Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would listen"(From "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin, p63). ... The musician can set people free, the musician can hold people up to the sky, allow them to see the truth and glory that this world possess. ... The musician can free people, the musician can heal people, and the musician can make people feel things they never thought possible. ... A great deal can be taught through playing a song, so much can be absorbed through each note, enough to shake the soul and awaken the slumbering sorrow th...

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Further, the visual impact of a musical note (&) and God's own beauty is portrayed and ca ptured in the rhythm of the lamb playing in the meads. ... Powell, "The author notes that the perfect, beautiful, symmetrical, work of art (the tyger) is such a destructive animal: here Blake is identifying the idea that there, in fact, is evil in such a beautiful world but he cannot understand why". ... For instance in the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" it is an angel who "open'd the coffins & set them all free." ... This nice, naive view of religion is seen throughout the Songs of Innoc...

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Again, the constitution says, "Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." ... The reason we are allowed to have these groups is because of the second clause: "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Because we (the students) do all these things on our own free will, and because we pay for the funding, the school isn't actually promoting them. ... And just as a side note, one of my hobbies is studying apologetics and philosophy. ... The public schools do not establish, in any way, a religion, and they do not prohib...

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I couldn't stand this one sided religious debate any longer, so I put my two cents in, reminding everyone that Christianity was NOT the only religious belief in the free world. ... I opened it, expecting another cold note. I was very suprised to find a note from a woman telling me that my essay on other religions was very informative, and could I explain them in a deeper aspect. ...

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As the dream continues, an angel appears with a bright key; "And he opened the coffins and set them all free-(17). Images are given of the young chimney sweepers, set free, running down to the river, and cleaning themselves of all the soot, then drying in the sun. ... They are extremely naive to accept performing this job and think they will be forever happy and free from harm, "So if they all do their duty they need not fear harm-(24). ... "They clothed me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe-(7-8), as they continue in their happy, joyful life. ...

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Note: this is not before every class period and they do not mention God or religion when asking for this moment of silence. ... This is what religious freedom is all about -- You are free to worship as you choose -- even if that means not at all. ...

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Note: this is not before every class period and they do not mention God or religion when asking for this moment of silence. ... This is what religious freedom is all about -- You are free to worship as you choose -- even if that means not at all. ...

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"Innocence" expresses the state of childhood, into which we are all born, a state of free imagination and infinite joy. ... The images of "clothes of death"(7) and "notes of woe" suggest that it is humans who direct the children into a life of oppression. ... Blake describes Tom's dream: "And by came an angel, who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins, and set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing, they run And wash in a river, and shine in the sun." ...

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It is also important to note that religion served another important function -- providing ready and easy answers and "solutions" to difficult issues. ... Then men's minds will be free and religion, like human sacrifices, slavery, and communism, will be put on history's scrap heap....

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We live in a country where we are free to worship as we choose and often times we take that for granted. ... (Islam 2) This really was influential in getting the faith into full force, but other than that is just a side note. ...

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Religion has become one of the biggest moneymaking organizations in the world today, and a tax-free organization at that. ... The pope attempted to strike a similar note in his Christmas message, saying, "May the gentle face of the Child of Bethlehem remind everyone that we all have one Father." ...

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The poet compares himself to the yews and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as human being they born and die; moreover he envies "the sullen tree" and "for thy stubborn hardihood" because the tree does not die and in my opinion he imagines to free himself from hishuman nature, represented by the blood, and therefore incorporating himself into nature. ...

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