Read the full text of the short story "The Venial Sin" by Honore de Balzac.

Text of the short story "Reginald on Besetting Sins" by H. H. Munro. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Read the full text of the short story The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope by H. H. Munro. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

This article discusses the evolving issues of racism against the aborigines of Australia.

In this activity, students explore a right angled triangle and its trigonometric concepts. They investigate the trigonometric ratios for the angles of the triangle.

An academic essay describing the ways in which "religion is an active if not a determinative" cause for the American Revolution. The essay describes three influential areas: (1) religion and liberty, (2) religion and community, and (3)...

A complete reference guide to the sine function. It provides definitions, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.

This media gallery explores the inspiration for and reception of "The Crucible" during the Hollywood Blacklist with videos from the American Masters film "None Without Sin." The videos and support materials are best used during or after...

This video and support materials detail the Hollywood blacklist and House Un-American Activities Committee, chronicling the fear of Communism and resulting blacklist based on political ideology. The video is from the American Masters...

These videos and support materials explore the intense division experienced by those who testified before and blacklisted by HUAC during the Cold War, focusing on the testimony of Elia Kazan. The videos are from American Masters None...

Burning incense sticks at Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong)

Wong Tai Sin Temple entrance gate (Hong Kong)

Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong)

The religious beliefs in Sumer correlated with nature and agriculture. Read some of their religious stories to better understand their society and compare these stories to well-known Bible stories from today. A bibliography and pictures...

An image of "Sin", created by Franz Von Stuck in 1893 (Oil on canvas, 88 x 52 cm).

This MathWords.com site, which is a glossary of math terms, shows the relationship in radians and degrees between sin and cos, tan and cot, and sec and csc.

An image of "The Original Sin", created by Jan the Elder Brueghel in 1616 (Oil on wood, 52 x 83,5 cm).

An image of "Sin, Death and the Devil", created by James Gillray in 1792 (Etching, 319 x 399 mm).

An image of "Creation of Eve and Original Sin", created by Paolo Uccello from 1432-36 (Fresco, 244 x 478 cm).

An image of "Christ Triumphant over Sin and Death", created by Peter Paul Rubens from 1615-22 (Oil on canvas, 182 x 230 cm).

An image of "The Seven Deadly Sins", created by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1480 (Oil on panel, 120 x 150 cm).

An image of "Original Sin", created by Michiel Van Coxciez (Oil on panel, 237 x 87,5 cm).

In the middle of the 18th century, a series of evangelical religious revival movements swept across colonial America. Known as the First Great Awakening, the movements were characterized by emotional religious conversions from a state of...

Proves that the cos and sin functions form an orthogonal set, as it applies to Fourier series.