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    conflict. In Antigone divine and state law are incompatible forcing the characters to make difficult decisions. Antigone’s personal obligation to following religious rites and traditions puts her at odds with Creon’s insistence on enforcing his will as the king. Sophocles examines the conflict between rules and order to illustrate how adherence to the law of the state can be mislead. Through the conflicts between characters in the play‚ Sophocles exemplifies that in his best world divine or religious law

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    Karl Barth’s volume II of The Doctrine of God‚ he describes the Divine Command Theory and how it applies to man’s actions and morality. Although Barth’s writings can often times be confusing and ambiguous‚ this writing is better understood if one knows how he defines “claim”. When Barth writes “claim”‚ what he is really referring to it as is a demand or request from God‚ this is where we get the term “Divine Claim”. Barth defines the Divine Claim as an action’s moral dignity based on whether God commanded

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    Inherit the Wind Essay

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    Inherit the Wind‚ a play written by Jerome Lawrence‚ and Robert E. Lee‚ is one of the greatest and most controversial plays of its time. It was written at a time of scientific revolution to benefit people of the day and in the future‚ however‚ people of the day had a hard time accepting new ideas. It is societies unwillingness to change‚ and accept new ideas that create racism‚ and hate groups of today. This unwillingness is one of the major themes of this play. This thesis will be further explained

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    Inherit The Wind Analysis

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    Inherit the Wind‚ based on the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" in the small town Dayton‚ Tennessee‚ was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The play was not intended to depict the actual history or the proceedings in the Scopes’ trial but it was used as a vehicle for exploring social anxiety and ant-intellectualism that existed in the Americas during the1950s. Lawrence and Lee wrote the play as a response to the threat to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-Communist hysteria of the

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    Divine Comedy Book Report

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    Title: The Divine Comedy Author: Dante Alighieri Type of Work: Poem Time and Place Written: Italy; Dante wrote the Divine Comedy from 1308 to 1320‚ completing the work the year before he died. Setting: Place Inferno – Hell; The Valley of Evil Purgatorio – Pugratory; The Mountain with Seven Cornices Paradiso – Paradise; Dante’s imaginative conception of Heaven Time: The evening of Good Friday through the morning of Easter Sunday in the year 1300 Characters: Dante - The author and protagonist

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    A High Wind in Jamaica

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    A High Wind in Jamaica is set in The Caribbean during the mid-1800’s. The book is about a group of children living on a pirate ship‚ and gives insight into the world that children live in. Over the course of the book‚ the children do many bad things‚ without feeling any guilt: Emily murders a man; Rachael drops a marlin spike from the mast almost killing Emily‚ and Emily condemns the captain and crew that she had come to love to death or deportation without seeming to care at all. At the beginning

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    4. What is the tone of the poem? Throughout the poem‚ Dante’s Divine Comedy‚ the author‚ Dante‚ portrays an emotional tone. Through Dante’s own struggles with sin and the suffering he endured himself‚ we can see him caring for other’s and deeply thinking about human’s moral thoughts. The poem is written in first person and through the poem‚ you see crying and high emotions. Because of Dante’s own struggles‚ he sympathizes with other sinners throughout the poem. Sympathy is another emotion Dante

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    Blue Winds Dancing

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    Living Between Two Worlds In the essay‚ “Blue Winds Dancing‚” by Tom Whitecloud‚ the theme is motivated by the conflict the narrator faces while missing what he considers home. Satisfaction for ones culture is a fine line between appreciation of your own and disapproval for those that are different. This conflict is brought to light by the narrator’s different views of the two cultures to which he lives. These differences are felt internally and externally as the writer searches for his individuality

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    Divine Command & Social Contract Brenda and Ralph are co-workers and counselors at a local high school. Ralph is a believer in Social Contract‚ while Brenda is a Divine Command strong hearted Southern Baptist woman. Brenda and Ralph are debating on the subject of students of the same sex kissing in the hallways at school. This is a touchy subject for both of them‚ since religion has been taken out of the school system in recent years. However‚ they feel the problem of students of the same sex

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    Although there is not a definite answer to why evil happens‚ humans cannot help‚ but to attempt to solve it. Often time’s people look to God for the answer to why there is suffering. Scholars in all different disciplines are attempting to explain the divine nature of God among the evil we experience each day. This is a theodicy that attempts to piece together other theodicies to make the most sense possible with the little understanding we have of God and evil in the world. This theodicy is written in

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