The God of Small Things received England's 1997 Booker Prize making Arundhathi Roy the first Indian citizen to ever win the honour. ... Though Estha and Rahel are the central characters of the story Ammu also play a very important role in The God of Small Things. ... Theodre Preiser has made the following observation in his novel Sister Carrie: When a girl leaves home at eighteen she does one of two things. ... He was a pleasant looking small man working in Assaam an assistant manager of a tea estate. ... She is the most unforgettable character in The God of Small Things. ...

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Psalm 84 is a relatively small psalm consisting of only twelve verses. ... Hear my prayer, Lord God Almighty; listen to me, God of Jacob. ... For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good things does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. ... Trust God in all you do. ... Whenever the people of God today fail to walk uprightly, their conduct naturally makes it impossible for the Lord, who does all things for the best of His children, to bestow many good things upon them that He would like to. ...

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The price for this forgiveness is the simple acknowledgement that you accept God and know him for all the spectacular things he is. ... Past events in my life include terrible things such as the death of loved ones, car crashes, and injuries to my person and ego. ... I am told storing of me crawling up the stairs of my grandma's house as a small infant just to be able to let her hold me for a brief moment. ... He did not push the two cars into each other, nor did he cause the woman driving the smaller vehicle to die. ... God did not cause any of these things. ...

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The five points he uses for his arguments are: God is of infinite goodness, nature and efficient cause, possibility and necessity of existence of God, gradation in things, and governce of the world. ... According to the definition, if god is all good he would not want bad things (evil) to happen. God being all knowing would know about bad things and if he is all powerful would be able to stop all the bad from happening. ... For example, imagine a small room, there is absolutely nothing in there not even a spec of dust. ... Many argue if a god does exist then why do evil things happen as expl...

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This indicates that the God that they are interpreting is the creator of all living things. ... There are more letters included in this painting then just the Chi, Rho, and Iota, but they are a great deal smaller then the Chi, Rho, and Iota. These colors are shown in the smaller size letters, underneath the Chi, Rho, and Iota. ... The color gold could also suggest that their God is royal, or even that God is wealthy. ... (Possibly combine the top two paragraphs since both talk of color) The smaller letters in the painting are a great deal smaller then the Chi, Rho, Iota, this great size of ...

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With these things in mind I would like to bring enlightenment to how the understanding of the Kingdom of God influences our lives as followers of Christ. ... (Matthew 4:27) So the kingdom of God is at work in things that are ordinary and it brings growth, development and life. Another parable is a demonstration of a mustard seed and even though it is a small seed it grows and becomes big and birds are able to make nets and dwell in it. (Mark 4:31) Thus, there are things that are small and appear insignificant but still bring huge consequences in the kingdom of God. ... So to obey God's co...

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Thus God exists. ... Thus God exists. ... Thus God exists. ... Through consistency and coherence, people mistake new perceptions of things as old ones because they cannot tell the small differences that make it seem to be the same thing. ... Hume lists off other examples that basically portray the same picture that we say that things are the same but fail to realize that they are constantly changing. ...

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In the poem "i thank You God for most this amazing,"" E. ... As the creator of all things natural, God is responsible for the "leaping greenly spirits of trees- and the "blue true dream of sky- that fascinate and enthrall the speaker.These phrases, found in the first stanza of the poem, show how Cummings uses diction, color symbolism, and imagery to relate to the idea of rebirth.The spirit of a group is the essential nature of that group, the basic feelings and ideas that it holds.Trees are one of the most basic symbols representing nature.Therefore, by thanking God for the "leaping greenly s...

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The Power of God's Elect Puritan beliefs are very numerous and strong. One of their biggest beliefs was that they were of "God's elect." ... However, she justifies this act with scripture from Job, " The things that my Soul refused to touch, are as my sorrowful meat" (36). ... She shows that being God's elect takes much work and knowledge. ... It was God's will....

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Although Fuller mentions that household partnership should include, above all things, equality, women, even today, struggle to create the somewhat unrealistic vision. ... She states, "Men can do best, and women know it well,"" (Bradstreet 129), however, she does ask for a bit of recognition in line 41: "Yet grant some small acknowledgment of ours- (Bradstreet 129). ... Bradstreet, on the other hand, often struggles with her relationship with God. In her long poem, "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666,"" Bradstreet relies heavily on her relationship wit...

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Letting God Back In As long as there were test that I forgot to study for I was praying in high school. ... Many of her classmates said that "God is apart of our graduation because he has blessed us and given us the chance to make it this far." Unnfortunatly some people don't see things in that perspective. ... Most students that attend school in a small community may not know that this type of activity is illegal today, according to most school board policies. ... I can sit in a History class and talk about the rise and fall of Hitler and the Klu Klux Klan but if I speak of the wor...

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As a Hindu you can believe in one god such as in Christianity. ... Atman is just a small part of the totality that exists; a spacio-temporally located actualization of infinite potential is what you are. ... (World History, 1999, pg.110) All of this information from the Vedas sets the stage for how things work, but does little to explain how one should live their life. ... Living a virtuous life and staying away from bad things help greatly in freeing Atman from Maya. Bhakti-yoga focuses on devoting yourself to a god as a path to freedom through prayer and worship. ...

