"Prominent Americans viewed the prince's trip as an opportunity to showcase the country's brightest thinkers and shrewdest capitalists, and to flex its developing imperial muscle" (Abbott, 73). Having set the stage brilliant vis-a-vis the official nature of the prince's visit -- and mentioning the recent American acquisitions (Hawaii and Puerto Rico) to give an international political perspective -- Abbott further raised the stakes and value of the prince's visit to the Everleigh Club. The author notes (74) the American superstars of business (J.P. Morgan, Adolphus Busch, and Charles Schwab) and the world famous American inventors (Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison) that the prince was introduced to in New York City prior to his Chicago visit.
As well crafted as Abbott's build-up to the prince's attendance at the Everleigh Club is, it pales in comparison to the "slipper sipping" of champagne and the other wild goings-on at the club (76-77).

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Abbott, Karen. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul. New York: Random House (2007).

Yes, she had a motive, she was abused. But what are all the facts of the case? Did she lie in her testimony? hy was she repeatedly denied clemency? Did she really suffer from BS? On a side note, her own trial attorney, Theodora Poloynis-Engen, admitted that she thinks she did not suffer from BS (Hastings, 1993).
One has to ask these questions because BS is seen as an excuse to justify and rationalize violence. And to a society that promotes the principle that violence is not (never) the answer, the idea that violence can be permissible under certain conditions is a subversive force that can lead to a slippery slope of tolerance to, and acceptance of, violent acts. Sin by Silence does not investigate these larger implications in enough detail, then again, and maybe it doesn't need to. Its main message is clear enough, silence in the face of…...

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Hastings, D. (10 Oct. 1993). National Spokeswoman for Battered Women: Is She

Telling the Truth? Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from  http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-10/local/me-44254_1_brenda-clubine-sue-osthoff-murder-trial-testimony 

Clubine, Brenda. (n.d.). Convicted Women Against Abuse Fact Sheet. Sin by Silence.com. Retrieved from  http://www.sinbysilence.com/pressmaterials/cwaafacts.html

Interestingly, his daughter Pearl is also the physical manifestation -- or at least the most incarnate presence -- of his redemption. It is after she kisses him that he dies, in a strange reversal where the sin, i.e. Pearl, shows her acceptance of the sinner, and the understanding this imparts to Dimmesdale frees his soul. It is not quite the happy redemptive ending the reader might feel he deserves, but after his years of torment it might actually be the biggest reward he could ask for.
Hawthorne uses Chillingsworth, too, to show another aspect of the relationship between sin, acceptance, and redemption. Chillingsworth ever even admits to himself that he has sinned -- he lives his life seeking only revenge, which is to say he lives his life only in the purpose of sin. When this purpose is thwarted by Dimmesdale's public confession and death, Chillingsworth quickly withers away and…...

Men are reportedly involved in different offensive and aggressive acts, which are deplorable and condemnable. The mankind has contributed significantly towards the social, political and economic growth of any particular region, but if the progress is evaluated critically, we observe that the progress achieved is much less than what the potential of the individuals can offer. So where do we lose our abilities, the abilities and qualities of people are lost, because of the involvement of the mankind into different argumentative sessions, which delays and curtail the progress and its scope.
The human social system has varied geographically, but the essence remains the same. Irrespective of the geographical affiliation, we have observed that people with different background are involved in such actions which are cause of distraction from the main purpose and objective. Often, we experience such situations in the business activities and politics, where individuals end up with differences…...

