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    Stairways to Heaven by Lorna Byrne The book “Stairways to Heaven” is a non-fiction book about a ladies sightings (Lorna Byrne) of angels and guardian angels. Her seraphs are constantly standing by her side and are visible when she is in a time of need. From the age of 11‚ she started seeing real life like entity’s after her brother died. She played with him in spirit form because she got lonely since she was an only child. She always fantasised with these real life like spirits because they always

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    geography of each hell and its denizens changes drastically through out the decades‚ as literature is spread across the world. The earliest piece that I chose to examine was Dante Alighieri’s Inferno‚ which dates back to sometime between 1265 and 1321. I also chose Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (1564-1593)‚ Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit (1945) to show the transformation over time. The final piece of literature that I picked‚ and also found was most compelling‚ was Robert Olen Butler’s Hell (2009). While

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    “Pray The Devil Back to Hell” A documentary on the civil war and conflict in Liberia c. 1989 I regretfully cannot claim prior knowledge to the atrocities that took place during Liberia’s first-ever civil war. As I sat in silence absorbing as much information from the documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”‚ I noticed‚ within myself‚ a gradual progression of empathy for the women speaking and being filmed‚ and especially those who were too disturbed by their experiences and scared into silence

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    The movie “Children of Heaven” is about the life of Ali and Zahra‚ two children who come from an impoverished‚ Muslim family. Ali loses his sister’s only pair of school shoes‚ and this story is of how the two keep it a secret from their parents‚ and all the things they do to keep it hidden. To me‚ this shows how something that’s insignificant to one person‚ can be a big deal to someone else. Take this situation‚ if I were to lose my shoes‚ or if they got worn out‚ I would simply buy another pair

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    Mad as Hell is a multi-award winning Australian comedy news television program hosted by Shaun Micallef which has gained traction over the last few years. Mad as Hell is well known for being able to incorporate various humour techniques such as understatement‚ allusion‚ irony‚ sight gags‚ and especially satire as well as others; it is as a result of the variety of techniques‚ a great example of this is the 8th episode of season 5. Lots of very powerful techniques were used in the Mad as Hell episode

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    their works. One of the best known authors is Dante Alighieri who wrote “The Divine Comedy”. In “Volume I: Inferno” Dante describes his version of hell in detail. There are nine circles of hell according to Dante; some even have multiple levels within themselves. Each level is centered on a specific kind of sinner that has to spend eternity in hell and they suffer a punishment that they have to endure for eternity. In the beginning of civilization in the Mediterranean and what is now Europe there

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    To hell and back sabaton music video remake The Sabaton song is also based on the 1955 film called To Hell and Back which is based on the 1949 autobiography of the same name and is an account of Murphy’s war history and his personal story in the war. This is the plot of the film and understanding it will help you to understand the music video Young Murphy (Gordon Gebert) grows up in a large‚ poor sharecropper family in Texas. His father deserts them around 1939–40‚ leaving his mother (Mary Field)

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    song‚ “Imagine”‚ Lennon describes what divides us and what should be uniting us to make heaven on Earth. In the first stanza‚ John Lennon wants us to forget about our worries and just live life for the day. Most people believe in a higher power‚ or life after death but he wants us to “imagine there’s no heaven” (Lennon line 1) so we can just live life for what it is. There’s no need to live life worrying about “no hell below us” (3). Be happy and live life “for today” (6). Because you never know what

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    Marriages. Are They Really Made in Heaven? Marriage is a form of relationship between people who share rights and obligations to each other after promising to be companions for a lifetime. It is the physical‚ mental and spiritual unison of two souls. We have a need to reach out to other people and form a close bond with them. There are different types of marriage‚ but the general types are civil marriage and religious marriage. People choose the kind of marriage which is suitable for them. As

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    In the documentary “Hell House”‚ filmmaker George Ratliff takes you through the production of a hell house from the planning to the actual event. A hell house is an event put on by various churches as a way of outreach. It is a compilation of scenes that are meant to scare people into salvation. It is also used by some churches as a Christian alternative to a haunted house. The actors and producers of these events are church members who see this as a ministry outlet to spread their faith to others

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