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James Mulligan's Catholic Education, 2002.
This paper examines Mulligan's work which focuses on the failure of Catholic education in Canada.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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This paper examines Mulligan's work which focuses on the failure of Catholic education in Canada. He especially concentrates on Newfoundland and Quebec, where the Church was supposed to be strongest, yet faced far too many obstacles to succeed in its ideals and objectives.
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Catholic Literature, 2005.
This paper discusses the themes of sin and a lack of priestly redemption in Catholic authors James Joyce's "The Sisters" and Bernard MacLaverty's "The Beginnings of a Sin".
1,760 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper explains that the absence of a clear vision of heaven on earth, the persistence of human fallibility and sin even in the lives of holy men and the general pervasiveness of Roman Catholicism influence in society are evident in the early Irish Catholic tales of the 20th century author James Joyce and the contemporary Canadian Catholic author of Irish extraction Bernard MacLaverty. The author points out that their respective short stories, Joyce's "The Sisters" and MacLaverty's "The Beginnings of a Sin" suggest that contemporary, Catholic common-sensical societal and religious notions of what constitutes 'the moral' are profoundly different from the more complex morality that the main characters deploy in their daily lives. The paper relates that the plot of a priest's fall from grace due to a psychological or physical ailment in the eyes of a young and naive male acolyte is underlined in the theme of sacrifice and disenchantment in these short stories.
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"In Joyce's tale, although naive in his morality, the narrator immediately strikes the reader are knowledgeable of Catholic doctrine for his young age, since Father Flynn had taught him extensively about numerous aspects of Catholic history, religion and literature. However, although this knowledge is evident in his actions both to the reader and to the other characters in the story and the boy's uncle refers to him as a Rosicrucian, or a member of a private organization of philosophy and learning whose purpose was to investigate the hidden secrets of nature and mysticism, Father Flynn did not really teach the boy about the true mysteries of death. Only real life experience, Joyce suggests, can educate the young man in the true mysteries of the end of life, embodied in the form of the priest at the priest's own wake. Likewise, Colum's financial strivings for the church do not really 'buy' the boy's salvation--he only comes to understand sin when he sees this sin embodied in the afterhour, refrectory actions of the priest he trusted."
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James Scarth Gale, 2008.
An analysis of the life of James Scarth Gale and a review of the biography os his life, "James Scarth Gale and his History of the Korean People," written by Richard Rutt.
718 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 25.95
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This paper reviews Richard Rutt's biography of James Scarth Gale, entitled "James Scarth Gale and his History of the Korean People." The paper begins by providing a background of James Gale and his development into a missionary to Korea. It then review the style of Rutt's writing and the content of his work and concludes that Rutt's biography of James Scarth Gale makes for interesting reading.
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"This book contains some additional vagaries, which in part took away from the overall experience of reading it. For whatever reason, Rutt chooses not to capitalize the names of religions, making them "presbyterian," "catholic," or "buddhist." He also refuses to capitalize the Roman numerals that he uses to identify Bible verses. In addition, after a certain point in the book, Rutt alternately refers to Gale as "Gale" and "Dr Gale." Although these things area all relatively minor, they are distractions that required the reader to adapt to reading Gale's biography, rather than allowing immediate immersion into the text."
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Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, 2002.
A research proposal to evaluate what Catholic parents tell their children about pedophiles in light of sex offenses committed by priests of the Catholic Church.
1,171 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper examines how the Roman Catholic Church has received heavy media attention since revelations that they have not handled charges of sex abuse against their priests in ways that prevent the offenders from working with children in the future. It proposes a study to determine what Catholic parents tell their children now about sexual predators compared to what they told their children prior to the publication of knowledge regarding sex offenses committed against children by priests of the Catholic Church.
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"Since adults cannot accompany children everywhere they go, some parents for have some time tried to teach their children information and skills that would make it less likely for the child to become the target or victim of a sexual predator. Research shows that child education may be the best prevention for sex abuse (Bethea, 1999). Often this training has been misguided, and children have been warned of the ?danger of strangers,? even though most cases of pedophilia are committed by someone the child already knows (Leigh, 1995). Research also shows that most children who are sexually abused do not tell parents or other adults for some years (Fieldman, 2002), and this likelihood of silence makes them more vulnerable. Meanwhile, research has shown that teaching children specific strategies improves both prevention and reports of abuse when it occurs (Brown University, 2001)."
