... the Son of God. He is spoken of hundreds of times in the Old Testament through symbols and prophecies -- all pointing to the future and the coming of Someone. The Old Testament cannot be read without being aware of that constant promise running through each page. Someone is definitely coming. In opening the Gospels, that Someone comes forth in the fullness of his glory, and it is absolutely fascinating. We get a chance to see Christ as he is. Because what Christ was, is what he is, and what he will always be. We are given a view into the depth and fullness of his character and being and life. That is why the Gospels are so important to us. The word gospe ...
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... The Cyclopes tries to get help from his brothers but he is not successful because he yells, “Nohbdy has hurt me!” Odysseus shows his hubris after he has safely left the shores by saying, “Puny, am I, in a Caveman’s hands? How so you like the beating that we gave you, you damn cannibal?” (Ody IX 520) Since the Cyclopes is Poseidon’s son and Odysseus shows hubris about hurting him, Poseidon hate for Odysseus grows. This provokes Poseidon to not let Odysseus and his crew from returning home at all. Odysseus then, begins to learn that hubris only gets him disliked by the gods even more when his companions dies from Poseidon’s curse. Odysseus begins to mature to be more ...
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... have considered the servant's warning; if Romeo occupies the name of Montague, he shall not be permitted. Once at the ball, Romeo is searching for a maiden to substitute the unrequited love of Rosaline. Romeo happens to gaze upon Juliet, who charms Romeo. Romeo proclaims, " Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For ne'er saw true beauty till this night." (I, v, l 52-53) Since Romeo declares his love for Juliet, she feels the attraction also. They believe that they are in love and must marry. However, it is a genuine coincidence that Romeo and Juliet were at the same place, at the same time. Some days after the ball, Benvolio and Mercutio are convers ...
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... this sinister force. Evil has shown so overpowering that it is part of every creature and being in the known world. It comes in many different forms, styles, and shapes. Everyday life consists of many types of evil showing forth, disguising itself at times or at other putting itself in a clear eye's view. This all depends on the creature it is within. Those who consider or have been considered by society as "good" are the ones that have resisted and fought off this compelling force. On the contrary, as nature has revealed, evil in some creatures is too much a part of them for it to be held down. Resulting factors illustrate the argument to the belief that evi ...
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... word “world” for Frankenstein, is very much narrow-minded and limited. Frankenstein speaks of childhood and points out that he would rather seek knowledge of the “world” though investigation, instead of following the creations of the poets. (Shelly 87)[5] He thirsts for knowledge of the material world. If he notices an idea that is not yet realized in the material world, he attempts to work on the idea to get it realized, or give it a worldly existence. He creates the creature and rejects it because its worldly form did not reflect the brilliance of his original idea. The unlearned creature is thrown out into the world and is forced to discover the hidden meanin ...
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... and cuts off. Its only copper wire, storage batteries, and electricity” (20), and “It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think” (27). That society was programmed to not think, wonder or ask why. They didn’t do anything that they weren’t supposed to do. Today, everything is happening just as The Hound is controlled. Programming is happening in our very world. Take schools for example. Consider Pavlov’s experiment with ringing bells to provoke an automatic response in dogs. He rang a bell; the dogs salivated expecting food. The school board rings a bell, and students rise to show respect for the American flag ...
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... inevitability to self-destruction. For the cosmos is a fatally mysterious place, not particularly compatible with such heroic self-assertion. And the human being who sets himself or herself up to live life only on their own terms, as the totally free expressions of their own wills, is going to come to a nasty end. However grand and imaginatively appealing the tragic stance might be, it is essentially an act of defiance against the gods (or whoever rules the cosmos) and will push the tragic hero to an act of inevitable self-destruction. We cannot have life entirely on our own terms for very long. What makes Oedipus so compelling is not that he suffers horribly a ...
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... the quantity of scholarly work he bears each day, and with the intellectual prowess of his English and Hebrew studies—qualities greatly revered in traditional Jewish culture. Danny’s revelations startle Reuven; he confesses he would rather be a psychologist than accept his inherited role as spiritual leader of his father’s sect. Reuven’s confessions surprise Danny; he reveals his desire to become a rabbi, though his scholar-father would prefer him to follow his talent and become a mathematician. Danny cannot understand how anyone would choose the very position he secretly wishes to reject. At a time when conflicts are churning within him, Danny finds Reuven as a ...
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... of greed turned into actions of violence as Pap kidnaps Huck and brings him to a cabin in the woods. Ingeniously, Huck devised a plan to escape. For days Huck sawed a hole in the cabin wall. When pap left one morning, Huck finished the hole, escaped, and splashed pigs blood on the interior cabin walls to give Pap the impression that he had been murdered. In chapter eleven of the novel, Huck encounters a shipwreck and overhears two robbers' plans to kill Jim Turner, their accomplice, for telling on them. Huck hears Jim Turner say "'Oh, please don't Bill-I hain't ever goin' to tell'" (51). Hearing this motivates Huck to take the robbers' boat, si ...
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... Brahmin, a lazy sacrificial official, an avaricious dealer in magic sayings, a conceited worthless orator, a wicked sly priest, or just a good stupid sheep amongst a large herd. No, and he, Govinda, did not want to become any of these, not a Brahmin like ten thousand others of their kind. He wanted to follow Siddhartha, the beloved, the magnificent. And if he ever became a god, if he ever entered the All-Radiant, the Govinda wanted to follow him as a friend, his companion, his servant, his lance bearer, his shadow.” (2) He finds the sensuality of love from the beautiful Kamala. She teaches him everything that he knows about love. She is his first experience ...
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