The Cost of Living "The Cost of Living" is the last chapter in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things that tells the illicit love affair of Ammu and Velutha. ... A small thing such as a single blink in the Earth Woman's eye can make so many big things happen. Small things that seem inconsequential can result to a tragic end. ... The God of Small Things also presents the cost of living, politically and socially. ... Living, even if it means sticking to the smallness of things do have a price. ...

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In Arundhati Roy's complex novel, The God of Small Things, Love Laws are presented as rules that people are supposed to follow. ... Velutha, now known to Ammu as "the God of Loss, the God of Small Things" has Ammu in limbo, a mix between a possibly ending dream and an everlasting reality (210). ...

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Perhaps God's second experiment, Eve, let God down when she ate the apple. ... Many of the things God said to them are similar to things you would say to a dog or to a child. ... This could be compared to when you tell a small child not to touch the stove and two minutes later they come to you with a burn on their hand. God was disappointed in Eve and in man. ... Maybe this was God's motive. ...

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The above quotation made me realize that the ultimate maker of our destiny is God. ... For each of us, let us enjoy the "little things" for one day we may look back and discover they were the "big things"-for victory comes in small packages. ...

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Mark's Gospel tells us references of Jesus" thoughts of the Kingdom Of God. The kingdom of God is a place for life after death. ... The seeds on the rocky ground symbolise people who willingly accept God's message but it quickly fades away when there is trouble about God's message. ... Another parable used by Jesus was the mustard seed (MK4:30-32), which is in relation to the people of the kingdom of God where it started of so small, like a mustard seed, and then grows tremendously into an empire, just like the mustard seed grows into huge plants. ... The light makes things v...

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It is a month where they get close with family and friends and throw away all the bad things and habits. ... Give small gifts and treats to the children and visit family and friends. ... Shahadah means that you declare there is no god except God and Muhammad is God's messenger. ... The home of God where you can go pray to god and be able to talk to him. ... All of the things they do for their religion makes them happy and is beneficial and good....

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It helps me realize many things, such as being wealthy person will not help us in entering God's kingdom. ... God is telling me that in order for me to have an eternal life and live in God's kingdom, I have to do the right thing, what is God want me to be and to do. ... As the time goes by in a person's life, sometimes we are getting in the point that we are choosing our gadgets to buy, unnecessary things to buy but do you think God once in a while? ... For me sacrificing some things that you have is just a small way where you can pay back the sacrifices that God have done. .....

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That key transition Sammy makes from a boy to a man relies on these three things: making a decision, dealing with the results of that decision, and moving forward in life; regardless of the outcome. ... Whether they are small or big, decisions could impact the whole dynamic of our daily lives. ... Sammy says to himself, "Now her hands are empty, not a ring or a bracelet, bare as God made them, and I wonder where the money's was coming from." ...

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Bad things are always happening to good people. ... A void that only God and time can heal. A void that would have been smaller if you had only taken the time to repay an act of kindness or a offer a simple Thank you or Job well done. Good things can happen to good people, only we have to do our part as well. ... God has called them home to be by his side and sing with the angels in heaven....

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In the chapter Fire Balloons, a small group of the Church's best priests take off for Mars, to find new sins and leaving old ones behind. ... They plan to build a church and bring God to them. ... s last cry causes a small avalanche. ... One of the balloons uses telepathy and the voice says a lot of things. ... They say they will never die nor do harm and living in God's grace. ...

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In God of Small Things, Roy's uses "Heart of Darkness- to show a similarity to Conrad's novel by relating how the colonial powers invasion of India promoted darkness. ... (God of Small Things, 120) The Heart of Darkness here pertains to European style intrusion into the Indian landscape, which creates darkness. ... (God of Small Things, 119) The hotel does this to hide the smell from the river and excrement stemming from Ayenemen. ... (God of Small Things, 121) The use of "Heart of Darkness- also pertains to the exploited nature of one scene, in which the police men are beating up Ve...

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This novel is set in Kerala, South India, during the late 1960s. It revolves around two seven year old twins and their extended family. The story is about the loss of innocence of the two children, who become victims of prejudices of the caste system, patriarchal families, third world communism, and satellite television. The novel, in its own understated way, comments and analyses the transition of the Kerala of the sixties to the Kerala of today. Roy gives you an in-depth look into an Indian Society, through the eyes of these innocent children. ...

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"Inside," she is "calm" and "the things of death reach" but cannot disturb her for "all things concerning death and burial were said and done." ... She and Tea Cake and Motor Boat are stuck in a small house while the hurricane rages outside. ... God opened the door. God sent the storm. Janie and Tea Cake are destined to be together by God. ...

