Essays on Religious Belief

The battle of culture and beliefs versus nursing profession

The nursing professional is consistently challenged with science and cultural beliefs of patients. A patients set of religious and personal beliefs could interfere with the nurses’ empirical and scientific knowledge (Ammouri, et al. 2015). In a culturally diverse globe, many beliefs act as barriers in performing necessary medical interventions. Nurses may play a crucial but minimal role in such cases of cultural and religious belief. In emergency care and life-threatening situations, some religions do not permit for medical procedures which puts the attending nurse in a dilemma between cultural beliefs and ethical conduct. However, in most cases, nurses are ...

Sexual Behavior in People.

In some cultures sexual orientation is prohibited by the laws and religion until marriage. In other cultures it is expected that sexual behaviors between partners be of different genders and not the same. Depending on how one is raised going against the teachings and political aspects could be misconstrued as a sin or illegal act. In the same sense both religion and law can define how the individual should approach a partner with a sexual attitude. It can also define how to avoid certain behaviors based on beliefs or a belief system. The following paragraphs will delve into this ...

A.) Daisy can file an unfair dismissal complaint against her previous employer, The Chopping Block. As an employee for 14 years with the company covering the years 2002 and 2016, there was no justification for her dismissal based on the grounds of for lateness and rudeness to staff and customers in February 2016. In fact, Daisy was not given a fair notice that the question of her dismissal for incapacity was being considered by the employer, and she was not afforded an opportunity of being heard or to explain her side. The reinstatement of the discharged employee is the ...

Authority

The examination of the different characters in The Song of Ronald reveals the hierarchy of authority in the Early Medieval society. This epic poem showed that the people believed in God, though king Marsilie was known not to love God, but instead “worships Mahomet and calls upon Apollin” (Ronald 2). God occupies the highest position, and based on the readings, the loyalty of those who believed in him are answered favorably. For instance, on his way to avenge his men, Charles prayed that the Lord God will cause the sun to stop on its course and this was granted ...

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999 founded the Jamāʻat al-Tawḥīd wa-al-Jihād which is the present day ISIL. Initially, the organization pledged support to the Al Qaeda and fought alongside them against the Multinational force which invaded Iraq in 2003 (Spark 3). In 2006, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi died and the remnants of his militant organization founded the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). Subsequent leadership who had the ability to keep the group aligned to the ideology of Al Qaeda died in US led attacks (Spark 4). Eventually, the Al Qaeda, in 2014 realized it could no longer keep ...

Throughout the history of the world hitherto, monotheistic religions have been the source of numerous discordant debates more so in critical life and death moments regarding patient care. A patient’s religious or personal beliefs remains a hindrance in the provision of healthcare services despite the mercurial rise in scientific research leading to evidence based practice. The existence of different religious beliefs means that the belief systems of patients are equally varied and thus providing certain medical procedures and care to patients is a challenge as Mendes, (2015) opines. Medical practitioners and nursing professionals working with diverse patients having ...

Informative Speech: Unearthing Voodoo’s True Relevance to Erase the Historic Misinformation

- Specific Purpose: To enlighten the audience specifically young White Americans regarding the true nature and relevance of Voodoo - Introduction: - Most people believe in religions. - The discrimination of dominant race and religion to other relatively minority religions like Voodoo. Transition: Ask the audience especially those from White race regarding their notions on Voodoo. Give examples of wrong notions. The speaker accepts having judged the Voodoo without gathering facts to support the judgement. - Body - Voodoo is a religion not only of African-Americans nowadays. It is already widely spread across the ...

In this paperwork, response paper 1, I am going to handle four questions.

Define and describe ethnography. Explain how it is used as a method in Anthropology. Ethnography is defined as a qualitative research method that is used most often in social sciences, such as sociology and anthropology (Brewer, 2000). Ethnography is, thus, used by cultural anthropologists to learn another culture. Ethnography is a unique method, since it does not rely on statistical data for it is more on recounting an occurrence in the social world and the personal lives of the community. Ethnography method is adopted by anthropologists, since they believe that it gives efficient result when compared to other methods. The anthropologists ...

