The Talmud has two major components: "the Mishnah, a book of halakhah (law) written in Hebrew; and the commentary on the Mishnah, known as the Talmud (or Gemarah)." The commentaries in the Talmud were written over the course of several hundred years between 200 B.C.E. and 500 C.E. ... For the most part, the information in each tractate is organized by theme. ... According to Solomon, the theme of prayer "establishes the continuity of Oral with Written Torah and suggests that relationship with God is key to the Sages' understanding of the world.... The sage answers, "...

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God forbid I take it from him!" ... Of the major characters, Abigail is the least complex. ... For young girls in Salem, the minister and the other male adults are God's earthly representatives, their authority derived from on high. ... In Act IV, it is he who counsels the accused witches to lie, to confess their supposed sins in order to save their own lives. ... The other seven died before they were a day old, and Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means. ...

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The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... She writes about several different themes including good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, friendship, and death. ... She believes that it reminds people about their heritage and shows them their place in the community. ... Expanding on the representation of Jesus or God in The Bluest Eye, Alexander understands the problem of how a supposedly omni...

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The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. ... It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. ... She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. ... This was a group of people who had suffered tremendously, and were bound by that suffering. ...

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The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. ... It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. ... She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. ... This was a group of people who had suffered tremendously, and were bound by that suffering. ...

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The natives do not rob the group of their possessions as yet. ... As the party heads south, Cora tries to mark their trail, but, under the watchful eyes of the Indians, finds it difficult to do so. ... Gamut praises God and the Calvinist philosophy of predestination, by which the "saved will be saved" and the "damned will be damned". ... While he agrees with Gamut that the enemy was fated to die, he believes that the enemies' mistakes and his own party's readiness, bravery, and skill were responsible for the happy outcome. ... When he wishes to spend the night awake keeping...

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Jack is a thirty-year old man employed as a recall coordinator for a major automobile company. ... If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. ... When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before. ... The next major event that occurs in Jack's life, although he is unaware of it at the time, is meeting Tyler Durden. ... Only now the fingers were Nosferatu-long and the thumb was too short, but he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. ...

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The connections run from similarities in methods of transmission, namely the oral traditions, to themes, characters and formal structural components. ... The stories concerning Gilgamesh in Sumerian are short and episodic and present no unifying theme, but in the Akkadian versions it appears that the poet has unified these traditional stories into one larger eleven or twelve tablet epic with more unified themes (West 65, Noegel 240). ... Achilles as the son of Thetis has a special relationship which allows him to communicate with the gods by way of Thetis's favor in the eyes of Zeus (Il. ...

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Related Objectives • consider audience and conduct audience analysis • use effective annotation of essays and note-taking strategies • engage in brainstorming, outlining, and drafting strategies • write multiple drafts • revise, edit, and proofread drafts • evaluate their writing processes Outcome 2: Collaboration Students will engage in the collaborative, social aspects of writing. Related Objectives • effectively engage in group writing and projects • respond constructively to peers' papers • critique their o...

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Major conflict of the poem is Agamemnon's demand for Achilles' war prize, the maiden Briseis, which wounds Achilles' pride; Achilles' consequent refusal to fight causes the Achaeans to suffer greatly in their battle against the Trojans. ... Major themes of the poem are the glory of war; military values over family life; the impermanence of human life and its creations. ... Major conflict of the poem is that Aeneas is fated to travel from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he will establish a race that will lead to the founding of Rome. ... Themes of the poem are the pr...

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Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. ... Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. The vast majority of Africans brought to the British colonies worked as agricultural laborers; many were brought to the colonies specifically for their experience in rice growing, cattle herding, or river navigation (Collier, 1985). ... The movemen...

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The Origin of Vampire Stories There is no doubt that stories of occult as a literary theme have enjoyed large success and popularity and that they are still generally popular. ... Furthermore, he had almost complete control over his wife's body and their children belonged to him. ... " -Oscar Wilde 3.3 Views on Sexuality Young woman were trained to be loving and emotional, without sexuality. ... "As she looked, her eyes blazed with unholy light, and the face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile.... Buffy the Vampire Slayer Both, the comic as well as the television series ...

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Humanities, as one would guess by its name, pertains to humans and does not pertain to God, Buddha, Allah or any other higher power or spiritual entity. ... The question of how the pyramids were built has not received a wholly satisfactory answer. ... Some have seriously hypothesized a massive chant in which the blocks were vibrated into place. ... For as I research and watch documentaries on these majestic structures I am captivated and aw-struck at the beauty of these buildings. ... Years ago, baskets of this sort were one of the only means for transporting water, cooking and carrying goods....

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Nevertheless, he continued to write, publishing his last major collection, Where I'm Calling From, in 1988. ... His wife tells the narrator that Robert and his wife, Beulah, were inseparable. ... Even when Robert tells him to open his eyes, he keeps them closed. ... "My eyes were still closed. ... Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. ...

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He brought his young daughters, who were sent upstairs to play with O'Hare's kids. ... Finally, she confronted him: the narrator and Bernard were just babies when they fought. ... He and Mary were friends starting at that moment. ... The scouts abandon the two and tell Weary that he and Billy are on their own. ... Suddenly, Weary realizes that they are being watched by five German soldiers and a police dog. ...

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Archeological evidence indicates that a technologically and artistically advanced, proto-Yoruba (Nok) were living somewhat north of the Niger in the first millennium B.C., and they were then already working with iron. ... In Haiti the Yoruba's were generally called Anagos. ... In all of these places mentioned above, the pantheon of major Yoruba deities has survived virtually intact, along with a complex of rites, beliefs, music, dances and myths of Yoruba origin. ... (Source 1) The Yoruba make up one of the major ethnic groups in modern Nigeria where they occupy the whole of Ogun, Ond...

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A group of boys tries to fight their way into the thicket, but Ralph fends them off. ... Jack's hunters reach the beach and stop in their tracks upon seeing the officer. ... Moved and embarrassed, the naval officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their composure. ... Ultimately, the boys' appalling savagery brings about the rescue that their coordinated and purposeful efforts were unable to achieve. ... Much of the novel is allegorical, meaning that the characters and objects in the novel are infused with symbolic significance that conveys the novel's central themes ...

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