Also, before Beowulf defeats Grendel, he becomes notable due to his acts of courage, which can be understood when he states, " They have seen my strength for themselves, have watched me rise from the darkness of war, dripping with my enemies" blood." ... This immediately reveals that Grendel is a creature of darkness that thrives on depraved pleasures, and the reference to hell inevitably associates him with Satan who is the evil character in the Christian faith. Also, the fact that he accomplishes all of his evil deeds in the darkness of night exhibits that he himself is of caliginous charact...

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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, -a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, -a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, -and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection." ...

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Like a beast in its lair his soul had laid down in his own filth but the blasts of the angel's trumpets had driven him forth from the darkness of sin into the light " [Joyce: pg. 88] Thus the cleansing process of confession allows Stephen again to return to the fidelity of the Church. Through this amalgamation of religious, family and Irish nationality, which is perceived to be "interdependent aspects of a single repressive force with the Church at the heart of this complex " [64], Stephen is constantly deemed to be in a struggle between his heretical ambitions and his ties to orthodoxy....

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Kerry Grogan THE 241-01 Task # 1 Oct. 23, 2014 1. Person: Joseph Smith Facts: Joseph Smith is the founding father of the practice that we know today, Mormonism. He grew up in the early 19th century and as a young teenage boy who claimed to have a series of visitations, revelations from God and visitations from angelic messengers, while he was praying in a grove of trees. Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mor...

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"" This interpretation of the apocalypse resonated with Korean people because it provided hope that something else was possible in the dark period of domination under the Japanese colonial empire. ...

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