He may live in a slum in a small hut and there is filth and dirt everywhere at the same time another person may be sleeping, or playing with his friends, or riding a luxurious car and live in a big house. ... Life is short and after death human beings turn into spirits. Spirits cannot be seen or hurt or destroyed which means that life after death is infinite. ... Along with producing foods, building houses or reproducing what human beings do is acquiring knowledge. ... But in order to live he not only grows food, or builds houses, and produce clothes but also he acquires knowledge, falls in lo...

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• Grade Level: High School

Once the Indians burned the town and made way to Rowlandson's house, she turned to God for answers. Her house was set on fire, forcing her and her children to exit. ... After hearing this news, her spirits were renewed, knowing she might be going home soon. ...

• Word Count: 893
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• Grade Level: High School

In a Yoruba community, the head of a family is responsible for worshipping the family's ancestors, which is done at the house at the family shrine. ... Europeans also insisted upon burying the dead in communal graveyards rather than the traditional Yoruba practice of burying them in the house. ... For example, the Eje festival is an annual event during which the Yoruba leader gives yams to the god of the sea, to the ancestors, and to other local spirits and divinities believed to be responsible for making the crops do well on the land. ...

• Word Count: 1239
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Mather's article The Wonders Of The Invisible World shows a problem in the New Puritan settlement, and the houses of the good people there are filled with the doleful shrieks of their children and servants, tormented by invisible hands,". ... That these witches have driven a trade of commissioning their impression of the Devil being so influential that even one sin could result in a person's eternal confederate spirits to do all Sorts of mischiefs to the neighbors." ...

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