In our everyday lives we hear about drugs manipulating people to the point of nearly insanity. ... In the beginning of the story there is a classic example, Dionysus uses his powers, as a god, to somehow manipulate all of the women in this town of Thebes to go out in to the mountains. ... The king of the town, Pentheus, feels as though it is his place to go into these mountains to somehow stop this madness. Dionysus comes back to this town disguised as a normal person and advises Pentheus to go in to the mountains dressed as a woman giving him the confidence that there is no way that this plan...

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I understand this thinking a little better than with the knights because I think of the saints back then as being a teacher of religion, sort of like our preachers, priests, and pastors. Most people in our society look up to these people and sort of look to them for guidance in troublesome times, but in medieval times their saints seemed to be much more than that. ... They were almost always either the tallest building right smack in the center of the town, or it was placed upon a hill so that it stood above all other buildings. This was to symbolize that the church was the strongest and la...

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a story of a small town and all the villagers, in which there are many symbols present. ... The three legged stool symbolizes death because it carries the black box that controls your fate, like god controlling our fate. The stones symbolize death because they are what the whole town uses to kill the villager, by stoning them....

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One of the movies we were assigned to watch in our Philosophy class was El Krimen del Padre Amaro or The Crime of Father Amaro. ... At the start of the movie, it is shown that a young priest by the name of Amaro is assigned to the town of Los Reyes to help and undergo supervision or training under Father Benito, the aged priest of the town. Not long after, it is somehow hinted that Father Benito is having an affair with Sanjuanera, one of the town's people who serves and helps with their chores as part-time. ... One of the places to which Father Benito took him to was the demarcations of ...

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In this movie, Daniel moves to a new city and being the new kid in town, he gets bullied by a gang of tough students from the local karate school. ... I do not wish to be like Daniel LaRusso because I do not think that violence is the solution to our problems. ...

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Moses told the elders of Egypt this and that they will go to a ceremony and when their children ask them what the ceremony is all about they will tell them that it is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians. ... When God came through the towns at midnight that night he killed every firstborn there was that did not have lamb's on the doorframe. ...

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Writing in Scandinavia at the end of the 1930s, Brecht set the play in a mythical town in the Chinese province of Setzuan during the same years. ... Shen Te is quickly set upon by the town's needy and greedy, who all want a piece of her new prosperity. ... "That's not in our sphere," retorts one god. ... Three buildings are pock-marked stucco and tiled pagoda roofs surround a large, wood chip town square, where the villagers literally grovel in the dust. ... The town's more despicable characters roll their eyes wildly and seem ready to foam at the mouth. ...

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The fact is that everyone at some point in our lives we are all going to go through some sort of suffering, being it loosing a loved one, loosing a job, living in poverty, or even having all the money in the world and being lonely. ... Whether it is terrorist attacks on national embassies or hate crimes that occur in a small town. ...

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The fact is that everyone at some point in our lives we are all going to go through some sort of suffering, being it loosing a loved one, loosing a job, living in poverty, or even having all the money in the world and being lonely. ... Whether it is terrorist attacks on national embassies or hate crimes that occur in a small town. ...

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"Almost daily she carried a large jar of water from the town well for washing and cooking the well still supplies modern Nazareth today and is called Mary's Well"(Charles 27). ... So Joseph and Mary set out from the town of Nazareth in Galilee and traveled up to Judea, to the town of David called Bethlehem. ... She saw him arrive as her baby son, and watched him die as our savior. ...

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Having grown up in a little town called Sighet in Transylvania, Elie is a studious, deeply religious boy with a loving family consisting of his parents and three sisters. One day, Moshe the Beadle, a Jew from Sighet, deported in 1942, with whom Elie had once studied the Cabbala, comes back and warns the town of the impending dangers of the German army. ... But by 1944, Germans are already in the town of Sighet and they set up ghettos for the Jews. ... When had we left our houses? ... How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?" ...

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God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas...

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Despite having a Church in the middle of town, religion wasn't something the town emphasized. ... That's why it was a major change for me going from a small town in New York to Charleston, South Carolina. ...

