Onyx floated hopelessly about the darkness in search of a companion or a lover to fill that void in his heart. ... Finally, the first sign of life began to stir in Onyx's heart and out from his heart sprang the first god, his name was Amorous. ... He came from the heart thus he would become the god of love. ... If you don't do this, the abyss of darkness will shallow the earth and worst of all the gods would die." ... There was no more darkness just eternal happiness; the gods in the heavens and the mortals in the earth ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Every 18 months they had to perform the full ritual sacrifice where a body was put on a slab and the heart would be removed and held up to the sun. ... He was the god of the sun and was a big part in the fight between the light and the dark. He demanded human sacrifices in order to win the battle against the darkness. ... If they were sacrificed to the sun god Huitzilopochtli, they would be warriors fighting against the darkness. ... People would have been buried in a squatting position with there belongings with them and they would live in darkness. ...

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" (Job 42:10-12) Through the darkness in his life hope gave him the light to continue onward. ... God did not necessarily test Job but allowed Satan to take everything away from him and making him very ill, to see what is Job's heart is made of. ... Even though Job lost everything and was ill he did not turn his heart away from God, 'In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong' (Job 1:22). Suffering is a blessing, God does not just give one a light after darkness as he did for Job, but how you have grown as a person with faith after the darkness and suffering. .....

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This creed leads Brown into the dark forest to confront evil. ... Perhaps he made a subconscious pact to meet with the devil, his darkness. ... His dark gift leads him to the demonic ceremony that takes place in the forest. ... The cold dew that was sprinkled on his cheek symbolizes the coldness that began to grip his heart. ... Hawthorne's usage of lightness and darkness show there is no light without dark, no love without hate, no saint without sin. ...

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Closing Pandora's Box: "Light Shining out of Darkness" Imagine if you had a severe illness, a death in the family, or even just over exhaustion or stress from regular activities. ... William Cowper, an infamous poet, wrote "Light Shining out of Darkness, which is a poem that seeks to explain the "mysterious ways" of God, and to reassure the faint of heart that all will be for the best in God's plan. ... You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." Throughout the poem, "Light Shining out of Darkness," the notion of God and have faith in him has been promine...

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• Grade Level: High School

One reason was to hide the hardness in people's heart during that time by concealing the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven from the people. ... However, the results will be different as different is the quality of the heart of the people that hear the Word. Thus others will reject it, others will accept it till the first affliction, others will receive it but eventually will put it in the last position putting other things (cares, riches, other desires) over it, and finally others will keep it in a good and honest heart bringing forth fruit. ... It is not only that one hears the Word, b...

• Word Count: 2530
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• Grade Level: High School

Wisdom has indeed its dark side in a world in bondage to corruption inhabited by fallen sinners under the judgment of God. ... Greater acquaintance with reality cannot leave the heart untouched but this inevitable shadow must not obscure the Light by which it is produced. ...

• Word Count: 335
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Nature, specifically the wind, forest, and the darkness of the evening symbolizes evil and sinfulness. The wind was howling and there is a dark cloud, which seems to cover up heaven. ... This is an example of Brown choosing to follow his head rather than his heart. Had he followed his heart, he may have still lived a life filled with happiness and love. If he followed his heart, he would have been able to sympathize with the community's weaknesses, but instead, he listens to his head and exiles himself from the community because he thinks they are a bunch of heathens. ...

• Word Count: 999
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It is said that you must let God into your heart, Dracula may not enter someones house unless they invite him. ... Dracula's powers are limited during the light and his powers are stronger in the night, during darkness which symbolizes evil./ Dracula is also portrayed as the Anti-Christ by having similarities with Jesus in an evil way. ...

• Word Count: 621
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A delicate balance between forces that are good and those that are evil hangs within every beating heart. ... After moving in with Dimmesdale, "Roger Chillingworth- the man of skill, the kind and friendly physician- strove to go deep into his patient's bosom, delving among his principles, prying into his recollections, and probing everything with a cautious touch, like a treasure seeker in a dark cavern" (114). ... Hester's goodness is expressed through her willingness, "to give her little substance to every demand of poverty; even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gib...

• Word Count: 1073
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• Grade Level: High School

In Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on The Voyage Noah's wife asks " what else could heaven be ... but a world afloat ... nothing hard or real to fall against or stumble over; everything distant, everything benign," (pg 18) but at the end of the novel the Ark is hell where the innocent are shut in perpetual darkness and are devoid of God. ... In an existence so convoluted, a fallen angel becomes a beacon of hope and salvation in an otherwise dark journey. ... In her desire for "difference" she searches for an world where "darkness and light are reconciled," (pg 284) fully knowing tha...

