Day: August 28, 2005
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The Spirit of Islam – World Religion Class Essay
The Spirit of Islam – World Religion Class Essay Omid Safi is a professor of religion at Colgate University. Safi comes from a long line of Islamic poets. He is an American but spent the first years of his life in Iran with his grandfather who was an
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Quarks and Creation – World Religion Essay
Quarks and Creation – World Religion Essay This week we listened to John Polkinghorne speak about similarities that progressive science and theology share. Polkinghorne served as Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University, and is a Fellow of The Royal Society all before becoming an Anglican Priest at
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The Meaning of Faith – World Religion Essay
The Meaning of Faith – World Religion Essay Sharon Salzber is a Buddist teacher who studied in Asia and soon after brought the teachings to the US in the 1970s. In 1976 she founded the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts Salzber considers “Faith” an
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The Power of Fundamentalism – World Religion Essay
The Power of Fundamentalism – World Religion Essay Khaled Abou El Fadl is a leading Islamic scholar and authority on fundamentalist culture. He is also a professor of law at UCLA. Abou El Fadl grew up middle class in Kuwait family and then later moved to Egypt. He
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The Death Penalty in America – World Religion Essay
The Death Penalty in America – World Religion Essay This week’s show involved asking religious persons about their perceptions of the death penalty. It is very interesting that religious language is used on both sides of such a discussion. New constitutional challenges have been fueled by DNA testing and this
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Children of Abraham – World Religion Essay
Children of Abraham – World Religion Essay Bruce Feiler is a journalist and author of several books, including Abraham: a Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths and Walking the Bible. His books explore Abraham, the common patriarch of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Abraham was born sometime between 2100-
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Children and God – World Religion Essay
Children and God – World Religion Essay Robert Coles, a Harvard Physiatrist authored The Spiritual Life of Children after going back through his work with children realizing the common threads of spirituality among all children. Children by nature are questioning and curious about our world. Where we come
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Approaching Prayer – World Religion Essay
Approaching Prayer – World Religion Essay Most of us say we pray regardless if we are religious. This week’s focus is on opening up the subject of prayer. How it sounds, what it means, and why we do it. Prayer comes from the Latin root meaning to plea. Some say that prayer is done by…
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The Scrum Methodology – Current Issues in Information Systems Essay
The Scrum Methodology – Current Issues in Information Systems Essay Scrum is a project management technique used primarily in software development. Scrum adopts its name from a rugby term where players huddle together to move the ball forward up the field while pushing against the other team in the same formation. This comparison is quite…
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“SCRUM – An Agile Process” – Information Systems Essay
“SCRUM – An Agile Process” – Information Systems Essay Scrum is an agile process designed to help manage and control software development work. It applies to both regularly develops products and those which require constant adaptation to business needs, technology availability and reliability. However, Scrum is suited best to new product development rather than extended…
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Nineteenth Century Women Authors – English Essay
Nineteenth Century Women Authors – English Essay Nineteenth Century women characters and authors fight with many of the same social norms that give way to a later women’s social revolution. Transcendentalists were fighting for the freedom of slaves and it was only natural that those women of the movement would identify with this cause. Even…
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Thoreau, Franklin, and Byrd – Differences in skin color English Literature Essay
Thoreau, Franklin, and Byrd – Differences in skin color English Literature Essay From the strong words of Thoreau in “Resistance to Civil Government” in which he claims he is unable to recognize a government that allows slavery, to the understanding words of Franklin concerning Native Americans. It is clear that many transcendentalist and early American…
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Works by James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant – English Literature Essay
Works by James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant – English Literature Essay Upon reading works by James Fenimore Cooper it is clear that primeval wilderness scenery was used to capture the attention of his audience. The backdrops to stories as From the Pioneers, allowed for Cooper to introduce vivid and wild challenges to his…
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Thoreau’s Resistance to Civil Government – English Literature Essay (200 Level Course)
Thoreau’s Resistance to Civil Government – English Literature Essay (200 Level Course) While reading Resistance to Civil Government it is clear that Thoreau longs of a government that does not use a standing army and political manipulation to control the masses. It is clear that his vision of the “American Dream” is one where a…
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The Social Experiments of Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden – English Essay
The Social Experiments of Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden – English Essay The social experiments of Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden; attempted to prove to early America that self and self-reliance can be found through nature. This required an ongoing process of removing themselves from society and the harmful effects of the masses in order…
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ACID – Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability? – Information Systems Essay
ACID – Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability? – Information Systems Essay ACID is an acronym that stands for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability. This term is used to describe enterprise level database transactions and the goals that every system must strive to achieve. The ACID model is one of the oldest and most important concepts of…
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Ethical Issues of Robots in Society Essay
Robots grow more and more capable all the time. Their abilities to see and comprehend the world around them are also increasing at a rate that far exceeds the scientific world’s initial expectations. With products
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MLM – For Friend or Foe – Business Ethics Essay
MLM – For Friend or Foe – Business Ethics Essay At some point in life everyone is exposed to the seedy world of multi-level marketing, or MLM for short. There is always that friend looking to demonstrate the fabulous world of Cutco Cutlery or the Mary Kay lady who is always having a party. But…
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Common Cloning Misconceptions – Ethics Essay
Common Cloning Misconceptions – Ethics Essay Human cloning is replication or making children into products. Opponents of cloning often use these words to beg the question, to assume that children created by parents by a new method would not be loved. Similar things were said about babies born of other assisted pregnancy methods. I am…