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    Islam a Religion of Peace

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    uncontrollably violent. So‚ you have a knee-jerk reaction‚ purely defensive and purely self-protective and blurt out that you are a “peaceful religion.” And you are absolutely and one hundred percent right in saying that. For‚ Islam is all about peace and truth and justice and kindness and compassion. But that is not what your accusers and tormenters are saying. They are pointing to all the violence that is going on in different parts of the Muslim world‚ violence in which Muslims are involved

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    In A Separate Peace‚ John Knowles enlightens readers on human existence by displaying how denial allows a person to stray from reality. Numerous cases of denial overwhelm and test characters’ assurances of their own presence. Characters such as Gene Forrester and Phineas (Finny) fail to acknowledge denial‚ so that their naiveté prohibits them from identifying the truth. Eventually‚ fate causes each to face his own guilt‚ embarrassment‚ and disbelief. As the novel progresses Gene Forrester‚ the

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    Atomic War or Peace

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    Atomic War or Peace? Was the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan justified? Many people believe that it was very justified‚ but was it? Some reasons could have been the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the destruction of Japans power to make war‚ also what seemed to the only answer to end war. “I wouldn’t hesitate if I had the choice. I’d wipe ‘em out. You’re gonna kill millions of innocent people‚ but at the same time we’ve never fought a war anywhere in the world where they haven’t fought and killed

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    Religion: Jihad and Peace

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    Discussion 2: “Jihad and Peace.” The words Islam and Muslim are from the same Aramaic/Semetic root‚ and the words Salām‚ Shalom‚ and Salem are all translated as “peace‚” “peace that comes from submission to God‚” “whole‚” “complete‚” “intact.” Explain why “submission” is the major theme of Islam‚ keeping in mind this history of the words’ meanings. The religion is called Islam because it offers peace and requires complete submission to the will of God. According to the Qur’an‚ there is only

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    A Separate Peace Themes

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    that think they are always better than each other. In a Separate Peace‚ John Knowles demonstrates how the boys achieve a Separate Peace through the winter carnival yet their prizes and setting are tinged with warlike images. John Knowles uses setting to prove that there is the war -like images in the winter carnival. Gene said that “The Saturday was battleship gray.” The term battleship is

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    Kairos In A Separate Peace

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    to find at first‚ but once you find the kairos then you will understand the book and its meaning more easily. Examples of kairos can be found in these three books: A Separate Peace‚ The Chosen‚ and American Cicero. Each of these books have kairos hidden in them‚ but it might not be easy to find. The book A Separate Peace by John Knowles focuses on two best friends Gene‚ and Phineas‚ attending a military academy. Gene is an extremely intelligent student who strives to become the Valedictorian

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    Role of Youth in Peace

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    Mahatma Gandhi used the term “Satyagraha” to refer to a kind of active but absolutely non-violent resistance to oppression. In his words: “Truth (satya) implies love‚ and firmness (agraha) engenders and therefore serves as a synonym for force. I thus began to call the Indian movement Satyagraha‚ that is to say‚ the Force which is born of Truth and Love or non-violence‚ and gave up the use of the phrase “passive resistance”‚ in connection with it‚ so much so that even in English writing we often

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    A Separate Peace Themes

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    Innocence versus Maturity A Separate Peace by John Knowles concerns itself about a young adult named Gene who decides to visit his old school Devon years after the war and recollects his memories of his friend‚ Phineas. Most of the story is a flashback about the hardships Gene and Phineas had to face growing up in high school during a war. During this flashback‚ Gene grows through the phase where he must let go of his childhood and mature to adulthood. Throughout the book‚ Phineas symbolizes childhood

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    Religion‚ Peace and Justice What attitudes are there to war? Key idea: Most Christians believe that war should be avoided. But many also believe that there are times when a Christian may have to go to war. This is because they believe that the result of not going to war will be much worse. Holy War Key idea: Christians would fight in the name of God by going on Crusades (Holy War) Christians did not retaliate when persecuted‚ they did not join the army. Not all Christians followed the teachings

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    Romanticism is a faith in imagination or fantasy rather than faith in reason. In John Knowles’s novel A Separate Peace‚ romanticism is portrayed through the recurring idea of fantasy and unreality. The theme is displayed through the emphasis on melancholy and sadness when Gene’s happiness is vanishing‚ Gene’s intuition and reliance on natural feelings when he bounces the branch and causes Finny’s accident‚ and through Finny’s reliance on his imagination and emotion rather than formal rules. First

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