Ants Among Elephants Summary

In Dennis Covington’s book Salvation on Sand Mountain and David Haberman’s Journey Through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna, we get two very different experiences of researches stepping into a world of different religion and perspectives than their own. While both Haberman and Covington focus on a certain religion and the traditions of its followers, Haberman does a better job with presenting an accurate representation of Hinduism and the Braj pilgrimage. This is because Covington’s book delves too deeply into his personal journey and opinion without explaining any details or history of Christianity and the snake-handling, while Haberman gives the reader history of Hinduism and the significance of the Braj pilgrimage.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a reflection on the field trip to the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago. After a brief Introduction to the Context, the Watercress tool will be used to highlight my observations.

Before I read Stephen Prothero’s God Is Not One, I did not know much about Hinduism. For me, Hinduism conjured the images of bright colors, richly adorned statues, and jovial worship and dance. When we visited the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, that is exactly what I saw. Yet, now I know the reason for all these things. Although Hinduism is a largely varying tradition, it is namely about love and celebration. Given the evidence from Prothero’s book and my observations at the Ganesh Temple, Hinduism is a tradition that aims to gives purpose to human’s wandering souls through devote worship to deities and rituals.

We Are the Ants, by Shaun David Hutchinson, plunges readers into the world of Henry Denton, a teenager plagued by a hideous reputation as “Space Boy” due to continued alien abductions. Henry, an average teen except for this one fact, endures name-calling, bullying, a physical attack and more, as he tries to survive in the daily grind at Calypso High School.

Within any community, it is safe to say that the goal of maintaining a society that prospers on for many years is common. Establishing order is key to developing a prosperous society. Order, whether it be defined as assigning roles in society, or establishing a set of rules to maintain control, can be done through various approaches. The pondering question however lies in what is the best approach to establish order. This common question has been prominent throughout time, and has been debated in government and society. The debate in how society should establish order regularly results in contrasting opinions. In the essay "The Myth of the Ant Queen," by Steven Johnson, and in the excerpt “The Code of Hammurabi” from Society and Law in Ancient Babylonia, two distinct approaches to establishing order in society are discussed. I believe that through strict reinforcements, order in society can be established. In the essay “Man’s Nature is Evil” by Hsun Tzu, the human nature in society helps explain why strict reinforcements is the most efficient way to establish order. In Steven Johnson’s essay “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” he describes an interesting way in how the establishment of order arises. He argues that society can build itself up and maintain order without the need of a ruler or a set of laws. Through the observation of ants and how they behave in their environment, he explains how ants are able to establish an intricate yet simple

Martha Stout, within “When I Woke Up Tuesday, it was Friday”, elaborates on the idea of dissociation and its implications on levels of consciousness. Meanwhile, in “The Myth of the Ant Queen”, Steven Johnson explains the concept of self-organizing systems which describes how systems form to have patterns of order. These self-organized systems are formed unconsciously and are able to be seen within everyday life. Dissociation and its effects are both conscious and unconscious. Both dissociating brains and self-organizing systems have specific patterns when in specific circumstances, implying brains are self-organizing as well as giving increased insight into the psychology and workings of the human brain.

In the world of the “Electric Ant” by Phillip K. Dick, electric ants, or organic robots, appear to be commonplace in society as the hospital get few of them every week. The most human AI that I have seen this semester is Garson Poole. Mr. Poole is designs to be human manager of his creator’s company so he will possess the greatest human characteristics out of the other AI characters I have talk about before and after him despite being an electric ant. Beside Mr. Poole’s ability to control his reality with micro tape in his chest cavity and requiring an engineer to fix him if he is damaged, he appears to be no different any other human. No one in the story seems to notice he is not human before he found out he is electric ant. Mr. Poole has

In 2012, 16259 people in the United States were murdered and another 1.8 million people were sent to the hospital due to assault. Humans resorting to violence and harming others is a daily occurrence, but why? Is it in our nature, are we instinctively violent, and why is it that these acts are not only happening in the United States but worldwide. Although the average person does not leave their home planning on harming somebody that day, under the right circumstances almost every single person in this world will commit an act of violence. Sometimes these acts are justified, such as when we are trying to protect ourselves or a loved one, but what about the smaller acts that we all do every day.

The religious history of India is long and complex. Hinduism was the first known religion to permeat India and the surrounding area. A couple thousand years later, Buddhism originated as a reformation of Hinduism–rejecting its caste system and deities–and began to rearrange the religious status of India. Today, Eastern Asia is divided between Buddhism and Hinduism. Only Nepal employs both religions, considering them inextricably linked. The history and current situation of the relationship between Hinduism and Buddhism begs the question: Can Buddhism exist in a Hindu society in a way that fulfills each religion? Huston Smith’s The World’s Religions and the Buddhist Scriptures each contribute to this controversial conversation. Despite strong arguments for the conjunction of the two religions and the similarities they share, the philosophical and categorical difference between the two demonstrates a tension better than it does a cohesion.

Hinduism is a very broad term that encompasses a multitude of different backgrounds, traditions, beliefs, and practices. Hinduism, as we know it today, has gone through many changes. To fully understand how Hinduism became as it is currently, knowledge of its development over the course of history is essential. This paper will demonstrate the primary shifts of its central beliefs, practices, and goals between periods of Early Vedic, Late Vedic, and Classical Hinduism.

Hinduism is one of the most diverse religions still practiced today. They are an adaptive religion, often taking in the local Gods of its followers, leading to many branches of the religion that occur much like dialects within a language. Although it is difficult to catalog all of the Hindu Gods and Goddesses, there is estimated to be over 300 million of them. It is common for people unfamiliar with the religion to generalize all those living on the Indian subcontinent as “Hindu”, since they are usually not aware of the many religions that are practiced in India, and how similar they can be. This generalization can trace its roots back to imperial British rule of the country. In an attempt to offer their colony representation in Parliament, a census was taken of the colony to offer representation based on religion. The census did not allow for the diversity of belief that occurs under the Hindu

India is a country full of mysteries and differences. It has a long history, a profound yet unique culture, with diversified nationalities, races, religions, languages and a huge population. The pursuit of secularism and inveteracy of sectarianism have brought huge influence to the Indian society. As the mainstream culture in India, Hinduism plays an important role in the Indian society and has dominated almost 2000 years of its history. Although in the following years since, the Indian culture gradually becomes a combination of different races, religions and languages, Hinduism still remains to be the key to dig into the development of the culture and society of India.

In this paper I will be discussing how Hinduism was originally developed, what their beliefs are, and the spread of Hinduism today. Overall Geography played a huge role in the development and spreading of this religion and

Hinduism is most commonly found in the Eastern hemisphere, primarily in the country of India. However, a new addition to the Ames/Des Moines area in the state of Iowa has been added. A Hindu temple has recently gone up, and for visitors, it may be their very first glance at the Hindu religion. The religion itself is a complex system most commonly identified with different gods, goddesses, idols, comics, history, metaphors, and structures.

In India, there are views that are not available in America. Since India is mostly rural, there are sights that are like no other. In other countries, the beauty of nature is deluded by human creations. Still, every place has its own type of beauty, India's beauty is intangible. The sights can only be experienced, not described. These sights can't be found anywhere else.