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Therefore, "as long as [things] exist, they are good" (St. ... Augustine p. 125) all the good things have "mutual conflicts of interest" (St. ... Looking more closely at Augustine's confessions, we can see a third and even smaller circle emerge next to the circle of perversity. ... To be the smaller circle implies that it takes more focus and attention to actually act on this natural instinct towards avoiding sin, and perusing God; implying that it is much easier to start down the path of perversion, for it takes up a greater amount of all that is human. ... He made people see that it was...

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Someday I hope to be in a business that is honest and doing things to glorify God. ... I hope the way I do things in my business is for glorifying Jesus Christ. ... I can do it in small ways. ... I believe these little things couch lead to be things, such as sharing the gospel to customers. ... Whether to go to class or not is small compared to the choices I will be making for the rest of my life. ...

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If a person wished to pray to a god, or invoke their intervention, they would go to one of the shrines or temples of that god and say a prayer and leave a small gift. ... There were also dedications of small statuettes or even large painted vases (Webster, p79). ... Later on in the Roman Empire things changed, Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the entire Empire. ... Many of the rituals and customs that are observed came from things done in the early days of the church (Williams, p3). ... One of the interesting things about Christian churches is their steeple. ...

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The Things We Choose Not To See The topic of violence is a recurrent theme in the media today. ... Now imagine yourself as an 18-year-old kid living in a small dilapidated home with 10 other members of your family. ... "God, what I could do with that money!"... You get into an argument about him being on your turf and things get out of hand. ... Try to think a little further into the things you see on the news next time. ...

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As already mentioned, he thinks that even the most basic parts of his thought processes are things which can be called into doubt even in very small ways. ... For Descartes, one of these things is the existence of God. ... Another problem here is that Descartes believes God to be omnipotent. ... In the sixth Meditation, he uses God to show that material things exist. The basic idea states that, as we experience material things and as God is not a deceiver, some material things at least must exist. ...

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However, this is not the case, and even though the basis of their ideas has some small similarities, their take on religion is quite different. ... In fact, he argues that the final cause of natural things is to promote good for other organisms (129). ... However, he steers away from the idea of God being the creator of natural things, and does not explain how the world creates these natural things either. ... Even though Aristotle did believe in a supreme being, he rejected the idea that the world was created by God and "that God was the designer of things" ("Tape 5: Aristotle, The Politics."...

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There are small constant rivalries. ... People believed the god or goddess could speak through priests. ... He is the most powerful god, the god of justice, oath, and hospitality. ... The Greeks contributed many things in life. ... The ancient Greeks achieved many things during its civilization. ...

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The seafood we eat comes from the sea and they feed on the small fish and algae. God gave us this earth to give us the things we need to survive. ... We must take care of this earth so that it can continue to provide us with the things to sustain life for all of God's creation. ... They only took the things that they needed to survive. ... We, again, are not the only ones using this Earth; all of God's creatures are using the things the environment provides. ...

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Deceiving God: " And yet firmly rooted in my mind is the long standing opinion that there is an omnipotent God who made me the kind of creature that I am. ... I can know that God exists, I cannot know that "God." ... Primary and Secondary Qualities: Locke defines primary qualities as things actually in the world such as size, shape and motion that we perceive in the objects. ... In actual objects there is only size, shape and motion that causes in us the sensation of such things as color, taste and smell. ... He says that antecedent skepticism can get further by taking small steps to somet...

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In discussing the origins of this world, he designates the Demiurge, or his equivalent of the contemporary God as the creator of the universe. ... With the birth of "the most god-fearing of living creatures," Plato asserts that the Demiurge declared "the better sort of human nature should there-after be called "man... We see straight through to what we seek; whence each thing is created and in what manner made, without god's help." ... Man could have burst from ocean, from dry land the bearers of scales, and from thin air the birds; Thus everything cannot spring from anything, for thing...

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That is because they have directly gone against the will of God. ... Christina Dogma states that when God's will is compromised that all existence would be no longer. These guidelines could allow certain transgressions that in God's eyes would deserve the wrath of Hell to go unpunished, which would also cause the contradiction of God's will and end existence. ... Two hundred years ago if you were not a God fearing person then you were in the minority. ... I understand why this would be a sin, since my indulgence is affecting the greater good in a small, but subtle, way. ...

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God help me! ... This is a perfect example of the sinful things that went on in Salem which people chose to ignore. ... The society of Salem is portrayed as a small, isolated, strict and antisocial community. ... God help me! ... This is a perfect example of the sinful things that went on in Salem which people chose to ignore. ...

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Some of the houses were big, most were small. ... Some of the town workers included: black smiths who made things out of metal like horse shoes, white smiths who made things like candles, joiners, who fashioned furniture from wood and cobblers, who crafted wood for tools and later became joiners. ... When a man resigns himself to God, he is freed to live his whole life to God's glory. ... "If God be God over us, we must yield Him universal obedience in all things. ... The hero of the poem must become all of these things, for he must become a savior for the Danes. ...

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