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India is a country in South Asia and it sometimes referred to as the Republic of India. This country houses a culture group known as Indians. Understanding Indian culture is important and crucial due to the vast amounts of immigrants in the United States. After interviewing a man from India, I have a better understanding…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Purple Hibiscus” stands as a compelling testament to the intricacies of postcolonial Nigeria, juxtaposed with the microcosm of a family dealing with tyranny, faith, and liberation. Through the eyes of young Kambili, readers are invited to navigate the nuances of love, oppression, and rebellion, both within the confines of a family home…

Ethics play an integral and necessary part in our lives. An individual’s course of action is dictated by which ethical model they adhere to. Ethics answers the question, “What do I do? ” It is the study of right and wrong. “At a more fundamental level, it is the method by which we categorize our…

William Blake was a romantic 1st generation poet who was born on November 28th 1757, into a lower class family. Blake discovered his skill for the arts at a young age as him enthusiasm to paint inspired his work. He was sent to a drawing school at an early age. The education Blake received was…

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. While he was primarily regarded as the father of modern physics, Newton’s greatest passion was theology. In fact he spent more time on biblical studies than on science, as he said, “I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the…

A wave of change swept over the era of modernism, people began to question and scrutinize the norms of society. This change Is referred to as postmodernism (Megs & Purses, 2006:466). Postmodernism gave birth to different subcultures, groups of people who behave and believe differently than the norm of society, this as a result makes…

Introduction The rapid developments in medical technology have caused ethical and moral dilemmas which directly affect the way we understand reproductive ethics. Since the birth of the world’s first surrogate baby in the 1980s, surrogacy has become a controversial ethical issue in countries all around the world. (Carr 2007: 1) The proponents of the surrogate…

Is blind belief foolish, or even dangerous? According to the writings of W.K. Clifford, a British philosopher, it is both. Clifford was of the opinion that no one should believe anything for which there was “insufficient evidence”. He also claimed that if one did not have the time to fully investigate a matter they wished…

Euhemerization is a process that human being figuratively changes into a god with time while reverse euhemerization according to Chinese scholars, is a procedure through which a mythological creature or god changes to a historical figure, believed to have existed before. Reverse euhemerization happens to people occupied with history than mythology. Euhemerization is a theory…

Outline: Kate Fitzgerald is a 16 year old who was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia at 2 years old. She has an older brother, Jesse, but he is not a genetic match for a bone marrow transplant and has never been able to forgive himself for that. Doctors suggested that her parents scientifically engineer another…