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This paper explores the main themes of Jeremiah's writings. Jeremiah begins by condemning the people of Israel for their idolatry. He speaks of them as adulterers and harlots before the loving face of their Lord. He condemns their corruption, their lack of social justice, their greediness and cruelty and the fashion in which they put everything from wealth to ritual to appearances before the honor of God and the needs of the poor among them.

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"In chapter after chapter, Jeremiah explores the depravity of his people, and prophecies that they shall receive in just measure as they have sown. He declares that utter destruction is coming upon them: the people of the foreign gods they have embraced will crush them, their cities will be razed, their children killed, their own God will turn his back on them. Jeremiah speaks poignantly about a coming time of exile, when the people of God will no longer be allowed to remain within the promised land which they have so defiled. Yet Jeremiah is also traditional in his promise that God will not remain angry forever. He explains to the people that in time God will turn his face upon them again."

Tags:prophet, writings, peace, idol, worship, pacifist, god, babylon

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This paper discusses the result of research which placed 200 male undergraduate participants in a 4x3 mixed factorial design to determine if the physical attractiveness stereotype applied to adultery. Participants were assigned to 4 conditions. Each group was presented with a scenario depicting the character "John" committing adultery with one of 3 women. The first independent variable was the manipulation of the attractiveness level of "John". "John" was presented as either an unattractive, average, or attractive man. A "no picture" group was created to measure the participant's base line response. The participants were then asked to indicate which woman (unattractive, average, or attractive) "John" was having an affair with. The paper shows that results indicated that the matching hypothesis does occur in situations of infidelity. Evolutionary implications and reasoning are also discussed.

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"Women look for a man whose appearance indicates a means to acquire resources and the ability to protect/care for any potential offspring (Townsend, 1990). These cues, coming from an evolutionary standpoint, are also very logical. Women have much more at stake than men do when it comes to child bearing. Females seek a mate that exhibits traits that imply that he will be able to provide for her during her pregnancy, since during those 9 months she will be unable to provide for her self (in an ancestral hunter-gatherer society). If the women in question does not embody the traits men find desirable, she will have to look for a man that is lower on the attractiveness ladder."

Tags:genotypic, gender, fertility, attractiveness

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"Artificial Insemination is a relatively new issue for religious scholars to consider. Ancient commentators certainly could not be expected to predict that human sperm would one day be refrigerated, treated with glycerol, and be made available to women wishing to become pregnant. Predictably, the Jewish Written Law does not specifically address artificial insemination. Therefore, the varied problems of religion, ethics, and law must be considered in the attempt to recognize a halakhic answer based on halakhic sources yet recognizing modern technologies.

Although artificial insemination gives rise to many halakhic problems,1 the most critical issue, and the one which this paper addresses, is whether artificial insemination with sperm not belonging to the husband of the woman impregnated2 constitutes an ..."

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This paper examines how the shattering of romantic illusions forms the central theme of the novel, "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. It looks at how Emma Bovary, the protagonist, is unable to reconcile her passionate romanticism with mundane reality and how she enters into adulterous relationships to fulfill her unrealistic desires. It discusses how her tragic end is an outcome of her withdrawal from reality, since she cannot see herself as a failure and refuses to admit that she has indulged in excessive romanticism. It shows how her suicide can be considered escapist, since it underlines the shattering of romantic illusions.

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"Emma's next relationship, with Leon, shows how her romanticism causes isolation the construction of "barriers between one human being and another." The isolation occurs because Emma judges men against her predetermined criteria of romanticism. When Emma is evaluating Leon, she remembers the little things: "she remembered his other gestures from other days, phrases he had used, the sound of his voice, (and) everything about him" (Flaubert, 1982). She believes that gestures and phrases alone can tell "everything about him" (Flaubert, 1982). Emma summons a mental facsimile from these memories "with the acuity of a sensation almost immediate" (Flaubert, 1982)."

Tags:leon, emma, suicide, relationships, adultry

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The shattering of romantic illusions forms the central theme of the novel, "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. The paper examines how Emma Bovary, the protagonist, is unable to reconcile her passionate romanticism with mundane reality and enters into adulterous relationships to fulfill her unrealistic desires. The paper shows how her tragic end is an outcome of her withdrawal from reality, and her suicide can be considered escapist. This underlines the shattering of romantic illusions.

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"Emma's next relationship, with L'on, shows how her romanticism causes isolation"the construction of barriers between one human being and another". The isolation occurs because Emma judges men against her predetermined criteria of romanticism. When Emma is evaluating L'on, she remembers the little things: "she remembered his other gestures from other days, phrases he had used, the sound of his voice, (and) everything about him" (Flaubert, 1982). She believes that gestures and phrases alone can tell 'everything about him" (Flaubert, 1982)."

