On the Mesopotamian side, most art gives thanks to a god, or glorifies the cultures greatness by showing depictions of everlasting peace, or of trouncing enemies, like in the Standard of Ur witch shows peace on one side, and a war that is being won on the other. ... One side seems to depict the might of Ur and its army and king, the other tells the tale of the peace that Ur knew, possibly through the might of its army and ruler. ... Almost everything they did glorified the gods, or described some situation that was brought on by the gods, such as peace. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The author shows Antonio's feelings about change by depicting his nervousness about beginning school, separating from his mother, and his future. ... When Ultima successfully cures Lucas, Antonio comes to realize that Ultima's spirituality is both valid and separate from the Catholic Church. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve....

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• Grade Level: High School

Among the separate scriptures, they hold similar pivotal figures that make up the religious doctrine texts. ... The dove returned with an olive branch twig, which is the symbol of peace restored, indicating the flood was officially over.9 Noah and the rest of Ark's guests were free to leave the Ark, and mark new life on Earth. ... It also shows how they would persecute people for having separate beliefs, as well as the pressure they put on the non-believers to become believers by only allowing those who follow God to survive the flood. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this work he explains that there is a great quantity of every species so that the strongest and healthiest survive, leaving a better species behind that slowly adapts into whole separate species. ... These new inventions joined all different cultures together, but scientific findings were separating them because humans had no morality to each other anymore. ... They seemed like two separate worlds and if Christians accepted science then they had to give up all of their knowledge from before. ...

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Copious declarations about the sin include, "all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God," "your iniquities have separated between you and your God," "whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin.... It should, furthermore, be noted that Paul begins this chapter by saying, "Therefore, being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ....

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• Grade Level: High School

Faith is not just a word. It is so complicated that it took an entire chapter to describe it and still even now the word is used so flippantly. According to God, faith is the "assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." A good illustration for faith is a flashback to "Adventures...

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• Grade Level: High School

God's Covenants: A Biblical Perspective Introduction The Bible is the story of mankind and his relationship with God. Beginning with Adam's failure to comply with the Lord's command to not eat of the tree of knowledge, up to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, man sought to regain the open fell...

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These years were considered as golden era for him in which he wrote some of his best known novels such as War and Peace. ... While staying in the inn, they drink tea together then go for sleeping separately. ... So wretched, Ivan thinks to take revenge upon Makkar, but then just avoids him at the day for not seeing him, and keeps awake the whole night repeating the prayers, though not obtaining peace. ...

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We may conclude that the family lost some of its former functions or now shares them with other institutions.6 Keniston defines the family today as the "needy" family that needs and uses support in raising children, and thus, this family estranges its children and participates in the breaking down of family relationships in the future.7 It may be said that democracy separates and isolates the members of the family from each other, too. ... "10 The American dramatist‟s concept of family is centered on his dream of the ideal family and his desire to make peace with it rather than unde...

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• Grade Level: High School

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, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and e...

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• Grade Level: High School