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    and and requires more food‚ but if movement is impaired due to the cold that becomes much harder. In a study on the activity of cave crickets‚ they found that 45 percent of crickets moving out of the cave was affected by temperature and humidity (Campbell 1976). This shows that there was some sort of relationship between temperature and movement of crickets out of the cave. Since this study was done during

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    The Inferno follows the wanderings of the poet Dante Alighieri’s poem‚ the Divine Comedy‚ which chronicles Dante’s journey to God‚ and is made up of the Inferno (Hell)‚ Purgatorio (Purgatory)‚ and Paradiso (Paradise). The Inferno begins when Dante strays off the rightful and straight path of moral truth and gets lost in a dark wood. He gets attack by three beasts that symbolize different sins. Fortunately‚ he then meets the spirit of the Roman epic poet Virgil. Virgil to the rescue! He’s an appropriate

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    The word Hell‚ or in Italian‚ Inferno means the abode of Satan and the forces of evil. It is where sinners suffer eternal punishment. Dante was exiled by Pope Boniface‚ which led him to write this poem‚ Dante’s Inferno. He wrote the poem because he was exiled and he had nothing left in his life‚ so he just wrote to express that he was betrayed by his own country‚ not him betraying his country. Since he was betrayed by his own country‚ he became a nomad and has been a beggar ever since. A modern

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    The Inferno written by Dante is a haunting and gruesome tale of one man’s journey through hell. Taking place in 1300 Dante writes about a character named Dante. Throughout the book we are not sure if the character is strictly sketched out like Dante himself or just simply named Dante. Most scholars of Dante believe that he used the name Dante but suggest that no evidence has been given to support the character Dante being based on the poet Dante. The Inferno is about Dante’s travels through hell

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    In this canto‚ Dante awakens to find that he is on the edge of Hell. Dante and Virgil descend into the bottomless pit. They enter the first circle of Hell‚ Limbo‚ where the souls that are sighing live. The souls include those all Unbaptized infants and those men and women who lived before the age of Christendom. I am going to talk more about those souls later. In the previous canto‚ Dante fainted at moments of great intensity of feeling when he is shocked by the strange sights he sees in Hell

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    Allegory ALLEGORY‚ pronounced AL uh gawr ee‚ is a story with more than one meaning. Most allegories have moral or religious meanings. Famous allegories include the fables attributed to Aesop‚ an ancient Greek writer. Aesop’s fables seem to describe the adventures of animals and human beings. But the author actually wanted to teach his readers something about human nature. One of Aesop’s best-known fables is "The Fox and the Grapes." On its surface‚ or its literal level of meaning‚ the story

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    men in history was born: Dante Alighieri. Dante was born to a family much entangled in the politics of Florence. As Dante grew older‚ he began to take after his father‚ and he too got involved in politics. Florence divided into two groups: the black and white guelphs. The two groups fought for years before the black guelphs finally won‚ and exiled the white guelphs - including Dante Alighieri. After he was exiled‚ he began to work on his first of three books‚ Inferno. This book was Dante’s take

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    The Just Punishments in Dante’s Inferno Inferno‚ written by Dante in the early fourteenth century‚ is a poem about Dante’s‚ the main characters‚ journey through Hell and signifies the nature of sin on Earth and punishment in Hell (Gardner et al online). Those who sinned while on Earth are justly condemned to different levels of punishments in Hell‚ relative to their sins on Earth. Each of the nine circles of Hell represents a worse sin‚ and therefore‚ a crueler punishment. The categorized punishments

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    If being arrogant gets you into Hell‚ then Dante deserves a first-class ticket. In the fourth canto of Dante’s InfernoDante not only includes himself on his list of greatest poets ever but presents an argument for poetry being the most honored and transcendent mediums. Although Dante refers to Virgil as his master‚ I would argue it is only in respect to his journey and mastering of the underworld rather than his poetry. This point is supported by lines 101 and 102 as “they made me one of their

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    The two types of exegetical methods that have been used throughout the history of the Church are typology and allegory. In Alexandria‚ the allegorical method clearly took prominence over typology‚ while the opposite can be said for Antioch. While the two are not necessarily completely opposed to one another‚ there are several differences between them. It is clear through the writings of the Church Fathers that both methods were used‚ although some Fathers were more inclined to lean one way or the

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