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The Anselms idea of satisfaction traces its origin to the views of Cur Deus Homo translated as Why God Become Man in English. It was a theory that was aimed at explaining as well as endeavoring at expounding why the incarnation and the death of Christ on the cross were necessary. To-date. The Anselm's inspiration remains to be high since it is held dearly in the churches of modern time. For instance, the Catholic theology fundamentals are solely founded on the views and doctrines that would be deduced from the Anselm. First articulated by St Anselm of Canterbury, the theories ...

In 2010, James Cameron presented his epic film Avatar. Many cinema critics waited for the opening night. Manohla Dargis in The New York Times wrote a fantastic article dedicated to the film. She indicated that “several decades in the dreaming and more than four years in the actual making, the movie is a song to the natural world that was largely produced with software, an Emersonian exploration of the invisible world” (Manohla, ‘A New Eden, both Cosmic and Cinematic’). And she was right. The film covers the eternal questions of love and relations, friendship and faith. I guess, that the main ...

This paper is a critical analysis of the issues brought out in Anastasia Salter’s article titled ‘Virtually Yours: Desire in virtual worlds’, it discusses the main issues brought out in the text.
Much of the text on the article virtually yours; desire and fulfilment in virtual worlds by Anastasia Salter revolves around the relationship between virtual realms and reality. These two aspects are such that virtual and real world perceptions are intertwined such that it becomes quite difficult to draw the line between them. Notably, virtual perceptions of reality are not new to humanity as Salter explains human ...

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Introduction

Social cognition is a branch of social psychology that defines how people perceive, respond and store information about their surrounding and other people in that environment. This phenomena of social cognition enables people to appropriately understand and decipher the signals of others and to respond accordingly.
In a real world game players use and leverage their social cognitive skills to analyze their opponent’s body language and confidence level. Similarly their cognitive skills also assists in team building and better cooperation between the players.
While this comes naturally in the real world environment, ...

Introduction

Avatar is a science fiction film that was released in 2009. It was directed by famous film director James Cameron. It centered on the story of how humans started an expedition to colonize Pandora, a habitable moon of a gas giant encircling one of the stars in the Alpha Centauri star system, the nearest one from earth. The story was set in the mid-22nd century when the humans from Earth have already depleted all its non-renewable resources and have had no choice but to look for other sources of resources outside. A team of explorers were set to examine ...

Introduction

Business Process Outsourcing has been helping big companies and businesses in generating their products and services worldwide. The idea is that companies hire a BPO company to reach a wider and accurate set of potential customers in order to keep their business alive. The key for the success of any outsourcing company is the effectiveness of their customer service function. One of the biggest question these days is about who provides better outsourcing or customer services, is it the trained and flexible customer representatives or the advanced and convenient avatars, which are designed software or technology to deal with ...

Upon consideration of the facts as presented by Jenny, I would argue that are two causes of action; one in criminal law and one in civil law. Jenny can pursue both causes of action together or either one separately.

First, Jimmy’s actions are a violation of the criminal law; however not for the crime of rape. Rape is traditionally defined as the “unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man, without her effective consent” (LaFave, 2000). Accordingly, under the law rape requires sexual intercourse. While the actions of Jimmy’s avatar are obscene they cannot be consider a rape of ...

The Changing Identity of the Invaders in Science Fiction

INTRODUCTION
There are very few people in the United States who do not know what the quote “May the Force be with you” means, even if they are not fans of the Star Wars franchise. The same could be said for “beam me up,” “resistance is futile,” and “boldly go where no one has gone before.” Science fiction, its characters, phrases, and worlds presented, have become part of the social paradigm. Granted, science fiction is a genre that does not appeal to everyone, but to those who favor the genre they are often committed and loyal. Science fiction can ...

Virtual communities provide people with an alternative life in which to take part, without leaving the comfort of their computers. Through self-created avatars, individuals are able to, essentially, recreate themselves. Through this medium, people can take on any identity they choose, and even have multiple identities. This raises questions about the nature of the ‘real self’. Increasingly, it appears that virtual selves and real selves are overlapping.
Second Life is one example of an online platform where people can create their own alternative life; they can buy property, find employment and even maintain relationships. Once logged in to ...