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Rhodes Thompson, Stewards Shaped by Grace: The Church's Gift to a Troubled World. H.W. Wilson Company. 1990. pp. 63. Collier Macmillan Publishers

Purdue University Department of English, Purdue University Modern Fiction Club. Modern Fiction Studies. 1958. pp. 254. Purdue University Publishers

Alex Peter Schmid, Ronald D. Crelinsten. Western Responses to Terrorism. 1993. pp. 193. Collier Macmillan Publishers

Coramae Richey Mann. Unequal Justice: A Question of Color. 1993. pp. 36. Oxford Publishers

His murders appear to be the retribution for the sinners. The movie shows through the personage of Somerset, a detective, that the hope and the belief in virtue in the heart of people, especially experienced people, is almost gone. The sins are progressing so fast that even people who may seem innocent are guilty, too. A clear example can be observed through the death of Mill's wife in "Seven." The misdeeds of the contemporary society can hardly fit in the Circles of Hell that Dante introduced.. All of the seven capital sins are so common that it can undermine the faith in everything. Several sins are the most well spread among people nowadays: pride, the prototype of all the other sins, greed, gluttony and envy. People become proud of being who they are, wearing the clothes they are wearing, they do not share with the ones that are in…...

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 http://www.whitestonejournal.com/seven/ 

The Seven Deadly Sins/August 27, 2004 http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/uc/s.cassavant/DanteOut.html

The Structure of Dante's Inferno

Henry Fairlie "The Seven Deadly Sins Today" / Notre Dame Press / 1997

Q1 Give reasoned arguments for why you believe the concept of sin is diminished in the public square. Provide supporting evidence for your arguments.
Given the increased focus on individualism in our culture, the idea that any personal choice is a sin makes many people profoundly uncomfortable. The concept of sin suggests that there are eternal truths which must be obeyed and to deviate from them is absolutely wrong. Contemporary secular culture is much more relativistic and many people do not believe that very many things are wrong in an eternal, moral sense, so long as they do not immediately hurt other people. That they may hurt the person committing the sin or that they may have long-term harms for others is ignored.
Q2. Identify one area in society (the public square) where the concept of sin is eroding.
One area in society in which the concept of sin is clearly eroding is…...

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Bible Gateway. Retrieved from:

https://www.biblegateway.com/

eligious Traditions
The human problem that religious traditions attempt to solve

eligion is one of the oldest human activities that have ever existed since man started interacting with each other. With interaction, there are bound to be challenges coming up between the people involved and concerns of what is the wrong thing or the right thing to be done in such circumstances. This is where the issue of sin and ignorance comes up and in order to well explain and define these, religion is evoked. This shows that religion and man has been growing hand in hand from historical times and as times go by, there are different forms that religion takes within different societies. Indeed it is religion that separates us and sets us apart from the other living species on the earth.

eligion exists to solve a given range of problems and the most fundamental one is the problem of sin.…...

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Davis C., (1975). Religion and the making of Society. Retrieved November 22, 2014 from  http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/unger/english/pdfs/discussions15.pdf 

Dunaway Russell H., (1983). Sins of Ignorance. Truth Magazine. Retrieved November 22, 2014 from  http://www.truthmagazine.com/archives/volume27/GOT027176.html 

James Livingston, (2009). Anatomy of the Sacred: An Introduction to Religion. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. Retrieved November 22, 2014 from  https://kindle.amazon.com/work/anatomy-sacred-introduction-religion-edition-ebook/B000AHZIZA/B002MPPS5S/posts 

Merriam Webster, (2014). Sin. Retrieved November 22, 2014 from  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sin

There is no judgment from God on the believer, nor annoyance with God in respect to the believer -- neither in the last day nor today.
From a familial aspect, God is significantly displeased with our behavior and punishment is sure -- either from God or from our own consequences of that sin. One could look at David's prayer of repentance in Psalm 51 to see the devastating effects of sin in his life. In addition, almost all references to the law of sowing and reaping are addressed to God's people -- not to the world. (Numbers 32:23, Galatians 6:7-8). Colossians 3:25, "ut he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons."

Furthermore, God cannot wipe away the possibility of sin. To do so would be to wipe away our free wills. He would have to make it impossible for…...

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Chafer, Lewis Sperry. Major Bible Themes. Wheaton: Van Kampen Press, 1926.

