Essays on Believe

A motto is a guiding principle to someone’s life, or a short saying that they go by. Some people may have many mottos they go by. However, I have three most important mottos that I believe in. Which are “Talk is cheap, until you hire...

Has anyone ever told you I think I’m a pretty good person so I’ll go to heaven. This kind of view is not biblical. No one is perfectly good. Today I will be making three points about the topic “Analyze and respond to the statement...

God being defined as the unknown and absolutely different emphasizes the lack of ability to comprehend Him. God is able to make Himself understood by man through various approaches. The first approach being that He could create a unity through an ascent, where He would...

Henry David Thoreau was a famous American transcendentalist who turned to the environment for inspiration. Thoreau built a cabin at Walden Pond and lived there alone for a little over two years before he published his book, Walden, which was about his time spent living...

Climacus is not attempting to persuading readers to accept another thought system different from their own, especially one reflecting his beliefs. His goals are for the reader to distance oneself away from the dependency on others’ opinions to allow for a margin of own opinion....

Many people believe that the biggest problems in this world right now are poverty, religious conflicts, and even global warming. Well, it’s not. The biggest problem that people face today is greed. When people use the word “greed,” they automatically think of money. It can...

In modern day American society, people are expected to abide by certain unspoken social rules-social norms. In “How We Believe”, from Acting Out Culture, several authors take their audiences through different sections of social norms to explain where these social rules and norms came from...

A child raised by a Buddhist mother and a Christian father may cause some confusion to him or her in what is real, what is right, and what is wrong. Growing up, there might not be any religion enforced upon the child. If the parents...

The purpose of this article is to summarize a discussion about a new idea brought by William Clifford, the evidentialism, and the answer (or critique) of William James’s about this concept in a discussion between the two philosophers. With Clifford’s text “The Ethics of Belief”...

No one can deny the unmistakable progress society has made in the past couple centuries. Over the years, men have bestowed women with the honor to vote. Word on the street is, they are now eligible to manage their own businesses and even own property....

Believe: A Campaign Analysis In 2007 while the xbox 360 was just starting to take off in sales two years after its debut, the “Believe” ad campaign was launched, ready for the final two weeks before the release of the video game Halo 3. With...