James Cameron is a household name in the film industry. He is widely acknowledged for his expertise in film production, film directing and screen writing. His works include two of the world’s all-time best films. As a testament to the crucial role that Cameron has played to the general film industry, he has been nominated six times for the Academy Awards, something that few film directors have achieved. In essence, two of his movies, Avatar and Titanic are two of highest earning films of all-time, respectively raking $2.19 billion and $2.78 billion all over the world. Vanity Fair named him ...

More and more of people’s everyday lives are occurring online. Unlike many previous generations, the current generations are growing up in an increasingly isolated world, with much of their contact with other people taking place through the Internet. Of course, not all human interaction will fall by the wayside as a result of this increasingly-cyber world, but now much of the human interaction that used to take place in the “real world” occurs over the Internet. Using the Internet as a tool to find a romantic partner, for instance, is one way that the Internet has changed the face of human ...

Introduction

Each every one of us has two sets of life, the real life and the virtual life. Virtual life may give us the abundance of life in all aspects for it will be us, who can control whatever we want to be in the virtual world. Real life is what we normally do in our everyday or living with our own responsibilities; like doing our chores, completing your projects, living our life with the societies, or even interacting with our families and friends. This is the real world we live in. On the other hand, a person can have his ...

Description

Do you wanna date my Avatar is a special music video performance performed by a rising group of web performers named The Guild in 2009. The performers and other off-stage people involved in the production used music and dance performances produced in the 80s and 90s as their inspiration. The performance was produced right in one of the performers’ closet and not really in Hollywood as some sources claim. The video presents to us the members of the Web series, the Guild, in their individual avatars, singing, dancing, and rapping. This paper will focus on the music video performance, Do You ...

A modernist society is defined to be a transition from traditional system of society to present world of twenty first century society. Modernist society is characterized by people living in a developed manner, with more civilized advancements. Avatar is a film by James Cameroon that has been modified to depict the characters of two different worlds, the real human being in the planet and aliens in this case Na’vis. Humans in the planet discovered another plant called Pandora where the aliens reside. RDA corporation decided to relocate the aliens because they wanted to mine unobtanium, but the aliens could not accept ...

Films in the genre of science fiction portray storytelling that questions the underlying nature of current and historical human accomplishment. Science fiction goes above and beyond the realms of reality. Furthermore, a large number of science fiction films demonstrate a strong focus on technological innovation. Science fiction films have changed some people viewpoints on the world in just a few hours. Though the story hides behind a burst of imagination, the moral of the story stands strong. These accomplishments are often framed in relation to profound moral questions that are concerned with the circumstances of the human condition.
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Proposal

The world had always been full of different religious beliefs, because there is probably no universal explanation of the origins of human creation. Since the ancient times, we all needed a symbol of faith and of the existence of the judge, who sees everything, thus, is always eager to price, or to punish. Depending to the extent to which we’ve followed his commandments. The two religions: Islam and Christianity are highly different, and their followers are people, whose worldview differs from the other. It makes the two different religions mystically connected, and creates a view of the existence ...

Religion since the ancient times has played a great role in uniting people and answering the metaphysical questions that try to explain the world as it is. Religion has, therefore, contributed to many aspects of culture that has shaped many issues and provided the foundation upon which rules and regulations that govern the society have originated. In some instances, political parties have been formed along religious lines and religious laws have shaped and have been used as the guiding principles upon which other countries laws are founded. There are many religions that exist, both ancient and modern that has performed ...

Many scientists, philosophers, and writers dreamed about an absolutely perfect life. Nowadays not everyone knows the definition of the word "utopia", and even more so, not everyone will be able to talk about the basics of this philosophy.
The word "utopia" from Greek means "a place that does not exist." Means the perfect place and the perfect society in which there are no disadvantages.
As soon as people began to realize themselves and their existence, they began to think of an ideal society and world without drawbacks. This philosophical movement has started with works of ancient Greek philosophers. ...

