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C. S. Lewis' "Miracles", 2006.
A response to a reading of C. S. Lewis' book, "Miracles".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper reviews and analyzes C. S. Lewis' book, "Miracles". The paper contends that, although highly readable for a text of its kind, "Miracles" is not an easy or facile read. Rather, it poses many questions that are difficult to reason through even when following Lewis' reasoning process. The paper also maintains that, because this book is based on unfinished research and because it lays the pathway for following historical proofs rather than arguing them, it does not always present any clear conclusions.
From the Paper
"C. S. Lewis was a prolific Christian writer. He is perhaps best known for his series of books included in "The Chronicles of Narnia". His reach extends far beyond that of those books, however. The book "Miracles" is a good demonstration of why his work is so popular, even many years after his death. Although the book is a deep discussion of many philosophical ideas, it remains highly readable for someone who enjoys such topics. Lewis does not use what has now become the traditional warm and fuzzy "feel good" method of discussion that so many books use today. Instead, his work uses logical arguments to explain his perspective on the topic of miraculous works."
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C. S. Lewis, 2002.
This paper is a critique of C. S. Lewis.
3,500 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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This paper discusses the life and works of C. S. Lewis. The author shows how C. S. Lewis took the everyday questions about religion and faith, tackling them head-on. It is illustrated with various examples how Lewis was a Christian writer who was deeply influenced by the teachings of God and His Scripture, although Lewis?s views differ greatly from the fundamentalist view of scripture.
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"CS Lewis was born, in 1898, in Belfast, Ireland. He was educated at various schools throughout England (Hooper, 1996). In 1914, he began studying Latin, Greek, French, German and Italian and later moved to Oxford. His education was disrupted by the first World War but within two years, he resumed his studies.
In 1924, Lewis became a teacher of Literature and Language at Magdalen College in Oxford, where he remained until 1954. During this time, he wrote the majority of his work. Lewis later moved to Cambridge where he spent the rest of his life teaching Medieval and Renaissance Literature."
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Charity in ?The Four Loves?, by C.S. Lewis, 2002.
A paper which discusses the most important form of love - charity - in C.S. Lewis' book "The Four Loves".
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper shows that associations among the characters of Perelandra, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in C.S. Lewis' "The Four Loves" reveal the qualities of primary three kinds of love, namely: erotic love, affection, and friendship. It discusses how the author, however, overwhelms and outshines these three forms by a superior form of love, charity. This is the fourth form of love described by Lewis for being the fountainhead of all loves. The paper shows that in the opinion Lewis, all other forms of love take their origin from charity. It shows how this fact is also obvious in the story that it is not easy to classify the kind of love that exists between two entities - it can even be the case that two or more kinds of love be present in one association simultaneously.
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"Ransom's desperation to contact was the culmination of the instinctive desire of making friends in human beings. Though this desire is deeply-rooted in the usual familiarity of all individuals in the world, it is not a ?must?. C.S. Lewis illustrates friendship in The Four Loves as a simulated need and states, ?We can live and breed without friendship.? (The Four Loves, p.58). Ransom?s distraction towards friendship was a ?need-love? case that is profound in humans. Lewis says in relation to this ?need? component of human liking, ?Our craving for the affection of others.? (The Four Loves, p.39)."
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Pain as Represented in the Works of C. S. Lewis and David Morris, 2002.
This essay explores how the issue of pain is reflected in the writings of C.S Lewis and David Morris.
800 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This essay explores the works of David Morris and C. S. Lewis and how each believes that pain contributes to spirituality and faith. Particularly, the paper explores the texts "The Culture of Pain" (Morris) and "A Grief Observed" (Lewis). The author of the paper discusses how pain was treated in the past via religion as "visionary" and how it is treated these days as first crippling, then visionary. The paper shows that Morris believes pain can be visionary?hence his term ?visionary pain? while Lewis believes pain is the instrument not of a cosmic Sadist, but a cosmic Healer.
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"The pain C. S. Lewis describes feeling after the death of his wife in A Grief Observed is?at least initially?radically different than the pain David Morris describes in the chapter six, ?Visionary pain and the politics of suffering,? in his book The Culture of Pain. The design of this essay is to explore these two authors, uncovering how each believes pain contributes to spirituality and faith."
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C.S. Lewis and the Church, 2001.
An examination of C.S. Lewis's continuing and evolving relationship with the Christian church.
