When it came time to cross the Bacquaug River, as a captive, Rowlandson sees the Indians coming together to build rafts to carry them across the river. ... We were not ready for so great a mercy as victory and deliverance; if we had been, God would have found out a way for the English to have passed this River, as well for the Indians with their Squaws and Children, and all their Luggage. (22) This quote shows that this whole capture is part of God's master plan for making her a better Christian as one of the "chosen." ... Later Rowlandson is moving with the Indians when they must w...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, after some years of children born of a maid in Rachel's name, God grants Jacob children through Rachel. ... The land from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates River is granted to him. ... To have thirteen children is something for which one may be admired and revered. ...

• Word Count: 1787
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Kings do not normally take suggestions from children and yet there they were both King and Commander of the army, following through with a simple suggestion made by a young girl. ... In verse 8 Naaman arrived at Elisha's house and he was told by one of Elisha's messengers, to wash himself 7 times in the Jordan River to be cleaned from his leprosy. ... He was proud and refused to wash himself in the Jordan River because he said there were other better rivers in Damascus. ...

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In Perseus, Danae gets put in an underground home so she was in no contact with men and could not bare any children. ... Achilles, for example, was dipped into the river by his mother to make him invulnerable, as stated in The Fall of Troy. ... Children for many years have played with Hercules action figures. ... Children grow up wishing they had his strengths. ... These stories show up in children's books today. ...

• Word Count: 1549
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Some African societies regard them as children or messengers of God, while others look upon them as His helpers (Gehman, 2005). ... This includes natural phenomena-hills, certain rivers, trees and the earth believed inhabited by the spirit..."... This proverb means that anyone born in Africa does not need to go to school to learn about the existence of the Supreme Being, but God's existence is known by all including children (Ekeke; Ekeopara, 2010)....

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Coming to the realization that he doesn't have to choose whether to be a Márez or a Luna, or believe in the God of the church or in the golden carp, Antonio "[takes] the llano and the river valley, the moon and the sea, God and the golden carp "and [makes] something new- (247). ... Above all, he comes to realize that old ways can and often must be modified, and that if the "old religion could no longer answer the questions of the children, then perhaps it was the time to change it- (248). ...

• Word Count: 1348
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While growing up with her father, her religion was forced upon her, as for their punishment the children were sentenced to "the verse", in which they were required to right out one hundred lines direct from the bible by memory. ... As for the youngest, 5-year old Ruth May, she brightly tries to make sense of the exotic new world in which she finds herself, even as she makes friends with the children of Kilanga. ... Although the Congolese people are reluctant to abandon their traditional deities (and fearful of baptizing their children in the crocodile-infested waters of the nearby river), Nath...

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Zeus was one of three children and the one in sole control of the heavens. ... The third bother was named Poseidon, he is the god of the seas, rivers, oceans, floods, droughts, earthquakes and the creator of houses. ...

• Word Count: 1667
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• Grade Level: High School