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What Difference Does It Make That God Is Immutable? What difference does it make to us that God is immutable? Immutability is a key attribute of God and without that He wouldn’t even be God. It would be hard to have a personal relation ship with Him. As well as our relationship suffering our knowledge…

Later in his life he was known as Gautama. He traveled with a guru for a while and then he practiced as asceticism. He did these two things to find enlightenment. These things did not lead to enlightenment so he ate and sat down to meditate under a fig tree. He received enlightenment through a…

            “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.  It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…” (Fitzgerald 9).  These words were written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the last part of his novel “The Great Gatsby.”  In…

Despair, or the loss of hope and expectation, is when one gives up and feels hopeless, lacking motivation or energy to keep trying. It commonly occurs in those who have experienced or are experiencing traumatic events. Additionally, despair can lead to a loss of identity. Elie Wiesel’s novel Night depicts this loss of hope through…

The Trobrianders are a cultural group living in the Trobriand Islands located just off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Sea. The Trobriands consist of four major islands: Kiriwina, Kitava, Vakuta, and Kaileuna (Ember, 2001). Kiriwina is the largest island of the four, and currently has a population of approximately 12,000…

Regardless of his readiness to assume mastery over all things, man wants to be the master.  Made in the image of God, as the Bible asserts, even the brave little toddler tries to disobey the commands of his or her parents.  Frank Cauldhame has a dysfunctional family.  But, it is not dysfunctional as dysfunctional families…

Business ethics is the assessment and analysis of how business acts in decision-making process according to moral concepts and judgments. Ethical concepts range through defined issues such as the company’s obligations to be honest with their customers, customers responsibility to preserve environment and protect employees rights. It is important that there is a balance in…

    Hinduism, unlike Christianity, Judaism or Islam, does not have a central founder, a single morality system, or a specific theology. In spite of these differences from Western religions, it is the third largest religion after Christianity and Islam. While there are many forms of Hinduism, most are considered “henotheistic”, where there is a central…

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives atthe conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation issuicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse,as his portion; that though the wide universe is full ofgood, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him butthrough his toil bestowed on that plot…

Through the novel Les Miserables, Victor Hugo depicts the rigor and cruelty of the French society in the 19th century. Although human beings all have the inclination toward sinning and making mistakes, the harsh and inhumane laws enforced by a corrupt government system made people miserable, forming many prejudices. Jean Valjean, the protagonist of this…