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Back during the medieval times soldiers used what is called a battering ram; it is a device made of a tree trunk used to literally batter, pound, punch and shake down gates, doors and walls of Medieval castles, fortresses and towns (Lords and Ladies). ... The prophet Jeremiah said, "Our backsliding is great; we have sinned against you" (Jeremiah 14:7). ... In this very complex relationship, the speaker is asking God to shape him, "seek to mend," which can be compared to the clay in the potter's hand in Isaiah 64:8 where is says, "But now, O LORD, thou art our fat...

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The truth is that in this day of super high technology and thousands of resources at our fingertips that thoroughly explain the meanings behind just about everything Jesus said, this view would hinge on borderline ignorance. First of all, Jesus never intended for us to take particular quote from his teachings, tirelessly dissect it in search of a literal meaning, and then make a final decision regarding our salvation. ... He knew, even then, the probabilities of human nature to make money and material things our God. Ultimately taking all our attention and focus off of the Lord. ... We...

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Upon reflection on his life Victor says, "learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow" (31). ... Even today, many people feel that the answers to all our problems are through science, and much like Frankenstein we aim to create life ourselves. Unless we consider the consequences of our actions, we could end up like Victor or even the creature. ...

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Despite seeing most of her family brutally killed by savage Native Americans, Mary is able to find comfort in the Lord, Mary wrote: We had six stout Dogs belonging to our Garrison, but none of them would stir though another time, if an Indian had come to the Door, they were ready to fly upon him, and tear him down. The Lord hereby would make us the more to acknowledge his Hand, and to see that our Help is always in him. (13) When she sees her family, home, and town destroyed by Indians, she sees this as an act of God, not an act by the Indians, "O the doleful sight that now was to ...

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A creator, a just, and living God who even with our failures loves us unconditionally. Eons ago when our ancestors lived, in certain cultures there was a belief in one or more gods who governed the seas, land, air, the crops, and even a god of fertility. ... Thornton also speaks about the name given to our Lord (jesus christ) by another african name. ... In Trinidad and Tobago an island located to the south of the leeward antilles there was a black statue of the virgin mary found in a town called sapiria. ...

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Both teach peace and love as well as a devotion to God and our fellow man. Both religions promote the cooperation and giving between people and put the wants and desires of God above our own. ... Not only must we communicate with Gob but actions are required to show our devotion. Both groups support fasting to clean our bodies from the influences of the impure world around us. ... In the days of the Christian Crusades, Catholics formed armies and conquered villages and towns forcing the residents to convert to Christianity. ...

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For example, if there was no evil we would live a perfect society where everything is ideal and would be very similar to a "Pleasantville" town and as for me would drive me crazy. ... Furthermore, he believes that it would reduce our existence to something worse than meaningless. ... Furthermore, it is part of God's plan of atonement that we recognize that chance horrors occur to innocent people as a consequence of our separation from Him. ...

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In Scripture, leprosy is a portrait of sin and those who carried the disease were shunned from society and sent to live in the outskirts of town. ... In the same way that God used this child he can use any one of us no matter our social stature. The faith of a child is much more pure than of someone who has been let down many times in life, however, it is all we need in order for God to touch and change our lives; and positively impact the lives of those around us....

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In spite of the fact that this story is a realistic fiction, it attracted our attention due to the allegory it implies and the significance of the values it reveals. ... On a summer day, he plans to go to Nizhny fair and prepares himself; his wife pleads him not to go saying that she saw a bad dream about him that all his hair turned to grey after his return from the town in her dream. ...

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Written thousands of years ago, Greek myths are still passed on and studied today. Edith Hamilton writes these myths in his book Mythology. He allows the reader to understand the Greeks and their ability to tell great stories, their relationship with god, their view on man and human nature, and how ...

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The story also incorporates tales of children that are in the town, and surrounding areas, who become important to the plot of the story. ... Too high a price is paid for harmony, it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter into it...

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For over a thousand years, mankind has always feared the world of the unknown. Fear has always been man's most primal instinct since the dawn of time. Their irrational fear has led them to extreme paranoia and a strong feeling of hatred for anything that is unfathomable. But first, what exactly is ...

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