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Characters Maintained Dignity Iii Mans Duty Death
1,272 wordsI. Mans duty or obligation to avoid death at all costs acceptable action a. Critics say that rain in A Farewell to Arms represented death an sh dying and then being eaten in The Old Man and The Sea represents death. They go on to say that in both the representatives of death, the characters maintained dignity and honor b. Santiago is not faced with his own death in this book, but rather the death of the fish, and the death of the sharks. When the sharks are eating his catch he acts acceptably an...
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Relationship With God Older Brother
1,544 wordsJacob was born to be a deceiver. He came out of Rebekah's womb "grasping the heel" of his older brother Esau, setting the pattern of deception his life would soon take. But he was also born of God's promise, born to be the father of Nations and revered by his people. How can a trickster inherit such a high place of esteem without earning God's approval through pious prayer and obedience? Elijah the prophet was also special to God; but it was not his patronage that was highly valued, it was his h...
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Olympian Gods Greeks Believed
1,942 wordsIn ancient times, the Greeks had absolute and undeniable respect for their gods. They demonstrated their admiration by putting in place many rituals and celebrations to reverence the gods that they loved and feared in order to ensure harmony with them. In particular, the focus will be on the religious beliefs of the Greeks, including prayer and sacrifice, as well as on festivals and the arts, such as the ancient Olympic games and theatre. These aspects of their culture made a significant contrib...
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Divine Laws Driving Force
1,820 wordsIn the play Antigone, Sophocles poses many different themes and moral lessons. The specific component I would like to focus on is selfishness and its effects. Through the characters various actions and ultimate fates, Sophocles teaches us that selfish, self-serving motives lead to destruction, loneliness and loss. Two characters that exemplify the consequences of selfishness are Creon, the King, and Ismene, Antigone's sister. Antigone, of course, being the heroin of the story reinforces this les...
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Creon Antigone
842 wordsChanging Views of The Chorus The chorus, a group of common people who follow the actions of the play Antigone, waver in their support of either Antigone or Creon, depending on their actions during a particular part of the story-line. Early in the play it is evident that they are extremely pro-Creon, but a short time later they seem to sway into the direction of Antigone and support her actions. This incongruence about the them, however, was an extremely interesting feature of this Sophocles dram...
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Fossil Fuels Environmental Concerns
1,852 wordsIntroduction Traditionally, Western views of environment ethics has been unclear and for the most part unnecessary. We used earths resources without thinking about consequence. This nonchalant use aided in the Wests ability to influence the world through technological advances. In the past, limited travel and slow communication systems had limited our view to a local one. If pollution or to much urbanization occurred the solution was to move. Industrialization has changed things. With science ad...
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Mystic Margery Kempe Margery Kempe Discusses God
2,180 wordsIn Finding Truth Finding Truth In almost all major religions, there abounds the undertone of the spiritual battle that takes place inside someone regarding the succumb ation to sin or earthly desires and the like. Also ever present in the souls journey through life is the search for a prize; an ultimate Truth, especially in the early Middle Ages when religions where beginning to mature and take power in society. Though the doctrine theoretically differs greatly, Christian and Islamic faith as on...
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Wall Street Journal Barbara Kingsolver
1,175 wordsOf bears and bobcats, stars and stripes Small Wonder Barbara Kingsolver 282 pp, Faber Barbara Kingsolver is one of the few American writers who have refused to join George Bush's cheerleaders. A writer who reminds her readers, as Kingsolver has done, that every war is both won and lost would hardly seem extreme over here, but in the US such talk can receive some pretty nasty responses. One writer in the Wall Street Journal suggested that a reasonable response to Kingsolver's articles would be fo...
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