In God of Small Things, Roy's uses "Heart of Darkness- to show a similarity to Conrad's novel by relating how the colonial powers invasion of India promoted darkness. ... (God of Small Things, 120) The Heart of Darkness here pertains to European style intrusion into the Indian landscape, which creates darkness. ... (God of Small Things, 119) The hotel does this to hide the smell from the river and excrement stemming from Ayenemen. ... (God of Small Things, 121) The use of "Heart of Darkness- also pertains to the exploited nature of one scene, in which the police men are beating up Ve...

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Although Fuller mentions that household partnership should include, above all things, equality, women, even today, struggle to create the somewhat unrealistic vision. ... She states, "Men can do best, and women know it well,"" (Bradstreet 129), however, she does ask for a bit of recognition in line 41: "Yet grant some small acknowledgment of ours- (Bradstreet 129). ... Bradstreet, on the other hand, often struggles with her relationship with God. In her long poem, "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666,"" Bradstreet relies heavily on her relationship wit...

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In discussing the origins of this world, he designates the Demiurge, or his equivalent of the contemporary God as the creator of the universe. ... With the birth of "the most god-fearing of living creatures," Plato asserts that the Demiurge declared "the better sort of human nature should there-after be called "man... We see straight through to what we seek; whence each thing is created and in what manner made, without god's help." ... Man could have burst from ocean, from dry land the bearers of scales, and from thin air the birds; Thus everything cannot spring from anything, for thing...

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For example, his perceptions of an object that is either very small or very far away may be inaccurate because he cannot clearly and distinctly perceive the object at hand. ... The Mediator argues, "Now how do I know that he has not brought it about that there is no earth at all, no heavens, no extended things, no shape, no magnitude, no place-and yet that all these things appear to me to exist just as they do now (Descartes 15)?... He reasons that he may have lived his whole life believing false concepts because God has willed him to do so, or that at any moment God could make the seemi...

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While students at a public/state college may go out and get high or drunk, or perhaps do something dangerous; students at a Christian college are less likely to do such things because they tend to be looked down upon. Although there are some students, even at Christian schools who participate in such activities, they are usually punished in order to discourage them from doing such things again. ... Some academic advantages to attending a Christian college are smaller class sizes. ... Although the classes are a nicer, smaller, and more personal size, Christian colleges tend to cost much more th...

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The Caribbean and Polynesia Reading the compendium with colonial texts (Jamaica Kincaid and Haunani Trask) did two things to me: It gave me knowledge of something I didn't know anything about before, and it made me feel uneasy. Jamaica Kincaid's text A small place takes the reader on a trip to her native country. ... This is also where Kincaid lets the reader begin, but soon she lays out small hints that this paradise certainly has its snakes, and that I, the reader, is a potential one. ... It's amazing how Kincaid manages to enhance all the things that her country is ...

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It's especially apparent that he'd done wrong by God when the albatross is used as a metaphor for the crucifixion of Jesus: "Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung" (II-34). On the surface, the killing of the albatross is presented as a sacrilege in that the mariner, guided by no apparent reason at all, killed a creature of God. ... One may wonder why everything about the albatross is mentioned if the wrong that's being punished for is the participation in slave trade, but in great likelihood, the killing of the albatross serves as a metaphor for t...

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Two very important aspects of props in Greek theatre were firstly the deus ex machina (translated to god from the machine) and secondly the eccydema. ... The type of props used is usually quite simple and small, which suits the small audience of a Brechtian stage quite adequately. Everything in a Greek theatre was quite elaborate and large and props were no exception which was quite the opposite to Brechtian drama where things were kept on a smaller and simpler scale, including the props. ... Brechtian plot lines are designed for smaller and generally middle class audiences. ... The theory beh...

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Participant 10 aged 18; anorexia nervosa- restrictive type claims, "Whenever I do things wrong, I think of it as being a sin sometimes I wonder if it is wrong to feel hungry. ... Participant 5 aged 30; anorexia nervosa- binge eating type stated, "Lots of things I've done in my life that I deserve to be punished as well. ... Maturation Although some saw self-starvation as God's will in the early stages of illness, surprisingly, some participants came to see the eating disorder itself as displeasing to God. ... God doesn't want you to destroy yourself or starve yourself to death....

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The only schools that remained were for use of the Church, but the monks who were educated did not use their knowledge for science or art, but for praise of God (Hartman 135). ... There was no longer a strong middle class to trade ideas and thoughts, and to study and discover new things because people were restricted to their small farming villages instead of larger towns (Gies 123). ... The Gothic style mainly paid tribute to God, and they built large Cathedrals with stained glass windows as places to worship God (Corbishley 42-45). ... These times of little progress were harsh, dreary, an...

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Plato's first argument is the argument from opposites, whereby he states that every single thing in this world has an opposite, whether that be happy and sad or dark and light, he strongly believes that everything that is a physical event must have an opposite, for example, big things would not be "bigger" if there was no small things to be "smaller." ... However, Plato does not make himself clear as when he first talks of opposites he talks about graded opposites, where something can be bigger or smaller than something else, but as he moves on he begins to speak of absolute opposites; ...

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The whole story was based around the idea that David was this small little boy that took down this huge giant, with the help of God behind you. ... Moses's whole life is just an extremely elaborate story about how God works in every ones lives. ... Scientific history was a better source to prove why different things happened throughout the ages, through studying the specific details from events that occurred in the past, to understand if they caused other things to happen. ... At least in the example of Thucydides, the theories he used in stating history involved more the facts of history...

