Essays on Fundamentalists

Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (1995) is as creative just like it is ironical if the current contemporary efforts around the globe are put into context. The Dystopian perception that dominates the novel makes it attractive to present and future readers. Several themes emerge from the story through prominent characters such as Lauren and Mrs. Sims. This essay offers analysis of various topics in the novel while laying emphasis on how the lack of effective community guidance and poor leadership can break or make a state. The essay delves into how poor leadership can erode past gains in ...

First of all, in response to the assertion that ISIS is a form of extremism that is not religious: ISIS is absolutely a religious organization. I wrote a paper about ISIS recently, and in my research I learned that the inspiration for ISIS as well as the justification for its deeds comes directly from the Quran, and the prophetic visions of Mohammed. ISIS believes that it is playing a central role in bringing about the apocalypse, an event that billions of Muslims, Jews, and Christians are anticipating. ISIS believes that, as foretold in the Quran, it will meet the “ ...

The recent developments in technological advancements and scientific breakthroughs have presented modern ways of creating new things and doing things. One such development relates to the introduction of technology-based medical procedures, which have made it possible to achieve feats that yesteryear medical scientists could only dream about. The field of medicine has shown tremendous improvement as a result of the incorporation of new technological meth-ods into the field of medicine. Genetic engineering procedures have become common not only in the creation of medicines and vaccines but also in disease management before and after birth. Scientists have come up with ...

The recent developments in technological advancements and scientific breakthroughs have presented modern ways of doing things. One such development relates to the introduction of technology-based medical procedures, which have made it possible to achieve feats yesteryear medical scientists could only dream about. This introduction has however resulted in debates concerning whether controversial medical procedures should be allowed to play their role in society without external interference. In Lisa Belkin’s article, The Made-To-Order Savior”, the author describes how modern medical technology makes it possible to genetically modify a human being at conception so as to increase the chances of ...

Anti-Islam attitudes, particular towards the Muslims and their informal and formal policies and codes of conduct are has become the main target of the Western media. This prejudice has manifested itself in various parts of the non-Muslim world. The Muslims have been portrayed by the Western media as dirty, brutal, uneducated, untrustworthy and fanatical terrorists. Throughout the western world, there exist a strong Islam-phobia; the strong feeling of Islam-phobia takes very many forms including hate and discrimination. Islam-phobia linked to terrorist attacks that are carried by Islamic fundamentalists. The strong anti-Muslim attitudes are widespread in Britain, France, United States and other western countries ( ...

1.To determine a definition of the domestic terrorism is not easy task.

On a territorial basis, it is opposed to the international terrorism, as the participants of domestic terrorism are citizens of one state, and the consequences of their terrorist activities do not go beyond the country. The domestic terrorism may be associated even with the activities of government agencies and with the struggle of the opposition against the existing political system; however, in the current situation it is more closely related to the violence perpetrated by individuals or small groups of people within the country towards civilians and government officials.

The far-right group Ku Klux Klan is a best-known example of a terrorist ...

History plays a very important role in the development and progress of humanity. Social, cultural and political religious factors play a crucial role in shaping a society. All these factors evolve in a particular way throughout the history to give the society or world a particular shape. The world of today has also experienced such historical evolution. The economy is becoming increasingly global, in which an idea of uniformity and global culture is embedded. But on the other hand, despite the increasing move or evolution towards uniformity, the extremism in the world is also increasing. The reason for that is hidden in the past ...

Level 4 (UG Year 1): Coursework Cover Sheet [last update October 2013]

Detailed description of these quality judgments is available online at www.heythrop.ac.uk/assessment Take careful note of the feedback provided. This includes detailed comments intended both to clarify the things you did not understand, and to give clear suggestions for improving your work in future. Feedback on coursework consists of the provisional mark, the above table, and the general comments to be found to the right in the Turnitin Viewer. You can expect such feedback within three weeks whenever you submit work on time. The paper analyzes different aspects of the modernity in Judaism and distinguishes the crucial ...

Reliability

Scale: ALL VARIABLES Explore Reliability Scale: ALL VARIABLES COMPUTE PUNITIVE=q2asentences +q2crepeat + q2dpolice + q2eprivilege + q2flocking + q2gchain + q2icastrate+ q2kmandatory.

EXECUTE.

Frequencies

For skewness , the following variables would be considered non-normal : EMPLOYED

Explore there are outliers for both dependent and independent variable as shown in the table above as the highest and lowest points. Explore

T-Test

Because the p value is <.05 , we reject the null hyothesis and conclude that the variable is NOT representative of the population .

NPar Tests

Chi-Square Test Frequencies Because the p value of 0.011 is <.05 , we reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the variable is not representative of the population .

