... like I'm in a good mood when I'm hanging around with them. Anyway, that is the basis for my paper, so I'm going to talk about those places and why I feel that I experience God there. The place that I feel that I experience God the most has to be nature. My grandpa has a farm with like forty acres of forest (woods). Anyway, I've been going down there ever since I was like six or seven. When I was big enough, my dad bought a dirt bike for me and my brother. After that, we owned the woods. We would go down there every Friday after school, and we would hit the woods as soon as we got down there to make some new tr ...

... The people weren't united because of all this traveling, and therefore contact with other people was minimal. Morals are hard to develop without much contact with other people and so the religion of these early people was minimal. Then came the development of farming into this time period. Farming brought the people together. Small cities began to develop because the people didn't have to move around as much. With all this closeness, the people developed moral views on what to think about thieves or murderers. If certain civilizations didn't mind violence and killing, then they developed into a Brutal civiliz ...

... previously percieved as only black and white. In his depiction of Adam and Eve being expelled from the garden of Eden he sets up a dichotomus world but through subtile and not so subtile hints he shows the observer that he doesn't percieve the world in this way. He creates this grey world to show the observer that the world is not all really black and white. The painting is really divided into two separate pictures. One depictng the “good� scene inside the Garden of Eden. The other side depicting the “bad� scence, outside the garden of Eden. Michelangelo splits the picture like this so that he can ...

... and because of it's Middle East origins, often sounds very strange to those who have been raised on western music. The chants were originally monophonic, or non-harmonized. Within the last several centuries a drone note was added underneath the melody to bring out the basic tone. In modern practice the drone note may change to harmonize with its melody note. Recently, various efforts have been made to create a fully harmonized Byzantine chant, but these efforts seem to obscure and ruin the basis of the tones. Byzantine Chant had an influence on, and is directly related, to other Orthodox chants. It is one o ...

... chamber was the holiest site on Earth. This room was only accessible on one day of the year, which was called the Day of Atonement. The high priest at the time was the only person allowed to enter. He entered with the blood of the goat, which represented his sins-along with the sins of the entire nation. The construction of the Ark was nothing short of the finest piece of artwork on Earth. The Ark began as a select piece of acacia wood or Shittim wood by a man named Bezaleel (Exodus 37). He was the son of Uri’, of the tribe of Judah according to Exodus Chapter thirty-eight, verse twenty-two. The ark me ...

... as most Arabs believed. This God was creator of the world (In Christianity, it's documented in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth), and He would one day judge mankind (This is also true in Christianity: "The Lord will judge his people." Hebrews 10:30). Both of these religions share almost the same framework, but they also differ in many ways. The word Islam means "surrender" or "submission," submission to the will of Allah, the one God. Muslims are those who have submitted themselves. The basic creed of Islam is brief: There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the ...

... also helps to fill me with a sense of hope and well-being. is meant to fill people with the spirit of God which in some cases is all people have to go on. I believe that s helps peoples hearts and minds to stay clear and that it helps to guide them in life by answering the question of what is the meaning of life? And by helping people to discover the key to life which is different for everybody. I believe has a different meaning to everyone, the way they feel about it. The way they think of it. The way they act in their and their beliefs in it. I act in by frequently preying or talking to God. I will on occ ...

... five major social classes that exist in the caste system in Hindu society are the priest, warrior-noble, merchant, peasant, and the outcaste. These five major classes are further subdivided into hundreds of other subclasses and since great emphasis is placed on social classes in the Hindu culture it affects the job you hold and the person you marry. The many people among these various castes are still encouraged to live a very religious life marked by certain religious/social stages in life. The Hindu beliefs in stages of life are more religious then the western philosophies of life stages. Hindu’s believe that ...

... He felt that this could be achieved through education and the unification of cultural beliefs. He believed that a nation would be benefited by citizens that were ³ cultivated people whose intellects and emotions had been developed and matured by conscious people² (Clearly). He felt that those born into the feudal system were had a personal duty to excel socially by means of power. Those who were of lesser class should also seek out education to better themselves. All purposes for betterment of man and society as one whole is known as Li. Li means ³the rationalized social order² (Yutang). Confucius ...

... Civilization upon those that remained. At the end of century, the King of Kent married the daughter of the King of Paris. She was a Christian and was granted permission to bring a Bishop, her chaplain, to Kent. They encouraged the King to allow Christian missionaries to come to Kent (Wakeman, 2-9). In the year 585, Gregory, a missionary, saw some white skinned, blue-eyed, blonde haired slaves for sale in Italy. He then sought permission to leave Rome and devote himself to missionary work among the heathen English. He was not allowed to leave until years later when he became pope. He then chose his friend, Augu ...