Kathryn Tanner joined the faculty of Divinity at Yale in 2010. This was after teaching in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago for sixteen years and the department of Religious studies at Yale for ten years. She has engineered a lot of research on the history of Christian thought to current issues of theological concern using cultural, feminist, and social theory. She has written several books such as; God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment? The politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice, Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology Jesus, Humanity and the ...

Ramayana: The Legend of Rama and Sage Vishwamirta

This is one of the greatest Hindu epic stories that have been told for such a long time. It talks about a young prince that leaves behind everything he possessed so as to save the world from demons. It is a good adventure story talking about both love and morality in the world. The story concentrates on Rama a son to the king of Ayodhya, Dasharatha and his wife Queen Kausalya as well as two other wives, Kaikeyi and Sumitra. The king is blessed with three other sons Bharata, Lakshmana and Shatrugha with Rama being the eldest. This narrative shows the meaning of ...

Criminal Mind

Cybercrime must be considered on two levels within the virtual platform of the Internet. Firstly from a legal perspective cybercrime has historically been referred to as an action online that causes harm to someone offline. Secondly as the popularity of online multiplayer games has increased the stakes have risen above the goal of fun and entertainment. The possibility of monetary gain has given some players and/or criminals a motivation to cheat and intimidate others for personal gain. (Gřivna, 2008, 98) Online crime that causes harm offline is covered under criminal law whereas the legal precedents for crimes with virtual games ...

Abstract

Throughout the course of this essay I will attempt to construct a picture of modern techno cultures in respect of the laws and norms of the world they inhabit but don’t necessarily fit into. I will try to display to the reader that these techno cultures live within our world but outside our laws, they themselves construct their own laws as they live in their own worlds, they live in our world but in another world of their choosing.
I will in a sense try to find reality in these virtual worlds and try to discover what is real ...

Introduction

Second Life is an online virtual world in which the users called Residents interact (secondlife.com, 2012). Client programs (softwares that enable users to access a service being availed by a server) enable the Residents to interact through Avatars. Avatars are graphical representations of users’ characters in three or two dimensional forms appearing in games and online communities. In Second Life, Residents explore, socialize, create and trade in virtual property as well as participating in other group and individual activities (secondlife.com, 2012). Second Life was created by Linden Lab in 2003 and is meant for users above 16 years.
Since its ...

What has been lost now that humanity is all the same and race was never an issue? Are these losses acceptable in exchange for the things like the Slavery, The Civil War and Segregation never happening?
Because everyone is gray and same, they have never had to suffer for their identity. The problem is that identical people have no identity. All the terrible things of the past allowed humanity to grow up and learn to respect each other for who they are and not for the color of their skin This what has shaped the nation, and without it ...

Introduction

Sexuality and Christianity - often these two topics are opposed. This is not surprising because the negative attitude towards sexual relations and sex-phobia, fear in relation to sexuality, negative attitudes towards sexuality accompany the entire history of the Christian churches. One theory of the fall of humanity says that the sin of Adam and Eve was that they have entered into a sexual relationship. (Kamitsuka, M.D., 2010, p.26) In turn, the Christian asceticism tried to instill in Christians a feeling of contempt for their own corporeality (by the way, another theory Fall states that "leather garments" that God gave ...

Draupadi and Sita are two characterizations of feminity. One is more sensual and provocative, while the other is the symbol of purity. Draupadi is a princess, and the daughter of King Drupada. She is one of the main characters of Mahabharata. Sita is the wife of Rama, who is a depiction of the supreme god Vishnu. She is one of the main characters of the Ramayana. Draupadi would be the depiction of strong, controversial feminity, while Sita is the depiction of the perfect wife and woman, which would be the central traits that would make the two women very ...