1,259 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This essay details the personal journey C.S. Lewis embarked on with the Christian church. There are many references taken from his published works regarding his belief on faith and prayer and the need for personal development both within a congregation and outside the church. The main examination of this essay, however, focuses on Lewis's opinion of the church as an institution and whether such an institution is conducive to the development of a personal relationship with God.
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"Clive Staples Lewis has become known as one of contemporary society?s most distinguished Christian authors. Lewis emphasised the continuing Christian experience in almost all of his books, whether they be fictitious in nature, such as The Screwtape Letters, or autobiographical, such as Surprised By Joy. Despite an early intolerance for the Church because of its institutionalised nature, Lewis stressed in his later works the importance of attending Church as a part of the Christian experience. Therefore, although he believed the Church had problems as an institution, he believed that it was still an important vehicle for experiencing the mystical side of religion and coming into contact with God."
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Imaginary Worlds in C.S. Lewis' Stories, 2005.
A look at how author C.S. Lewis drew analogies between the imaginary world and the real world in his stories.
1,072 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes stories by C.S. Lewis and looks at how they challenge the reader to make sense of the secondary worlds and to imagine themselves in the place of the heroes and heroines who populate those worlds. The paper explains that, in his stories, Lewis supplies the imagination with information that the reader uses to distinguish what is true in the primary world from what is not in the secondary world.
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"In Prince Caspian, Lewis uses the metaphor of faith as seeing and the mystery that faith in the primary world is able to apprehend. The characters, Prince Caspian and Lucy Pevensie stand out as characters whose faith in the figure of Aslan is severely tested. Each rises courageously to the occasion and as a result serves all of Narnia. Lewis depicts the final fulfillment of faith and courage in the seventh concluding book of the Narnia series, The Last Battle. In this book, wickedness conspires against the primary world values of goodness and wins the struggle, and all of the heroes and heroines of Narnia end up on the other side of death in a better world. They have passed beyond the "Shadow-lands" where it is always "the morning" (The Last Battle 228)."
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"The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis, 2002.
A review "The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis which reflects on society and nature and the challenges of how best to educate our children.
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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"The Abolition of Man" is a defense of Natural Law (Morality). C.S. Lewis argues that we need as a society to underpin reading and writing with lessons on morality and in the process both educate and re-educate ourselves. This paper analyzes his arguments and discusses whether people should live according to their inert feeling that allows them to distinguish between right or wrong or solely by morals.
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"In the first essay of The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis argues that young people should not have their feelings severed. They should be able to coexist with their emotions. He believes that children need to have a foundation of sensitivity so they know right from wrong. The heart harbors sensitivity and the head is charge of justness. The head should overrule what is in the heart if necessary, but the feeling should still exist. Men are created without chests. They are told that they should have motivation and drive. They should achieve in business. They should be powerful rulers, yet they have no hearts."
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C.S. Lewis, 2002.
An overview of the life and works of C.S. Lewis - 20th century religious writer.
1,879 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This research paper reviews the teachings of Lewis, as reflected in his work and shows how they were largely influenced by his experiences throughout his life. Initially, major events and experiences in Lewis?s life are discussed. In order to demonstrate the thesis of the paper, some of the primary teachings of Lewis are reviewed and discussed in relation to the experiences and events within his life.
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"C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast, Ireland, the younger of two sons; he was named Clive Staples Lewis. Born into a family of book lovers, Lewis spent may hours in his childhood and adolescence reading, entering into the world of authors such as Conan Doyle, E. Nesbit, Mark Twain, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Olsen, 2000). As reported by Olsen, after his older brother for boarding school in 1905, Lewis became increasingly reclusive, devoting more of his time to reading as well as exploring an imaginary world of "dressed animals" and "knights in armor." In 1908, only three months prior to his birthday, Lewis?s mother died from cancer which served to drive him further into his solitary world (Olsen, 2000). According to Olsen, Lewis?s father never recovered from the loss of his wife, creating a widening sense of estrangement between Lewis and his father."
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C.S. Lewis' "The Four Loves", 2002.
This paper presents a critical review of C.S. Lewis' work on the various forms of love.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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The paper begins by listing Lewis? four types of love - affection, friendship, romantic love and charity, and by emphasizing that no form of natural love can outlive charity (Agape), the love that comes from God as divine. It outlines the main theme of the book and distinguishes between these forms of love using quotes from the book to illustrate its points. Next the paper turns to the philosophy of divine love (love from God) ? a form different to all other types of love. It explores why it is the most important form of love for the spiritual development of an individual. It looks at the love relationship between God and man, elucidating how a healthy relationship involves need on the part of humans; and explains how a relationship with God, not based on need, could be perilous.