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Irony in the Work of James Thurber, 2005.
An analysis of the irony used by James Thurber in his essay "The Secret Life of James Thurber."
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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The paper analyzes the irony used by James Thurber in his essay "The Secret Life of James Thurber." The paper discusses how Thurber compares his own common sense with artist Salvador Dali's "nonsense."
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"In a play on his most famous story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" American humorist James Thurber wrote an essay comparing his own common sense with the nonsense exhibited in the life and manners of Salvador Dali in "The Secret Life of James Thurber." In "The Secret Life of James Thurber" we see clearly demonstrated Thurber's penchant for humor and irony."
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The Catholic Church and Women's Rights, 2005.
Examines the history and position of women's rights within the Catholic Church.
1,960 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper introduces and discusses the Catholic Church. Specifically it discusses the Catholic Church's injustice towards women and women's rights, including domestic violence, women priests, and other matters relevant to women but ignored by the Catholic Church. The paper shows that for centuries, the Catholic Church has been one of the most powerful, wealthiest, and most popular religions in the world. Millions of Catholics worship every week in a church, and donate billions of dollars for Church projects, and millions of these worshippers are women, who are essentially excluded from the Church except for certain roles. In addition, many of these worshipping women live in some of the poorest countries on Earth, facing famine, overpopulation, and lack of education, and yet the Catholic Church will not condone their use of birth control. The paper questions why the Catholic Church is so staunch in its stance against women and women's rights.
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"Since the Church excludes women from the clergy, there is a sense of extreme maleness and masculinity throughout the Church, from alter boys on up, and it is not surprising that normal, healthy men, even if they are priests, are sexually stimulated. To ignore this is to ignore the problem, and keeping priests celibate seems to simply exacerbate an already difficult situation. When there are predominately men in an organization, where will men turn to fulfill their urges if no one else is available? Since men are not perfect, they have flaws, and if given the opportunity, they may sin. Not recognizing the strain that celibacy puts on priests is simply another doctrine of the Church that is outmoded."
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The Catholic Mass, 2004.
This paper is a reflection on why the Catholic must go to Sunday mass in order to be Catholic.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains the importance of regular Sunday mass attendance. The author points out the intention of church fathers of making doctrine and ritual uniform, of asserting spiritual authority and of cementing the religious identity of the faithful.
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"It has become almost a commonplace of American culture that so many lapsed Catholics seen abroad in the land. When talk turns to religion, such people have a habit of saying something like "Well I was raised Catholic". Now comes a Catholic godparent to explain..."
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Catholic Church and the Modern World, 2001.
A discussion on the influence of the Catholic Church on the development of human race and biotechnology field.
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This paper looks at how the Catholic Church influences the development of human race. It looks at the stands of the Catholic Church at some of the recent conflicts of our time like abortion and stem-cell research and cloning. According to Catholic Church abortion is ethically and morally wrong. It is killing of a human life and therefore, should be prevented. The issue has plagued the church almost from the beginning. ?The Bible itself is virtually silent on abortion. The Ten Commandments state "Thou shalt not kill," but neither the Old nor the New Testament contains explicit sanctions against intentionally destroying a foetus.? (Theology of Abortion) the essay looks of Catholic Church stand on morality of abortion and its consequences.
The second aspect this paper looks at is the development of field of biotechnology and how it has influenced the public and moral attitudes. This is a recent example of the Church?s influence on human development. The paper explores how the Church?s so called ?pro-life? attitude has affected the development in this field.
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""The Catholic Church has been one of the strongest influential factors in European History. The influence has been extensive reaching from matters of the state, personal life, social values and ethical debates. Most organized religions have some form of moral code and ethical beliefs; the Catholic Church is no difference. These ideas and beliefs are usually in conflict with the development of human race. Some of the recent dilemmas of Catholic Church are its stand on Abortion, pro-life campaign, use of birth control, HIV and AID issue. The moralistic view of Catholic Church, which argues to be pro-life, is in contradiction of what is being pro-life mean. It is rather difficult to comprehend how any institution, which makes life miserable for human beings classify it to be the protector of life." "
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William James, 2005.
