The name of the book that this report is describing is The Testament, by John Grisham. ... The main characters in The Testament are Troy Phelan, a rich old man who is about to die at the beginning of the story and writes a will, which the story is revolved around; Nate O'Riley, an alcoholic in trouble with the IRS, who is responsible for finding Phelan's long lost daughter in Brazil to give her the money Phelan left for her in his last testament; Josh Stafford, Phelan's lawyer who deals with all of Phelan's affairs; and Rachel Lane, Phelan's long lost daughter in Bra...

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In the 'Old World' Chinese believed that death brought a gradual return to the cosmos, while the Romans, Arabs and Greeks thought that death allowed one to reach a more definitive plain (e.g. ... In the New World, Aztecs believed that dying in certain ways led to different post-death existences: a man who died in battle would become a humming bee that would bring on the sunrise, a woman who died in childbirth would be reborn into a goddess that would bring on the sunset, sacrificed victims became one with the sun and a person who died an ordinary, undistinguished death would go to t...

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Christianity, in addition to the tradition contained within the Hebrew Bible, also refers to fire in the New Testament. ... In the New Testament stories regarding judgment (Matthew 13), weeds, which represent people not chosen, are sent to the "furnace of fire." ... In the Old Testament, Abner is refered to as "the son of Ner", Ner meaning "to glisten or shine like a lamp" in Hebrew. (Strong 78-80) Coming from the Chaldeean root "nuer", translated in the Old Testament as "fiery" or "fire". ... And the battle at Gilboa against the Philistines, the King and a number of his sons were killed, the ...

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Another Biblical example, would be King David of the Old Testament. When he was merely a boy, he volunteered to represent his army in battle. ... An example of this would be a soldier in battle who sees a fellow soldier wounded, then risks his own life to help the other soldier in need. ... From the 6 year old brother who steps up to the 10 year old bully to protect his little sister, to the law enforcers who risk their lives everyday to serve and protect the people, all who put themselves in risky situations, endure the hardships that come with that situation, and persevere through those ha...

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As said once in Unbreakable there are two types of villains the one who fights with muscles and the other who fights the battle with his mind and those are the ones who are the hardest to defeat. ... Which means he did not kidnap Cora and Alice because he was cold hearted, he did it because he was fighting a battle of pride. ... Although people could have probably felt more sympathy towards him in the time period he wrote it in mainly because the Old Testament philosophies were much more accepted. ...

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I do not think a church is a place of battle. ... I think using the church as a place to hide or blow up is kind of like in the Bible where merchants started selling things in the house of God, using it for the wrong reason Jesus was displeased with that because his fathers house is a place of worship, not selling things, and defiantly not battle. ... In the Old Testament when Abraham sinned with his wife, handmaiden God said that Ishmael (Palestine) and Isaac's (Israel) nations would always fight over whose land it was. ...

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This also ties in the Knights religious beliefs; the Old Testament says follow the law or die. ... Sir Gawain also has to use some of his battle skills in fending off wild beasts. ... This is just as the New Testament promises. ...

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Kiowa's old hunting hatchet, given to him by his grandfather, not only serves as a useful day to day tool but it also serves as a reminder to who he is and to where he come from and the family he left behind. Just like the hatchet, Kiowa's bible is also a multi functional weapon against the battle of homesickness, it serves as a reminder of his father, the familiar smell of the pages and the leather soothes him and gives him relief from the stresses of the war. The Bible also functions as a testament to Kiowa's faith and trust in God during his seemingly endless struggle for sur...

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In the Qu'ran, the Islamic old testament, there is a line that is famous for encouraging violence, it reads "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out...and fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah and worship is for Allah alone.... This time, it was the Christians that started the battle. ...

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During his battle with the monster, Beowulf pulls off his claw, arm and shoulder using his bare hands. ... Grendel escapes into his lair, eventually dieing from his battle wounds. ... There are, however, only scant references to the Old Testament in the poem and no whatsoever to the New Testament, Jesus, or any of the specifically Christian topics or symbols that predominate the thoughts of the early middle ages. ...

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The ancient values of Beowulf and his time coincide more with the precepts of the Old Testament (e.g. eye for an eye), than with the teachings of Christ within the New Testament. ... Fate is what is mentioned as the deciding factor in who shall emerge as victor in the battle between Beowulf and the dragon: I shall face the fiend with a firm heart/let every man's ruler reckon my fate ( 2227-2228). ... In fact the poet does this directly with Beowulf recalling of his surviving a battle with sea monsters in his youth: As God's beacon brightened the east,/I spied a cape across calming se...

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She agreed, but she told him that a woman would get the glory for winning the battle (Judges 4:6-10). ... In my understanding of the Old Testament, the readings embodied the structure of civilization of Israel. ...

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Old Testament King David In second Samual, King David is depicted as a true, but imperfect, example of an ideal king. Later kings were compared to him. I think the main point in this is that; King David was a good king despite his sinful nature, and we can learn from his actions both good and ba...

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While trying to maintain his sanity, Jimmy struggles between his old self and the person he has to become. ... Jimmy and his men were not very courageous, they did not do heroic things, and they did not even fight in many battles. ... Everyone in the story had there own things they carried, some carried lucky pebbles like Jimmy and others carried the New Testament like Kiowa. ... Even though Kiowa had a serious internal battle to fight, Jimmy had it worse. ...

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While trying to maintain his sanity, Jimmy struggles between his old self and the person he has to become. ... Jimmy and his men were not very courageous, they did do heroic things, and they did not even fight in many battles. ... Everyone in the story had their own things they carried, some carried lucky pebbles like Jimmy and others carried the New Testament like Kiowa. ... Even though Kiowa had a serious internal battle to fight, Jimmy had it worse. ...

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The battle of Dargolad that occurs in the beginning of the movie was symbolic of the Great War in Heaven, where Satan was expelled. ... This scene is very similar to in the Old Testament during the Crossing of the Red Sea, when the Israelites were trying to escape the oppression from the Egyptians and the Pharaoh. ...

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This is shown with multiple verses from the bible, one example is visible in the verse, "And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord shall strike all nations that have fought against Jerusalem: the flesh of every one shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth" (Old Testament Zacharias 14.12). ... Zombie movies also commonly show characters battling between what is necessary and what is "right." ...

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As its alternative title is Jacob Wrestling with the Angel makes it clear that it has reference to the Old Testament, more specifically from the Book of Genesis. ... The tree not only divides the picture plane in half, but two different kinds of reality; on the one hand, the women who have apparently just came out of church and are reflecting seriously upon the subject of the sermon, and on the other hand the metaphysical vision of the subject of that same sermon, Jacob and his battle with the angel. ...

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