This idea reiterates Blake's anxieties about the current deteriorating condition of London. ... When talking about songs of innocence as title implies, the views offered in these songs about religion are very innocent and naive. ... An angel is releasing the soot-covered boys from their "coffins of black," and they are dancing away as they are released. The sky above them is blue, not black, and healthy, green vegetation, grows around the text. ...

• Word Count: 2556
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

A better understanding of this passage will allow us to see how Jesus taught his disciples and the Pharisees about the love and grace of God. ... And so the boy starts out for the far country. ... Because of the famine this boy does not know what to do. ... And so, on the black background of this boy's sin "down in the pigpen, out of fellowship with his father, having left home on a bad note, our Lord begins to brighten things up. ... When this boy was living at home with the father and was in fellowship with him, he was a son, and there was never any question about that. ...

• Word Count: 3350
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 3593
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Joseph Smith, then a fourteen-year-old boy, had a vision telling him that the true church was not in this world. ... Girls may go on a mission if they would like to but are unable to go until they are twenty-one and they go for about a year. ... "The group uses techniques that numb the mind to suppress doubts about the group and its leaders. ...

• Word Count: 2529
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School