Tags:rodolphe, charles, leon

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"Medea" is the ancient Greek tale of jealousy and revenge involving a woman betrayed by her husband. This paper explains how, in the book by Euripides, the story begins just after Medea has been betrayed and then flashes back to the events that brought Medea and Jason to that point. Euripides does this to emphasize the important part of the novel and show that the journey to this point was not as important as Jason's adulterous actions. The paper also touches on Pasolini's "Medea" (1970), which, in contrast, begins when Jason is a boy and proceeds chronologically. The paper shows that, despite this contrast, the two versions are wholly similar, since one is based on the other; they show that some forms of revenge are impossible to understand.

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"Medea's inner struggle with Jason led her to believe that the world was a corrupt place. After leaving Colchis, she never found acceptance by any other people and because of her past her children were not welcome either. Although Medea can still be sharp with her words, her abilities are not as strong as they were when she lived in Colchis. Like the fleece, which lost its value and aura when it was stolen from its homeland, Medea as well has lost her luster. Medea fought to get her children accepted by Creon and the people of Corinth, even if it meant she would not be able to be with them."

Tags:Glauce, Colchis, Creone

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This paper briefly looks at this section of the play and focuses on the speech given by Hamlet to his mother. It is from this speech that many people think Hamlet suffered an Oedipus complex. The writer states that this is not the case, but rather his loyalty for his father is still so strong, that the thought of his mother with any other man is adulterous. His seeming obsession with his mother?s sex life stems from the fact that adultery has to do with sex, not that he lusts after Gertrude.

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"The speech given by Hamlet to his mother in Act III, scene 4 enlightens the reader to a lot of what is in Hamlet's mind. Everyone had finished watching the performance of "The Mouse Trap" and Gertrude had summoned Hamlet to her chambers. Hamlet arrived and was in a rage. She thought that he was going to kill her and screamed for help. Polonius, hiding behind a wall covering yelled for help too. Hamlet, thinking that Polonius was the king, killed him. With that, Hamlet went on to give his speech."

Tags:hamlet, shakespeare, gertrude, character, speech

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The author compares and contrasts the rule of the two kings in Shakespeare plays, "Winter's Tale" and "The Tragedy of King Richard III." The theme running through both plays is that power corrupts, and this is the theme that runs through both of these plays. King Richard is portrayed as an absolute ruler destroyed by his thirst for absolute power. King Leontes, is a king more paranoid than perhaps even Lear who refuses to believe even the gods who say that his wife and friend are not involved in an adulterous relationship. He is also an absolute ruler who believes that he knows even better, than the gods themselves.

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"Shakespeare s Richard is a thoroughly rotten villain. This is made clear to us in Act One, scene 1. Angry over the limits of his physical deformity, and, perhaps, the low social status accorded him as the very sparest of spare heirs, Richard vows to overcome his limitations. In line 30 of this speech, Richard says, I am determined to prove a villain. Most would agree that these are not the words of a person who has the best interests of his fellow human beings at heart. If one needs further proof, Richard goes on to describe a plot that pits his two brothers, Clarence and Edward, against each other hopefully resulting in both brothers deaths."

Tags:absolute, iii, power, richard, shakespeare, tale, winter

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In "The Scarlet Letter," Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about the lives and interactions of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale; three characters in a Puritan society who are affected by adulterous actions. This paper provides an in depth view of each of the three characters and how they relate to each other. In addition, it examines the main symbols and metaphors in Hawthorne's novel and concludes with a look at the negative aspects of the Puritan society in which the characters lived.

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"Hawthorne uses symbolism to show how Puritanism is hypocritical and that Puritan religious viewpoints are unnatural. He does this through using contrasting natural and religious symbols in the descriptions of Pearl. He uses the backdrop of the natural world to show that not only is Pearl unidentified in the Puritan culture, but she is also above it.
Hawthorne describes Pearl as a "lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion" (Hawthorne, p.81). This "rank luxuriance" is based on the harsh Puritan morals, which describe Pearl as a mistake or an outcast even though she has done nothing wrong."

Tags:Boston, adulteress

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This paper will examine how Dante depicts love and sex in his Inferno. Through an examination of two scenes in particular - dealing with adulterous heterosexual love and homosexual love respectively - it will be seen that Dante was certainly not a "holier-than-thou" moralist. Indeed, his treatment of love and sex reflects the perspective of a generous and sophisticated sensibility. However, it will be argued that Dante depicts such examples of love and sex as suffering punishment in Hell to illustrate the tension that exists between human and divine judgement. As will be seen, Dante never allows his own sympathy with the very human "sins" of these individuals to cloud his perception of an inexorable divine justice at work in the world.