The Lakota have pledgers who willing sacrifice their flesh for blessings, while Jewish parents sacrifice the flesh of their infant sons to symbolize his unity with their Christ. ... The mother will pass her son to kvatters, or messengers, who pass the child on to the side of the room that the circumcision will be performed. ... The Sun Dance is a "renewal ceremony of the Great Plains that was practiced by approximately twenty [Native American] tribes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."" ...

• Word Count: 1403
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We chose to study the "Sons of Israel" Congregation. ... He told us that majority of the immigrants visiting the synagogue were primarily Russian Jews, but there were a lot of native Jewish Orthodox people as well. ... Many of the Russian immigrants that visit "The Sons of Israel", are not Orthodox, in fact only a good number of them never even practiced Judaism until they came to the United States. ... We started out our questioning with asking him how long he was going to "The Sons of Israel" Eli said he only went here for around six years, that's when he came to America from Belarus. ...

• Word Count: 2057
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. ... Osiris was the God of Egypt but when Osiris and his wife Isis have a son, Osiris was sent to the underworld and became God of the Dead and his son, Horus, became the first Pharaoh. ...

• Word Count: 1555
• Approx Pages: 6

While the son and grandson of Tiamat, Ea and Marduk, represent the forces of good, wisdom, power, and might. Ea, Son of Apsu, decides to protect the younger gods from Apsu's wrath. ... Ea then assumes control of the cosmos and conceives his son Marduk. ...

• Word Count: 2250
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School