According to different religious beliefs, spirituality has taken various definitions. For example, spirituality in the healing process is defined as a power that is greater than oneself operating in the universe. Spirituality has also been termed as the link between all creatures, knowing the reason and meaning of life and developing ones absolute and personal values. Through spirituality, many individuals find the meaning of comfort, inner peace in one's life, and hope. According to religious beliefs, spirituality is often attributed to religious life. On the contrary, most people believe in the development of personal spirituality outside religious life. For instance, ...

Is Buddhism consistent with the American Values?

Buddhism is a religion that dates back between the 6th and the century where it was mostly a belief among the people of the subcontinent of India. The teaching of the Buddhism religion was widely based on their teacher who was referred to as Buddha. Buddha means the awakened one who provided members of the community with teachings that were meant to enlighten them and end the ignorance while giving them knowledge on how to live their lives in a positive way. There existed sub-branches in the Buddhism religion that were composed of the school of elders (Theravada) and the great vehicle ( ...

Abstract

The first article majorly focuses on the factors that lead to the lengthening of the duration of the civil war between the government and the rebel protagonists. Many factors are taken into account. This paper is based on the religious and spiritual factors that influence the decision making of a legislator. It majorly emphasizes on the facts that the religious belief of the legislator, the religious credence of the citizens and the spiritual views of the board of the legislator mainly influence the decision making regarding the state. It also focuses on the transition towards democracy, its sustainability and importance ...

The concept that is covered in the article Right to Refuse Treatment presents its readers with the possible refusal of medical treatment as a patient's wish even if it includes the refusal of medical treatment that can lead to death. However, the refusal of the suggested treatment can be provided only if the patient is fully introduced with the potential risk from withdrawing from medical treatment. Even though the right to refuse medical treatment may sound fair and justified, it might be difficult to control emotions and watch a patient die due to some religious belief and some other conviction. This ...

Introduction

‘The Planet of the Apes’ is an American science fiction film released in the year 1968. On the surface, the sci-fi film tells the tale of a post-apocalyptic universe where apes have evolved and essentially taken control of a world seemingly destroyed by human beings. However, a deeper analysis reveals that the film is charged with various political allegories about the social struggles and allegories of the time. The film explores serious issues including violence, race, religion, prejudice as well as the pathologies of power. The film is premised on a classic reversal of the slave-master relations, whereby humans are massively oppressed by ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century. His philosophy influenced not only the various sections of philosophical knowledge, thereby extending its reach and scope, but also the development of such sciences as logic, mathematics, linguistics, the list of which is not complete. Moreover, if the twentieth century largely passed under the sign of the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, in Wittgenstein's philosophy this century got its most profound understanding. It is all the more ironic that the philosopher did not leave a special essay on social philosophy and philosophy of history. ...

Classic English Literature

Factors that Influence Food Habit and Culture Introduction Besides shelter and clothing, food is one of the basic necessities of humans, but it is not just simple. Food also serves as a way for people to get together as well as to show their culture. Different cultures gave different eating habits. Thus, there are many factors that affect people’s culture and food habits. Some of the factors that affect the human food habit and culture may include some determinants such as social, psychological, religious, and even the economic influences. People’s eating habits are considered reason why ...

Introduction

El, Canaanite creator deity is a Canaanite based renowned sculpture used to represent God. The sculpture is made of bronze in addition to a gold leaf. The statute dates back to the late bronze age that is, between 1400-1200 BC. The sculpture is found at Megiddo, stratum VII. To me the sculpture is an abstract representation of God as it is depicted by the hat and the beard in the statue and I tend to think the work of this art is complex as the statue holds a blossom using his single hand as he has lost the other hand. I think ...

Introduction

Henry VIII, Elizabeth 1st and James 1st are among the most prominent monarchs in the history. A common factor among the three British royals is their strong religious belief. As heads of the British crown, their religious affiliation had a tremendous impact in their governance considering their high influence to their subjects as monarchs. The royal’s religious belief constitutes a significant impact to the life of their subjects, which will be discussed in the following section. The religious belief of the three aforementioned rulers are significantly attributed to life and death of their subjects as religious following is an enormously significant ...

HLT-310V Spirituality in Health

Different faiths and religious beliefs have different avenues to the issue of health care. Emphasis is placed on the location and the personality of the individual offering the service. There is a need for nurses and other members of the professional team to displays a good understanding of the different faiths with a view to understanding their position on the matter of health care provision. Some religious groups have no belief in healing from health care providers, whereas some others believe in both healing from health care providers and their own faith in healing. It is therefore imperative for the health care ...