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We pulled into a small town right outside of Ciudad Delicias. ... There were no roads, the houses were smaller than an average classroom, and children walked in the streets without shoes. ... I was unaware of the special things God had in store for that little girl and me. ... Little did I know, God's special plans for Eunice Garcia Pizano and I were about to reveal themselves, and she was going to have a huge impact on my life. ... Turning it over to God and praying that he watches over her and protects her, it is not an easy thing to do. ...

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This concept is a form of creationism, but differs from it by withholding the suggestion that "God" is the creator and by refuting the notion that there is definitely only one creator. Rather, the theory of intelligent design states that every living thing on earth, as well as the universe itself, was created by something which has much greater power than ourselves - but not necessarily God. ... He rejects the concept of intelligent design, arguing the point that if living things were the result of a creator, why would the earth and the lifeforms living on it, exhibit many elements on bad des...

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Because Janie is raised by her grandmother, she never met her mother or father, Janie is sheltered from several things and events in life that are part of growing up. ... So they were married there before sundown, just like Joe had said." and moving to Eatonville Florida, a small town with homes that resemble shacks, and not much else. ... They start a store together that becomes very busy "I God, course it would! ... As well as opening the store, Janie and Joe do many other things to help make Eatonville a better place. ... God never meant "em tuh try and stand by their selves...

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Emerson is saying that people don't stop from their busy lives to notice things in nature, and that they take it for granted. ... By Pan-atheism Dillard must mean that we have come to believe that there is no god. ... Eckhart wants us to see that god is a part of everything and that all creatures are sacred. We can recognize god in all things by spending time in nature with all the creatures that are "so full of god,"(Eckhart, 46). ... It also teaches that something as small as an ant can be your equal and you should treat all things with respect. ...

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Beginning with Family Perhaps I used to pray when you were a small child, or I started to pray as a young Christian, I remember when I was a child. ... That is: "O Lord, I want to love, to serve, to honor you in all things during my life. ... I don't dare to choose the great things, because I know I am very small and weak. ... I believe that your presence in all things, all times aim at deifying me. And all things which happened in my life, are your graces. ...

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God did not make every family to be perfect, but he always has things happen for a reason. ... A lot of teenagers have either something big or something small wrong with them. God made everyone different. ... There are millions of small medical issues that teenagers have every day. ... Sometimes God has bad things happen to people because it helps make them stronger down the road. ...

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In the Ten Commandments, God says that "I am the LORD your God and you shall have no other gods before me. " In fact, worshipping any other thing or person beside God is a sin in all of Judeo-Christian religion. ... God wants us to know more about Him and His Son. ... The Egyptians thought it was up to them to provide the dead person the things and preserve the body they would need in the afterlife. ... Our spirits are no longer weighed down by material things, like the Egyptians were in their pyramids. ... Their similarities are small, and their differences are huge. ...

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Aquinas strongly believed that the existence of God was self-evident because all the things on earth were created by God. ... Opposing that argument the apostle says the things that aren't being seen are visible and comprehended by the things that which are made. ... His first way of proving God's existence is based on things on the objects in the world. ... A lot of things were created by science not God, and the things that were made by science cannot demonstrate the existence of God. ... For example when you look at trees, there are the small Charlie brown trees and then there ar...

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One states that God is the creator of all things making the world and universe as we know it in six days. ... Genesis 1-2 explains the creation all of things in the following summary. ... Most of the translations have the same stories but with small differences and wording. ... Where did things like sin come from? ... These things are not as conflicting as people like to make it. ...

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Sunubious had ordered her to make the entire world the same, but she openly defied the great god. ... The flame of creation simply placed living things at random. ... All the living things, except for aquatic life, had been destroyed. ... Sunubious still outraged with his brother's treachery grew colder until only small flames protruded from him. ... Without the flames of Sunubious he could never be reborn into a god. ...

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Amos 3:7 Amos was an ordinary man living as a shepherd in the small town of Tekoa. ... Once Amos saw that, he knew that they had forgotten love and had forgotten God. ... Amos himself was just a shepherd, a small businessman in Judah. Amos did not make any excuses and obeyed God and became God's powerful voice for change. Sin, illness, injustice, poverty, and suffering will always remain in our world, yet as Christians we sometimes turn away for things that more important, things that need our attention more. ...

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"Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of a middle-aged black women named Janie Crawford who lives in Eatonville, Florida. ... As their relationship progressed things get worst, Joe's valued material things more than he does Janie and he keeps her isolated from the social world. ... As Janie gets tired of felling small and not able to stand her own ground she finally got tired and tells Joe how she really feels. ... Like all the other relationships she has, things start to change. Tea Cake is bit by a dog, and this is when things get odd. ...

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