In 2009, a movie was released that was based on a Japanese manga (comic book) that originated in Japan. The premises of the movie was that a teenage inherited a mystical item that imbued him with immense powers. With these powers, he fought off evil alien forces that threatened all life on planet Earth. The name of that movie is Dragonball Evolution. Due to the source material containing Asian people as the main characters, it would only be safe to assume that the actor casted for the main role would be Asian as well. However, Hollywood directors went with ...

its Function as Devotional Objects

HART1402: Renaissance Art in London

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Renaissance Religious Art and how it Engages with its Function as Devotional Objects
I. Introduction
Most of the artworks of the Renaissance were in some way connected to the church. Artists such as Michelangelo, created enormous works that can still be viewed today. Michelangelo in particular created this sense of worship and devotion through his work in the Sistine Chapel. The point of the artwork was to provide the church attendee as well as the resident padres a visual Bible, in some respects. When attending mass, it would serve as ...

China is dealing with tons of waste produced every day. With unsustainable development and production, countries are exploiting natural and other resources and causing environmental degradation, polluting the air, water, land and soil. With inappropriate waste disposals, the environment is becoming polluted, and is dangerous for health of people. With increasing concern of people regarding environmental pollution, and its effect on health, protests were seen through the last whole year in the communist country. The topic is important, because more and more incarnation plants are being constructed in China, which are causing havoc to environment, and are also putting ...

Judaism and Christianity

Religion influences lives of people very much. It provides them with purposes or becomes a reason for war. Religion defines nations and unifies people. Religion is more than just a set of beliefs and stories that are told from generation to generation. Instead it is a way of living, a code of conduct and framework for human actions. Religion helps to understand, to sympathize and to build relationships of the fair basis. It also provides a society with moral virtues and common traditions. World religions shape the lives of nations especially. Those confessions that have large congregations have major impact not only on a particular ...

In what ways is technology, industry, and culture of games linked

Most games were developed at the height of computer technology development in the 1980’s. Notably, the early computer games were created in military industrial, academic complexes, which also developed the internet (Flew 120). The games created in the spare time of artificial intelligence unit fashioned the first prototypes of most games that would be a huge success and create a gaming culture all over the world. The release of home video games in 1982 created a worldwide sensation with the profits grossing in several billion dollars. Over time, interaction in the gaming circles and game development has gone hand in hand ...

However much the Gospels speak of Jesus in a manner that shows he was remembered as a human being, they still, make it clear that he was more than a human being; by the way, he used to speak with a lot of authority. The council of Nicaea was present at the time when Christianity moved from being an illegal religion to the time when it became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The doctrine of incarnation means that God became a human being through Jesus. This can be interpreted as the fact that God was able to reveal Himself to the Human ...

Torrance, T. F. (1981). The Incarnation: ecumenical studies in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed A.D. 381. Edinburgh: Handsel Press.
I believe in one God, the Father almighty,
Torrance gives evidence that upon drafting the Nicene Creed Aryanism and Gnosticism denies Jesus as a true man. The Nicene Creed of 325 was during the period of Arians converting the Northern barbarians. Originally, the Athanasius possess authority of the Creed and the inhabitants regard it as equal of the Bible since it is a third Christian sacred book. In A.D 381 Constantinople adopts the Nicene Creed. Elders in the early Presbyterian Church held ...

Introduction

Capital, depending on the area in which it operates, and the price is more or less serious transformations that are a prerequisite for its effective action in this area, can act in three main guises : economic capital, which is immediately and directly convertible into money and institutionalized in the form of property rights, cultural capital, which under certain conditions, be converted into economic capital and may be institutionalized in the form of educational qualifications; social capital formed social obligations (bonds), which under certain conditions, be converted into economic capital and may be institutionalized, for example, in the form of ...

History of Developing Manga

Isao Shimizu, author of ‘the history of Manga’ / ‘Manga no Rekishi’, cites drawings from the 12th and 13th century as the first manga texts. Today manga is part of the pop culture in Japan and the world over. It comprises of story-driven narratives (usually a complete novel-like work of an author), composed with stylized illustrations, flexible use of linguistic text (onomatopoeic and spoken) and discursive frames. It uses visual designs manipulated to function as iconographic. Manga has identifiable vocabularies and registers temporal spatial relationships into the characters in the narration to give them multiple voices, personalities and mental states ...

