Love plays a very important role in Hurston's "Their Eyes were watching God". Hurston's best novel describes the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. ... Each marriage helps Janie finds her own wishes and goals in life. Janie gets her definition of love from "nature," when she witnesses the "marriage" between the pear tree and the bee. ... He is secretly jealous of other men touching or even looking at it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Some claims have been made that more than six hundred new religions have bee created or imported here in the last few decades. ... Totalistic cults also force members to give up independent ways of thinking and activities; all life is directed along the lines of the cult. ... Cults are dynamic and can change their character over time, which means that these classifications are not concrete. ... They make an individual feel accepted by the group and also important within the cult. ... The third aspect of cults that is important to fully understand them are the rituals that take place within cul...

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It is Hobbes' proposition that even though individuals may differ in the strengths of their various natural powers, all people are naturally equal, because even the weakest is capable of killing the strongest by some means: "Nature hath made men so equal, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there bee found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind then another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit, to which another may not pretend, a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Numerous problems present themselves in reconstructing the life of women in ancient Greece. ... Reading the plays of the classical playwrights give us evidence of women as strong, central characters in Greek tragedies and epics. ... There is good evidence to indicate that priestesses were more important than priests on Crete. ... Females participated in various religious rituals involving dancing and sacrifices, both important components of religious activities in later Greek history. ... Homer's works became the Greek "bible", outlining for the Greeks their heroic past, and ho...

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Afterlife: In general, Native religions have no precise belief about life after death. ... Others believe that nothing definitely can be known about one's fate after this life. ... The goal is to receive a vision that will guide his development for the rest of his life. ... Now visualize an opening into the earth that you remember from sometime in your life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School