This paper discusses the meaning of truth as presented by American psychologist and philosopher William James.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper explains that William James differs from other philosophers throughout history who seem to create a set of criteria for the establishment of truth; instead, James suggests the expediency of a true idea. The author points out that the fact that James discusses doubt and inquiry goes with his own overall pragmatic theories; therefore, any idea that "works" in any desired manner is to that extent true, which dissents from Aristotle's theory of truth. The paper stresses that there is no doubt that James in his own pragmatic and scientific way opened up a Pandora's Box of psychological views of reality, belief and truth.
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"James seems to believe that it is the consequences, not past "truths" that determine the truth or falsity of a belief, a theory, or a statement. He contradicts the ages-old concept by arguing that "Those who contend that knowledge results wholly from the experiences of the individual, ignoring as they do the mental evolution which accompanies the autogenous development of the nervous system, fall into an error as great as if they were to ascribe all bodily growths to exercise, forgetting the innate tendency to assume the adult form." Does this mean that as we grow, as our emotions change, our truths change? For instance, if a little boy says his father is tall, but when the boy reaches adulthood and may be taller than his father, does that mean saying his father is tall is now no longer a truth? Perhaps."
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McCarthyism and the Catholic Church, 2002.
The paper discusses why the Catholic Church opposed communism and supported the McCarthyism movement.
1,470 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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When Joseph McCarthy, a republican Wisconsin senator pursued an anti-communist agenda, the Catholic Church was eager to support him to countervail the threat of communism. The paper shows that in fact the Catholic Church supported the McCarthyism movement out of fear that communism would undermine the Catholic Church and what it stood for. This paper discusses how values of communism and catholicism contrast and brings up the influence of certain events (like the Bolshevik Revolution) and other contributing aspects to the Catholic fear of Communism.
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"After World War II, tensions about communism were still strong. The United States and the Soviet Union were involved in the Cold War. Both countries were anxious about the other nuclear weapon development of the other country. This went on for 40 years despite the fact that nothing significant happened in it, hence the term ?Cold War.? Suspicions that the Soviet Union was going to use nuclear weapons to achieve their world domination goal were prevalent during this time. The Brooklyn Tablet was suspicious of the post-war peace efforts and stated that ?The UN, NATO, SEATO, and the OAs were all seen as forms of collectivism. There were fears that the drive toward world government would eventually lead to the merger of the American Government and economy with an international organization, most likely controlled by communism. [xxxiv]? Also in the Tablet, James Gillus said that the UN is a ?base form which communist spies enter and operate in America [xxxv].? All the recent events set up people with paranoia. During the Cold War, a majority of people feared that the Soviet Union would coerce the rest of the world into communism."
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The James Ossuary, 2006.
This paper discusses the James Ossuary and the question of its authenticity.
775 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper explains that an ossuary is a bone box, which is often used for the purposes of reburial; the James Ossuary, which was found in 2002, bore the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus". The author points out that, from the beginning, there was a great deal of controversy surrounding the discovery of this particular ossuary especially the fact that the James ossuary was not found by qualified archaeologists. The paper concludes that, while it was from the first century, the inscription on the ossuary was a forgery.
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"The author [of "Jesus and the Ossuaries"] explains that, since the James ossuary was not found by archaeologists in a properly controlled environment and because of the historic inscription that it bore, there was a great deal of skepticism surrounding its authenticity. The author asserts that initially examinations of the ossuary by epigraphers, geologists, linguists and paleographers, found that the ossuary itself was probably an authentic first century artifact. In addition, they concluded that the inscription was also first century Aramaic."
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Confederate Outlaw Jesse James, 2005.
An examination of historical outlaw figure Jesse James from both a modern and historical perspective.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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This report examines newspaper articles written about Jesse James, from both modern and historical standpoints. The paper also looks at how politics affected the image of James and the cultural myth of James through sources like that of Stiles, author of The Last Rebel of the Civil War. The report also uses other sources, however, including sources that are critical of Stiles' work, to ensure objective perspectives in the paper.
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"One newspaper article about Jesse James focuses on the legend and how it is still felt in the area. This shows a modern reflection to an assignment parameter that is perhaps lacking in modern sources for comparison, just to highlight historical sourcing exercises. The real interesting issues about Jesse James aside from the reprints of
secondary-sourced news articles are how the history maintains itself in terms of the present day. In an article in the St. Louis Dispatch, for example, the writer compares eerily the present state of a town called Liberty where James pulled robberies, including the infamous Liberty bank robbery mentioned in Stiles' The Last Rebel of the Civil War and other sources."
