Please God, let me see my friend again with both eyes intact and no gapping holes in his body" (James 12). ... There is something about having the assurance that you are safe and that a higher being (God) is watching after you. ... Even though there were so many different religions represented in that 80 percent they were all united by believing in the same God. ... Many wars were fought in biblical times, and God protected his people and gave them the victory. ... The Israelites though, were people of God and used just a small boy named David to defeat Goliath. ...

• Word Count: 1556
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

I remember the video that we watched on the 6th of November (I cannot remember the title though) and how women were treated. ... They had only just converted to Islam in their eyes. ... Caste systems in Thull were a huge part of their dushmani. ... In the men's eyes, God gives ghrairat to all male Muslims at birth. ... Therefore to protect God's gift, vengeance must be taken. ...

• Word Count: 1492
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This turned into a riot, showing violence to her innocent eyes for the first time. ... "God did not choose the King.... While Satrapi does not directly address the impact of her father and teacher declaring that God was not involved in her ancestor's fall from power and their hardships that followed, this is the first time that Marjane has to confront her faith in God's intentions and involvement. ... Years later, when Marjane was attending art school in Iran, she meets 2 girls who teach her about how to wear the head scarves, and they were slowly beginning to make advancemen...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7

The captain astonished asks Jonah to pray to his God so their lives may be spare. ... Jonah is angry at the ministry's outcome so he goes east to watch the city. ... Yet is God supposed to show no mercy for people, who do not know "their right hand from their left", who are lost and the innocent cattle? ... But Jonah is no hero: he is deliberately portrayed in a very poor light,"(175), which is the reason why I believe that the author of this story wanted to show the Jews of that time that their ethnocentric vindictive views were wrong. ... And the fact that the author placed Jonah in a...

• Word Count: 2335
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ironically, his father would begin by showing the danger of a tiger, allowing his two young vegetarian sons watch a tiger massacre a goat, and warned them to remember this for the rest of their lives. ... He understood that wild animals would attack him for threatening their territory. ... They were equally valid and applicable in different circumstances for him. ... God was his supporter; as long as God was with him, he would not die (Martel, 148). ... Pi's belief in God made him survive, with that his faith in God lived on. ...

• Word Count: 1422
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School