The play opens with children dancing in the woods, an obvious sin according to the puritans. ... Abbey leads all the girls who danced in accusing every woman in town who had ever looked at them funny of being a witch. ... Now once again, even in this modern age, crusade type battles are still raging on in Isreal. ...
Theseus risks death several times to do what he believes is right according to his faith, like when he fights the king of Eleusis, when he fights Xanthos, and when he becomes a bull dancer. ... The best example of Theseus having strong trust in the gods, especially Posiedon, is when the lottery is going on and Posiedon comes to him and asks him to go to Crete and be a bull dancer. ... And Bert Cates, the main character in Inherit the wind, by Jerome Lawrence, was persecuted in a modern society for teaching that god had not created man, but man had created god. ...
CUBAN SANTERIA Santeria, which literally means, way of the saints', originated in Cuba. Santeria is considered an Afro-Cuban religion. It has roots in Africa, specifically the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. When Africans were brought to the New World as slaves, they brought with them their Yoruba religious traditions (Nunez: 3). Slave owners forced them to give up their beliefs and convert to Christianity. ...
India's physical, religious and racial variety is as important as the history of how it become what "Modern India." ... Common practices are now a part of most religious faiths and all communities share many of the festivals that mark each year with music, dance and feasting. ...
William Blake, one of the greatest Romantic poets, was born in London and lived there most of his life. During his life he witnessed many things that affected him. He acknowledged the power of his country but the poverty prevalent there worried him. He did not go to school but he was taught at home...
