By looking at this piece of text, several recurring themes in Jesus" teachings can be selected, some being: love, equality, forgiveness, modesty, humility or abstention, and non-materialism. ... Though both teachers lived in two very different places in two very different times, much of the groundwork; the basics of their teachings (as well as some of their themes) are surprisingly similar given the diversity of the societies they lived in. ... While Confucius was the first to advocate: "Do not do to others what you yourself would not desire", 500 years later in an entirely separate place an...

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Questions of personal responsibility, free will, and justice move our sympathies through a work of literature, causing readers to relate with or despise characters as they are shaped within a piece. In The Tragedy of King Lear, William Shakespeare draws our support for his villains as well as his he...

• Word Count: 2076
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• Grade Level: High School