The two main reasons for this are: the land, animals and natives complement each other; and, the natives and animals when given the choice between freedom and oppression, they would rather die than live without freedom. ... This is important due to how Dinesen keeps connecting the landscape to a godly paradise. ... Lulu came in from the wild world to show that we were on good terms with it, and she made my house one with the African landscape, so that nobody could tell where one stopped and the other one began " (p.76). ... A portion of the narrator's sadness at the end of the novel is f...

• Word Count: 851
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Will Durant once wrote, "Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.... "We can use this to call the others. ... We don't need the conch any more.... How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don't keep a fire going? ... How many are we? ...

• Word Count: 1000
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He did the opposite of what he announced because he forgave those who sinned and in other cases he took it upon himself to show his people how merciful he truly was. ... Originally God had stated that, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die," (Genesis 2.16, 2.17). ... This is evident in chapter twenty two of the Book of Genesis in which Abraham's only son Isaac is saved at the last moment by the Lord's word. ... God wasn't insecure in his decision ...

• Word Count: 1630
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Questions like, "where did we come from?" and " how were we created?" ... The first few chapters also introduce the "fall" of humanity. ... "And the serpent said to the woman, "you shall not be doomed to die. ... Unless we consider the consequences of our actions, we could end up like Victor or even the creature. ...

• Word Count: 1174
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• Grade Level: High School

There are two stories which are both found in Genesis; the first between chapters 1 & 2:1-3 and the second in 2:4-25. By contrasting the two stories, hopefully we can induce a clear significance of the stories as related to the origin of man. Beforehand, the reader of the Bible must take caution as to how they translate the text. ... Yahweh tells Adam which tree in the Garden of Eden not to eat from or he will die and another time he allows him to name each of the animals. ... Primarily, within the first two sentences of the first story we learn that "In the beginning God created the he...

• Word Count: 964
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School