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Austen: The Case for a Religious Interpretation, 2004.
Examines religious interpretations in literary texts by the novelist, Jane Austen.
4,850 words (approx. 19.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 123.95
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Although Jane Austen never directly approaches religion in her works, critics have speculated whether or not there are underlying religious implications in Austen?s novels. The paper argues that, if one can consider the idea that Austen?s fictional worlds contain a worldview that is not only compatible with Christianity, but one that can be profitably examined from a specifically traditional Christian perspective, then there is room for a religious interpretation of Austen?s novels.
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"While Austen never specifically refers to religion when dealing with the transitions of the above-mentioned characters, there is a religious example in some of the more negative experiences of minor characters that do not learn from their mistakes. Take, for example, the actions of Maria and Julia Bertram in Mansfield Park. These sisters are perfect examples of characters that do not strive for self-knowledge and therefore never learn from their mistakes. The Bertram sisters do not react to mistakes as educational experiences through which they can improve themselves; instead, they build on mistakes by making more mistakes. "
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Religious Interpretation, 2007.
An analysis of the concept of using prayer for one's own personal desires, such as the success of a hockey team.
908 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper discusses the view that religion can be adapted to the needs of the contemporary man and that prayer can serve his own personal and collective desires. It discusses this, particularly in the context of a church's call to prayer for the success of a hockey team 2006. The paper analyzes the positive and negative aspects of this use of prayer.
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"The world is in a constant change and the society at large is experiencing massive drifts from its original system of values. The appeal to engage in a religious act, that of praying, for attaining a goal that is not essential to achieving moral justice or having a lofty aim is, in some views, an involution of the social order caused especially by globalization. According to some authors, the internationalization beyond any traditional borders of exchanges and activities has led, aside from an increase in the percentage of the poor population, to a lack of moral coherence and a devalorization of the traditional religious percepts. This could be the explanation for the use of a Christian call for a rather unimportant event, should the winning of such a coveted title be seen from the perspective of Christian moral criteria."
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Swatos' "Globalization and Religious Fundamentalism", 2000.
This paper is a review of Swatos' "Globalization and Religious Fundamentalism" that presents the case that there has been a strong movement to incorporate religion in a globalized manner that gives fundamentalists a foothold in the world's institutions.
1,015 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper states that Swatos? book reviews the global resurgence of religion, which has distorted traditional religious interpretation and boundaries. The author believes that religion has been employed in areas, such as politics, where it is not acceptable. The paper explains the book explores various religious movements commonalities to understand the attraction that enables the entrance into unreachable associations.
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"From Jerry Falwell to the Moral Majority to various presidential scandals, the author notes how religion has been implicated in situations it would have never been just a quarter of a century ago. There has been a strong movement to incorporate religion in such a globalized manner that it infiltrates the very furthest crevices of humanity; in doing so, fundamentalists hope to gain a substantial foothold in the world's community as a means by which to push its beliefs."
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Interpretation, 2002.
This paper looks at the essay "Interpretation" by Steven Mailloux. It explores the argument that he has made on what interpretation is and why people do it.
796 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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The writer discusses the questions surrounding the ways in which we interpret or translate. The paper explores the answers to the following questions: For whom is the interpretation done? By whom is the interpretation accepted?
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"In his essay ?Interpretation?, Mailloux is trying to establish what interpretation actually means and how people do it. He first defines the most common meaning of interpretation, which is to translate. Interpretation is essentially a word that has been translated from Latin, where its original meaning was ?explanation?. Mailloux presents the idea that interpretation is a translation of a text, for an audience that desires a translation."
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Jung, Fairy Tale Interpretation and Little Red Cap, 2002.
A look at C.G. Jung's interpretation of fairy tales from Mario Jacoby's paper "Jung's Fairy Tale Interpretation and Little Red Cap".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper is written as a reflection on "Jung's Fairy Tale Interpretation and Little Red Cap". Mario Jacoby's paper on C.G. Jung and the interpretation of fairy tales stresses that both Freud and Jung, early on, explored fairy tales as part of their study, with Jung noting how human fantasy as found in fairy tales was a reflection of human creative potential.
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Dream Interpretation, 2004.
A brief history of dream interpretation.
1,167 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper looks at the different approaches to dream interpretation throughout the ages. The paper discusses ancient Hebrew interpretations, Hippocrates's theory of dream interpretation, Freud's and Jung's approach to dream interpretation, as well as some of the different theories that have been used when interpreting dreams. The paper points out that the origins and meanings of dreams have changed from era to era and that we still cannot be sure of their significance.
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"Humans have been fascinated by dreams since ancient days and their importance and power has long been established. Dreams have influenced kings, given insights of the world to scientists, and inspired and mused gifted artists. Dreams and dream interpretations abound in classic as well as modern literature, from Shakespeare to Keats. Since the temples of antiquity to the modern sleep labs of the 21st "
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"Motivation in Religious Education", 2007.
