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This paper examines Richard J. Foster's work "The Celebration of Discipline", which attempts to portray the often contradictory aspects of the Christian life, while also showing that such measures are obligatory for all those wanting to live an authentic Christian experience. The paper maintains that the book remains an important and relevant work on Christian spirituality because of the timeless truths it contains, and the way in which it addresses so many of the issues associated with contemporary notions of spirituality. Specifically, the paper evaluates Foster's work by primarily focusing on the three classical groups of disciplines outlined by the author, which include "The Inward Disciplines" (meditation, prayer, fasting, and study), "The Outward Disciplines" (simplicity, solitude, submission, and service), and "The Corporate Disciplines" (confession, worship, guidance, and celebration).

Outline:
Introduction
Reflections of a Disciplined Life
Conclusion

From the Paper
"There are few people that would deny that true Christian spirituality only occurs through the existence of a deep and personal relationship with God that is usually marked by the practice of both inward and outward spiritual disciplines. Even so, there are relatively few Christians who practice the wide variety of disciplines outlined in Foster's work due to the way in which modern Christianity has tended to distinguish spirituality through an increasingly narrower worldview. Many churches, for example, encourage the use of disciplines such as prayer and Bible study, while tending to ignore others such as meditation and fasting because they are often seen as either being extreme or even unbiblical. "

Tags:Christian, spirituality, god, confession, worship

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This paper discusses the different possible reasons for the rise of the Neo-Nazis in Germany. Humiliation and losing control over their own army are investigated as reasons for the rise of the Neo-Nazis in Germany.

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This paper discusses how Richard J. Foster's "Celebration of Discipline" acts as a powerful antidote to the extremities of attitude that often plague us in modernity while still embracing many of the newer practices created by recent Christian spiritual leaders and teachers. It looks at how Foster suggests a series of disciplines to bring Christians back to the basics of their faith and to help believers move forward in their lives in a more productive fashion. It also examines how he offers practical advice on how to practice these pillars of spiritual development and awakening even while he defends them according to Christian, philosophical doctrine.

From the Paper
"Foster suggests a series of disciplines to bring Christians back to the basics of their faith and to help believers move forward in their lives in a more productive fashion. He offers practical advice on how to practice these pillars of spiritual development and awakening, even while he defends them according to Christian, philosophical doctrine. Through practicing the disciplines, a believer can place him or herself before God and be transformed. He categorizes these different disciplines under three different headings. Inward disciplines involve the practices of meditation, prayer, religious fasting (as opposed to fasting for a political cause or for one's health) , and study. Outward disciplines involve the cultivation of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service. Community disciplines are confession, worship, guidance, and celebration. Inward and outward harmony is required. A believer cannot focus on one discipline to such an extent that it comes at the expense of the other."

Tags:doctrine, faith, christianity

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This paper takes the reader into an exploratory journey through the rise of the Nazis from 1918-1939. The author discusses Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the party's political agenda and its expansion nationwide. Furthermore, it urges the reader to remember the evil the Nazis caused humanity in order to prevent history from repeating itself.

From the Paper
"In 1939 the war of the world included the United States anger and coupled with allies the Nazis were finally defeated. The rise and fall of the Nazis is something that we must never forget. A man with a charismatic speaking ability, and a nation with economic troubles was all it took to grow one of the biggest monsters in the history of the world. The Nazi regime still lives. It is in corners, and web sites and meetings that are around the world. We must never let them grow, and we must never let them win again."

Tags:soldiers, history, regimen, charismatic, symbol, Bavarian, government, dictator, Auschwitz, propaganda

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This paper examines how the Nazi machine utilized propaganda to win and maintain support of the German people. The paper presents four reasons why a seemingly cultured civilization was swayed by propaganda.

From the Paper
"A key question that has fascinated students of 20^th century world history is do we explain Nazi Germany? How do we account for an entire nation with an old, established, sophisticated civilization throwing its support behind a mob of mindless thugs, i.e. the Nazi Party? How did the same nation that produced Kant, Goethe, Beethoven and Wagner end up supporting the brutal extermination of millions of men, women, children and babies? This essay will examine this question, and argue that this shocking reality can be explained by four factors that came together to make a..."

Tags:nazi, propaganda, germany

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The paper attempts to show how the Nazi party's propaganda in the 1920s was of utmost importance to the party in conveying the Nazi ideology to the German people to build a wide support base. The paper discusses how the Nazi party manipulated the growing resentment toward the Versailles treaty and the Weimar government through propaganda. The paper includes four posters in color that highlight the ingenuity of Goebells and describes Leni Riefenstahl's successful propaganda film "Triumph of the Will".

