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Laura de Mello e Souza embarked on her doctoral dissertation, which examined sorcery in colonial Brazil from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Before she started writing her dissertation, numerous works on historiography had already been published. However, none of them specifically focused on Brazil. De Mello e Souza recognized the wealth of information available…

The American Dream has gone through different stages through the years, but today the Dream Is unattainable and unfair. “Owning land Is no longer the dream, owning a home Is no longer the dream, even having a good life is no longer the dream,” (Gale). There is no real dream for the United States; it…

This is traditionally a Christian concept, and the scatological belief entails that God will raise the dead back o life at the end Of time on Judgment Day, where he will decide the fate Of all individual humans – whether one should go to the eternal Kingdom of God from which sinners will be excluded…

The first instance of the Roman State taking action against Christians arose in the reign of the Emperor Claudius (41-54 A.D.). The historians Suetonius and Dio Cassius tell us that Claudius had to expel the Jews because they were continually arguing among themselves about a certain Chrestos. “Here we have first mention of the response…

The context for Matthew’s parables is that they come right after the section on mounting hostility to Jesus and his mission (in which Jesus establishes that every one of His followers and who does the will of God is his brother and sister) and right before more of Jesus’ miracles and teachings outside Galilee. In…

Milton Friedman, a prominent economist, strongly advocated for economic freedom over economic equality. He argued that in societies with economic freedom, all citizens have equal opportunities at the start of their lives, while in economically equal societies, citizens have equal levels of success. Therefore, countries are better off prioritizing economic freedom rather than economic equality….

Culture refers to the complex accumulation of knowledge that takes a long time to develop. Culture is the accumulation of characteristics of a group of people defined by things such as religion, lifestyle, and language. Human beings cannot survive without being in a cultural group because they need some minimal interaction with others. Culture is…

Introduction Every human is different. From our physical looks, to IQ, and cultural upbringing. Everyone is born with different tools to get them through life, but some are born with better tools than others. We call this term privilege. Privilege Privilege is a special right, advantage, or immunity granted only to a specific person or…

Resident Evil is a multimillion-dollar production, from video games, to movies, this take on the modern-day plague, opened the door to many branches off undead productions. Resident Evil is noted to be one of the best video games of all time. It is a product of Capcom and first debuted in 1996. It is an…

Creation myths are connected with religion because that is how the earliest human beings thought, with dreams and reality intertwined and meaning picked from anywhere that seemed suitable at the time, with no particular attempt to find something better. Myth were a way to explain their rituals and/or ceremonies and rituals achieved mythical explanations. The…