Crosstabs

EMPLOYED * ...

Step 1 - Creating variables

Frequencies Frequencies Frequencies Frequencies

FEAR OF CRIME RELIABILITY ANALYSIS

Reliability Scale: ALL VARIABLES MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY & DISPERSION – FEAR EXPLORE QUESTION 1: What is the alpha level for the FEAR additive scale? .95

QUESTION 2: Does your analysis indicate that the FEAR additive scale is a reliable measure? How did you determine this?

Yes. .95 is larger than .6

PUNITIVE ATTITUDES RELIABILITY ANALYSIS

Reliability Scale: ALL VARIABLES

QUESTION 3: What is the alpha level for the PUNITVE additive scale?

.835

CHECKING NORMALITY STATISTICS

Frequencies

QUESTION 4: List the variables that have skewness values that indicate non-normality, including those with both moderate and severe problems.

Find variables with skewness which exceeds ± .50.

Agree that "The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally."

Likelihood of being victim of violent crime in next year Likelihood of being victim of property crime in next year Concern about crime Employment dummy QUESTION 5: List the variables that have kurtosis values that indicate non-normality. ...

I. Introduction In this research paper, the relationship between science and religion is examined in terms of the potential for a harmonious coexistence. This is an old debate and currently it is a vitally significant one. The view of science and religion as warring enemies has historic roots. The Catholic Inquisition was known to persecute and execute people considered heretics because of their belief in science and scientific things. The Church found science as an explanation offensive. Galileo Galilei is one of the most well known of the victims of the Inquisition. He was imprisoned and forced to do penance ...

Law 4900

4:10 pm Introduction In the United States (US), the judiciary holds the authority to conduct constitutional decision-making, in which they interpret the US Constitution accordingly whenever they confront specific cases that involve its provisions. There are at least three approaches to constitutional decision-making: originalism, living constitutionalism and minimalism. Each of the three approaches of constitutional decision-making have different ideological bases – originalism deems the meaning and intent of the framers of the US Constitution as important, living constitutionalism takes into consideration the various societal changes and minimalism emphasizes the importance of case-specific interpretations, being perhaps the most moderate ...

At the start of the 1800s a number of people were concern with the high consumption of alcohol in the society. The concern grew during the 1800s as many people could not deal with the rise in inflation, and the speed at which the inflation moved after the war of independence. Others drank because alcohol was cheap and the consumption of alcohol was a popular past time for many of the people in the United States at the time. With the concerns many women and other reform groups had, the vow to abstain from alcohol consumption became a reality for many people. ...

American Evangelicalism

Overview In United States, major religious transition occurred in the start of the twentieth century. More so, there were large numbers of American Protestants under the evangelical leadership. Apparently, in 1900s, there was massive stratification of evangelical denominations based on the doctrinal beliefs and practices. One side consisted of the mainstream Protestants who believed in the personal interpretation of evangelical doctrines. The fundamentalists introduced new beliefs and practices beyond the biblical teachings that provide more freedom of worship to the believers. Additionally, American Protestants applied contemporary factors into the practicability of the biblical doctrines. It is an idea ...

In this paper, I am going to handle the following questions; what roles do religions play in Appiah’s analysis? How is your approach similar to or different from his? I will start this paper by asking myself the following question; what roles do religion plays in today’s societies? In today’s religion, we find that the religion has taken a significant role in the society to the extent of even determining what its members should eat and not eat. Some communities cannot eat meat since the religion does not acknowledge the eating of meat, hence resulting to ...

Sexual education: annotated bibliography

Brewer, G., Brown, M.B., Migdal, M.J. The importance of appropriate sexual education. Washington, D.C.: the Center for Inquiry Office of public Policy, 2007. Web The paper investigates the role of school programs about human sexuality, providing the overview of existing programs and criticizing abstinence-only sexual education. After having observed differences between abstinence-based sexual education in the U.S. and programs, functioning in other industrialized countries, authors have provided their views on comprehensive sexual education program to be developed in the U.S. This source is crucial for the research as it provides multifaceted view on importance of sexual education and ...

Sociologists of Religion and their Thoughts

Sociology of religion is considered as the study of values, practices, beliefs, religion’s organizational forms utilizing the methods and tools of the disciplines and principles of sociology(Dillon, 2003).. The major investigation however may include exploitation of both the quantitative methods such as polls, surveys, census and demographic analysis as well as qualitative techniques such as observation, archival analysis, participation, documentary and historical material (Berzano & Riis, 2012).Sociologists associated with religious studied however study each aspect of the religion such as how a person is supposed and believed to act in the worship and his actions when he/she ...

