterious voice pulling him back into the past. ... If a child is brought up with love, affection and security he or she tends to build up positive beliefs. ...

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These people go to experts to find out how to raise children, how to fall in love, and how to make friends, as if they believe that because these subjects are "sciences" that they are getting verifiable, indisputable truths about the world. ... Consider quantitative tests, the numbers given as results make us feel better, but what do the numbers mean. ...

• Word Count: 2084
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The danger to society is not merely that is should believe wrong things, thought that is great enough, but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery" (118). ... "Le Coeur a ses a raisons, as Pascal says, "que la raison ne connait pas" [The heart has its reasons that reason does not know]: and however indifferent to but the bare rules of the game the umpire, the abstract intellect, may be, the concrete players who furnish him the materials to judge of are usually, each one of them, in love with some ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Within the weak appearance of the saint "they sensed the superior force that sought to test itself in such a conquest, the strength of the will in which they recognized and honored their own strength and delight in dominion: they honored something in themselves when they honored the saint." ...

• Word Count: 2488
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• Grade Level: High School