A critique of Kevin O'Grady's, "Motivation in Religious Education: A Collaborative Investigation with Year Eight Students".
3,380 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 16 sources, APA, $ 96.95
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This paper examines how O'Grady's work presents a model of dynamic curriculum development that uses action research to integrate the insights of interpretative, constructivist and 'existentialist' approaches to pedagogy in religious education. The paper also discusses how, although this is an approach that RE teachers will find attractive and exciting, it is one whose value is likely to remain theoretical rather than practical.
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"Research may be defined as the attempt to derive new knowledge that can be generalised, by addressing well-defined questions using methods that are valid and reliable. To uphold the validity of the research process is to reduce the possibility of systematic deviation from the truth - otherwise known as bias. To uphold the reliability of the research process is to reduce the risk of random deviation from the truth. A key purpose of a research design is therefore to ensure validity and reliability by reducing or eliminating the twin dangers of systematic and random error (cf. De Vaus, 2002). In terms of this conservative definition of research, O'Grady's choices regarding the framing of his question, literature review, sampling, data collection, analysis and final presentation indicate the presence of both systematic and random error throughout. Nonetheless, O'Grady would defend his approach, with some success, by reference to action research as a paradigm which contests many of the assumptions of traditional research models. "
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Theories of Dream Interpretation, 2003.
Examines the differences between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung?s theories of dream interpretation based on Freud's patient, "Dora".
4,116 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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After psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung met, they immediately formed a close friendship. Jung learned as much as he could from Freud, and Freud was very eager to pass on his knowledge and beliefs. The paper shows however, that after six years, Jung felt that Freud needed to broaden his theories. Freud was unable to accept this criticism because he expected unquestioning loyalty from his followers. The two men parted and expanded on their own theories independently. The paper explains that Freud maintained his theory that all dreams are the fulfillment of repressed wishes and contain mostly sexual symbols. Jung, however, believed that dreams do not have to be wish fulfillments and that the role of sex is not as strong as Freud believed it was. Based on their different theories, this paper explores how Jung might have analyzed Dora, one of Freud?s patients. Sigmund Freud?s interpretation of dreams differs from Carl Jung?s interpretation due to his different opinion of the purpose of dreams and the role of sexuality, as evidenced in their contrary analysis of Dora in this paper.
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"Freud decided to begin his analysis of Dora?s first dream using free association. Through this method, Freud discovered that Dora?s parents had been fighting because Dora?s mother was locking the dining room door at night. Dora?s father was upset because if something were to happen in the night, then her brother would be locked inside the house since his bedroom only leads into the dining room. When Dora?s father mentioned his fear of something happening at night, Dora thought about a fire. Freud concluded that it was this fear of fire that caused Dora?s recurring dream to resurface (Freud 82)."
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Religious Thinkers and the Treatment of Freedom, 2006.
A discussion regarding Kierkegaard, Nietzsche & Dostoevsky, and their interpretation of the relationship between religion and freedom.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, who were all for all intents and purposes religious thinkers in a manner of speaking; no less importantly, they were religious thinkers who also placed a great deal of emphasis upon human freedom. The paper will examines the relationship between the faith which animates the writings of these individuals and the heavy emphasis each man places upon freedom. In conclusion, this paper contends that Nietzsche's view of what constitutes freedom is not genuine freedom at all because it makes no allowance for the fact that mental and spiritual freedom (the sort of freedom brought about by peace of mind and by spiritual contentment) is just as important as any other form of freedom, emphasizing the satiation of the physical senses.
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Interpretation of Dreams, 2002.
An examination of the differing theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung on the meaning and interpretation of dreams.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, $ 79.95
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Examines differing theories of Sigmund Freud & Carl Jung on the meaning and interpretation of dreams. Overview of ttheir bodies of work. Freud's research on dreams & the role of the unconscious. His approach to understanding the human personality. Jung's research on dreams & his humanistic perspective of the human psyche. Theory of collective unconscious. How Freud and Jung's dream theories have held up.
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"Dreaming men are haunted men," wrote Stephen St. Vincent Benet, and the two greatest classical theoreticians of psychoanalysis and the importance of dreams would have agreed with the poet. But Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung would have differed - and indeed in their lifetimes often did differ - on what it is that haunts us in our dreams. This paper examines the differences in Freud's and Jung's theories on the interpretation of dreams. Because their theories on the importance and meaning of dreams cannot be extricated from the rest of their work, a brief overview is first given of the context of the importance of dreams to each researcher. After providing this needed background, the paper focuses on their work on dreams and concludes with an examination of the implications of these differences."
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The Interpretation of Dreams, 2004.
This paper provides an analysis of a passage from Freud's 'The Interpretation of Dreams'.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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In this analysis of Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams", the writer positions the passage in significance to the overall work. The writer examines Freud's contention that those who are anxious about his theory of wish-fulfillment want to prove him wrong.
