In the middle of the 13th Century‚ the revered scholar Jelaluddin Rumi was walking through the marketplace of Konya leading a group of his students when a man ragged and dusty from travel approached him. Their eyes met and locked with fierce but hazy recognition. The first words out of the traveler’s mouth posed a question that would forever change both men’s lives. For years‚ a religious rebel named Shams of Tabriz had traveled from town to town quizzing every scholar he met. He was searching for
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above‚ it’s too bright. You can feel the cold breeze as you begin to get up from the damp and mossy ground. As your eyes begin to adjust to the bright light‚ you see a dark figure in the distance. You start to notice that you are in the middle of a forest. You begin to see that the dark figure is a man. He waves to you and starts to slowly walk towards you. You are unsure what to do. 2 You approach the man. As he approaches‚ you notice that he is carrying a blunt knife in his right hand. You feel
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How Rumi deals with “Opposites” in his works “The most manifest way to the knowledge of things is by their contraries‚” (Mishkat 86) Following Ghazali’s concept of knowledge through counterparts which elucidates that God is hidden because he has no contrary; we find that Rumi’s idea of using opposites in his writings‚ however utterly sublime and profoundly impeccable‚ is not completely original but seeks inspiration from the very fundamental element of Islam‚ which is the Shahadah. Concentrating
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The Big Forest By lena (marina) garcia Sometimes‚ hot and breezy summer days and sapphire blue skies as wide an ocean‚ can bring on childhood memories of long ago. For me‚ it’s memories of when I was a cub scout and proudly wore my dark blue uniform with the yellow bandana for a tie. I remember eating slices of bright red watermelon sprinkled with shiny black seeds; and mother and I lazily swinging in the cool of a front porch swing‚ sipping a glass of iced lemonade with lemon wedges that
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers My life personally is exactly like a never ending river with the current of the stream changing each and everyday. Every river in the whole world is flowing towards a destination and they all have a starting point as well. Let’s say that I’m that river! I was brought into this world as a newborn baby named Brandon Michael Roman and this is the start of my life‚ thus being the start of the river. I am now 20 years of age with thousands of different things that have occurred
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A River The poem “A River” is written by A.K. Ramanujan. In this poem‚ the poet has compared and contrasted the attitudes of the old poets and those of the new poets to human suffering. He has come to the conclusion that both the groups of the poets are indifferent to human sorrow and suffering. Their poetry dose not reflect the miseries of the human beings. He has proved this point in the present poem. The river Vaikai on whose bank the historic city of Madurai stands has been mentioned
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1. The exposition in a poem is the writer’s way for giving the setting of the poem. One of the expositions in this poem is that the character went down to the river and sat down on the bank. This is one of the expositions in the poem because it gives background information of the setting. The other exposition in this poem is that the main character went to an elevator sixteen floors above the ground. This is another exposition because it is a different setting in the poem. 2. I think that the
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Godavari District along Bay of Bengal. It is at a distance of 20-km from Kakinada and 70-km from Rajahmundry by road. It is renowned for reptiles and the most famous ones are the salt-water crocodiles. The total area of sanctuary is part of delta of the river Godavari. It covers a total area of 235.70-sq-km and forms a part of the Godavari mangroves. It was declared as a sanctuary in July 1978 to conserve the mangrove vegetation of the estuary. Flora: Mangroves are a group of salt tolerant plant species
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Forests A forest is an area filled with trees which provides homes for many different living things. The forests found in Trinidad and Tobago are called Tropical Seasonal Forests because they are found near the Earth’s equator and have both wet and dry seasons. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A forest is made up of different layers. The Emergent Layer is very sunny because it is at the very top and only the
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Introduction A forest is a complex ecosystem which is predominantly composed of trees‚ shrubs and is usually a closed canopy. Forests are storehouses of a large variety of life forms such as plants‚ mammals‚ birds‚ insects and reptiles etc. Also the forests have abundant microorganisms and fungi‚ which do the important work of decomposing dead organic matter thereby enriching the soil. Nearly 4billion hectares of forest cover the earth’s surface‚ roughly 30 percent of its total land area.The forest ecosystem
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