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Has the Constitution outlived its effectiveness? According to William Howell and Terry Moe in Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government and Why We Need a More Powerful President, the Constitution represents outdated ideals of governing. Howell and Moe stress that the institutional design of the Constitution, particularly the powers vested in Congress, limit the capabilities of the American governing system. Congress is ruled by ideologies and congressional members' constituents

Are grades a state of the art method of assessing one 's academic aptitude, or rather, are they an antiquated relic from the Victorian era of teaching? I ask this because as of late, grades have been under heavy scrutiny for corrupting students with the false pretense that good grades are more important than actually absorbing the subject material. The argument that students would rather receive a good grade in a course instead of actually gaining a comprehensive understanding of the subject shouldn

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Bodies, living and dead, play an immense role in Christianity. The body and the relics of bodies are actually able to become places where one can have direct contact with God, but only if there are sanctified (Nachaj, Lecture 12). There are many examples of ways to sanctification including but not limited to, celibacy, poverty, martyrdom, preaching and spreading the gospel, leading communities through teachings, and performing miracles (Nachaj, Lecture 12). Many of these important practices and ways

Question1 Carlos Carrera's 2002 motion picture The Crime of Father Amaro and José Maria De Eça de Queirós' book "The Relic" both discuss topics related to religion and to the hypocrisy that some individuals need to adopt in order to be provided with social acceptance. Society in general is displayed as an environment where people need to employ false attitudes in order for them to appear worthy of their peers' respect. Religion is seemingly one of the most important values in both works and it is

Project: U.S- Cuban Trade: When does a Cold War Strategy Become a Cold War Relic? Able to weather a variety of political leaders, economic events, and historical eras, the U.S. embargo of Cuba is the longest and harshest embargo by one state against another in modern history. Following Castro’s overthrow of the Batista government in 1959 and threats to incite revolutions elsewhere in Latin America, the Unites State cancelled its trade agreement to buy Cuban sugar. Then, following a series of

worshiped relics and used many statues and other pieces of art. Along with the use of relics, the Catholic Church used the bible to teach and preach about God, whereas the protestant Church did not. The second picture is of a church that is mostly empty, this shows the protestant church, because they did not use relics and they focused on their relations with god. In the Protestant Church as seen in the image, relics were not worshiped. Protestants believed that they should not worship relics because

another true cross reliquary around 1320 from Champagne that now is located in the Louvre Museum with the relic still inside. This reliquary is gold platted, but the angles that are holding it up have paint residue on their faces. The sculpted angels mimic the late medieval French style with flowing light drapery and gothic smiles that are tightly thin-lipped. The angels are holding up the relic and lions are holding up the base of the reliquary. Lions symbolize French royalty and are typically depicted

to the various shrines; they were influenced, in part, by furthering their faith through religious relics. Pilgrims sought out relics and saw these pieces of material as much more than

could find to illustrate my point, were the Traveling Relics of Laon Cathedral. The relic stories were accounts of a church’s traveling relics written sometime between 1055-1125 by an abbot called Guibert of Nogent. He wrote them allegedly based on real events and they were intended to be used as examples in sermons. The relic stories detail different miracles stories that were supposed to have happened while the church of Laon took their relics around trying to raise money to rebuild their church