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Comparison of the Lives (and Deaths) of Jesus and Muhammad

There are several important parallels between two of the central figures in two major world religions: Christianity and Islam. In both religions, two men served as intermediaries between God and the people and while they are an incredibly part of  →

Islam in the United States: Key Figures and Events

Colonialism as a whole was one of the most important forces in shaping the way the United States would eventually interact with those of the Muslim world. Land divisions created by colonial forces, for instance, created the root of the  →

Analysis and Review of Labour by Thomas Carlyle

In his diatribe on the inherent sacred function of work in our lives entitled “Labour” Thomas Carlyle suggests that it is only through work that we can escape despair and communicate with nature (in a universal sense) and achieve a  →

The Life of the Sixth Chan Patriarch Hui-neng

Buddhism traces its origins back to India, but it is generally considered to have arrived in China around the year 100, having attracted a sizeable following of religious and spiritual adherents just 200 years later (Wills, 1994). Like all religions,  →

Analysis of Books V-VII of Plato’s Republic

Plato is a master at examining knowledge and society in books like The Republic, as well as another masterpiece, Meno. Although there are several important connections made between knowledge and justice and how the two operate together within both society  →

Balanced, Non-Ethnocentric Cross-Cultural Mediation in the Era of Globalization

Introduction In the era of massive and rapid globalization, a great deal of attention has been given to respecting the cultural differences of others while also trying to bring the best of all worlds together into one. It seems notable  →

Race Cycles Model and Racial Democracy

The race cycles model proposes that there is a systematic process behind massive shifts in dominant ideologies about race in a country that while based upon a logical model, is not in itself linear in practice and occur in brief,  →

Five Pillars of Islam

The Five Pillars of Islam are the expression of many of the important foundations of the faith, which are expressed during Muslim prayer services and other practices. The Five Pillars of Islam are considered to be commandments and it is  →

Technological Overview and Assessment of Remote Monitoring in Health Care

Remote monitoring and telemedicine in general are providing opportunities for patients with chronic illnesses to spend more time in their homes and for doctors to have access to up-to-date information regarding patient health without seeing them in their offices or  →

Dietary Intake and its Contribution to Longitudinal Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure in Urban or Suburban Children

The primary research question in an article entitled, “Dietary Intake and its Contribution to Longitudinal Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure in Urban/Suburban Children” by Chengsheng, Barr, Pearson and Waller (2008) involved considering to what extent pesticide exposure in children comes from food  →