Verse 39 came from Q 6: 29a and verse 40 came from Q 6: 29b. ... He says that these two parts have a lot of history behind them, and one needs to understand the history to understand the text. ... After reading Shinn's interpretation, I called my grandma who is 82 years old and who faithfully goes to church every Sunday. ... I really respect her opinion about religion because of how involved she is, so I asked her how she interpreted Matthew 5: 38-42 in the Sermon on the Mount. ... I explained to my grandma how I initially sourced each verse and how the writer of Matthew only used the...

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• Grade Level: High School

Less than two years after Gehrig gave this speech, on June 2, 1941, he died in Riverdale, N.Y. at the age of 39. ... The first two lines out of Gehrig's mouth could easily be the most famous in all of sport's history, "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. ... I think this shows just how grateful Gehrig really was to be playing ball all of those years and he is trying to show the audience how much their support for him through the years really meant to him. ... Sure, I"m lucky." ... I see him basically giving logic behind his words saying tha...

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• Grade Level: High School

A march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery in 1964 resulted in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and a march on Washington in 1963 consisting of two- hundred and fifty thousand participants, sixty-thousand of whom were white, proved how significant the movement really was.13 The march on Washington was also the day of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream'speech, in which he proclaimed, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character that one day...

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In this essay I will attempt to show that elitist power in America is controlled by a few at the top of the political, corporate, social and religious pyramid. ... (C .Wright Mills 1956 ) Criticisms of this theory may ask the questions: Are there conflicts between the elite groups and are the elites really equal in power? ... And is congress really a puppet of these groups? ... In recent years, it has put the clout of its $2 billion portfolio aggressively behind the notion that "diversity- trumps quality in the arts. ... -; the Nuvorican Poets Café in New York for "a series of developme...

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In this essay I will attempt to show that elitist power in America is controlled by a few at the top of the political, corporate, social and religious pyramid. ... (C .Wright Mills 1956 ) Criticisms of this theory may ask the questions: Are there conflicts between the elite groups and are the elites really equal in power? ... And is congress really a puppet of these groups? ... In recent years, it has put the clout of its $2 billion portfolio aggressively behind the notion that "diversity- trumps quality in the arts. ... -; the Nuvorican Poets Café in New York for "a series of developme...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

and, "Do I dare?" 39 Time to turn back and descend the stair, 40 With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -- 41 (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!") ... I grow old ... 121 I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. 122 Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? ... Ezra Pound wrote Harriet Monroe on Jan. 31, 1915: I dislike the paragraph about Hamlet, but it is an early and cherished bit and T.E. won't give it up, and as it is the only portion of the poem that most readers will like at first reading, I don't see that it will do ...

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• Grade Level: High School