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The paper is an analytical assessment of the novel, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy to substantiate the research further. ... The God of Small Things, talks about the unjust treatment of untouchables, which is the lowest class in the societal hierarchy of India. ... Ironically enough, Roy presents her protagonists to be breaking the love laws as they believe in the "small world'' free of all laws and norms. ... Thus, this research in light to Arundhati Roy's, "The God of Small Things," discusses revolt as an acceptable and justified act if raised against injustice and a...

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The small Christian community movement is a living, dynamic organism. ... These include such things as the kingdom of God, worship, and a concern for the mission of the church. ... Even if we quickly recognise that many of these communities are different from ours, reading their stories will prod us to look more closely at the life and witness of our own small Christian community. ...

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When they shared with Sally that Darwin's theory proposes an evolutionary process for all living things, progressing from stage to stage in an adaptive manner, she angrily threw her tea cup on the ground, and walked out of the establishment. ... Darwinism is scientifically defined as a biological evolution theory developed by Charles Darwin, a European scientist, asserting that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. ... For Salmon, the question...

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This small number of elite would have included, but not limited to, Fielding, Johnson and especially Pope. ... An interest in those things, which cannot be understood, for example religion and the soul, results in an overwhelming expansion of what is accepted as art in the literary world. ... God does not truly exist but the devil does" (p63 Greary). Lewis evokes the horror of horrors, a malign cosmos where the devil, not God, is the only authoritative power presented. ... Instead of focusing on the conventional wrath of God, Lewis implores a wrath of a demonic supernatural force. ...

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This small number of elite would have included, but not limited to, Fielding, Johnson and especially Pope. ... An interest in those things, which cannot be understood, for example religion and the soul, results in an overwhelming expansion of what is accepted as art in the literary world. ... God does not truly exist but the devil does" (p63 Greary). Lewis evokes the horror of horrors, a malign cosmos where the devil, not God, is the only authoritative power presented. ... Instead of focusing on the conventional wrath of God, Lewis implores a wrath of a demonic supernatural force. ...

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The play follows the life of a small black family's struggle to keep their dreams from tenants to owners alive. ... As Walter dreams bigger and bigger he seems to leave the smaller things such as his family behind. ... (In the past his father would have been happy working for another man and caring for his family, but Walter is more concerned with becoming self-employed or at least in a management position without really thinking about the consequences which may be imposed upon his family by his incessant need to other things.) ... Later in the morning Beneatha, the younger sister of Walt...

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The things that make it great is also its weakness, the caste system takes away individuals right to pursue their own paths and bar them into predetermined roles. This society strips away everything from the individuals, religion, self, consciousness and becomes the sole provider and 'God'. ... There are a lot of things lacking in this society, culture, religion etc., but what it is fundamentally lacking is freedom. ... In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, he says "I don't want comfort, I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness...

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The true picture of Alexander, to me, who will usually try to see the positive light of things "he was amazing. ... Considering the point that he believed himself to be divine, descended from Zeus-Ammon, Ammon who was the serpent god, the serpent being the direct tool of Satan in the Garden of Eden. ... For my part, I can relate to his personality because I have more relations that one who are that way, and I used to be that way (on quite a smaller level, perhaps) before Jesus saved me 2 years ago. ... - Had things stayed in optimal condition, I believe so. ... This is the ideal scenario ...

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As Walter dreams bigger and bigger he seems to leave the 'smaller' things such as his family behind. ... Later in the morning Beneatha, the younger sister of Walter, initiates a conflict by speaking in an unacceptable manner about God seemingly rejecting values that have been taught to her since childhood. ... Beneatha's speech about God is her attempt to show her independence and uniqueness in the world, but when she asserts her self in an area that is extremely sensitive to the family heritage and structure, she threatens to wean herself from the only guaranteed support...

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While the lists of rewards and booty collected from the different towns seem long, a closer look reveals the towns to be of small sizes with small numbers of people, indicating a rather easy conquest for the Egyptians - no wonder Thut-mose III carried out so many campaigns, they must have been fairly easy to undertake. So while, on the one hand, the many campaigns show the strength and determination of Thut-mose III, the army usually only conquered small towns so they only seemed to be big conquests. ... Egypt had a good source of written information in such things as king lists, annals, royal...

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Many of us today have things in our culture that we appreciate without thinking about where they have come from. The things we enjoy so much could be from another culture, and even another place in time. ... Architects of the Middle Ages designed huge cathedrals to emphasize the majesty and grandeur of God. Renaissance architects designed buildings on a smaller scale David2 to help make people aware of their own powers and dignity (World Book). ... Today, we use the term Renaissance man to describe someone who can do many things well. ...

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It originated among a small group of intellectuals who were reacting against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church, developing instead their own faith centering on the divinity of man and nature. ... Transcendentalists thought that the intuitive faculty, instead of rational or sensical, became the means for a conscious union of the individual psyche (known in Sanskrit as Atman) with the world psyche also known as the Oversoul, like force, prime mover and God (known in Sanskrit as Brahma). ... It is not a rejection of the existance of God, but a preference to ex...

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Perhaps one of the things that most characterize the 1950's society was the strong element of conservatism and anticommunist feeling. ... Highways were built to take people quickly from one place to another, bypassing small towns and helping to create central marketing areas or shopping malls. ... People carrying small transistor radios listened to music, which could be heard in any location because it was now portable. ... Even after Congress added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" to the nations currency, real spirituality seemed to be disappearing from ...

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