“God dwells in creatures, in the elements, giving them being, in the plants vegetating, in the animals feeling in them, in men giving them to understand: and so in me, giving me being, animating me, giving me sensation and making me to understand; likewise making a temple of me, being created to the likeness and image of His Divine Majesty”

St. Ignatius Loyola, “Spiritual Exercises”

I remember my conversation with one priest, which influenced on my world view. We were talking about our doubts of the existence of God, and how strong is his faith. The priest’s answer was that he knows that God is ...

Superman is an unadulterated example of a contemporary legendary hero. Superman was made by American author Jerry Siegel and Canadian-conceived American craftsman Joe Shuster in 1933. In opposition to his current incarnation, he initially showed up as an uncovered, clairvoyant lowlife determined to overwhelm the world. He was called "Super-Man" in the short sci-fi fanzine "The Reign of the Super-Man" that was distributed by the pair in 1933. Siegel and Shuster chose to re-compose the character as a legend and took out the hyphen, renaming him Superman and reconsidering him with no likeness to his prior incarnation.
Super Man was ...

The continuous technological innovations have been changing the society ever since and covers a broader aspect of the existing technologies used by humans. The television and film mayhem which continued to bring fun and entertainment into the faces of the movie goers is constantly undergoing a process of change and innovation. In the early years since the invention of the camera and television, many filmmakers and producers have tried to produce films for the society’s entertainment and also as a replacement for the traditional vaudeville and theater plays. Cinema had become a greater advantage since it attempts to portray the real world ...

Computer gamers are a group of people sharing a common interest in computer gaming. They are composed of both adolescents and adults. Computer gaming goes beyond the barriers of age and gender, thus, gamers have been stereotyped into various characters. It is said that they have a culture of their own because of specific characteristics and behaviors they exhibit that typecasts them into specific stereotypes. Media depicts games and gamers negatively claiming these are causes of violent crimes and that users are not in touch with reality.
For its part, media has a lopsided view of what and who games and gamers ...

Utilitarianism entails the balance of harm caused to society to benefit from the social network sites. There might harm caused by the social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. However, the benefits should be evaluated together with the harms caused; the benefits should be maximized, and detriments minimized. The hacking of Petaluma High school MySpace students’ accounts shows that the private life of person is at a risk of being negatively exposed to the outside world without his consent.
The challenges that come with social websites are numerous and increase day in day out. However, the more they increase, ...

Introduction

Grand Theft Auto is essentially a video game series produced by the Australian programmers Mike Dailly and David Jones and then later by Zachary Clarke and the English brothers Sam and Dan Houser. Basically, it is it is developed by Rockstar North and its publisher is Rockstar Games. The series name is actually derived from the term, “grand theft auto,” which is a term referring to the motor vehicle theft. Loved by many for its open-world gameplay, loathed for its controversial and adult content, the GTA series has in fact established a cult following in the entire world. To be straight forward, ...

Introduction

There are many Christians that actually mark vital events that go on in the natural development of a human life in various ceremonies. Baptism is an important event in the bible. “Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him”. (Matthew 3:13-17)These ceremonies are what normally provide an answer to the questions that people are asking in regards to life. Baptism is supposed give a reply to the questions and “what am I here for? and “who am I?”. (Senn 2001)Baptism is the ceremonial of starting into the Christian faith. A Greek word ‘baptizo’ ...

In the world of today’s cinema, 3-D technology is making a comeback. No longer a kitschy gimmick used in the 1950s to bring extra ticket sales to monster movies, it has turned into a phenomenon that turns normal 2-D movies into stereoscopic blockbusters. 3-D films such as the 2009 film Avatar rule the box office, creating landscapes that pop out at the viewer and take them into a new dimension. To this day, more and more blockbuster films are adapting the Avatar model and releasing more and more movies in 3D, mostly due to new technologies and methods for delivering crisp, realistic ...

Growth in technology has ensured that people from all over the world can interact in real-time. Human beings are social creatures, thus, it is their nature to include fun in their interaction. Advanced technology has over the years ensured that games are an integral part of human interaction all over the world (Jansz et al. 269). This interaction of people as a result of sharing and participation in various games on the internet is known as online gaming. Online games like Warcraft amongst others provide a getaway to people getting into a fictional and fantasy world from the normal, regular and real ...