Table of Contents
The Theme
Distinguishing the Forms of Love
The Philosophy of Divine Love
The Element of Need
A Human?s Love for God without Need
Conclusion
From the Paper
"The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis focuses to develop the reader?s comprehension of the various forms of love. Explaining from the biblical, as well as the modern perspective, Lewis enlightens that there are four forms of love: affection, friendship, romantic love and charity. In Greek, the affection between people and for things is called Storge; fraternal love and friendship is known as Phileo; Eros is the name given to romantic or sexual love; and charity or the love of God, in its divinity is termed Agape. With straightforwardness and cordiality, C.S. Lewis elucidates the ambiguity in one of the most shared and influential experience of human relationships. Lewis emphasizes that no form of natural love can outlive without Agape, the love that comes from God as divine."
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The Miracle of the U.S. Constitution, 2007.
This paper discusses the difficulties involved in the formation of the U.S. Constitution.
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This paper relates that American biographer, Catherine Drinker Bowen, calls the process of creating the US Constitution a miracle because of the many huge obstacles that had to be overcome during this process. The paper discusses Bowen's and other authors' details of the various oppositions, conflicts, debates, prejudices and other problems that had to be surmounted in order to form the new nation. The paper concludes that the US Constitution remains the heart of the American system and the guide for making decisions about legal, social, political, and economic matters.
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"Bowen notes at the conclusion of her book that the Constitution was adopted in less than ten months "under the influence of local prejudices, opposite interests, popular arts, and even the threats of bold an desperate men," and that this was "a solitary event in the history of mankind" (Bowen, 1966, p. 310). What she writes in the body of her book are the details of the various oppositions, conflicts, debates, prejudices, and other problems that had to be overcome in order to form the new nation."
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C and C++, 2004.
An examination of the methods that C and C++ programming languages use and how they can be implemented.
956 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes the topic of the C and C++ programming languages. Specifically, it discusses some common applications of the language. C, and its derivative, C++, two of the most commonly-used programming languages in the world. They are versatile, easy to work with, and help the programmer create complicated yet functional programs for the end-user.
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"The C programming language was developed for large-scale applications, and it is still used extensively in the UNIX environment. It is also heavily utilized in computer games. Initially, C was developed to program and organize the UNIX operating system in the 1970s. As the language evolved, it was used (and still is used) extensively to program personal computers (PCs), and develop programs for them. Originally, C was developed for use in applications that had little space for memory. C uses very little memory, and so it was perfect for these applications. As one expert writes about the language, "Yet it was designed to allow programmers to do heavy-duty 'systems' programming, working on such basic software plumbing as operating systems, compilers, and the like" (Lohr 79). Many experts have compared C to FORTRAN, because it opened up a whole wealth of applications in higher-level languages. FORTRAN gave the programmer the opportunity to program larger machines with bigger programs, especially in engineering and scientific applications."
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Case Study: C and C Grocery Stores, 2005.
This paper analyzes the case study in which the struggles of a company known as C and C Grocery Stores are exposed as being the product of poor organization.
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This paper reviews a proposal, tabled by a university group brought in as consultants, and suggests that while their plan has merits, it is not without drawbacks. The author evaluates the proposals for organizational change put forward by the university team, critically assess these proposals and suggest possible alternatives and the possible benefits/consequences of those alternatives. The paper concludes that talented store managers must be given the opportunity to adapt to local conditions.
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"The difficulties confronting C and C Grocery Stores are significant, but not insuperable. The writer of this paper, acting as an outside advisor brought in to assist the struggling chain during a time of crisis, will explore the case of C and C Grocery Stores, review the proposals for organizational change put forward by the university team, critically assess those proposals, and suggest possible alternatives - and the possible benefits/consequences of those alternatives."
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David Hume's ?On Miracles?.
This paper discusses philosopher David Hume's concept that there can be no evidence for miracles, based on his essay "On Miracles", Section Ten of "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding".
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This paper explains that David Hume argues that there can be no evidence for miracles, in spite of the many claims made for miracles throughout historical and religious literature; if there were evidence for a "miracle", then it would no longer be a miracle but rather just a new scientific fact. The author points out that miracles are mostly based on claims and testimony and not at all on hard evidence; the more outlandish the claims, the more probable it is that the testimony is false even if the witness is credible. The paper stresses that, according to Hume, belief in the miracles in the Bible is an extension of this human psychological need.