Introduction

The plaintiff, Marisa Bailey, respectfully moves for summary judgment. Summary judgment should be granted on count 1, her claim for violation of the Establishment Clause and on count 2, for her right to Free Exercise of Religion under the First Amendment of U.S. Constitution due to the actions of the defendant. Under the applicable constitutional tests, the undisputed facts compel a judgment as a matter of law for both counts.

Statement of Facts

For the purposes of this motion, the following facts are undisputed: 1. Marisa Bailey is a student in her senior year of attending the James River High School overseen by defendant, ...

An Appealing Answer Defeated by Assumptions

In his book, Think, Blackburn summarizes the major approaches to justifying the existence of God (1999, pp. 152-185). In each case, major weaknesses are identified in the thinking process that makes the final proof elusive. However, the next approach to this problem he presents is appealing. If philosophy cannot develop an approach to convincingly justify the existence of God and support belief in God in that way, perhaps it can formulate reasons for why it is logical to believe in God by examining the various outcomes of believing or not believing. This logic would be useful even without absolute ...

Introduction

Different faiths and religious beliefs have different approaches to the issue of health care. Emphasis is placed on the location and the personality of the individual offering the service. There is a need for nurses and other members of the professional team to displays a good understanding of the different faiths with a view to understanding their position on the issue of health care provision. Some religious groups have no belief in healing from health care providers, while some others believe in both healing from health care providers and their own faith in healing. It is therefore imperative for the health care ...

The relationship between Christianity, the principal religious belief of the West, and Islam, the predominant religion of the East, has been in the limelight in contemporary times. The fundamentalism and terrorism having got intertwined and the governmental body too referring to the war against terrorism as the Holy Crusade, the issue now needs to be comprehended and the essential contrasts and similarities between the two pivotal religious beliefs need to be put under a scanner. It needs to be taken into account in the inception that both the religions are monotheistic. Both the religions describe God as the paramount creator ...

SOC313: Social Implications of Medical Issues

Introduction Hypertension contributes to a number of diseases. As per studies about 26% people of the world totaling about 1 billion in number are afflicted with hypertension (Kearney et. al). Since a large segment of the world population is expected to grow older by 2025, hypertension is likely to increase in the world within next 15 years. In the US, currently a recorded number of 73 million people are suffering from hypertension. Hypertension is regarded as the silent killer because people suffering from it do not show any external symptoms. Hypertension hardens arteries resulting in the higher risk for cardiovascular diseases, ...

Part 1: Introduction

Across the world, there are many religions (e.g., Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, etc.) . Some people cannot just imagine that if there is only one true God, why is it that they are divided as to what they believe in. Is not that all individuals came only from one source - God? Contrariwise, there are people who will not agree to the former statements because they believe that there are many gods; yes, lots of them. They will not accept it that we all came only from one source. There are people on earth that even believe that there ...

Psychology

Abstract Men are a social group, and every other person should expect to be treated as they treat others. However, how one relates to others can be attributed to their upbringing as well as factors such as religion. For people to understand one another and co-exist in harmony, factors of culture, religion and race have to be appreciated in a positive manner, and should not be reasons for a group of people to be judged in a certain manner. Disregarding this brings forth vices in the society, as people fright to be regarded in respect that they feel they deserve. Religion, culture ...

For centuries, calling someone an atheist has been intended as an insult. Only a few centuries ago, admitting to being an atheist was to open oneself to severe consequences. For example, one of the greatest British poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was expelled from Oxford University after he and a fellow student published the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism in 1811 (Jager). In 2013, a student stating publicly that he or she is an atheist is unlikely to be expelled from a university, unless the university is a private religious institution. Yet there are still some serious consequences to a public declaration of atheism. One only ...

The issue of religion has become a controversial issue in the working environments. Employees want the people to work so that they can benefit to the maximum. However, employees are demanding some freedom to exercise their religious beliefs. In the case McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, an employer was required to allow the employee not to work on a sunday. The plaintiff in this case was required by the employee to report to work on Sunday. When he failed to do so, he was taken to the court for breach of employment contract. The employee had the intention to dismiss the ...

