This text is based in Australia from 1940s to the 1960s, however it was written in the 1980s. ... They are used effectively in this text, as a clear and definite representation of the text's cultural identity is offered to the reader. ... The text confirms the ideals of simple life on page one "Will you look at us by the river! ... The representation of the simple things in this text, foreshadowed by the prologue, gives us an insight to the dominant class of this text. ... One of the main values presented in this text is the importance of family. ...

• Word Count: 3069
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to the Hmong belief, spirits reside in the sky, and the shaman can climb a ladder to the heavens on his magical horse and contact the spirits there. ... To remove bad spirits they sweep their house by cleaning the house and getting rid of all the dust, dirt and soot. All together they are getting rid of the bad spirits from the house (Lee, N.). ... Their spirits are to go to a world where there ancestors are. ... "The funeral texts are very powerful they must not be performed inside a private dwelling in case a living soul be sent inadvertently me of the ancestors" (Flak, pg.3)....

• Word Count: 2015
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Meaning is gained from a literary text at both a literal and also a symbolic level. ... In the novel, one of the most significant literary devices used by Winton is symbolism, which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harbored by the text's audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the novel. ... The house in Cloudstreet is deeply symbolic. ... Besides this, the fact that "The spirits on the wall are fading, fading, finally being forced on their way to oblivion" at Wax Harry's birth shows that the familial bonds that are now made concrete have exorci...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8

During the first three thousand years Ahura Mazda creates angels, good spirits and Fravashis. ... All other higher beings were regarded as demons, or evil spirits. ... These contained many topics and protected the basic Gathic texts. ... The only reason that the Pahlavi survived is because they were used extensively and therefore known by heart and also because priests made copies of them at their houses. ... They reduced the writings to the basics and much of their writings are simply copies of previous texts. ...

• Word Count: 2504
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Betty, one of the girls that was in the forest, comes down with the flu, or so the town thinks, or that she is possessed with evil spirits and the town forces Tituba to tell them why she has compacted with the devil. ... Tituba then scapegoats all of these questions by saying she saw spirits of some Puritan women form the town. ... After this happens in the house, some townsmen come by and has a warrant to arrest Elizabeth because she has been accused of being a witch. The person who accuses They were not going to arrest her at first until a poppet was found in the house. ... Elizabet...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Much of the small house, 40 miles south of London, is presold to corporate or individual sponsors. ... I will start with a general analysis of the topic related to Shakespeare's text. ... Indeed, Shakespeare's text suggests that the magical creatures of A Midsummer Night's Dream could be explained as physical allegories of nature. ... I will examine the relationship of the fairies with the human world as it is presented in Shakespeare's text and see how Michael Hoffman and Bernard Haitink, Peter Hall and John Bury interpreted it in the play and how they represented the fair...

• Word Count: 9832
• Approx Pages: 39
• Grade Level: High School

How do the Spirits, and Marley, reform Scrooge, and, in your opinion, how successful are they? ... He was so set in those ways, that the spirits had a difficult challenge ahead of them. ... When Marley informs Scrooge about the three spirits, who, one by one, would visit him, he is reluctant and unwilling. ... Marley convinces him, by referring to the spirits as his only hope to "shun the path" he treads. ... This is to symbolise Christmas, as one of the aims of the spirits is to help Scrooge to re-discover the joy of Christmas. ...

• Word Count: 5644
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School

All other higher beings were regarded as demons, or evil spirits. ... Zoroaster Zoroaster had a very non-conforming mind and was forced to flee his parents' house without his parents' consent because of the rebuking he gave to those who sacrificed cattle or drank intoxicating haoma. ... During the first three thousand years Ahura Mazda creates angels, good spirits, and Frava his. ... These contained many topics and protected the basic gathic texts. ... The only reason that the Pahlavi survived is because they were used extensively and therefore known by heart, and priests made copie...

• Word Count: 2749
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

All other higher beings were regarded as demons, or evil spirits. ... Zoroaster Zoroaster had a very non-conforming mind and was forced to flee his parents' house without his parents' consent because of the rebuking he gave to those who sacrificed cattle or drank intoxicating haoma. ... During the first three thousand years Ahura Mazda creates angels, good spirits, and Frava his. ... These contained many topics and protected the basic gathic texts. ... The only reason that the Pahlavi survived is because they were used extensively and therefore known by heart, and priests made copie...

• Word Count: 2750
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

They lived in larger houses, controlled particular trade centers, and took better gifts at rituals. ... According to the text, with the aid of spirits, men and women could inflict injuries or even kill their targets. ... These misfortunes included the loss of belongings, injuries, and house fires. ...

