Book 6: After Odysseus washes ashore on the Phaecaian island of Scheria‚ he sleeps concealed beneath leaves that Athene provided for him. The next morning‚ Athene goes to Nausicaa‚ the daughter of the king of the Phaecaians‚ a man named Alcinous. Nausicaa and her maidens are led to Odysseus. They transport him to the king’s palace. Of course‚ Nausicaa‚ like all the other females whom Odysseus encounters‚ has a soft heart for him. Book 7: Odysseus is brought into the palace and has a long conversation
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The Book of Ruth begins with this: “Now it came to pass‚ in the days when the judges ruled‚ that there was a famine in the land.” (Ruth 1:1 NKJV). Even though the times were bad during the judges‚ “one wonders how the Israelites could have gone so wrong” (Hill&Walton‚ 2009‚ p.245) understand that‚ “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6) or rather they did not follow the law. Judges is a story of a deteriorating nation‚ and as such‚
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Written in 1897‚ the greatest horror book in its time was created‚ Dracula‚ by Bram Stocker. This book contained different aspects of vampirism that was had associated itself with flight of the imagination of romanticism. Freud’s idea of psychoanalysis was basically intertwined with this book‚ because his psychoanalytical reasoning’s was based on this book. "All human experiences of morbid dread and aggressive wishes and in vampirism we see these repressed wishes becoming plainly visible." -Sigmund
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The biggest problem in this novel is bullying‚ a common topic in Young Adult novels but‚ I have not yet seen a book capture bullying in such a perceptive and unflinching way. However‚ Zoe is actually initiated into the group of bullies‚ before she realises the error in her ways and resigns to try to help April (or Dog‚ as she is commonly called) to stand up for
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The Book of Mormon contains many different patterns throughout the whole book. One prominent and important pattern recognized is the Exodus Pattern. According to the Webster’s Dictionary of 1828‚ Exodus is defined as Departure from a place‚ particularly‚ the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses. The first Exodus we see in the Book of Mormon happens in 1 Nephi when Lehi is commanded to take his family and leave Jerusalem. The family is commanded to leave after Lehi has
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The Book of the Zechariah tells about the ministry of the prophet Zechariah. Unlike many of the prophets‚ Zechariah’s ministry takes place after the Babylonian captivity. His ministry is meant to teach the God loves Israel and that he will give salvation to all. The first 6 chapters tell about Zechariah’s call for the Israelites to repent their sins and the context of his 8 visions. The first vision is a horseman among myrtle trees and it represents that God still loves Israel. The second vision
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political dominance remained up for grabs. The southern African country hosted the cold war theatre following independence from Portuguese colonization in 1975. Winner of the Independent’s foreign fiction award in 2007‚ Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons captures what the life of the Angolan became proceeding the bloody struggle that took the lives of a half million civilians and displaced another million over the course of 27 years. This proxy civil war conflict
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Narrated by Death‚ “The Book Thief” is the story of Liesel Meminger‚ a nine-year-old German girl who was given to two foster parents‚ Hans and Rosa Hubermann by her mother in the small town of Molching‚ shortly before World War II. However‚ on their way to Molching in the train‚ Liesel’s younger brother Werner Meminger dies. Although Hans and Rosa Hubermann have two children of their own that have already moved out‚ they agreed to take care of Liesel for the small portion of money would they receive
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There’s a Wocket in my Pocket! "There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!" is an interesting children’s book created by Dr. Seuss. At first glance one is given the impression that "There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!" is just another fantasyland children’s book by Dr. Seuss with a goofy cast of characters and amusing‚ memorable rhyme scheme. However‚ when one digs beneath the surface he will come to realize that this expresses a tale of paranoia and insanity that has been unparalleled in modern society.
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The famed Medici family of Florence produced 4 Popes‚ 3 queen regents of France‚ and engaged in countless acts of assassination and subterfuge. This was representative of the Italian society where Baldassare Castiglione wrote his masterwork‚ The Book of the Courtier. Italian politics and culture was shaped by the fact that Italy consisted of many autonomous city states that each had their own royal courts‚ standing armies‚ cultures‚ and rulers. This divisiveness in politics helped to foster an extremely
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