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The Catholic Church, 2002.
A paper which argues that the Catholic Church has been unable to evolve together with its followers.
2,910 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 86.95
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This paper describes the many problems that lie within the Catholic Church and discusses its refusal to evolve with its people. It shows several examples of Catholic teachings, such as the prohibition of contraception, which are irrelevant to our times. The paper also discusses the Catholic Church's views on women and gays and mentions the sex scandals which have been exposed within the Church in recent years.
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"For most of my life every Sunday morning I found myself in a pew of my Church. Raised a strict Catholic I didn?t have much of a choice. It was attend Church or get out of the house. So off to Mass I would go. Just reminiscing about sitting in that that hot, stuffy, and uncomfortable place can make me irritable. Up until I was probably fifteen years of age I despised going to mass simply because I hated being uncomfortable and loosing precious Sunday morning sleep. It was sometime around fifteen years of age that I truly began to despise going to Church for reasons worth giving some thought to. Right around that time is when I actually started to listen to what the priests were saying in their homilies. I could not believe that I had to sit there and listen to these Priests attempt to force, what I considered grossly ignorant teachings, down my throat. Within the following two years, as I grew up and drew more of my own conclusions on the ways of the world I was forced, still, to attend those Mass?s. Each week I would sit in there and look around myself in disbelief. I couldn?t fathom the idea that the whole congregation was really that ignorant. Then one Sunday morning I went to a different church with my cousins for Mass. It was that Mass that hinted me toward the reality of the situation within the Catholic Community."
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Success and Tragedy in Henry James' Writing, 2001.
An analysis of protagonists in three of Henry James' novels: "The Beast in The Jungle", "The Jolly Corner", and "The Portrait of a Lady".
878 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 31.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the tendencies of Henry James in his writings. "The Beast in The Jungle", "The Jolly Corner", and "The Portrait of a Lady" are three of James' works that are examined in detail. In particular, this paper focuses on the protagonists of each of the writings respectively. A strong comparison is made between the three protagonists of these writings, and their miserable lives. On the other hand, the protagonist of James' story "The Tragic Muse" is shown to lead a life of happiness and success. The paper notes the clear differences between this story and the others, therefore explaining what leads the character on a different path.
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"In contrast, Portrait of a Lady presents Ralph as an invalid who lives vicariously through a woman named Isabel Archer whom he leads to doom. He bestows upon her a large sum of money, despite his father's warning that fortune hunters will target her for it. Ralph replies, "That's a risk, and it has entered into my calculation...I'm prepared to take it" (p. 161). Ralph is financially generous to Isabel not out of love but out of a morbid fascination. He wants to see what she will do with it. When Isabel marries a gold-digger, she fulfills the victim role that Ralph's father had feared. Ralph's fascination with Isabel's life overcomes any concern he might have had for her welfare."
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The Catholic Church during the European Renaissance, 2004.
This paper discusses the corruption of the Catholic Church during the European Renaissance, which led to the religious thought of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Erasmus.
940 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 33.95
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This paper explains that, not only was the Catholic Church abusively indulgent, but also Church laws, such as the vows of abstinence and poverty, were openly flouted. The author points out that, during this time, there was a huge rebirth in the concept of the individual known as Humanism, which was incredibly threatening to the Catholic Church. The paper relates that, in 1519, Martin Luther, unhappy with the hypocrisies and disregard he saw in the Catholic Church, nailed his 95 theses on the wall of Castle Church in Wittenberg, thus founding the religious movement known as Protestantism, which was just one part of the revolution in thinking taking place during the Enlightenment.
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"In 1500, corruption and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church were rampant. For example, indulgences were used as means of coercion and manipulation rather than for the original purposes, they were intended. An indulgence is the full or partial remission before God of temporal punishment for sins that have been forgiven. According to Encarta, ?It is granted by ecclesiastical authority and is considered to be a special form of intercession made by the whole church through its liturgy and prayers for the reconciliation of one of its members, living or dead.? In simpler words, it can be thought of as not only having one?s sins pardoned, but having them wiped totally clean from one?s record as well. It would be like not only having a speeding ticket dismissed, but also then having all knowledge of that ticket?s existence being removed from any and all records pertaining to the driver in question."
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