This journey is Telemachus" "rites of passage" where after completing it he has learnt how to act as a man. ... We are able to see just how much Odysseus" absence affects his family. ... Athena sends Telemachus on a journey, a "rites of passage". ... It parallels the increase in maturity with an increase in his language skills. ... Book XVI:476-477 The outcomes of Telemachus" "rites of passage" training can also be seen in the way others treat him. ...

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"How to deal with myself" This week's topic for SAT Guidance is "How to deal with yourself". At first, I was wondering, "How can you deal with yourself? ... I should be thinking about how I deal with what I myself cause. ... I'm sure you're familiar with this passage. ... So the answer to your question is that We don't deal with it. ...

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I chose this passage from the book because it focuses on how one Being so strong, so powerful, so meaningful in one's life could allow an episode so exhausting and detrimental to happen to an entire population. ... For it is in this passage, that even I question my own faith. ... Even now, as I reread the afore mentioned passage, I continue to question my faith in God. ... As I reflect on my thoughts and imagine what survival of the Holocaust was like or how I could have weathered this disgraceful event in world history, here is a man who not only lived, but persevered with his stronge...

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The thesis statement is crucial to your essay; please do not confuse a topic with a thesis. ... When you sit down to write your essay, try to imagine how your argument might best be broken into manageable "chunks." ... Then select from this list those passages which best back up your statements. ... Do the same in the case of poetry, but denote line breaks with spaced slashes. ... A really good conclusion will point the reader to other possibilities, raise questions that the essay's argument might lead toward, or perhaps offer an ironic turn on the conclusions offered in the paper. ...

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The passage begins with his reaction to Hedvig's disappointment; his speech and actions throughout the passage are very indicative of his nature and his position in the family. ... If Gina's reaction to this question is to "obviously lie" - to look uncomfortable, speak with an insecure tone, etc - then we as an audience will understand quite clearly that she is lying. ... Hedvig has two lines in particular, in the passage, that may carry different meanings depending on how they are interpreted and delivered. ... Gina and Hjalmar may be standing throughout the passage, so as a directo...

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The more you think about this question, the more frustration envelops your mind. ... Which made me wonder how could this system possibly be in place? ... Part D In the passage Balram discusses how he feels trapped by the caste system. ... "These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies, and Men with Small Bellies. ... He is sick with envy and takes extreme action to deal with these extreme circumstances....

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Before this passage, Ann has been getting reacquainted with the Keller's house, and the passage hints at the tension between Ann and Kate that will develop in later acts and clues the audience into Kate's mental instability. Firstly, Miller uses Ann's defiance of Kate to create tension in the passage. ... Ann's short evasive sentences and repeating rhetorical questions indicate a lack of desire to show any furtive emotions to Kate, as well as a desire to stand her ground, and she is thus showing how she tries to break the roles imposed by the familiar setting of the Kelle...

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The rhetorical question in the last line of part one, "O vain boast, who can control his fate? ... Shakespeare again uses the same structure in presenting his rhetorical question as in part one. Othello states the question and then gives a short but meaningful answer to it as seen in line eleven where he says "Do you go back dismayed? ... It demonstrates the way in how Othello's mind and thinking changes quite rapidly in his rage. ... It starts with him still pitying and worrying about himself but with the caesura in line 15 completely switches to him crying about Desdemona. ...

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Such biblical passages brought her comfort and hope on her miserable journey. ... She applied her faith in all areas of her life, even those which would make a person today question theirs. ... There are several metaphorical passages within the story that validate this theory. ... This passage shows Rip's confusion upon entering a town that is familiar to him, though quite different. ... The following passage from the story is a metaphor for American people as a whole. ...

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Joe and how they get how they start their criminal lives. The passage also describes what Mrs. ... "That's the way with this boy!" ... "Answer him one question, and he"ll ask you a dozen directly. ... The following passage describes the physical format of a prison hulk and how the prisoner were rated: "Hulk" was a word used, originally, to indicate "the body of a ship" and has its root in the old Saxon word "hulc". ...

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The Conspiracy against Jesus In dealing with the conspiracy against Jesus, Gibson refers to several passages in the Gospels. ... Both Gospels refer to the Sanhedrin and how they were looking for false evidence against Jesus. ... Jesus refuses to answer any of his questions, so Herod and his men mock him, and then return him to Pilate, refusing to declare him guilty of any crime. ... This passage is not noted in the Bible. ... This passage only references Pilate's wife one time and not by name as the movie implies. ...

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Paul's objective in this passage was to show how the resurrection of Jesus is fact the basis of the Christian faith, to determine why Jesus was in fact raised from the dead, and to also reveal our own future resurrection from the dead. ... But now people were starting to question whether this in fact happened, so Paul asserted the truth with his writings. ... Jesus' resurrection was so important because it meant that he followed through with the prophecy. ... One of Paul's goals was to answer the question of whether man would be with or without a body following resurrection and...