The newspaper article, ‘Arrogance of Ignoring Muslim Women’, published in The New York Times on 24th April, 2013, written by Murtaza Hussain, delves deep into the gulf between the notion of feminism and the practices in the Western world and the Muslim community. While the women of Europe and other Western nations vehemently overthrow the patriarchal power structures and tread on the path of defining their equal rights and existence, the women in the Muslim community express their disregard for the patriarchal hierarchical structure out of the long scholarly discourse which has been developed by the likes of Leila ...

The primary purpose of this paper is to explore how trauma patients can receive counseling in an effective way. It will describe the methods that counselors in Pakistan are recommended to take. Counselors have to be sensitive to the physical, social, psychological and spiritual dimensions of the trauma experienced. The paper will take into consideration the context of the clients and challenge to find ways of reaching out to these women and provide such effective support, as may be found in other countries in the region such as India and Bangladesh. In this way, the aim is to examine ...

Introduction

Terrorism refers to the systematic use of violence to cause terror among civilians with the purpose of asserting demands and forcing the government to give in to those demands. Individuals involved in terror activity are called terrorists. The history of terrorism dates back to the French Revolution when words like 'terror', 'terrorist' and 'terrorism' were incorporated in the modern lexicon. However, in those days the acts of terror were executed by those in power, mostly through the man killing means of guillotine and not bombs. In the mid-19th century in the Unites States, the word 'terrorism' began to be ...

Introduction

Terrorism refers to the systematic use of violence to cause terror among civilians with the purpose of asserting demands and forcing the government to give in to those demands. Individuals involved in terror activity are called terrorists. Terrorists execute terror actions by different means such as bombing, hijacking, kidnapping, and assassination. Based on execution style, terrorism has been classified into different types including state terrorism, bioterrorism, Eco terrorism, cyber terrorism, nuclear terrorism, anarchist terrorism, religious terrorism, nationalist terrorism and narcoterrorism. All of these types of terrorism are perpetrated using some specific methods of violence to convey a message. Terrorist attacks ...

Just to begin with, it is prudent to note that twelve years later from the time Bin laden attacked the United States of America; most people still wonder how such attack could have happened in the most powerful soil of America. Some individuals also still ask themselves whether the terrorist attack could have been preventable. However, as per now, many people have full information about the errors that the Americans did which made the attack possible. The book Provides new light to the historical decisions which has profound effects on the current events. This paper therefore shall provide a critical ...

There are many different facets to effective communication, and effectively communicating is often considered a great asset for businesspeople. Communicating effectively across barriers like culture, language, race, or political affiliation is something that takes diplomacy, empathy, and intelligence. There are many different theories regarding effective communication, particularly regarding intercultural communication; intercultural communication is particularly difficult because the way in which certain situations should be handled are unique to the cultures that are interacting. Even interacting and communicating effectively across subcultures within one particular culture can be incredibly difficult. What does this mean for individuals who are attempting to communicate ...

The clash between Christians and Muslims is a current and critical issue in governance and religion. The clash has been of great magnitude and has threatened to through the entire world into a theological abstraction of these two religions. The states of Nigeria, Somali, Indonesia and Philippines still continuing to suffering due to clashes based on these two world largest religions. This is according to Eliza Griswold in her book The Tenth Parallel.

Question 1

The book is an insight into the increasing concern of the increasing clash between Christians and Muslims in some hot spots all over the world. The book draws ...

People invest their moneys in different investment vehicles with the aim of making the best returns possible. Different investments however have different risk levels and therefore the investor has to consider his /her risk preference and investment horizon before deciding the nature of their investment. It’s advisable those investors consult their financial advisors before making any major investments. There are a number of investment vehicles that are available to the investors depending on the amount of money that they are willing to invest. An individual could decide to invest their moneys in the secondary markets or take advantage of ...

Classroom Rights and Responsibilities: Who Has More?

Whenever classroom management is talked about, it is normally the teacher’s skills that are scrutinized and put under investigation. Being the qualified professional, the teacher is expected to “run the show” and have control over the classroom discipline that fosters a conducive learning environment. This is definitely reasonable but is classroom management solely the task of the teacher? Or can we also speak of students having a role in this task as well? After all, they are the main clients of the school. Shouldn’t they have a role to play in managing the classroom?

This essay features four articles that ...

The writer of this article Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher and currently teaches at Princeton University. The author is remembering the culture and history of the Ghana and remembering several aspects of the Ghanaian society. In this article author is discussing a festival that took place in Kumasi and also describes the historical derivation of the festival and the city. The article focuses on the broad spectrum of cultural, economic and other differences between the rich and poor countries. The author analyses the relation of western and native countries and also the relation of rich and poor in the same ...