Realm Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

I have chosen Buddhism as the worldview to analyze. As there are two schools of Buddhism, rather than focusing on one school, I tried to incorporate the concepts that both schools follow.

Origin

In Buddhism, life has no beginning or end. There could not have been a beginning out of nothing. Instead, there is a cycle of life called Samsara. The cycle is continuous and consists of births and deaths. There is a story told by Buddha that to a man who asked him about the origin of life. Buddha explained in parable that a man was shot by a ...

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In a multi-domain forest, there are six different types of trusts that include parent-child, tree-root, external, realm, forest and shortcut trusts. Each of these trusts is further classified into transitive and non-transitive types with either one-way or two-way directions. The communication between different domains occurs only through establishing one of the different types of trusts. The default trusts (parent-child and tree-root) are automatically created at the time of active directory installation ("How Domain and Forest Trusts Work: Domain and Forest Trusts", 2014).
Apart from the default trusts, ...

Paul Heyer begins the work on the history of communication from the analysis of his understanding of the Enlightenment as a separate period and of its historical value. He points out that John Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding can be chosen as an indicator to frame the period of Enlightenment. He continues the thought about the Age of Reason claiming that for the first time science and reason focused on the comprehensive examination of elements of human nature, society and history. Such point of view tended to differentiate itself from the theological and abstract metaphysical systems that took place ...

The wonderful and imaginative world of popular stories is not complete without magic. Whether it is the conventional western fairy tale Cinderella or the Arabian nights classic Alâ’ al-Dîn, magic lends an elusive touch that transforms the situation and makes dreams come true .In most popular fairytales magical creatures either cast spells on characters or run around transforming their lives. This is true in both western and Arabian mythical tales. Magic often construed as the ability to understand and manipulate the hidden forces of nature, runs rife in the thousand and one stories that form a part of the ...

Zora Neale Hurston and Marita Bonner are often associated with Harlem Renaissance of 1920s. Their views on the race problem differ greatly from the views of male African American writers, and sometimes even contradict them, as the ideas of female writers of those times also incorporate the ideas of gender and being a colored woman. The movement for the rights of colored people and the rights of women has inspired the appearance of the whole range of works concerning the perspectives on the issue. The two essays, “How It Feels Like to Be a Colored Me” written by Zora ...

Introduction

Karen Warren coined the term “Ecofeminism” in explaining the logic of domination where the notion of people’s control over nature as a whole is wrong and for the same reason that the subordination of women to the will of men is also wrong. According to argument, feminists should object to the idea domination because subordination of women and domination over nature both represents the logic of domination. On the other hand, the asserted claim of twin domination encompasses several issues. In this discussion, Warren’s logic of domination and the concept of ecofeminism will be examined by explaining ...

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In Robin Evans’s “In Front of lines that leave Nothing Behind,” the writer argues that architectural reviewers tend to perceive architecture as forms of “iconology” that needs to be examined to determine the “meaning” that exists “behind, beneath, or within” the “subjects” that they are critiquing (482). Furthermore, Evans explains that the “critic” or architectural reviewer often goes in “search of origins, essences, intentions, motives, causes” of the “appearances” presented by an architectural design (482). However, one may not always depend on the “architect’s” “intention” to “orient” his work “towards us,” especially as ...

English

The Origin of Slender Man
Slender Man is a ‘mythical creature often depicted as a tall, thin figure wearing a black suit and a blank face”(Parkinson). In myths and legends, Slender Man can stretch and shorten his arms akin to tentacles. The myth of Slender Man was born in modern times in June 2009, when a the comedy web forum ‘Something Awful’ asked for entries suggesting ideas for a modern myth which would terrify people. In response, Eric Knudsen, using the pseudonym of Victor Surge, morphed photographs belonging to the 1980s to create a tall, sinister looking figure ...

Introduction

Kataphatic
The one true master
The man of peace
The Father of lights and Eternal Father
Primary being
Good
Apophatic
Peace beyond all understanding
Simple and perfect
Boundless
Conclusion
Kataphatic theology is when positive terms are used to describe God while Apophatic theology uses negative terms to describe God. Saint Bonaventure was a Franciscan friar (Noone and Houser 1), the Cardinal Bishop of Albano, the seventh (Bonaventure 54; prologue 2) Minister General of the Franciscan order (Friar Minor) and in 1482 was canonized as a doctor of the Church (the ...

Introduction: Bonaventure and Ps-Dionysius

Ascent of the soul
God is the cause of all things
Love, prayer and union with God
Conclusion
Discussion prompts 2: Franciscans, Ascent, Apophaticism and Kataphaticism.
Bonaventure was one of the later theologians to advance the Franciscans tradition, together with Robert Grosseteste and after John Scottus Eriugena (Corrigan and Harrington 1). Ps-Dionysius the Areopagite was quite a notable influence in Saint Bonaventure’s writings, philosophically and theologically. Bonaventure referred to Ps-Dionysius as the “prince of mystics”. Saint Bonaventure advanced the Platonizing and mystical mode of speculation just like Ps-Dionysius. To Bonaventure, the intellectual element is ...

In his book, Martel is trying to express his views on truth and reason. Through the two different accounts of the survival journey of Pi, Martel tries to explore the nature of truth. In his views truth is greater than reason and sensory capabilities, and sometimes to understand the truth better, one has to go beyond reason and empirical devices. He presents his readers with two stories in order to establish that truth is not all about objective rationality; it is closely linked to how one interprets reality. He unequivocally believes that truth is not always determined by the ...

Introduction

Philosophy has and remains to be one of the most pivotal pillar that aids the understanding of various phenomenon. While this is true, it is sad the scope and origin of philosophy is never appreciated in the educational realm. A close analysis of schooling across various contexts shows that education dogma has often been perceived to be western dogma. This is not true based on the primary fact that philosophy, which forms the basis of education can be traced to the ancient Greek times. It is on this basis that Greek philosophy should be considered a tradition, which should be ...

Abstract

Mamluk history is divided into two periods based on different dynastic lines: the Bahri Mamluks of Qipchaq Turkic, and the Burji Mamluks of Caucasian Circassian origin. After receiving instruction in Arabic, the fundamentals of Islam, and the art of warfare, slaves in the royal barracks were manumitted and given responsibilities in the Mamluk hierarchy. The following is a brief discussion of the rise and fall of the dynasty of these slave warriors.

Introduction

The Mamluks, originally bands of slave warriors, were the rulers Egypt and Syria from the year 1250 until 1517 AD; their dynasty brought down by the Ottomans after. ...

In Toni Morrison's 1997 novel Paradise, the town of Ruby, Oklahoma is an all-black town that has been established to separate themselves from the tyranny of the white man in Civil Rights-Era America. In order to escape the shackles of exploitation, the community that established (and maintains) Ruby ends up creating a world that is completely free of whites. However, in the process, a whole new realm of discrimination and victimizing occurs, in the form of cutting down on 'contamination,' remaining inside the family lines while creating new generations, and maintaining a strict religious, moral and social standard that everyone must ...

Intuition and judgement: A critical analysis

Intuition plays a role, big or small, in many of the decisions made by humans in their day to day life. Intuition is on the subconscious end of reasoning and is thus inexplicable in normal logical terms many a times. The very definition of the term ‘intuition’ says that it is the “knowledge acquired from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning”. This is why intuition is regarded an activity of the right side of the brain and is said to play a good part in developing aesthetic nature in man. It is thus, easy to see, how intuition plays a role in many ...