• Word Count: 1003
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the past, the people of northern Europe believed that bogs were inhabited by gods and spirits (who had control on their lives) and they thought the bogs were places where they could communicate with the gods and spirits, and dead relatives as well. ...

• Word Count: 1822
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In doing so, an audience may agree that through careful reflection, dramatic and literary devices used likewise by both playwright and author allow them further understanding of the texts. ... When reflecting on a text such as Hamlet, it is difficult to do so without acknowledging the poetry and symbolism within, and thus the poetic and symbolic nature of the play. ... This is a great idyllic image of Ophelia, likening her with spirits and angels that enter Hamlets prayers and dreams. ...

• Word Count: 2581
• Approx Pages: 10

The Shaman usually has at least one or more spirits in his or her personal service. ... There are also spirits which control the weather, spirits which interact with humans, and others who inhabit the underworld. ... Sacred Texts: Native traditions have been preserved as an oral tradition, not in written form. ... The spirits are then asked to depart and perform the needed acts. ... Traditional housing: There were many variations across North America: conical wigwams or tipis, long houses, and cliff dwellings. ...

• Word Count: 11626
• Approx Pages: 47
• Grade Level: High School

Ultimately, the use of such devices encourage the reader to read further into the text, and help produce a feeling of excitement, and a much anticipated climax. ... Much like her mother was, Lydia is also led by her youth, "high animal spirits," and "blind love" causing her to be "lost forever" if she doesn't marry Wickham. ... Throughout her tour of the Pemberly Darcy's house keeper, Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The atmosphere is relaxing and comfortable even though the place is a mad house of activity with servers rushing back and forth, taking orders, getting drinks, ensuring the lunch crowd makes it back to work on time. ... Some patrons seat alone, eating, texting on their phones or just observing the others in the establishment, while others were an odd mixture of old and young, men and women, conversing and laughing. ... There will be other meals and spirits shared within these walls. ...

• Word Count: 1020
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

As I understand it, the Tarot depicts pagan, spirits, and theological principles. ... Walker's text identifies, "Unbound "books" of picture cards were long used in the east to teach mystical doctrines to people who couldn't read" (Encyclopedia 976). ... The Lord of the Dance is a powerful symbol in which is displayed in all yoga houses of practice. ...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After reading the text MACBETH, by Shakespeare and viewing the film version, directed by Roman Polanski, it is logical to see that ambition and the deceptive appearances of what really is, is central to the dramatic development of MACBETH. ...

• Word Count: 12917
• Approx Pages: 52
• Grade Level: High School

In an ile, people are related to each other not by blood, but by being in the same orisha "house-. ... The godparents become the spiritual parents of the spirits reborn in their godchildren. ... The eggun, the spirits of the dead, are honoured before the orishas. ... The water acts as "a kind of spiritual cleansing and as a subtle "trap- for impure spirits."" ... Some light cigars so that its smoke may attract spirits - especially African spirits. ...

• Word Count: 8386
• Approx Pages: 34
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Several explanations are offered within the text as too the cause of the reverends mental disturbances. ... Despite this view however the Doctor puts forward a rather curious explanation for the Reverends condition, that the reverend has stimulated a "spiritual fluid" in his brain that "by various abuses, among which the habitual use of such agents as green tea is one" has opened his third eye and made him vulnerable to attacks from evil spirits. ...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beings whose spirits are associated with matter necessarily experience suffering. ... The Mahabharata-which contains the Bhagvad-gita, one of the most religious texts in contemporary Hinduism -tells the story of a conflict between related clans for supremacy in northern India. ... As soon as the rain touched the earth, trees were appeared on it, and they became houses for the people, they used them for their entire livelihood and all their enjoyments. ...

• Word Count: 1694
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Jason threatened to kill Luster if he ever left the house with Benji again. ... Throughout the text there are references to Jason illustrating the deadly sin of lust. ... In the text of the novel this vision Jason had appeared to be somewhat sensual, probably do to Jason's lusty nature. ...

• Word Count: 2853
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Now, in the face what has happened in her own house she stops and tells Stamp Paid she wants to "fix- on something harmless in this world."" (179) Having witnessed the unspeakable, Baby Suggs begins to explore the nature of Light, i.e. ... The desire, let alone the gesture, to meet her needs was good enough to lift her spirits to the place where she could take the next step; ask for some clarifying world some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it. (95) Finding herself unable to get an answer to that question, Baby Sugg...

• Word Count: 3331
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School