Isaiah consistently uses the metaphor of vines and a vineyard to explain how God tends to the needs of the people of Israel as long as they remain faithful to their covenant with Him. ... The parable ends with a promise that God's wrath will be turned away if the people of Israel return to following God's law. ... God further warned man if he ate of the tree of knowledge, he would surely die (Gen: 2:17). ... The tower could also symbolize the temple and the wine vat the alter sacrifices were made. ... They were essentially the firstripe harvest in the original garden that the Lord ...

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" The commentaries in the Talmud were written over the course of several hundred years between 200 B.C.E. and 500 C.E. ... For the most part, the information in each tractate is organized by theme. ... According to Solomon, the theme of prayer "establishes the continuity of Oral with Written Torah and suggests that relationship with God is key to the Sages' understanding of the world.... Berakhot means "blessings" and the main theme of this tractate is faith as expressed through prayer. ... The sage answers, "From the time that the priests enter [their houses...

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Family drama, or "domestic" drama, is centered on characters‟ intimate relationships, their actions towards each other and their responses to the surrounding circumstances and events. ... Specifically, Stephanie Coontz, in "The Way We Never Were" (1992), refers to a „family drama‟ as "a staged play that contains any group of two or more persons who engage in ongoing intimacy and obligation, whether they do so because of birth, marriage, adoption or choice.... The power of their plays comes from the industry of this concern. ... As far as themes are concerned, "the dramatists da...

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God forbid I take it from him!" ... For young girls in Salem, the minister and the other male adults are God's earthly representatives, their authority derived from on high. The trials, then, in which the girls are allowed to act as though they have a direct connection to God, empower the previously powerless Abigail. ... In Act IV, it is he who counsels the accused witches to lie, to confess their supposed sins in order to save their own lives. ... The other seven died before they were a day old, and Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means. ...

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The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... She writes about several different themes including good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, friendship, and death. ... She believes that it reminds people about their heritage and shows them their place in the community. ... Expanding on the representation of Jesus or God in The Bluest Eye, Alexander understands the problem of how a supposedly omni...

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THEMES Betrayal Patrick Maloney's unexplained decision to leave his pregnant wife. ... Their identity, or at least their competency, is thrown into doubt. ... Her eyes waited on him for an answer, a smile, a little nod, but he made no sign. ... She moved uneasily in her chair, the large eyes still watching his face. ... It didn't take long, four or five minutes at most, and she say very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word. ...

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This is the type of question which plagues me in retrospect of watching the film, October, since Psychology is my main interest of study at University. ... The scope of symbols and their unconscious effect is not yet fully realized or defined, although there are dream dictionaries available today which attempt to help us do this. ... The color of Vertigo may be analyzed to reveal themes, which are associated with different color. ... Red seems to be Scottie's theme before Madeleine and vertigo as red indicates his reluctance toward women which describes Scottie up to this point in his...

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Is it possible for a person to be an accessory after the fact to a crime that was committed twenty-four years before they were born? ... WARNING: This review analyzes the message in the film by looking at the characters, the themes, and the plot. ... First, a link between the two is established by a close up of both Dussander and Todd, each in their own house, laying awake in bed, thinking. ... Then there is a close up of Hitler's eyes, then the story goes to 1984, the time the film begins. ...

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The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. ... It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. ... She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. ... This was a group of people who had suffered tremendously, and were bound by that suffering. ...

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The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. ... It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. ... She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. ... This was a group of people who had suffered tremendously, and were bound by that suffering. ...

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The natives do not rob the group of their possessions as yet. ... As the party heads south, Cora tries to mark their trail, but, under the watchful eyes of the Indians, finds it difficult to do so. ... Gamut praises God and the Calvinist philosophy of predestination, by which the "saved will be saved" and the "damned will be damned". ... While he agrees with Gamut that the enemy was fated to die, he believes that the enemies' mistakes and his own party's readiness, bravery, and skill were responsible for the happy outcome. ... When he wishes to spend the night awake keeping...

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If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. ... When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before. ... This animal is a symbol of their personal power to overcome all obstacles they encounter in life. ... They do not stray far from their homes and baby penguins stick close to their mothers. ... Only now the fingers were Nosferatu-long and the thumb was too short, but he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. ...

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The connections run from similarities in methods of transmission, namely the oral traditions, to themes, characters and formal structural components. ... The stories concerning Gilgamesh in Sumerian are short and episodic and present no unifying theme, but in the Akkadian versions it appears that the poet has unified these traditional stories into one larger eleven or twelve tablet epic with more unified themes (West 65, Noegel 240). ... Achilles as the son of Thetis has a special relationship which allows him to communicate with the gods by way of Thetis's favor in the eyes of Zeus (Il. ...

