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Thoughts On John Dewey's "Experience and Education"

In Experience and Education, John Dewey attempted to lay a foundation explaining what constitutes progressive education. From the time he started to explore progressive education in practice when he...

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Thoughts on Anthony Burgess' "Is America Falling Apart?"

 Anthony Burgess wrote "Is America Falling Apart?" to highlight the faults of America with the hope that America would change rather than disintegrate. The central theme of his essay was that America was too...

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Egocentricity And Sociocentricity In The Church

 "Our tendency to think with ourselves at the center of the world" and "our tendency to think within the confines of our social groups" are the definitions for egocentricity and sociocentricity as defined by...

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Following God to the Best of My Ability Versus Expecting Others to Follow God Like Me

Each of us should be following God with complete sacrifice, but our journey of sacrifice is limited by what we understand that God wants from us. If you think the command to the rich young ruler to sell all...

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Thoughts On Jean-Paul Sartre's "Existentialism"

Sartre's thesis is that existentialism is the belief that we are defined by our actions and we are only what our actions reveal. If I claimed to be a loving person but spent all of my time selfishly trying to...

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Miracles, Mary, Perceptions, Getting Scared, and God's Plan for our Lives

Seeing an angel appear at the foot of my bed and speak to me would be terrifying. I’m a little paranoid and am scared to death of certain things. This year, while mowing, I encountered a garter snake and...

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Best Freeware to Speed Up Your Computer and More

My computer, which celebrated its first birthday a few weeks ago, was lagging terribly.  If possible, I try to not pay for my software.  I play around with a lot of freeware registry cleaners, firewalls,...

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Abortion - How Both Sides Misunderstand Each Other

 The very nature of government is to pass laws. When a law is passed it inevitably limits the rights of someone in order to protect other people's rights. Every law limits the rights of someone. For...

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Thoughts On Paul Theroux's "Being A Man"

According to Theroux, the concept of manhood is to "be stupid, be unfeeling, obedient, soldierly, and stop thinking" (233). In defining manhood in such a negative light, he makes us probe into the question of...

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The Biblical Requirements of Elders

The issue of the requirements for church leaders becomes a divisive issue in some churches. In this article, we will begin by looking at the most quoted verses on the subject and then examine what they...

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