In Langston Hughes" essay "Salvation," Langston talks about the first time he is going to be saved from sin. Langston is a young boy around the age of thirteen. ... Finally, he thought to himself and saw that nothing had happened to Westley for lying about not seeing Jesus. ... Like most children his age, he does not understand the facts about religion. ... The conflict in this essay is that Langston is fighting his feelings about not seeing Jesus. ...

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He told Hulga's mother that he was just a country boy. ... The boy then proceeded to run off with Hulga's prosthetic leg. ... He began to feel guilty and after a young boy hitchhiker insulted his mother and jumped out of the car, O'Connor wrote, "Mr. Shiftlet felt that the rottenness of the world was about to engulf him. ... At least he did not disturb the ceremony by talking about the "beautiful guls". ...

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But at this early point in Elie's journey it is apparent that a dark flame has entered his soul and has began destroying Elie's strong faith in God and has caused him to question God when misfortunes come upon him, thus resulting in Elie's doubt about God's absolute justice, when he had always been a deeply religious boy and so devoted to God. ... Realizing the importance of being together, Elie and his father lie about their age. ... A youth from Warsaw, a strong, well built boy is hanged for stealing. ... Several days pass and the prisoners forget about the sele...

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She took notes on the happenings of the room, and she always seemed to know everything about the patients. ... Nurse Ratched also gave McMurphy every chance to admit he was wrong to beat the black boy who was taunting George. ... "She led him into the office, stroking his head and saying, 'Poor boy, poor little boy,'" (265). ...

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For instance during an earthquake, a boy gets trapped under a pile of debris under a pile of rocks and suffers a great deal of harm. ... Although, that one boy suffered many others are saved the tragedy in any future reoccurrence of an earthquake. ... God being all knowing would know about bad things and if he is all powerful would be able to stop all the bad from happening. ... In previous arguments from Pluto about the ideal city stated that an ideal city would eventually demise into chaos. ... Many argue if a god does exist then why do evil things happen as explained above but what ab...

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Where did a sixteen year-old boy develop the strength to survive the ordeal on the lifeboat? ... His knowledge about major religions also helped him to fight danger, loneliness and doubt. ... At an early age, Pi's father, who owned a zoo in India, taught Pi many lessons about the nature of animals and human's interactions with them which became central to his survival. ... As a young boy, Pi believed that only religion would save us (Martel, 27). His curiosity about the three major religions and their differences provided him with many viewpoints that sustained him. ...

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This leads us to making predictions about what will happen in similar cases in the future. ... The crucial point of this analogy is that the train stopping just in time before it hit the boy is a coincidence according to one view but it is a matter of religious significance for the boy's mother. ... According to Tillich a miracle is a 'sign-event', something that has religious significance and therefore tells us something about God. ... Secondly miracles by definition reveal something about God, and that the miraculous event reveals God to people...

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Telemakhos and teens today share feelings of insecurity about their identity or place in family or society. Telemakhos feels insecure and unsure about his father. ... Teenagers now will often feel insecure about who they are whether it deals with their personality, family, or interest. ... He speaks of how it would have been easier for him to have his father dead and to have been able to put his hopes and worries to rest then it is to be left wondering about his location and well being. ... Although Telemakhos" mother realizes his coming of age, the suitors still view him as a little boy. ...

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"Young couple on honeymoon dies in plane crash...16 year old boy hit and killed by a drunk driver...family dog mauls child president of high school commits suicide". ... Why would a God with supreme power not do something about my grandmother and my grandfathers and my uncle dying? ... I was still thinking about it as I called my buddies to come pick me up. I sat in the freezing cold and waited, just thinking about how bad of a day I had. ... I may have on any other occasion jumped into my friend's car and not think twice about how lucky I really am. ...

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Night, By Elie Wiesel is a devastatingly true story about one man's witness to the genocide of his own people. ... One of the main topics in this book is how Elie, a boy of strong religious faith, as well as many Jews lose their faith in God because of the atrocities that take place in the concentration camps. ... If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself.?...

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In Rudlofo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima, Antonio is a young boy whose faith is repeatedly challenged by life's circumstances, the actions of people around him, and his ever changing relationship with God. ... When he sees evil repeatedly triumph over good, he questions God's love and ability to know all and see all, considering that "perhaps God was too busy in Heaven to worry or care about us- (187). ...

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By cognitive Durkheim meant that religion makes the world intelligible to people, providing them with their notions of time and space, cause and effect, and the ability to think about and understand the nature of society and the world. ... In The King Must Die a boy, Theseus, makes a transition into to becoming a man. ...

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A teenage boy would become a preacher in this church. ... Later in his life, he is able to meet the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and have a conversation with him about religion. When asked about the white devil Baldwin responded by saying that he had white friends, and that interracial marriage did not bother him one bit. ... His one friend Mary, he explained in detail, who was a great person and he named all the things that she had done for him, and Elijah Muhammad responded with "well she is all right but-what about the others! ... The one thing that Baldwin keeps pointing out about Minister E...

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Marjane's mum interrupts the group before they can attack they boy with nails between their knuckles, and gently tells Marjane, "It is not for you and me to do justice. ... " When Marjane asks her mother about forgiveness, her mother replies, "Bad people are dangerous. ... In an attempt to rebel against the institution, Marjane refused to comply with her principal's repeated warning about wearing jewelry, and accidentally knocked over the principal when she tried removing Marjane's bracelet. ... Years later, when Marjane was attending art school in Iran, she meets...

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I strongly believe you should build a relationship with him because this can make your life so much easier once you become older and start to gain this knowledge about life and how Jesus really works. ... You said, "I cried, in bed alone, and couldn't stop" (184) and no little boy or girl should ever have to feel this way. ... So Langston, do not think you are the only one who has doubts about believing but just remember, Jesus is there....

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According to her, three spirits had appeared, "one in the likeness of a young man or boy, and the other two [were] puppies, the one white and the other black" (pg.306). ... Another point of contention would be about the young child. ... According to him, he was in a barn, "making hay-bottles for his horses about noon, swearing, cursing, raging, and wishing to himself that some wise body (or wizard) would help him to [find] his purse and money again." ... However, when he was asked about what mischievous acts he demanded of his two spirits, he said, "never any, only he sent his bear spirit t...

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Little is known about him except that he is a serial killer. His murderous backstory is hinted at: "I never was a bad boy that I remember of, but somewhere along the line I done something wrong and got sent to the penitentiary. ... He knows he is bad but seems to accept it and knows that there are worse men out there: "Nome, I ain't a good man, but I ain't the worst in the world neither. " He also questions a lot about religion. As the Grandmother keeps telling him about Jesus and to pray, he connects that all back to his life. ... This is a rather big step for her considering it mea...

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In this poem the young boy is explaining that God considers himself to be like a lamb, innocent and meek when he says, "He is called by thy name, for he calls himself a Lamb" (13-14).The fact that the character questions who makes the lamb validates the being of a single, powerful, inspiring creator, one who dares to create both the tiger and the lamb. ... Throughout the poem the child keeps arguing with the lamb about its nature, as if to repress the lamb's self-worth. ... When the child-like speaker of "The Lamb" asks the creature, "Who made thee", there is...

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