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"Psycho-sexual analysis, repression, the subconscious and the id ego and super-ego are all concepts that can be attributed to Sigmund Freud. They are all also aspects and concepts we see illustrated in his 'Interpretation of Dreams' a two-case description of two clients and an interpretation of each of their dreams. Freud interpreted all dreams as some form of wish-fulfillment and the two clients in this work come to him believing that their dreams disprove the theory of wish fulfillment. In the passage under ... "
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Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams", 2005.
This paper discusses the applications of Sigmund Freud's work "The Interpretation of Dreams".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper explains that many of Freud's ideas about the origins and nature of dreams, as present in his 1900 classic "The Interpretation of Dreams", have been revised by researchers over the intervening century. The author points out that Freud's insight about analyzing dreams, as if they represented a one-to-one system of symbolic signification, is flawed. The paper relates that many of Freud's ideas about modes of representation and signification in dreams have direct relevance to understanding semiotics and sign systems.
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"Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" was first published in 1900 and has become an acknowledged classic, although it is likely that many of Freud's ideas about the origins and nature of dreams have been considerably revised by researchers over the intervening century between his time and ours. However, as this presentation makes clear, many of Freud's ideas about modes of representation and signification in dreams have direct relevance to our understanding of semiotics and sign systems. Perhaps one of the key insights of Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" lies in his view that analyzing dreams as if they represented a one-to-one system of symbolic signification is flawed."
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Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams", 2005.
This paper discusses Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams", which, although it was written in 1900, remains a classic.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper explains that Sigmund Freud warns about dream analysis and its semiotic limitations in "The Interpretation of Dreams". The author refers to Trimpi, Jameson and Propp in relation to allegorical understandings that are important to semiotics. The paper relates that post-modernism is a questionable view, which may focus too much on semiotics being different from what human beings have faced in the past.
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"This paper refers to Sigmund Freud theory presented in "The Interpretation of Dreams", first published in 1900, and as it remains an acknowledged classic. Many of Freud's ideas pertaining to modes of representation and signification in dreams continue to have relevance to our understanding of semiotics and sign systems of such interest at present. For instance, Freud is often thought to have analyzed dreams as though they offered a one-to-one system of symbolic signification, as in the person who recalls a dream in some vivid or puzzling element to promote thinking on what it meant."
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Statutory Interpretation, 2003.
A discussion on how the judgement in in the case Litster V Forth Dry Dock Co Ltd [1990] in with English rules of statutory interpretation.
2,044 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper examines how the judges in the case Litster v Forth Dry Dock, employed the four commonly accepted rules of statutory interpretation: the literal rule, the golden rule, the mischief rule and purposive construction. It looks at how the case itself concerned a claim of unfair dismissal by twelve employees of the insolvent Forth Dry Dock & Engineering Co., dismissed from their jobs one hour prior to the transfer of the business to Forth Estuary Engineering Ltd. It also focuses on the view that the primary use of purposive construction enabled the judges to reach a decision which may not have been possible with the three more traditional approaches.
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"The literal rule, perhaps the most fundamental and commonly used ?rule? of statutory interpretation, suggests that a judge must adhere to the exact wording of a statute, based on the premise that courts are limited in their interpretive discretion. Even in such cases as Stock V Frank Jones, in which the clear wording of legislation relating to strike action led to a seemingly unfair judgement, application of the literal rule was unavoidable, as explained by Lord Edmund-Davies - ?dislike of the effect of a statute is no reason for departing from its plain language? . In Litster, it is clear that the literal rule had been applied by the Court of Session, which deemed that the applicants had not been dismissed ?immediately before? the transfer, and then used this as the basis of their ruling to obviate the transferee of any responsibility to them."
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Religious Fundamentalism, 2005.
This paper applies Karl Marx's conflict theory especially "false consciousness" to religious fundamentalism especially to Islamic Jihad.
1,890 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper explains that every religion, as a social institution, has its fundamentalists, which drives the thought processes of its adherents, often with great social implications. The author stresses that the role of fundamentalism can best be interpreted by applying Marx's conflict theory, which emphasizes the role of power and coercion in producing social order, in conjunction with Marx's idea of "false consciousness", which theorizes that a subordinate group internalizes the values, views and thought of the dominant group, to Islamic terrorist groups who believe that they are being oppressed by the secular West, that the Western lifestyle is against Allah and those who follow him. The paper states that the main limitation to the concept of conflict theory is that there is no absolute end to the fighting; different groups continually will lash out against one another in a never-ending spiral of violence.
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"The roots of Muslim rage go back more than a thousand years. "The idea that religion and politics should be separated is relatively new, dating back a mere three hundred years." Christians tend to keep a division between church and state. "Render...unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's." In Islam, there is no such separation, and an assault upon God is seen as an assault upon the state. The United States, though built upon a separation of church and state, still struggles with the boundaries of God. In California, as in many other states, there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not to make it possible for two homosexuals to marry one another. ... Whether or not invoking God to settle a political issue is appropriate is irrelevant. What this is meant to illustrate is that religion and the belief in God has a definite power over the way people think, their beliefs, and their agendas".
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