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This is Plato's vital question in the Socratic dialogue Theaetetus. ... The primary question of the passage What is knowledge? ... First, how is there a difference? ... Last, how is one to determine at all what constitutes a true belief? ... This is largely a question of semantics. ...

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A decision so difficult that it has more than one right answer and how it is tackled is definitive of who we are. ... These passages provide a look at how two men feel disconnected from the norms of society due to circumstances beyond their control. ... In a way, I was surprised that he was even asking me the question. ... After he informs the reader of his trouble's with both the blacks and the Latino's he never directly correlates into his passage the result of this situation. ... This quote from Joseph Steffen in my opinion sum's up both these unique passages. ...

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If a person wants to understand the Christian authority of a man over his wife, he must consider how Christ demonstrated his leadership as head over the Church. ... I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God. ... The teaching that Paul is concerned about here is specifically the truths of the faith while the authority in question refers to women in governing or leadership positions of the church. ... Let's consi...

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This leads to the question of, is Billy Pilgrim just a character from a Kilgore Trout novel? ... This brings up the question, is Billy one in the same people as Lott=s wife? ... How were they supposed to deal with something like this? ... Billy=s maybe a little more peculiar than Vonnegut=s, but they both dealt with it how they felt best. ... This along with what Billy had to endure throughout the novel point out similarities that might just possibly point to Billy being Vonnegut=s Alost boy.@ Hopefully this has shown that with an incident mentioned in the book about a biblical passage, Billy...

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She was even compared to God by the people she helped, which all three authors note: "As one poor man replied to the question how would he survive the answer was simple: to trust in God and Miss Barton" (Burton 125). ... Barton continued on with her mission even though she did not have enough funds. ... By reading all three passages, we begin to see a larger picture of who Barton really was. ... There is nothing negative about her in the passage. ... Unlike the other two passages, Burton provides deeper human insight into Barton. ...

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The overall tone of this passage is quite dark, with the opening paragraph graphically describing the mutilation of the Pleasure Mouse's foot, ending with her bellowing 'in agony.' ... This particular passage is in past tense, and told in story time, meaning readers are able to closely follow the process of the foot binding and the how Pleasure Mouse reacts to it in more detail. ... In addition, a 'moon sickle' is an agricultural tool used for harvesting, that when used on people, may cause agonising pain, correlating with what Pleasure Mouse will experience later...

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Firstly, I will point out why Richard's long monologue marks a transformation in the king's behaviour and how this is evident in the text. Secondly, I will focus on the language Shakespeare employs, trying to establish how Richard's metamorphosis impacts on his diction, or, conversely, how the poet expresses the king's change through language. On the basis of my findings, I will finally assess how significant the passage is in comparison to other key scenes, pinpointing reasons why or why not it could be more important. ... It is in this context that one has to read th...

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3) How do we love our neighbor? ... This passage is used by many to support the error of common grace. ... He loves us with a purpose, that of our salvation. Finally he loves us with holy, pure, and sinless love. This is how we ought to love our neighbor! ...

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With psychology interwoven through the passages of his novel, he makes a clear picture of the minds of the prisoners, what they, the prisoners, including himself, suffered through and how they survived. ... We must take their attitudes, their wrong perceptions of how to seek the meaning of life, and change that so they may find the truth, that life dictates what questions we answer, that we do not ask the questions of life. ... One day while I was just talking with some of my friends, I brought up the question of meaning of life. ... The second question that life asked of me was how am I go...

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With psychology interwoven through the passages of his novel, he makes a clear picture of the minds of the prisoners, what they, the prisoners, including himself, suffered through and how they survived. ... We must take their attitudes, their wrong perceptions of how to seek the meaning of life, and change that so they may find the truth, that life dictates what questions we answer, that we do not ask the questions of life. ... One day while I was just talking with some of my friends, I brought up the question of meaning of life. ... asked of me was how am I going to accomplish this goal. ...

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He took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven? But in our circumstance and course of thought, 'Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged, To take him in the purging of his soul, When he is fit and season'd for his passage? ... The question remains: was Hamlet truly mad, or did he feign it the entire time? ... "How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself- (I.v.171). ... Later events make us question Hamlet's sanity even more closely. ...

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TO BE EVIL OR NOT TO BE IS THAT THE QUESTION? ... Hawthorne's usage of allegory and symbolism in this story shows how perilous excessive pride, moral superiority, and religious zealotry can be to one's mortal existence. ... The passage to adulthood is to accept one's sheer lack of the capability to be perfection incarnate. ... This passage reveals that Brown had an unwitting knowledge of his own failure of perception. ... This leads him to doubt "faith" and question life. ...

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Charles Dickens worked with many complicated ideas and it is shown in Bleak House in more than one instance. ... Dickens' concern was primarily the social hierarchy and how fair, or unfair, it was. ... In this passage Dickens uses repetition as a way to emphasise his point but it is also a part of the narrator's voice, there's 'Fog up the riverfog down the riverfog on the essex marshesfog creepingfog lying out', the fog is everywhere, it's suffocating and the reader, as well as the people in the passage, cannot get away from it. ... Setting, in these types of nov...

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