The Dark Side of Romanticism: Exploring the Gothic Genre

Posted by on Aug 22, 2024 in Religion | 0 comments

· It expresses the darker side of life: a world of pain and destruction, fear, and anxiety that shadows the daylight world of love and ethereality.

· It consists of a set of analyzable displacements about what it means to be human and gendered.

· It strains at the limits of mortality/immortality, morality/immorality, reason/emotion, order/disorder, mind/body, and masculine/feminine (Dracula).

· Gothic fictions are structured as case histories of types of insanity. As readers, we are asked to adjudicate

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Architectural Marvels: From Colosseum to Pantheon

Posted by on Aug 22, 2024 in Religion | 0 comments

The Colosseum

The Colosseum is a monumental building designed to accommodate about 50,000 spectators. Its construction involved incorporating some artificial elements, including one built by Nero in the Domus Aurea. As an act of propaganda, it was called the Coliseum because, beside an artificial lake that connected to the gate of the forums, stood a colossal statue of Nero (portrayed as the God Helio).

The Colosseum features an onion-shaped structure, with different sections of arches used to support

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The English Literature of Colonization and Puritanism in Early America

Posted by on Aug 22, 2024 in Religion | 0 comments

TEMA 1: The English Literature of Colonization

1. The Literature of Exploration

We can find the first written manifestations with the chronicles of travelers and early colonizers. Some prominent figures include:

  • Thomas Harriot: A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
  • John Smith: A True Relation of Virginia (1608), A Map of Virginia (1612), and General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624)
  • Arthur Barlowe: First Voyage to Virginia (1584)

Characteristics:

Geographical

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Bioethical Concepts: A Comprehensive Guide

Posted by on Aug 21, 2024 in Religion | 0 comments

Abortion

  1. Abortion (termination of pregnancy)

  2. Removal of a part of the human being’s existence:

    1. Spontaneous: Outside human will, no moral value.

    2. Provoked: One kills the child (inside or outside the womb). Attack on humanity. Types: aspiration, curettage, induced contractions, injection, prepared pharmaceuticals.

Caused offense to some, considered a crime in 1985.

  1. Therapeutic: Mother-child conflict.

  2. Practice: Violation.

  3. Eugene: Malformations (lack of solidarity).

Human life is threatened by not respecting

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Religion, Philosophy, and Science in History: From Enlightenment to Industrial Revolution

Posted by on Aug 20, 2024 in Religion | 0 comments

Morisco

A Morisco was a Muslim who remained in Spain after the end of Muslim rule and was forcibly converted to Christianity.

Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus was a Christian humanist who proposed the translation of the Bible into the languages spoken by the faithful.

Bartolomé de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas was a Spanish historian and social reformer who championed the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

San Juan de la Cruz

San Juan de la Cruz is considered the most outstanding

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Key Concepts in Confucianism and Taoism

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What is the Idea of Jen (Ren)?

Interalogy and Filial Piety

  1. Interalogy–the relationships between things; filial piety (Hsiao/Xiao) is the root of Ren
  2. Relationship with others and the natural world– interconnectedness
  3. Foundation of everything in the universe
  4. What is its significance for the whole teaching?
  • Embody goodness in one’s relationships with others
  • Respecting elders; loyalty to your parents; unconditional love and care from child to parents
  • Humanity (not the best translation) — human-heartedness
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