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The theme of revenge in the sense of Medea's strong desire to seek revenge on Jason. ... The theme in this play is the purest hate can come from the purest of love when love is lost. ... The theme is familiar from the death of Hercules. ... Her revenge comes when she witnesses Jason's horror as she flies off to Athens in the chariot of the sun god Helios, her ancestor. ... Medea, the grand-daughter of Apollo, God of the sun, is a passionate, emotional, deceptive and predominately angry individual, capable of decidedly evil deeds. ...

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Waiting for the ballroom dancers to come out and swirl around the room in their magnificent costumes. ... Our eyes become focused on how the ballroom dancers spin around. ... The colour white was a really good colour chosen for him being, some kind of god. ... Song fades into station theme A: You"re listening to the hit station 47.8FM, nothing but new stuff. ... If we were to set the film out like this article we would have Fran being Debra Messing at one end of the magazine representing a natural appearance. ...

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"Great Expectations" discusses various themes on crime, law and the criminal justice system. ... These kind of prisons came to be workhouses for people who had lost all their belongings. ... Dickens goes on to describe his eyes as looking "so awfully hungry." ... When Magwitch tells Joe he has eaten his pie, Joe responds saying "God knows you"re welcome to it- so far as it was ever mine." ... When Magwitch returns, we are reminded of the weather conditions of the stormy marshes on their first meeting. ...

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Major themes of the poem are the glory of war; military values over family life; the impermanence of human life and its creations. ... Themes of the poem are the primacy of fate; the suffering of wanderers and the glory of Rome. ... These goddesses had another motivation, however, for favoring these particular men above all the other valorous soldiers: they were the children of gods and men. They were both the offspring of humanity and deity, and thus demanded the special attention of the gods. ... This was the theme of both books. ...

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Related Objectives • consider audience and conduct audience analysis • use effective annotation of essays and note-taking strategies • engage in brainstorming, outlining, and drafting strategies • write multiple drafts • revise, edit, and proofread drafts • evaluate their writing processes Outcome 2: Collaboration Students will engage in the collaborative, social aspects of writing. Related Objectives • effectively engage in group writing and projects • respond constructively to peers' papers • critique their o...

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The Origin of Vampire Stories There is no doubt that stories of occult as a literary theme have enjoyed large success and popularity and that they are still generally popular. ... Furthermore, he had almost complete control over his wife's body and their children belonged to him. ... " -Oscar Wilde 3.3 Views on Sexuality Young woman were trained to be loving and emotional, without sexuality. ... "As she looked, her eyes blazed with unholy light, and the face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile.... Buffy the Vampire Slayer Both, the comic as well as the television series ...

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Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. ... Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. The vast majority of Africans brought to the British colonies worked as agricultural laborers; many were brought to the colonies specifically for their experience in rice growing, cattle herding, or river navigation (Collier, 1985). ... The movemen...

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55 And I have known the eyes already, known them all-- 56 The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, 57 And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, 58 When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, 59 Then how should I begin 60 To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? ... 70 Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets 71 And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes 72 Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? ...

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In 1977, Carver met poet Tess Gallagher, and by 1979, the two were living together and teaching creative writing at Syracuse University. ... His wife tells the narrator that Robert and his wife, Beulah, were inseparable. ... Even when Robert tells him to open his eyes, he keeps them closed. ... "My eyes were still closed. ... Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. ...

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Through the main character's recollection of the past Atwood is able to develop the theme that a society no longer governed by morals or ethics can lead to destruction. ... They have a variation of skin tones yet, they all have green eyes, something Snowman calls "Crake's aesthetic"(8). Its as if these creatures were made with their own personal touch. ... When they were not playing these games they are watching animal snuff films, live executions or even a game show glorifying assisted suicide as entertainment. ... The two friends are both products of their upbringing, th...

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Humanities, as one would guess by its name, pertains to humans and does not pertain to God, Buddha, Allah or any other higher power or spiritual entity. ... The question of how the pyramids were built has not received a wholly satisfactory answer. ... Some have seriously hypothesized a massive chant in which the blocks were vibrated into place. ... For as I research and watch documentaries on these majestic structures I am captivated and aw-struck at the beauty of these buildings. ... Years ago, baskets of this sort were one of the only means for transporting water, cooking and carrying goods....

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He brought his young daughters, who were sent upstairs to play with O'Hare's kids. ... Finally, she confronted him: the narrator and Bernard were just babies when they fought. ... He and Mary were friends starting at that moment. ... The scouts abandon the two and tell Weary that he and Billy are on their own. ... Suddenly, Weary realizes that they are being watched by five German soldiers and a police dog. ...

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• Grade Level: High School