Control beliefs and spirituality appear to be important factors in recovery from alcoholism. However, the integration of these two constructs has received little attention, and the relationship of spiritually related control beliefs to recovery remains unclear. Currently no measures exist to specifically assess these beliefs. To address this need, the Alcohol-Related God Locus of Control scale ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is largely organized around its explicit reference to Milton’s retelling of Genesis 2–3, Paradise Lost. Unfortunately, this Milton has discouraged scholars from going back the Old Testament itself. In fact, novel contains three crucial biblical allusions. Most obvious, course, are allusions creation (Genesis 1–3), which contain details not found in epic. The biblical...

One of unpleasant features in human being is boredom which can affect all steps of individual and social life of people such as act of worship, religious, military, social relationship and so on. As a result of this, an individual or society will encounter with a crisis. Some of reasons of boredom such as lack of remembrance of God, lack of knowledge of himself/herself, love of this world, envy...

A. Cosmological proof of the Existence of God In the 3rd Meditation, Descartes attempts to prove that God (i) exists, (ii) is the cause of the essence of the meditator (i.e. the author of his nature as a thinking thing), and (iii) the cause of the meditator's existence (both as creator and conserver, i.e. the cause that keeps him in existence from one moment to the next). The proof that God exi...

In Zeiten von Web 2.0 finden immer mehr Aktivitäten ortsund zeitunabhängig über das Internet statt. Lerninhalte und Aufgabentexte in einem Wiki aufzubereiten, um sowohl Schülern und Schülerinnen als auch anderen Lehrpersonen die gemeinsame Nutzung zu ermöglichen, ist keine Seltenheit mehr. Hier wird beschrieben, wie Wikis durch Software-Erweiterungen auch als interaktive Lernumgebungen genutzt ...