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    The native American tribe known as the Iroquois‚ have a unique creation story. For this story sky‚ people and water exist but there is no land to speak of. It’s funny how most creation stories start off with the earth and sky already in existence. The Iroquois story starts with sky people that live high above the waters in the clouds. The sky people could not die‚ have children or experience sadness. Nonetheless; one day a sky woman realized she had become pregnant with twins. When she told her husband

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    The first part of Olson’s The Story of Christian Theology introduces the reader to conflicting Christian Visions in the Second Century. First‚ Olson defines theology as "the church’s reflection on the salvation brought by Christ and on the gospel of that salvation proclaimed and explained by the first- century apostles." (25). However‚ the story of Christian theology has continually been interwoven with the understanding of the Doctrine of Salvation (Soteriology). While Jesus was on earth‚ and even

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    Throughout the story “Danger Of a Single Story” the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about how she once was singled out into a group by racial profile . Chimamanda also talks about how she once did the same thing to another person she had met and how she thought something of the person because she was a certain race such as how she thought just because a person was poor meant that they could not create beautiful things such as the basket the house boy and his brother made. Throughout the reading

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    Chimamanda Adichie the Danger of a Single Story Everyone has their own belief‚ which influence by concepts in the society. It causes that people will have strong personal values of other things‚ based on what they learn and think. According to Chimamanda Adichie the Danger of a Single Story‚ it is unhelpful to see the world with single mindset because people will give them a limitation. Sometimes‚ that thing is totally different from what we think. When people see that‚ it is hard for them to accept

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    Social Framing and its Cultural Influences Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‚ a Nigerian novelist states in her presentation‚ The Danger of a Single Story‚ that a “single story creates stereotypes‚ and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue‚ but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story” (The Danger of a Single Story). Briefly‚ this Ted presentation addresses the reoccurring issue in society due to media’s limitations and shortcomings. Often‚ portrayals in media

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    MUSIC AND MAGIC IN THE WORLD OF ARDA In Tolkien’s legendarium‚ magic as it appears in contemporary sword-and-sorcery stories does not exist. Tolkien makes it clear in essays and debates that his magic is far more complex than the waving of a wand‚ and does not follow strict‚ clear-cut rules. Instead‚ power over the laws of nature and reality lies to a great extent in song and music. The first act of creation in the “Ainulindal딂 by which the foundations for Arda’s creation were laid‚ was

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    after European intervention‚ Cherokee culture still lived on. In the book‚ The Story of the Cherokee Indians‚ 9th grade Cherokee students from the Eastern Band describe some of the distinct details of their culture. This publication is just one way that the Cherokee craft has been able to live on. This essay will briefly illustrate the lineage of published books and go in depth on the type of publication that The Story of the Cherokee Indians is. In 1455‚ the Gutenberg Bible was the first known

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    Apollo’s birth story begins immediately with a sense of the son of Zeus and Leto’s immense power. The earth is literally scared to let Apollo be born -- and thus it will not allow Leto to lay down and give birth. The earth fears that Apollo‚ born with power as great or nearly as great as Zeus himself‚ will be disgusted by the earth and destroy it. However‚ when Leto is finally allowed to give birth to Apollo on the island of Delos‚ Apollo does not destroy the earth. He does‚ however‚ immediately

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    The Bernard Madoff “Ponzi Scheme” scandal was the biggest and lasted the longest financial fraud in the history of the US. Bernard Madoff was a financial adviser‚ and also the former chairman of the NADAQ. He established his investment firm named “Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC” in 1960. The Madoff Fraud is a typical “Ponzi Scheme”‚ in order to attract investors to give money to him‚ he convinced people to hand over their life saving‚ and promised them high returns rate‚ and then he

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    Essay 2 Violence Is A Never Ending Struggle Many stories takes place in different areas‚ seasons‚ years‚ even time zones‚ but there’s always a specific reason why stories takes place during this time. The story “Barn Burning” dealt with a lot of different scenarios during this time period‚ the story was set around the Civil War Era. There were many forms of racism and prejudice that existed such as: prejudice toward ethnicity‚ genders class and social class during this time. As time moves

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