Living a good life is a view that has changed through ages. ... Chaucer was one who was for the middle class people because they were looked at as one of the hardest working class. ... Throughout The Confessions, love and wisdom, the desire to love and be loved, and his love for his concubine, are all driving forces for Augustine's desire to find peace in God. ... Love should not be that of evil. ... The first love must be for the love of God in Augustine's mind. ...

• Word Count: 2038
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

He then divided the egg into two halves; he formed heaven and earth, between them the middle sphere, the eight points of the horizon, and the eternal abode of the waters. ... Visnu Traditions: Rgveda and Satapatha-Brahmana Visnu, while being one of the most important gods in classical Hinduism, already appears in the Vedic and Brahmanic literatures as a solar deity. ... The fourth incarnation, Nrsimha (man-lion), seems to belong to a later age, when the worship of Visnu had become established. ... They profess the goal of life to be-to attain moksha (salvation) that is possible through medi...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the ages, humankind has been deeply troubled by the existence of evil. ... Early writers did not clearly distinguish between daimon ("divine being") and theos ("god"), which suggests that daimon, the word from which the English "demon" was derived, did not have negative connotations attached to it in the beginning of its use in literature. ...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The characters are ordinary people like us, taken from the lower and middle classes of society, who struggle with everyday problem, such as poverty, sickness, crime, family strife and other problems within marital and paternal relationships. ... In his plays, O'Neill has embodied the trends and conflicts of his own time; he rebels against the narrowness, mindedness, hypocrisy, crudeness of feelingness, and the materialistic short-sightedness of his age.16 Throughout his plays, O'Neill reflects the reality of the American society. ...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School