Upon discovery of the largest and most beautiful pearl the small village had ever seen, the life of Kino and his family is changed forever. ... For example, when Kino finds the pearl, he assumes that this is a gidt from God and thanks God for his discovery. ... The discovery of the pearl gives Kino and his family all sorts of power and economic advantages. ... Kazantzakis uses the form of power through knowledge. ...

• Word Count: 1428
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This discovery deludes the Goodman greatly. ... Perhaps the good man was awakening to the knowledge of his own moral imperfection. ... This passage reveals that Brown had an unwitting knowledge of his own failure of perception. ... When Adam and Eve stole from the Tree of Knowledge, they were banished from Eden. ... "In place of the needed capacity for both love and hate or, in the terms of the story, both evil and good, he develops only a great fear of moral maturity and of the knowledge and responsibility that maturity brings" (Adams 165)....

• Word Count: 1393
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• Grade Level: High School

The Gospel of Truth is a Valentinian account of their stance on the matter of salvation through knowledge. ... Until the discovery of thirteen primary Gnostic texts near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945, Irenaeus and other similar apologists provided nearly all information about Gnosticism. ... Gnostic teaching is based upon the knowledge of transcendence through internal and innate methods expressed as an exclusive religious experience. ... Such lack of knowledge can be dissolved only by gnosis, and the revelation of gnosis is brought by Christ, who is considered the logos of the True God. ... Val...

• Word Count: 2211
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Each in turn has proved false, as new information has updated knowledge. Unfortunately the knowledge although seemingly correct, is not completely based on fact but each time using "assumptions" of one kind or another. ...

• Word Count: 1960
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His knowledge about major religions also helped him to fight danger, loneliness and doubt. ... Pi was given the skills and knowledge of how to care for animals, how to translate their motivations, and how to approach them with caution and respect. ... Pi used this technique and knowledge in training animals from the zoo to create his dominance on the lifeboat. ...

• Word Count: 1422
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Buddhism was inspired by Siddhartha personal life and the journey of discovery he took, and the questions he asked. ... "(Tripitaka) One constant, is the inspiration drawn from the personal life of the Buddha, the journey of discovery he took and the question he asked would form a 3000 year old religion. ...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the colonies, at the time of Columbus's discovery they believed in the symbols of dreams and they used animals as a way of guiding their every action. ... They could have made their way, into parts of Europe or even the Caribbean and had gained some sort of knowledge about the christian religion(insert) thornton makes reference to the priests who came over on the slave ships (insertpg264) nad stayed at the coast until the slaves were actually on the ships. ... Thornton express knowledge of the afro - american culture using the Santeria of Cuba, Cuba is a spanish c...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The enlightenment began in an age of, "unprecedented intellectual turmoil which commenced in the mid-seventeenth century,"" and was associated with the scientific progress of the early seventeenth century, especially the discoveries of Galileo. ... Deist belief involves a theory of knowledge based upon the recognition of fundamental universal characteristics on the object perceived, and is rigidly opposed to knowledge that is supernatural in its origin and determined only by strife and conflict. ...

• Word Count: 2438
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For Adah, adaptation comes in the form of unforgiving self-discovery, the realization that ''even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious.'' ... This was an idea Nathan Price could not comprehend, for the Baptist faith was the only faith he had ever been presented with, or given the knowledge of. ...

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8