modern soul is more about characters than action. The story begins with the stereotype of the pompous German music professor explaining to the young English narrator why he incessantly eats cherries: “There is nothing like cherries for producing free saliva after trombone playing‚ especially after Grieg’s ‘Ich Liebe Dich’” He’s cherry eating is connected with a consuming desire for women. The two older Germans‚ the Professor and the German actress’ mother‚ talk incessantly of food and soul. They agree
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The Anatomy of the Soul is written by Curt Thompson‚ a psychiatrist‚ who presents this book about the astounding connections between neuroscience and Christian spirituality that can transform your life and relationships. Each chapter in this book serves to teach that it is possible to rewire your mind and alter your brain patterns to become more like what God had desired for you to be. He shows how you can be transformed through connecting with others‚ reading the Scripture‚ and spiritual practices
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W.E.B. Du Bois‚ author of The Souls of Black Folks‚ wrote the enlightening text that many progressives (and non-progressives) of his time and of today study. Du Bois writes this novel in a lyrical and poetic style to tap in to the consciousness of African-Americans to inform them on the ways of gaining success in the American system that racially undervalues them. He also makes points to non-black Americans‚ but specifically white Americans‚ to inform them on how they can use their white privilege
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Christ and Culture‚ authored by H. Richard Niebuhr in 1951‚ is a book which discusses how a Church or a Christian is to interact with ones culture. Niebuhr systematically answers this question by placing the church into the following five categories they have utilized through history to answer this question: "Christ against culture‚" "the Christ of culture‚" "Christ above culture (Christ synthesizing with culture)‚" "Christ and culture in paradox‚" and "Christ the transformer of culture." Reading
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religious especially about Christian. Simultaneously‚ there are many paintings draw on Jesus Christ and related to his birth‚ crucifixion and resurrection. An Italian painter who call Giotto di Bondone creates the art work call “The Crucifixion” at 1312. He is one of the famous contributor to the art works at the period of Renaissance. The another art works would be discussing in this paper is call “The Yellow Christ” which painted by Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin at 1889. Paul Gauguin is a French artist paint
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of details about inner body studies such as the soul‚ madness and lovers. Within the text‚ Plato refers to the platonic soul‚ this concept that Plato discusses had a lasting impression throughout my reading‚ this is because if one is trying to move souls‚ one must understand the souls first‚ meaning a person needs to be aware of their audience. The platonic soul is an analogy to two horses pulling a chariot‚ "First the charioteer of the human soul drives a pair‚ and secondly one of the horses
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the life of Jesus Christ‚ is Giulio Cesare Procaccini’s The Scourging of Christ. In this piece‚ Procaccini’s masterful use of light and shadows in a technique called chiaroscuro dramatically portray the torturing of Christ‚ and it is this very application of chiaroscuro that immediately caught my eye. Through his masterful rendition of value‚ Procaccini successfully evoked within me a crushing sensation of agony. While I did not initially realize that the piece was one of Christ‚ research enabled
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This extract is taken from ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ (1903) by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois‚ an American sociologist‚ historian and civil rights activist. Du Bois was the first African American to ever receive a PHD from Harvard‚ and is considered one of the most profound scholars of his generation for his active protest against Black discrimination in the US. The Souls of Black Folk explores the effect of being ‘identified as a problem’ by American society for the African American people who
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In many literary stories‚ the protagonist is portrayed as a Christ figure. Such is the case in Idylls of the King‚ written by Lord Alfred Tennyson. The protagonist‚ Arthur‚ is portrayed as a Christ figure in three ways: as a king who desires law and order‚ as a king with questioned paternity‚ and as a king who was betrayed. Throughout Arthur’s life‚ he exemplified characteristics that are very similar to Christ‚ one of these being the desire for law and order. Arthur established order by defeating
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The Duality of Masculinity Between Augustus Freeman IV and Icon In the article “Comic Book Masculinity‚” Jeffrey Brown highlights the prominent differences regarding the masculinity of black vs. white superheroes‚ and he reflects on why Milestone comics are different from other black superhero comics. Comic book superheroes and the black male body are each viewed as models of hypermasculinity‚ so when combining the two‚ to make black male superheroes‚ there is a significant risk of being far too
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