With the conviction of actor and Scientologist Danny Masterson for felony rape, the Church of Scientology adds to their already long list of controversies. But this may be the highest profile controversy they have ever faced. Will this trigger increased scrutiny of their teachings and policies?
These six holiday traditions will will fill your Christmas season with many memories that can be relived year after year.
Two successful anti-colonial movements in Southeast Asia, the Katipunan and the Viet Minh, used very similar strategies to achieve their goals. But the movements were separated by more than 50 years. How did these groups achieve success against large colonial powers?
By far, the most contentious issues of the nineteenth century were those of freedom and equality. The question that drove these contests over freedom and equality centered on which social groups in American society should be allowed freedom and...
Never before had a collection of states been willing to unite together into one nation to benefit the collective. In this way, the U.S. is exceptional. However, does this exceptionalism extend into the principle foundations of liberty, capitalism, and Christian ideals that the nation was founded on?
The Renaissance was significant in changing the military in Italy. The revival of humanism and classical thinking reintroduced much of the knowledge the ancient Greeks and Romans had of warfare, as well as reintroduced many methods of organization and military philosophy.
Both Socrates and the Island of Melos succumbed to the ultimate fate. But their attitude and approach to these fates were drastically different. How could their actions have influenced the outcomes? Is fate set in stone?
Asymmetrical warfare is any kind of severe imbalance between the strength of the groups involved during conflicts. In terms of international relations, asymmetrical warfare can be a problem, or it can be a solution. And it has important implications for international stability.
Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron tells tales of love in many forms, from the tragic to the comedic. The entertaining, and in many cases, joyful stories are unique in mid-fourteenth-century Italian literature, where the plague is one of the...
Through the use of art and primary sources, writers such as Thomas of Celano and Giorgio Vasari and artists such as Lorenzetti and Giotto have been able to explain many aspects of medieval Italy, while staying objective and being able to provide a proper history of the period.
To members of the Christian faith, the Holy Bible is the word of God. It is the text that all Christian morals and values are drawn from. This presents the question, how is God able to convince such a large population that his word is supreme?
Descartes uses his "Meditations on First Philosophy" as a way to argue that god exists. In his third meditation, he lays out two separate arguments for the proof of the existence of god, however several flaws arise with closer reading.