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    .. yi yang – the same as Jing ji – economic Guan li – management Xian ….. ranhou – first …. Then 2. Wei le - for‚ in order to Na – to take Huan yin – welcome Chu qu – go out Gan mao /bing– catch cold Tong xue – classmate Jian dan – simple Nian qing ren – young people Zhi – only Bi ye – graduate Hai bian – beach Sai tai yang – be tanned Zhong wu – middle day De shi hou – when (affermative phrase) Xiu che – to fix car Xiu li ta – punish him‚ beat him You de ren - some people

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    Although there are not many forces of chaos that God must confront in the world in which he created‚ disorder still exists in these chapter of Genesis. In Genesis 1 God first creates light and day‚ or night and darkness. God then created the ground or “firmament” and then separated the waters from the ground. He called this the earth and the sea’s. God then made the light of the firmament of heaven‚ or the “moon”. Next God created the creatures of the sea‚ those who flew in the air and finally those

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    Both the historical characters come within the realm of mythology and legend. Their fame is attributable to legend. Both men hold high places in the folk lore of many a centuries ago. Both are credited with stories of valor and heroism. Both these legendary figures possessed extraordinary physical powers gifted to them by the gods. Both the stories were initially written in the form of epic poems serenading their respective heroes. Gilgamesh was the Babylonian king of Uruk (modern day Iraq)

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    All About Hercules

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    predicted by Zeus that Hercules would one day rule over Greece (“Hercules”). However‚ none of these were true‚ though he did have a power: Hercules had duper-human strength. With his super-human strength‚ he did many things: as a child he strangled two serpents sent by Hera to kill him‚ he held up the heavens while Atlas went on errands and he over-powered Cerberus without weapons (“Hercules”). III. Symbols Symbols represent or remind us of a character.

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    Comparing Creation Stories

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    for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God then creates women from the man’s rib and names her “Eve”. She is convinced by a serpent that it is okay to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eve eats from this tree and convinces Adam to do so as well. This resulted in God punishing them for disobeying his wishes. God states that the serpent will now have to crawl on its belly‚ that childbirth for women will be a painful experience and that men will rule over women. God then

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    origin. The Bamboo Forest Fighting scene is the encounter between two of the main characters Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi) and Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) where they are atop bamboo trees in a duel. This is an excellent choreographed‚ but non-traditional fighting scene as well. The characters both seem like they are dancing with the bamboo. In Taoist philosophy returns to the principle of allowing chi to flow without struggle‚ and thus the Tao informs the dance-like‚ rhythmic‚ and wavy qualities of the martial arts

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    Adam and Eve never to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. One more way God is equivalent to a parent is He disciplines His children. One example is how parents scold their children if they hurt their sibling‚ as does God. After Cain slays his brother Abel‚ God tells him that the ground that he plows will not grow anything and that he shall be a vagabond for the rest of his days. Like parents‚ pretty much everything God does has good intentions‚ although emotions might get in the way

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    last dancer is a true story of Li Cunxin. Li came from an extremely poor family in a small village in China. When Li was only a young boy‚ he was selected to study at the Begjin dance academy to learn to be a dancer. When arrived in Begjin‚ the children right away started ballet trainin‚ they were also given education but the main focus was studying to be a ballerina. Li was then chosen to visit America for three months to train with the Houston ballet Academy. Li then fell in love with an American

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    death himself to scape from it: And‚ if thou darest‚ I’ll give thee remedy.” -Friar Laurwrance     (Act 4‚ Scene 1)   “O‚ bid me leap‚ rather than marry Paris‚ From off the battlements of yonder tower; Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house‚ O’er-cover’d quite with dead men’s rattling bones‚ With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;

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    against his Highness. Furthermore‚ he has a specific amount of time to accomplice his goal or his parents will pay the price. Eventually‚ Wei Fung meets Tien Chi Chi‚ the granddaughter of the leader of the Tien clan and through a series of peculiar incidents and he ends up being her teacher. However‚ his task is quite difficult since the Chi Chi is a spoiled tomboy‚ who only wants to practice

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