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    similar areas of the world share a concept of hieros gamos and utilize it within the creation stories. Finally‚ some of the creation stories share similarities beyond their creators and abysses at the beginning of time. The ancient creation myths explain the creation of the basic elements of the world in comparable ways. In nearly every myth‚ Earth was only the second element created. In both the Grecian and Hebrew stories‚ Earth comes from nothing or a “void.” In the Maya myths‚

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    Creation of the Earth: Scientific and religious facts The World has its own history of how and when it was created and sometimes is hard to believe what is real about that history. Science exposes the truth with arguments based on experiments. However‚ religion‚ specifically christian‚ explain this history by believing in faith. Both paths are fair and justified‚ but still‚ science highlights more. Science can explain how the World works in all of its aspects like macro external and micro external;

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    What is a Story? * a narrative‚ either true or fictitious‚ in prose or verse‚ designed to interest‚ amuse‚ or instruct the hearer or reader; a tale. * a fictitious tale‚ shorter and less elaborate than a novel. * a narration of an incident or a series of events or an example of these that is or may be narrated‚ as an anecdote‚ joke‚ etc. * Therefore‚ narrative or story in its broadest sense is anything told or recounted; more narrowly‚ and more usually‚ something told or recounted

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    of the world‚ whereas creation represents the beginning. What comes in between? Once an Apocalypse ends‚ a creation story begins; thus‚ there is a cycle. This cycle is portrayed by Richard Matheson in his novel I Am Legend. The protagonist‚ Robert Neville‚ survives an apocalyptic world war and a dust-storm-carried disease‚ but he survives alone. He is the end and the new beginning. Thus‚ Matheson suggests that within an apocalypse‚ there can still be elements of a creation myth. To truly begin again

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    There has been an on going debate about creation and evolution for hundreds of years and there is multiple sides to each debate. I agree with the bible that we were created by God. Some of the following facts support my belief that creationism is more realistic than evolution. Creation shows the existence of a creator who has used his creative abilities‚ creating this world. Thus‚ apparent design in biology would constitute evidence for a Designer. It is a self-evident and universally recognized

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    both begin in chaos. The Theogony and The Enuma Elish both contain Bloody Struggles. Even Genesis and The Yoruba creation Myth contain a flood. Why would so many creation myths have so many similarities? As far a creation myths are concerned three motifs continue to appear: The idea of floods‚ The idea of a bloody struggle‚ and The Idea that the world began in chaos. Floods Most creation myths seem to at some point have a flood pop up in them. Who really knows the reason it could have been ‚because

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    Practical analysis 1 While reading the following story‚ I noted its plot structure: 1. Are the events arranged chronologically? Do they catch and hold the reader’s interest? All the events arranged chronologically‚ they catch readers interest‚ because after two Soapy’s attempts ”to go to the Island” that were failed it’s interesting to know what’s the end will be. 2. What is the role of the exposition? The exposition is the beginning section in which the author provides the necessary background

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    Creation Myths across Cultures There are many different beliefs about how the world was created. People believe it happened in different ways. In the world of Zulu the world was just darkness and one very large seed. The seed began to grow. These seeds were called Uthlange‚ which means the source of all things. The seeds grew slowly and eventually grew into a man. The man grew so big the plant could not keep the man on it so he fell off. Then he walked up and down the land and he saw more men and

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    Li-Young Lee’s poem “A Story” depicts the complex relationship between a father and his son. Lee portrays the complexity of their relationship by using point of view to understand how the father feels in this situation. The structure of this poem helps paint the fears the father has by shifting to the future. Also the use of diction adds emotion to the love that is being shared by the father and his son. Through the point of view‚ the structure‚ and the diction used in the poem‚ Lee is able to convey

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    the creation myths of Hesiod and Ovid; the story before the beginning the myth‚ the creation of the world‚ and the story of Prometheus. Before beginning the myth‚ they asked a blessing from the gods or got a permission to tell gods’ stories. Both two epics explained that the world was started from the Chaos‚ a mass of nothing and how the earth‚ the water‚ the air and sky were made. Also both Hesiod and Ovid wrote about the story of Prometheus who gave fire to the man. 2. Both the creation myths

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