poems that in many ways could be considered prophetic of America. Whitman’s poetry and work during the civil war serving a nurse to soldiers shows his true compassion for his fellow Americans‚ The similarities between “Song of Myself" and the Sermon on the Mount are quite apparent. In that poem he speaks of washing
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Scarlet Letter Chapter Summaries Chapter 1: The Prison Door The first chapter pretty much sets the scene for the rest of the book. It describes a door‚ the door to the prison in seventeenth century Boston. The door is studded with iron spikes and is surrounded with overgrown weeds and one rosebush. The narrator suggests that it’s a reminder of nature’s kindness to the prisoners. It says it will provide a “sweet moral blossom” in the face of distress. Chapter 2: The Market-Place The women
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any other title in the Gospels. Typical rabbis quoted other famous rabbis to support their message. Jesus spoke from his own authority: “Amen‚ I say to you…” Love of God and love of neighbor are central to his teaching. Jesus sometimes taught using sermons Jesus’ main teaching tool: parables THE WORDS AND ACTIONS OF JESUS Jesus’ Parables Short‚ memorable stories Used images familiar to people of his time (fishing‚ shepherding‚ farming‚ etc.) Invite/challenge the hearer to SEE DIFFERENTLY Themes:
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Through the Valley of Shadow Psalm 23. John 10:1-10. From John’s Gospel; in the preceding passage‚ Jesus has courted the indignation of some of the Jewish religious leaders by giving sight to a blind man on the Sabbath. Some of his antagonists heard Jesus say; “I came into this world for judgment so that those who do not see may see‚ and those who do see may become blind.” Some of his opponents asked him; “Surely we are not blind‚ are we?’” To which he replied; “If you were blind‚ you
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In these readings‚ Luther expounds upon the true nature of Scripture and the gospel‚ and explores the idea of righteousness and its effect on human behavior. The first reading‚ What to Look for and Expect in the Gospels‚ argues that the entire Bible teaches the gospel‚ the good message about Jesus. As a result‚ it defines a Christian’s relationship with Jesus and his life‚ with the gift and example of Jesus. In the second reading‚ Two Kinds of Righteousness‚ Luther examines two different types of
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Catholicism. The beatitudes in contrast to the commandments focused on the change of the person and how they can be filled with spiritual happiness through charity‚ humility‚ and loving one another. This is the teaching of Jesus recorded from the sermon on the Mount‚ because although they provide a way to the afterlife with God forever it also gives of a way to happiness spiritually here on Earth during our constant effort to achieve heaven. The 10 Commandments‚ a very well known set of rules‚ is very similar
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The significance of the modern day Jerusalem as a religious capital cannot be established without the sacred sites of different religions in the city‚ including the Western Wall of the ancient Jewish Temple and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher of the Christians. After the complete destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 CE by the Roman forces‚ Jerusalem was stripped of its spiritual axis and left desolated with the Jews banned from the city. Consequently‚ when the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was
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"Technologically man is a giant‚ morally a pygmy" Discuss ’Man does not live by bread alone’. This is a popular maxim. If man does not live by bread alone‚ what else does he need to make him live a man ? That is the crux of the discussion. Who is a giant ? Literally giant is a person of huge physical proportions and extra-ordinary powers and strength. Fables say that there were such persons having the strength of hundreds of men. Thus Hercules was a famous epic figure with immeasurable strength
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1) The first three chapters present this period in American history by showing us the life of a boy at the time‚ Tom Sawyer. From his adventures‚ Twain depicts that the education at the time was not as well enforced and as serious as it is today‚ which is shown by Tom not going to school‚ but instead‚ he went swimming. Furthermore‚ Twain depicts religion at the time to be a formal event‚ shown through the way Tom had to wash himself and dress for his Sunday school. In addition to this. Twain depicts
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The Dreams in Wuthering Heights [This discussion is a slightly altered section from John P. Farrell‚ “Reading the Text of Community in Wuthering Heights‚” ELH 56 (1989)‚ 173-208. The essay argues that Brontë’s novel deals with the complex layering in human identity of a private self‚ a social self (largely a construction of the social system)‚ and an intersubjective self whose actions locate an alternative social realm that the nineteenth-century theorized as “community.” The essay thus borrows
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