• Word Count: 2467
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As the poem progresses, it gradually gets darker as the questions he poses get harder and harder to answer. ... Taking solace in the proof of his existence, the crow "reclined, marvelling, on his heart-beat" (3). ...

• Word Count: 820
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The story also gives the impression that if there is any evil in your heart or the heart of your people that your own society will eventually collapse. ... "He took over Heorot,/ haunted the glittering hall after dark,/ but the throne itself, the treasure-seat,/ he was kept from approaching; he was the Lord's outcast" (36). ...

• Word Count: 1092
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Augustine went through a dark intellectual period in his life, in which he was sinful and lustful. ... He argued that humans could only find peace when they reunited with God "our heart is restless until it rests in you " (Saint Augustine, Confessions, Chapter I, pg. 3). ... This experience led him to convert immediately to Christianity; he describes this moment "as if a light of relief from all anxiety flooded into my heart. ...

• Word Count: 1309
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During their discussion of how to handle the suitors you can still sense fear in the young prince's heart, but he does what is expected of a boy of this time, by obeying his father, Odysseus, and showing great bravery for his homeland, completing his journey from a child to a respectable prince. Although Telemachus had to worry about loosing his own life during this time, the fate of his mother laid heavy on his heart. ... For these reasons I believe he truly was a hero during the Greek dark ages. ...

• Word Count: 1174
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He intends to trap them all in his cave and feast on them to his heart's content. ... Their own supernatural ability lies in offering the good, mortal hero his heart's desire by compelling him to engage in illicit behavior that would compromise his moral integrity. ... The witch, the goddess Circe, lures Odysseus and his men into her grand palace and allows them to eat, drink and be merry to their heart's content until they fall victim to one of her spells. ... My heart longs to be home, my comrades' hearts as well. ...

• Word Count: 2649
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

My friend, Erin and I were your typical, inseparable pair of friends "after I took the oath to accept Jesus into my heart of course. ... In order to play here you need to be saved and accept Jesus into your heart,"" she said sternly, though unsure of how I would respond. ... At the heart of religious ideology lies the notion that every religion believes it is supreme to all others. ... Fortunately, the growing enlightenment of the Renaissance Period with spreading economic and personal freedoms began liberating the human mind and reason from the dark, brutal mysticism of Christian t...

• Word Count: 1785
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• Grade Level: High School

In the Confessions, by Saint Augustine, Augustine addressed himself articulately and passionately to the constant questions that stirred the minds and hearts of men since time began. ... His restless heart finally finds peace and rest in God at the end of The Confessions. ... Augustine often experiences darkness, blindness, and confusion while attempting to find rest in God, but he knows that when he eventually finds him his restless heart will be saved. Augustine started out in childhood with a restless heart because he had to live in two different worlds. ... Augustine states that, "The thou...

• Word Count: 2038
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Robert Browning considered Shelley to be moral because he was "true, simple hearted and brave"(cited in Payne, 1967, p.198). ... The other sees Christianity as the ultimate struggle: " With darkness, hunger toil, distress.. ...

• Word Count: 2187
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The epithets throughout the poem are contradictory, but the majority of them can be linked with darkness- symbolizing the dark side of man. ... On one hand, the creation can be interpreted as industrial process (Moore), but on the other hand it can be looked at as another sign for the might of God- God, who forges not only the body, but also the heart of the fearful beast. ...

• Word Count: 1920
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It is not written on paper but in peoples' hearts, minds, oral history, rituals, shrines and religious functions. ... He is aware of how the ants creep upon the hard rock in the darkness of the night. ... He beholds the thoughts which pass through the minds of men, and the range of their fancies and the secrets of their hearts, by His knowledge, which was from aforetime" (Ekeke; Ekeopara, 2010). ...

• Word Count: 1566
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Once upon a time there lived a king and warm hearted young man named Gavin. ... He quietly said goodbye to all his fans and took his Sony Vaio along with him to the dark and evil parts of the underworld. ...

• Word Count: 1293
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He recorded the outcome of the interrogation faced by the deceased on the occasion of the weighing of the heart. ... Egyptian society believes in Ma"at, which is the value of both dark and light: evil and good: earth and sky. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. ... Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.' ...

• Word Count: 2260
• Approx Pages: 9
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Aside from the technical facet of the Bible there is the dialogue between God and the Prophets, a dialogue that, if we are willing to take it to heart, is still alive with us today. ... It is not within our power to find God, we may only seek Her through the world and our hearts. ... He says that "When the soul is not aflame, no light of speculation will illumine the darkness of indifference. No masterly logical demonstration of God's existence or any analysis of the intricacies of the traditional God concepts will succeed in dispersing that darkness." ...

• Word Count: 3573
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• Grade Level: High School