Ultima uses Catholic terms in her explanations to Antonio since Antonio is trying to make sense of Lupito's death within a Catholic outline. ... The dream also reveals Antonio's developing awareness of his own mortality. However the dream is somewhat confusing because it has multiple meanings. ... Antonio's dream in Chapter 7, in which his brothers are three giants who ask for his "saving hand," is also a very confusing dream. ... She continually contrives to show Antonio how his radically different heritages can coexist harmoniously within him. ...

• Word Count: 3136
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The characters are ordinary people like us, taken from the lower and middle classes of society, who struggle with everyday problem, such as poverty, sickness, crime, family strife and other problems within marital and paternal relationships. ... "10 The American dramatist‟s concept of family is centered on his dream of the ideal family and his desire to make peace with it rather than understand it. ... "12 This struggle is not a new one; it is connected with deeply held attitudes concerning the Americans‟ dream of an ideal family system of freedom and democracy which emerged ...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Within Galapagos he reached his theory of evolution. ... Within his poem "In Memoriam" Tennyson writes in grief and discusses mortality and evolution (Damrosch 1136-8). ... In Memoriam sections 54-56 talk about what we, as humans, expect of God and the exact opposite findings within nature. ... By doubting the creation that God has within the book of Genesis in the Bible, anything else within the Bible is up for question. ... (Arnold lines 21-2) Within "Dover Beach" humans are fighting each other because we see nature as a competition. ...

• Word Count: 2549
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At a recent evangelical convention made up largely of pastors, writers and teachers a poll was taken. 5% could name the Ten Commandments. 7% knew what Justification meant and 54% of them agreed with the medieval Roman Catholic saying, "God will not deny his grace to those who do what lies within their power." ... Years ago when someone would claim to have a dream from God the evangelical church would rightly call that man a liar because the church knew that God has chosen to speak to us ONLY through the Holy Scriptures BUT today the evangelical church instead of condemning the mystics...

• Word Count: 2507
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• Grade Level: High School

The dream-like ideals are crushed by a harsher reality and the survivors are left with the scars. ... So Blake asserts that God is not a cosmic monarch on a distant throne but the omnipresent dweller within each receptive human soul. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This type of evil directed against an innocent being forces people to confront the reality that evil lies within them. ... Despite the realization that evil can come from within, many people perceive evil as coming from outside. ... Within the Platonist tradition, however, "every daimonion is something between a god and a mortal" (Symp. 202E) which seems to portray the same idea of an intermediate being that the Christian authors attempted to find with the word pneuma. ... This Homeric daimon, which can affect thoughts and dreams and can be responsible for both misfortune and good fortune, evo...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and e...

• Word Count: 8991
• Approx Pages: 36
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School