Essays on Religion Page 146

The Columbian Exchange was the global diffusion of animals, diseases, people, technology and ideas between Europe, and the Americas. During the Age of Exploration, European explorers embarked on journeys across the Atlantic Ocean to find a shorter route to India. However, they discovered two new continents in which they colonized and claimed for their respective…

​The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) is a terrorist group that deeply and existentially relies on the far-flung belief in the impending apocalypse to promote and sustain its brutal ideology. The group’s fixation on the apocalypse can be seen to evolve in part from personal and collective trauma,…

The Idea of death and the chinese philosophy of it is intriguing, in the way Monkey is shown in the book, the idea of death as an a deity called yama, Yama is a fascinating figure. He rules over the afterlife, but is not one of the devas. This leads into the question Is Death…

We can say that the peak of IS’ media activities was between 2014 and 2015, when it broke away from al-Qaeda, followed by an improvement in its military and financial status until it reached its peak with the invasion of Mosul and the declaration of the caliphate in 2014 (ISIS’s Media Network in the Era…

I view the message portrayed through this piece of scripture as a very important lesson to be remembered. Matthew 25:31-46 expresses the Lord’s consequences of not being faithful and doing works of charity, covered in The Old Testament Law, in their everyday lives. However, it is the righteous, the believers who do the good works,…

In early 2013, the owner of WorldView-3, DigitalGlobe, merged with GeoEye, the owner of GeoEye-2. Both satellites were in production at the time of the merger, and WV3 got the nod to launch first because of its more advanced spectral capabilities, thus leaving GeoEye-2 shelved (Ray). In 2014, DigitalGlobe announced that GeoEye-2 was renamed to…

To exercise our sociological imagination, we had a film viewing of the indie film “Ded Na Si Lolo” by director Soxie Topacio last 8 July 2010. This film was all about a family who lost an important loved one—their father. Charing, one of the main characters, is one of the children. One morning while she…

“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to one.” These words, written in 1520 by the theologian Martin Luther, would later reverberate in the ears of the desperate German peasants. What happens when people start to break away from the entity that bound civilizations for thousands of years? How does one go…

Commonly, defining the word ―love‖ for people is simply as if they were the ones who invented it. No matter how complex the set of emotions, behaviors and beliefs love is, it still became a talk that was regularly mentioned by many people because of their different beliefs. It is acknowledgeable for everyone to have…

Vaccination is the single most important step people can take to protect themselves from influenza stated Frieden. Thomas R. Frieden was the former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and his knowledge on diseases have saved millions of lives therefore his advice must be taken seriously in a never-decreasing population. To understand the…