‘Christianity in Britain is almost dead.’ Religion in Britain has suffered an immense decline since the 1950s. In a census done in 2005‚ results show that over 50% say they’re not religious. Yet for some reason about 72% told the 2001 census that they were Christian. 66% of the population have no actual connection to any religion or church‚ despite what they tend to write on official forms. Between 1979 and 2005‚ half of all Christians stopped going to church on a Sunday. That only seemed
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The film‚ Dead Poets Society directed by Peter Weir is about a group of boys who struggle to meet the expectations of their parents‚ school and society. The boys‚ with the help of their new teacher‚ who has very liberal ideas‚ begin to discover who they are. One important conflict is this film is the clash between the restrictions and expectations the boy’s face and the freedom they desire. This conflict helped me to understand how difficult it is to grow and find your true self when faced with such
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Day of the Dead is a very important Hispanic holiday‚ in fact‚ it is one of the biggest of all the Hispanic holidays and most important. Day of the Dead is a combination holiday‚ drawing from the Spanish Conquistadors and the Aztec culture. This all-out bash goes on for three days and is filled with extravagant and long celebrations‚ dressing up in costumes‚ music‚ tasty food‚ and then a serious and somber convening with the dead‚ as tradition has it. This is a way of grieving‚ getting another
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Marx is definitely dead for humankind." Quotations like this come up all the time when questions of radical political and social change are discussed. They can be found in the corporate media‚ especially the blowhard punditocracy. They can be found in textbooks and academic journals. And they can be found--actually‚ more often and with greater acrimony--in discussions on the left‚ among people who agree on many points. A variety of arguments are put forward as evidence--that Karl Marx and Frederick
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SHOULD ALL CRIMINALS BE GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE? Crime and punishment have been a part of society. As criminals are caught and put to justice‚ their moral credentials are reduced so greatly that it is often difficult for them to move up the ranks in society. After all‚ if they have committed a crime once‚ what is there to stop them from doing the same again? Hence‚ should all criminals be given a second chance? A criminal can commit one or more of a variety of crimes‚ depending on the severity
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movie The Evil Dead which came out in 1981‚ and its remake Evil Dead‚ which came out in 2013 have some things in common‚ such as the plot‚ the amount of blood and gore‚ and language but are also unique in their own ways. For example there’s more blood and language in the remake then the original. The comparison between this movie and its remake shows that what is defined as scary and bloody one generation is considered tame and silly by the next. The plot of the original The Evil Dead is that five
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soldier’s bloody death in the trenches. This statement is reminiscent of two First World War poems. Firstly‚ in Disabled‚ Wilfred Owen mentions that the maimed subject of his poem had ‘poured [his blood] down shell-holes’. Secondly‚ Rupert Brooke’s The Dead (i)‚ tells us of men who have ‘poured out the red/Sweet wine of youth’. Both poets and Faulks are reminding their readers that these men did not choose to pour away their blood‚ but have done so metaphorically‚ in that the war has forced them to waste
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were torn between pagan beliefs and Christian values as their predecessors had been. The first literary Epic‚ Beowulf‚ illustrates the struggle between these two ideologies‚ as well as contributes the sought after values of heroism. The Eaters of the Dead also demonstrates this struggle between cultures‚ playing off Beowulf in theme. Excalibur‚ the Arthurian Legend‚ depicts the final battle between Christian and pagan belief‚ Christianity winning out in the end. Epics such as these express their values
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Explication – “For The Union Dead” The first stanza speaks of an old aquarium‚ one that has obviously been abandoned and left to the elements. The second stanza speaks of lost memories‚ perhaps fond ones‚ of the author and the old aquarium when it was still open. The third stanza speaks of lost time and of time marching onto a new (and more often than not‚ not exactly better) tomorrow‚ with new things going up where old things once were. The fourth stanza speaks of the old being torn up and new things being
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The zombie apocalypse is coming‚ The Walking Dead series and Resident Evil movies have played into the public’s fear of turning into the living dead. Over the past 20 years the horror genre of movies and television has exceptionally rose in popularity. Movies like; Zombieland‚ 28 Days Later and Resident Evil have quite a following. “Television has started recently following this trend as well‚ by airing shows like The Walking Dead.”³ Television has filled a wide gap by filling the horror
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