In Moliere's Tartuffe, the titular character is a rogueish, villainous cad who takes advantage of the kind but naive patriarch Orgon. Orgon as a character is difficult to defend; much of the play involves other characters attempting to wake him up to Tartuffe's blatant and transparent hypocrisy. However, Orgon continually excuses Tartuffe's behavior or does not believe his family members, choosing to buy into the con artist's charms. Some may see that Orgon is the hopeless, hapless pawn, the obstacle that gets in the way of stopping Tartuffe from taking complete advantage of the family; despite this naivete, Orgon has a great ...

Introduction

Through the years, the western and eastern religions have been regarding women differently. For example, some religions regard women as goddess-like figure as they believe that they are the most holy creatures. On the contrary, other religions view women as insignificant hence denying them some important rights. Both Eastern and Western religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islamic all have differing roles for women. However, the religions remained to keep a few part of their roles similar. Each of the mentioned religion equips women with specific duties to fulfill as well as differing values for women. I choose to ...

Hate Crimes in North Carolina

Hate crimes are among the major type of crime committed out of bias and act of discrimination. In the United States, hate crimes prevail because of the differences in ideologies and cultural beliefs. However, the reasons and method of committing hate crimes vary from one state to another. In this paper, North Carolina would be the center of the topic surrounding hate crimes because of the many factors that would point out the state to be one of the places plagued by such crime. The definition and quick overview about hate crimes would be presented together with statistical data ...

Introduction

Ethics is important in every organization since it has positive impacts on the organization, its employees and the organization’s performance. Ethics vary from one organization to the other. This is because each organization formulates its own policies and ethical requirements. Organizational culture also varies from one organization to the other. On the other hand, discrimination is any form of segregation in an organization based on race, gender, age, ability or knowledge.

Ethics guides employees on how to maintain professionalism and avoid issues that may cause unrest in the workplace. Ethics can determine the success of an organization in ...

ANSWERS ON ESSAY QUESTIONS REGARDING HISTORY

FURTHER LOOK AT HISTORY

Religious Diversity in the Indian Society

C.N. Venugopal, Religion and Indian Society (New Delhi, India: Gyan Publishing House, 1998), p. 30.

G.S. Ramesh, Philosophy of Indian Society (New Delhi, India: Global Vision Publishing House, 2005), p. 14.

India is considered to be of many religious belief systems around the world. Besides, most of the major religions throughout human history originated from Indian culture. Nevertheless, as with the case of other religious beliefs, these diverse religions are based on either the political, cultural, or social perspectives of their founder(s).

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Human sciences and natural sciences are classically known as being factually-based knowledge and, as such, they are sufficiently convincing enough to be held in high esteem by academics and the average member of the public alike. The purpose of this essay is to explore why this is the case and what exactly happens to make it so. In truth, the sciences can only ever provide us with theories although this is becoming less and less true as scientific evidence is increasingly easy to produce. However, it seems prudent to explore why we still put so much faith into these ...

Agnosticism refers to the system of belief whereby individuals are skeptic about the existence of certain truths. The system mainly focuses on the issue that nothing which is commonly believed is actually known. This religious belief is wholly against the beliefs of other religions. The existence of any form of deity in other religions is often the chief cause of the difference whereby agnosticism comes into play. The religious entity of this aspect is that the belief of existence of certain deity is not specifically known.

Animism refers to the idea or belief that some non-human entities or even ...

The religion called Buddhism is founded on the teachings of one Gautama Siddhartha. This man is commonly referred to as the Buddha which means the one who is awakened. Like most other religions, Buddhism is not only considered a religion by its followers but also a way of life and a philosophy which encompasses several traditions and practices (Haynes 25). According to historical documents, the time that the Buddha conducted his teachings was between the 4th and 6th centuries. The Buddha is recognized by his followers as one who had been awakened and consequently one who had escaped the pathway of rebirth ...

Introduction

The previous ten years have experienced a rise in awareness and sensitization on the negative effects of discrimination among the people living in Ireland. This has been clearly mirrored in the formulation and enactment of equality legislations and the consequent establishment of bodies such as the Equality Authority and the Equality Tribunal. Discrimination occurs when an individual or a group of persons is/are treated less favourably than others due to their religious belief, sexual orientation, ethnic group or ‘race’-skin colour, disability, family status, marital status, gender and/ or member of traveller community, which are the nine fundamental grounds of discrimination. ...