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    The Iranian Revolution "The very concept of history asserts that human development is not predetermined – not by nature‚ nor by God‚ nor by the totality of history itself" (Buck-Morss‚ Susan). However‚ there is always a combination of a willful action of knowledgeable groups within constraints and possibilities supplied by pre-existing structures. This is to suggest that there is a myriad of possibilities for people to make choices within given limits. Thus‚ an exploration of the Islamic Revolution

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    Pierre Citron asserts that‚ of all great French poets‚ Charles Baudelaire was “the one whose life was most permanently riveted to Paris.” Furthermore‚ Louis Thomas wrote in Curiosités sur Baudelaire‚ “Baudelaire thought of himself as being at home everywhere [in Paris]. Whether on the streets or on the quays‚ he was as comfortable as if he had been in his own room. Wherever he walked on the island‚ it was as if he was still on his own property‚ so that one might run into him in slippers‚ hatless

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    Abrahamic Covenant

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    “Ingredients”Which compose the Covenant: | Development in the Book of Genesis: | Any Change in Content or Emphasis: | | Genesis 12:1- The Lord has said to Abram‚ “Leave your country‚ your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. | Abram | God called Abram to move from Haran to Canaan | Faith | This all started with a call from God | The emphasis here is placed on Faith as God calls Abram by Faith | | Genesis 12:2- “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you;

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    POLITICAL ISLAM IN THE ERA OF NEOLIBERALISM The main topics The post-Islamist Turn (Asef Bayat) The relationship between the urban dispossessed and radical Islam (Asef Bayat) Understanding of political Islam from a historical materialist perspective (the debate between Amin and Tariq Amin-Khan) “What is post-Islamsim”: First of all‚ it should be clarified at the very beginning that the categories “Islamism” and “post-Islamism” serve primarily as theoretical constructs to signify change‚ difference

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    nepotism’ - unless intermediate institutions are introduced. Marx‚ on the hand‚ dismisses the idea that politics are at the heart of modern society’s issues‚ and rather argues that capitalist economies are precisely the root of any pathologies modernity brings about. Tocqueville argues that democratic societies‚ by virtue of seeking equality‚ inevitably lead to individualism‚ which he defines as “a clam and considered feeling which disposes each citizen to isolate himself from the mass of his fellows”

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    Extra Credit Biology Paper Jarrett Hayes The Lie: Evolution by Ken Ham is an informational book on the lies and corruption that evolution brings into society. A side purpose of this book is to encourage the reader to use Genesis as the foundation for defending your faith in Creation and God. The chapters summarized in this paper are the first six and the eighth. In society‚ there is an attack on Christianity. Many are losing the Christian outlook on life‚ and they are rejecting what

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    In the film Raise the Red Lantern‚ by Chinese director Zhang Yimou (1991‚ Zhang Yimou)‚ we are shown the story of Songlian and her experiences as the new fourth wife of her master. The struggle between tradition and modernity as well as femininity versus masculinity is prominent in the film as Songlian is thrown into the Chen family compound‚ fully governed in Confucian tradition‚ and the capitalist democratic competition between the wives and Songlian’s rebellion to tradition causes many problems

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    continuing progress‚ if not perfection‚ in all fields of life--essentially U-topia or heaven on earth). Give an exposition of their alternative view of the development of modernity. or‚ Seyyed Hossain Nasr argues for the redefinition of modernity as an intellectual project which has promoted a breakage with "religious tradition". Modernity here is not seen as a natural move from early infantile humanity to developed or evolved secular society. Instead it is presented as the natural consequence of said

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    shift from modernity to post-modernity‚ which involves not only the radical reconfiguration of society but also an even more radical reconstitution of the concepts and mentalities of the modern world. The university is caught in the middle - as both an institution that embodies modernity but also one of the instrument that is most actively transcending its limits. The article ends by considering whether the university can survive in this brave new world of globalization and post modernity or whether

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    Biblical Worldview Essay Genesis is the first book of the bible‚ and shows how God created and shaped this world. There is so much information in this great book‚ but there are specifics on our world‚ identity‚ relationships‚ and civilization itself. I will be correlating not only what Genesis says about these things‚ but also what they do for me in my day-to-day life in which I try to live as Christ has called me. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1 ESV). The first sentence

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