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    Soul Survives Your Body

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    SOUL SURVIVES YOUR BODY! You think you are what you see in the mirror—a physical form with a mind! But your body is a bundle of foods you gathered; and your mind is a bundle of impressions you gathered. What about the more important thing‚ something fundamental that holds both these things‚ something that still works even when you are asleep‚ the one you feel from inside‚ the real essence of who you are‚ something that is called by different names such as the pure essence‚ the pure I‚ the pure consciousness

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    Gogol Dead Souls Zach F Dead Souls is an interesting view into the world of Russia during the 19th century. The book is about a man named Chichikov‚ who finds a troubling loophole within the Russian Tax system. Landowners were taxed on all of their land and possessions‚ this also included how many serfs they owned‚ dead or alive. The number of serfs they owned was determined by a national census‚ so landowners would continue to be taxed on serfs that had passed until the next census came around

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    Black Lung

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    The black lung movement was a movement formed in the late 1960’s in which the miners fought for the health benefits to cover black lung disease. Black lung is directly caused by mining and working with coal. Mildred Mullins wrote this poem and hung it on the coffin of her dead husband in the Capital to display what was going on‚ “Compensation we are asking‚
While alive and still gasping;
When life is o’er and hymns are sung‚
Then they’ll know we have black lung.( “Charleston Gazette” 15)” The miners

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    is good? or bad? the answer depends on how you take the change. The song’s theme is country it’s called “Some People Change” By Kenny Chesney. This song is about everyday people who change. This song is a song about hope to people who have harsh changes in their life. The emotion of this song sounds sounds angry and emotional. The quote from the song that shows change is “Here’s to the strong‚ thanks to the brave don’t give up hope some people change” . This quote proves that a change is occurring

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    Johnson’s “Message to Our Folks‚” serves not only as his initial great effort to assess the complex nature of African American identity in the 21st century. This exhibit was named after an avant-garde jazz collective‚ Art Ensemble of Chicago‚ which was released in 1969. Johnson’s work was seen at the high museum until the 8th of September. It reached out to youthful black artists with great involvement in racial questions without the connection to the idea of singular black identity. Rashid Johnson

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    The common portrayal of individual development through alternating point of views in “Invisible” by Paul Auster and “Every Soul a Star” by Wendy Mass Abstract Nowadays‚ individual development is one of the themes commonly discussed in works of literature for both adults and teens. The two works involved in this study are two works in which this aspect can be clearly spotted. “Invisible” is considered to be one of Paul Auster’s best works in which the development of an individual

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    What is the “Self” and what is the “Soul”? The answer to this question can vary in all different kinds of ways. If you ask someone religious they will tell you that you the self is more of a shell for the soul‚ and the soul is the spiritual essence of a person. If you ask a philosopher‚ they will most likely answer those questions with another question‚ such as are they not the same thing? Or what exactly is the essence of a person? In David Samuels’ essay “In the Age of Radical Selfishness” he

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    CCOT: Song and Tang Dynasties The Song dynasty and the Tang dynasty were two very powerful dynasties that were within modern day China. The change and continuity over time in these dynasties is very interesting how this went about in China. The Tang were a very powerful group from modern day China that had massive influence on the way that the country ended up heading. The powerful Tang Empire (618-907) and the Song Dynasty (960-1279) influenced the outcome of the modern day country China more

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    All Souls Day Generosity

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    An extract from A Sermon for All Souls Day‚ demonstrates how prayer was encouraged‚ for ‘saints have often heard devils wails when souls were delivered form their hands through good prayers.’ The laity were warned that if they failed to execute the deceased’s bequests‚ or show generosity in prayer‚ their own soul would suffer as a consequence. A Knight prior to battle beseeched his cousin that‚ should he fall‚ his horse was

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    believed that a human was comprised of a body‚ which is physical‚ and a soul‚ which is spiritual. His ideas on the subject‚ although not originally his‚ became the first fully developed ideas in Western Philosophy of human beings consisting of two parts. Like his teacher‚ Socrates‚ Plato believed humans to be essentially their souls. He believed that the body’s desires were important‚ but not as much as the soul’s. Plato saw the soul as comprised of three parts and drew an analogy that compared it to

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