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    In continuing with your investigative reporting‚ respond to the following questions using well-developed sentences. Copy and paste the questions into a word processing document. You will submit this document as part of your assessment for this lesson. 1. According to the first sentence what does every person realize at some moment in his/her education? According to the first sentence in “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ every person realizes that envy is ignorance‚ imitation is suicide

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    The Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell states that all heroes go through different stages on their path to becoming a hero. Nelson Mandela from “World Leaders: Nelson Mandela’’ is considered a Hero because he goes through The Hero’s Journey stages. The stages he went through were The Road of Trials‚ Allies/Helpers‚ and The Supreme Ordeal. In The Hero’s Journey the stage Nelson Mandela goes through is the Road of Trials. “The Road of Trials is a Series of tests‚ tasks‚ or Ordeals that the person must

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    Satan‚ and so the Green Lady and King of this strange world remain obedient to Maleldil and free from sin‚ preserving the paradise planet that is Perelandra. "Perelandra" is the tale of a great struggle between good and evil. It ’s central theme - temptation - is obviously well addressed in the course of the book. In fact‚ the entire book is rampant with obvious symbols and parallels between this story and that of the Adam and Eve creation story‚ and many are explained directly through the thoughts

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    field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought‚ as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind‚ as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable -- nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil‚ as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast‚ and how varied a field is agriculture‚ for such discovery. The mind‚ already trained to thought‚ in the country school‚ or higher school‚ cannot fail to find there an exhaustless source of profitable

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    Emerson Self Reliance

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    again‚ though it contradict every thing you said today." A. planting corn He compares planting corn to the universe and its people : "that though the wide universe is full of good‚ no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." B. an iron string He compares iron string to .......... : "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." C. clay He compares clay to .......... : "and

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    Matthew Crabtree

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    be beaten by their managers. Additionally‚ these workers just did manual labor that is tedious and repetitive whereas the machines did all the skilled work. These problems were caused by capitalism because of the lack of worker protection. Everyone toils for more than fourteen hours with only an hour lunch break and are constantly beaten severely when out of line. Capitalism encourages competition and so this can create an avaricious company that will sacrifice a worker’s welfare in order to develop

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    thought that sinners would be subjected to great tortures in the next life. Nowadays Christian asceticism has given way to political asceticism. Communism‚ for instance‚ teaches its followers to sacrifice all pleasures and to live a life of hard work and toil because those who do not do so have to be either liquidated or put in concentration camps. Cruelty Resulting from the Belief in Witchcraft The feeling that much of our suffering is due to the ill-will of other people led to the belief in witchcraft

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    Kraybill Chapter 2 In Kraybill’s book The Upside-Down Kingdom he introduces us to Jesus’ three temptations in the wilderness. Kraybill explores the social‚ political‚ and economic significances of these temptations. He focuses on five key symbols that are connected to Jesus’ temptations; bread‚ devil‚ desert‚ mountain‚ and temple. Each symbol recalls key episodes in the Hebrew history. “The temptation points to a right-side-up kingdom encompassing the three big social institutions of his day: political

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    stone. Three episodes that teach us life lessons are watching Odysseus patiently waits for the perfect chance to reveal himself in the palace and how brave he is‚ when Arthur saw Guinevere and Lancelot in the forest‚ and from Dante‚ we see how temptations can throw human beings of the right path. “Shifting his rags‚ he bared the long gash. Both men looked and knew‚ and threw their arms around the old soldier‚ weeping‚ kissing his head and shoulders.”(pg. 298‚ Odyssey) In the Odyssey by Homer‚ there

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    the deeper message of the imperfection of man. The Gawain Poet uses the green sash to symbolically deepen the illusion of immortality and to remind us to be strong against the power of temptation. The honorable knight Sir Gawain can be seen as this brave‚ loyal‚ almost divine figure that doesn’t fall to the temptations of lust and greed; that is until he is faced with the fact that he is indeed still human. He resists Lady Bertilak’s attempts to seduce him and his word to Lord Bertilak remains unbroken

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