Fudge, Edward. "What Calvinism and Arminianism Have In Common." Christianity Today, April 27, 1992.

Johnson, Alan F, and Robert E. Webber. What Christians Believe. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1989.

Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Mortal Sin
Fundamental Option vs. Traditional View of Mortal Sin

This paper explores the fundamental option of mortal sin compared to the traditional view. The traditional view of mortal sin has always looked at certain sins as leading to death. They separate the individual from God. Among these include sins like lust, pride, gluttony, greed and the like. These sins may be absolved through reconciliation to God. In modern times however, the fundamental option is introduced, which presents the idea that such sins are not mortal sins, unless the individual committing the sin rejects God entirely. There are many that accept this option, some under the premise of the New Covenant, stating love removes all sin, or that human beings are not responsible for certain individual choices they make. Pope John Paul II claims however, that such an option is heretical in nature and that only by fully choosing to do what…...

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Connors, R.B. And McCormick, P. Character, Choices and Community: The Three Faces of Christian Ethics. New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1998.

Fagan, S. Does Morality Change? Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1987.

Gula, R. Reason Informed by Faith: Foundations of Catholic Morality. Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1989.

Hanigan, J. As I Have Loved You. Mahwah: Paulist, 1986.

There are several women in the crowd who turn out to see her public humiliation that feel Hester should have been punished with death, instead of the letter on her chest. As time goes on, some of the townspeople start to realize that Hester really is a good person, and while she may have sinned, she is not the only one to ever have done so. In one instance, when Hester first begins to see that some people may have sympathy toward her, Hawthorne says "ut sometimes, once in many days, or perchance in many months, she felt an eye -- a human eye -- upon the ignominious brand, that seemed to give a momentary relief, as if half of her agony were shared" (Hawthorne, p. 1293).
In this passage, Hawthorne is not only showing that people had sympathy for Hester, but that she had sympathy for them. If the…...

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Connolly, Thomas, & Baym, Nina. (2002). The Scarlet Letter. New York: Penguin Classics.

Johns, William. 2001. House of the Seven Gables, the, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. H.P. Lovecraft Library. http://www.gizmology.net/lovecraft/works/super/7gables.htm.

McCullen, Joseph T., & Guilds, John C. (1960). The unpardonable sin in Hawthorne: A re-examination. Nineteeth-Century Fiction, 15(3): 221-237.

While I am tempted to think that nobody will find out about it, one of the things I should remember is my relationship with God, which is of great importance to me. If I give in to temptation, I damage my relationship with God, like Adam and Even did. By externalizing the temptation, they sinned. If I were to give in to the temptation of cheating on my taxes, I would also externalize the thought to do so, and therefore sin in both thought and action. This would damage my relationship with God.
The temptation is however very strong, driven by the dual factors of time and that nobody would probably find out. On the other side of the argument, the potential damage to my life as a Christian is a strong driving factor to not let the sinful thought become external and enter into the reality of my life.

In…...

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Genesis 3 and Luke 20. Retrieved from http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp

Womack, Andrew. Dealing with temptation. Andrew Womack Ministries, 2010. Retrieved from  http://www.awmi.net/extra/article/deal_temptation

First Action Bullying is a terrible act that inflicts pain and damage on the victim. Victims may feel a need for revenge. There are times when people that are bullied wish to harm others and that is not what God wants or desires for the person. Jesus Christ absolved everyone of Original Sin by dying on the cross. Does one think that Jesus Christ wants revenge on those that tortured Him? Jesus and God wish for people to forgive and let go of the pain and darkness that overwhelms the soul when pain is inflicted upon it.
Leviticus 19:18 ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.’ (Carroll & Prickett, 2008). Such a quote from the Bible teaches that people must love one another. The point of living is to live a life…...