From the Paper
"The rise of Hitler and the Nazi party was due to a number of factors. An important contributing factor was propaganda. Propaganda was instrumental in projecting Nazi ideals; strong anti-Semitism and anti-Communist beliefs, glorifying the Aryan race, and the Fuhrer, Hitler. It also conveyed the ideas of German nationalism and the superiority of the German race, which were essential in Nazi ideology. Propaganda was important throughout the Nazi's campaign before and after they gained power in 1933. The party itself had a portfolio primarily concerned with propaganda (the ministry for Public enlightenment and propaganda), headed by Dr Joseph Goebbels arguably the best-educated Nazi leader . The Nazis' propaganda was as diverse as it was inventive. They reinvigorated old mediums such as radio by releasing and affordable radio dubbed the Volksempfanger, so anyone could listen to Nazi propaganda but also adopted new mediums, such as film most famously for "triumph of the will" by Leni Riefenstahl. The nazi party applied these mediums to fit certain situations such as bringing down the Weimar republic and in elections."

Tags:Versailles, Weimar, ideology, nationalism, Aryans, anti-semitism

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In this article, the writer discusses the uses of propaganda during the war in Germany. The three elements of propaganda that are analyzed for this paper are stereotypes, social contact, and fear mongering. Primarily, a definition of propaganda in the context of wartime Germany is offered, and then the writer proves that through the use of highly contextualized propaganda tactics in Nazi Germany, the German population was influenced to turn against an entire body of citizens, and, in effect, become passive executioners for the tyrant Hitler.

From the Paper
"More specifically, the Nazis implemented programs of hate that encouraged Germans to accept and embrace ideologies perpetuated by the regime. In this sense, by creating a sphere of influence, those outside the circle were considered traitors to Germany and the regime. By perpetuating this notion of fear, the Nazis were able to force sects of the German population into distinct classes. Lastly, the concept of fear was used not just within the German borders, but also abroad while the German army continued its dominance in Europe. By taking over nations, the propaganda machine continued to make progress in other foreign nations. A good example of this is in Vichy, France where the French people virtually became allied with the Nazis, instead of simply occupied. The threat of loss of culture was so great, that the French not only caved to the dominance of the army, they led the way in handing over the French Jews."

Tags:Hitler, stereotype, Jewish, German, persecution

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The paper discusses how Maya Angelou in her four-poem collection "Phenomenal Woman" reflects the same enthusiasm for the self and elation that is present in the works of the American national poet, Walt Whitman. The paper analyzes how Angelou makes an unforgettable statement in favor of the belief in the self as the most important creed in the lives of black women. The paper portrays how Angelou's poetry is an art and an important teaching, with almost healing properties for the black audience that has to live under the shadow of the oppressive past.

From the Paper
"Maya Angelou's short collection of poetry, entitled Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women, is, as the subtitle indicates, a celebration of womanhood. Angelou's poetry breathes forth the same enthusiasm for the self and the same elation that is present in the works of the American national poet, Walt Whitman. Just as Whitman sings the national self as well as the transcendent self in all its possible forms, Angelou sings her pride of being an Afro- American woman. Her poetry has obvious social and feminist implications, but at the same time, a transcendent meaning and a universal message are inherent in the poems."

Tags:Walt, Whitman, self, elation, Afro-American, women

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This paper explains that Hitler believed that to achieve his dream of a pure racial state in Germany, he had to totally eliminate the Jews from the face of the earth. The author points out that the first working session of the Reichszentrale began the process of concentrating all matters concerning Jewish emigration into the hands of the police. The paper relates that in the concentration camps German doctors practiced "medical experiments," known as eugenics, on the Jews in which experiments were made regarding the purity of German blood as opposed to that of the Jews.

From the Paper
"Hitler's first stage of this act toward racial purity and a racial state was aimed at accomplishing two ends: first, Germany had to purge itself of its internal enemies, and second, Germany had to make itself strong. The first step in this process was purgation, which had been achieved with the promulgation of the laws of 1933 and the Nuremberg Laws. At the end of August of 1936, Hitler went to Berchtesgaden, where he prepared his memorandum on the Four Year Plan. A portion of this document provided for the expropriation of all Jews when Germany went to war, for the Reichstag was to pass a law "making the whole of Jewry liable for all damages inflicted by individual specimens . . . upon the German economy and thus upon the German people." "

Tags:aryan, goring, purgation, eugenics, purity

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This paper argues that, by looking at Wagner's political writings in conjunction with his opera "Die Meistersinger", only one conclusion can be reached: Wagner coded the character Beckmesser as a Jew, whom the community fears and who disrupts the growth of musical art. The author examines Wagner's view of the threat of foreign influence on German art especially as re-enforced by the appropriation of the opera by the Nazi party as an ideological tool. Within the opera, the paper investigates further the character of Beckmesser and his place among his peers in the opera and the exalted 'Sacred German Art' as the opera ends on a C major chord, a sound dissonant in the wake of the Third Reich.

From the Paper
"The roots of Wagner's anti-Semitism can be traced to his jealousy of the success of two Jewish contemporaries, composers Giacomo Meyerbeer and Jacques Fromental Halevy. Meyerbeer's and Halevy's operas were especially successful in Paris; Wagner himself was never able to gain a foothold in the "capital of opera" during his lifetime. Furthermore, Wagner had come to passionately despise the "grand operas" which had made Meyerbeer and Halevy so popular and had kept Wagner impoverished and in obscurity."

Tags:beckmesser leitmotif nazis celebration, german artistic ideals