.... resistance of many Jewish leaders, reincarnation also played a role in Judaism due to the Kabala who developed this idea. Some Jewish philosophers even believed that a soul of a sinner can enter a live man's body and "posses" him. Special rituals were used in order to "cure" the man. T. Gomertz, a famous philosopher, thought of three very good reasons why one should believe in reincarnation: 1. It is believed that dreams are attempts of the soul to live the body. If this is true, than the soul can leave the body and it does so when a person dies. This also means that a soul can exist without a body. 2. If we assume that the soul dies with the body it is .....

.... the racist gatekeepers of a seemingly non-racist neighborhood. The study further goes into this issue by giving explanations and interpretation of this behavior that is seen all over the United States. From thorough examination of the article, one can come to the conclusion that the author, Diana M. Pearce, is following the “interactionist” perspective to sociology. In sociology, the interactionist perspective tends to use the “micro” approach, where smaller groups of individuals are studied. The interactionist perspective views society as countless encounters between human beings and everyday social activity. The fact that an interactionist would make a st .....

.... out on being in the best city in the country. I'd miss out on the top college for my interests - Marketing and Communications. What other school has the amazing Co-op program I dreamed of. Open it! Open it! I guess my curiousity peaked. I opened the book and I was accepted. There I was in my dorm room with my roommate, happy and content. My dream came true and I was going to Northeastern. What attracted me to apply to this college was the Co-op program. I enjoy working and the idea of working at the job of my major is a plus. I have asked several soon to be graduates what they plan to do when they graduate? The response is "I don't know". Going to Northeastern .....

.... the names of a few theories that I know of. There are free will theories, which are crimes that are committed because of someone exercising their free will. Next there are biological theories, theories which suggest that a person is criminal since the day that they are born, due to their genes. There are also psychobiological theories, which say things like environment and physical trauma can make someone into a criminal. Psychological theories suggest that crime is the result of a rotten mind or wrongful behavioral upbringing. Also there are sociological theories which state that the structure of society create the crimes, as well as social-psychologi .....

.... in color. They have thick-muscled abdomens, which they contract rapidly in making their sudden, backward-swimming escapes. (The shrimp meat served in numerous dishes, an important product of the fishing industry, is the curved muscle extracted from the abdomen.) The animals have eight pairs of appendages on the thorax: the front three, called maxillipeds, are mouthparts used for feeding; the rear five, called pereipods, are used for walking. The abdomen contains five pairs of swimming legs, called pleopods, and a fanlike tail. Many small shrimp are harvested from the cold waters of Iceland, Greenland, and Canada. Today, cultured or farmed marine shrimp pla .....

.... right. After Socrates made the other persons point very clear to them (and his audience), he then asked them a series of questions that were designed to make them concede on another point that contradicted the first one. It was through this sequence of questions that Socrates proved that what the other person believed he knew was either false, or that there were other possibilities to consider. He publicly made fools of some of Athens most prominent figures, and for this he was not looked upon very highly by the city. One of the best examples of Socrates’ method occurred while he was standing trial for believing against the norm. He was his own defense and p .....

.... of the population is Roman Catholic; there is a predominance of Spanish place-names and family names, and the patterns of land tenancy and ownership can be traced to the Spanish period. American colonial influence prevailed from about 1901 until the late 1940s. Major legacies of that period are an American-style educational system and, with it, the teaching of English, which today is spoken as a second language by about two fifths of the population. Along with Pilipino, a language derived from Tagalog, English is one of the two official languages. The Philippines achieved full political independence in 1946, following four years of occupation by Japanese ar .....

.... explain the distinction that Aristotle draws between the voluntary and the involuntary. Moreover, I will also explain the subsequent distinctions that arise under the category of involuntary actions. In chapter 1, Aristotle focuses on breaking down the substructures of our involuntary actions, while chapter 5 speaks more on the issue of our voluntary actions. In both chapters, Aristotle makes good use of simple but direct examples to illustrate his point of view. The examples are important in the text as Aristotle is dealing with abstract concepts; tying them into a real-world context of punishment and reward. Also, they provide a leg to stand on when .....