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Carroll, R. P., & Prickett, S. (2008). The Bible: Authorized King James Version. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

SDARM. (2017). Christian temperance. Retrieved from

http://www.sdarm.org/about-us/beliefs/christian-temperance

The problem of evil refers to the existence of evil in the world. If God is good, why does He permit evil to occur? Ivan takes the question a bit further by putting it this: he can understand evil happening to those who deserve it, who are not good—but why would a good God allow evil to be visited upon a child? It is what Adams refers to as “horrendous evil” (26)—evil so bad and so uncalled for and so unnecessary that it seems beyond rationalizing, beyond justification, and beyond any type of explanation for how a good Being Who cares for His creation could possibly sit by and watch and allows such horrendous evil—such as the torture of an innocent child to occur. Yet, Christians should not be shocked by the suffering of child—the Slaughter of the Innocents marked the first instances of death wrought by the Incarnation (Matthew…...

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Adams, Marilyn McCord. 1999. Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God. Melbourne:Melbourne University Press.

Adams, Marily McCord and Robert Merrihew Adams. The Problem of Evil. Oxford University Press, 1990.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. “The Problem of Evil.”

Hick, John. “The Problem of Evil.” http://hettingern.people.cofc.edu/Philosophy_of_Religion/Hick_The_Problem_of_Evil.pdf

Lewis, C. S. The Problem of Pain. Samizdat University Press, 2016.

Plantinga, Alvin. God, Freedom and Evil (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1974.

Sheen, Fulton. Life of Christ. NY: Image Books, 2008.

https://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/articles/dostoevsky-a.pdf

Marcella identifies as an able-bodied person and because she has a sibling with a disability she believes she must also identify as a person of privilege because she can walk around on her own two feet while her disabled sibling cannot. I believe that Marcella is suffering from sort of socially-induced guilt complex—as if she has to feel guilty for being able-bodied, which I think is nonsense. I am tired of people accusing themselves of privilege as though they should feel guilty about being who they are. This is absolutely ridiculous and I wish it would stop. Marcella does not have to feel ashamed of being able-bodied just because others are disabled. There is no guilt in being able-bodied. I would never consider myself as a person of privilege because I am able-bodied. Maybe it’s because I’m African-American, but I think this privilege “talk” is way too politically correct and…...

Morality is not a cookbook that one can follow in a step-by-step fashion.
This is a potent reply to people who often ask, 'why cannot I be good, without Christ,' or without even a sense of a constant, steadfast, personal ethical system. hen ministering to others, frequently one is asked: 'but can't I just follow the golden rule?' Although there is some truth to the importance of simply doing unto others as one would have done to one's self, more is needed when deeper ethical questions emerge. Furthermore, Paul would contend that simply following the law, Mosaic or otherwise, is not taking advantage of Christ's full gift to humanity. There is no driving, internal emotional drive to follow the law without the acceptance of grace and the sense that what one does on earth is thanks for Christ in heaven, for Christ's sacrifice.

Paul's primary theme in Romans 5 is how…...

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NIV Study Bible Online. 2 Dec 2007.  http://www.ibsdirect.com/pc-26-14-niv-hardcover-study-bible.aspx

Choosing a research paper topic doesn't have to be difficult. In many cases, an instructor will choose a topic for you. Some instructors allow you to choose your own topic, but request that you get approval from them before beginning your paper. If you're left completely alone to choose a topic and start writing, consider the following questions as you're thinking about topic ideas: • What is the class about? • What are some of the main points or themes addressed by the instructor? • What about the class specifically interests you? • What ideas or themes from the class naturally lend themselves to research? • Is your topic idea....

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You can find information to create this thesis statement by using several different types of sources. In addition to the standard Google search for websites about the topic, there are online and offline books and magazines that deal with religious subjects. Ministry Magazine is a good source to consider, along with Enrichment Journal and Christian Standard. Liberty University's Digital Commons also provides a lot of good insight into growing small churches. Any church can be successful in a small city, as long as it provides the community with what the people need in order to feel their lives are being....

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