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"Therefore, the laws of religion cannot be classified as the laws of nature. Miracles are in most cases permitted by the laws of religion but not by the laws of nature. Hume does not deny the efficacy of religion, but he does want to distinguish the laws of religion from the laws of science. The laws of science are based on direct human experience, which is backed up by the experiences of others and found to be consistent and reliable over time. Few people know someone who has experienced a "miracle," let alone having experienced one first hand. When we do experience a "miracle" first hand, there is usually a scientific explanation for the experience."
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2005.
This paper discusses Lewis and Clark expedition in the early 1800s, a symbol of the expansion of America
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This paper explains that Lewis and Clark were not the first explorers to cross North America by land, but the Lewis and Clark expedition was monumental because President Thomas Jefferson arranged the journey, the expectations of the expedition, the members of the Corps of Discovery and the overall achievements. The author points out that some of the major achievements were knowledge gained about the Western lands through the maps of rivers, mountains and terrain, the discovery of almost 400 new species of plants and animals and the strengthening of the American claims on the territories of the West. The paper relates that not only are the names of Lewis and Clark famous from this expedition but also the names of York, a black slave, and Sacagawea, an Indian woman.
Outline
I. Why Jefferson wanted the West
A. It was a really long distance to travel
B. States allowed access to Louisiana
1. Louisiana obtained through Louisiana purchase
2. New Orleans had access to world through port
C. Land important status symbol
1. Jefferson and Washington both Virginia land owners
D. Vision of coast to coast land united
II. Preparing for the Expedition
A. Earlier explorer had made the journey
B. Congress made decision
1. Expedition would have twelve men
2. Would have budget of $2500
C. Group would need wide knowledge
1. Botany
2. Geology
3. Wildlife
4. Mapping terrain
III. Establishment of group
A. Dubbed "The Corp of Discovery"
B. Jefferson elected Captain Meriwether Lewis
C. Clark elected partner William Clark
D. Clark brought Black slave York
E. Joined later by Native American woman Sacagawea
F. Only member to die on trip was Sergeant Charles Floyd
IV. The Journey
A. Began May 14 from Camp Dubois
B. Followed Missouri River
C. Camped at Fort Mandan for first winter
D. Traveled west, crossed Rocky Mountains
E. Reached West coast in December 1805
F. Spent second winter at Fort Clatsop
G. Back home September 1806
V. Achievements
A. Knowledge of West
1. Rivers
2. Mountains
3. Terrain
B. New Species
1. Plants
2. Animals
C. Paved way for American expansion
1. Fur trade
2. Naive American contact
3. Claims on Western territories
D. Would guide Pioneers on part of Oregon Trail
E. Social Achievement through voting
1. Black slave
2. Native American woman
VI. Conclusion
From the Paper
"The expedition would eventually be called the Corps of Discovery, and would have between thirty and forty members in total. Jefferson himself selected the leader for the group, a captain named Meriwether Lewis. Lewis was allowed to select his own partner, and chose William Clark. An interesting fact about Clark is that although he was known by the other members of the expedition, as well as by many history books, as a captain, he was in fact only a Lieutenant, apparently because of delays in Army paperwork. Also on the mission was York, who was the Black slave of Clark. Later on the journey, they would be joined by a Native American woman names Sacagawea, who was of the Shoshone/Hidasta tribe."
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David Humes: "Of Miracles", 2004.
Examines the debate of miracles presented by David Humes' work, "Of Miracles".
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The paper begins by stating Humes' definition of miracles, which helps to narrow down exactly what the author is considering by using the word "miracle". It then goes on to discuss Humes' consideration of evidence, his argument pertaining to the passion of surprise and wonder involved in miracles, his comments on the "beginnings" of miracles, and lastly the contradictions of miracles among various religions. The author's conclusion blends Humes' argument with her own beliefs, forming a debate of faith and reason in relation to miracles. The paper quotes the text extensively.
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"If the knowledge is not readily available to prove such a miracle wrong, it would become ever more possible that it could gain followers and support. Once such a thing is proved to be false, everyone, even the strongest believers, come to agree. For instance, when the world was proved to be round, even though throughout history everyone believed it to be flat, the evidence and sources were undeniable. Likewise, with miracles, every phenomenal event has probably stemmed from humble and innocent beginnings, that develop into an uncertain force to refute."
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