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- 4541: The Red Badge Of Courage 4
- ... made reading quick and easy. Stephen Crane used sentences like ³He felt alone in a space where his injured comrade had disappeared.² (27) to describe Henry sadness as a man in battle. He also expressed death by using sentences such as, ³The men dropped here and there like bundles.² (43) The climax of the novel happens when Jim dies. At that point Henry realizes that he has made a mistake when ... fight and stand strong. The recurring theme in this book was that Henry and his fellow soldiers weren¹t the author of their actions during the heat of battle. They fought despite the risk of death not because of love for their country but for the thrill of it. They never once talked about why they fought, they just fought. Henry¹s heroism wasn¹t because he was truly brave, but ...
- 4542: Good God
- ... may never know, for the fools that are blinded with salvation still wander in oblivion. Objection number one is that, can one actually prove the “existence” of God? How can one experience divinity, without experiencing death first? No men on this earth can! Not the Pope, Saint Anselm, nor William Paley, who actually tired to prove the existence of God. William Paley once said , “If a man wandered upon a hill ... Evil exist only to explore the other sides of what's good. This is the confusion that one may encounter, if accepting the beliefs of these propositions. The will to believe, and the life after death. The only thing man has going for him, is will power. He can either use it to oppose, or accept God, it really doesn't matter. The will to believe in an afterlife is beautiful ...
- 4543: Existence of God
- ... we all need. Becuse you belive in a certain way god exsisits in this form or that that is sick for our feeble attempt at comphrend our true exsisitance is nothing but our fear of death. Life is death but faith is our soul, for once look to the inside not inside your flesh but inside your and there is were every answer ever asked can be answred all but a simple truth , faith ...
- 4544: Contradictions In The Puritan Religion
- ... aforementioned ‘Doctrine of Elect.' If this ‘Doctrine of Elect' guaranteed the chosen a spot in heaven, then there was no reason for them to behave as pious, God-fearing Puritans. There was no reward after death for those who had been good and were not ‘chosen.' The standard was the same for the special few who made their way onto God's list. They had no reason to be good people ... his final resting spot was already determined. So then why did the Puritans insist upon confession as a means of salvation? Why did they force innocent people to admit to lies in the face of death? This is a hard question to answer. If a confession was made in hopes that it would save a soul, then wouldn't that render the doctrine of elect meaningless? What man should worry if ...
- 4545: All The Kings Men- The Spider
- ... experiences are much different than those of Jack and Cass. Only at the end, after the culmination of every one, do his actions come back and bite him in the rear. Willie, up until his death had gotten away with this philosophy, "Goodness You got to make it Doc And you got to make it out of badness Because there isn't anything else to make it out of."(257) With ... good. Eventually Willie's theory had to come crashing don and be replaced with the spider web of life in which Willie must pay some kind of huge price for all of his actions, his death. The Spider web is the true meaning of life for the character's lives in this book. None escape without paying for hitting the spider web with any kind of sin.
- 4546: Buddhism
- ... explained. The force to continue whether good or bad is the cause of Karma. It's not the effect when something happens but the act that causes something to happen. The idea of life after death is also discussed within Tanha. The Buddha explains that because there is no self, only a combination of the Five Aggregates which the "I" creates, "One thought moment conditions the next thought moment". We are ... of our actions or reactions, and making a decision based on those effects. 3.) Samsara & Karma Because of all the trouble we experience in life (Dukkha), Samsara or the wheel of life consisting of birth, death and rebirth, is not desirable in Buddhism. There is a "Fundamental dissatisfaction with the human condition as we know it". This dissatisfaction causes us to experience Dukkha and react accordingly. When we react we produce ...
- 4547: Barnabas
- ... II. Where is he first mentioned in the Bible? III. Barnabas' introduction of Saul to the apostles IV. His mission work with Paul V. His departure from Paul VI. Barnabas as a writer VII. His Death Barnabas was a native of the island of Cyprus. His birthplace makes him a Jew of the Diaspora, the dispersion of Jews outside Palestine or modern Israel. He was originally named Joseph but the apostles ... of Barnabas with Jerusalem in the book of Acts. Moreover, the Epistle of Barnabas seems to be dated A.D. 130 on internal evidence, and too late for our Barnabas. An exact date for the death of Barnabas was not found, Luke ends the book of Acts around A.D. 67 so Barnabas must have died sometime after this. However, Barnabas died by martyrdom in Cyprus. Scriptures from the Holy Bible ...
- 4548: Arianism
- ... in parade, the evening before this event was to take place, he expired from a sudden disorder, which Catholics could not help regarding as a judgment of heaven, due to the bishop's prayers. His death, however, did not stay the plague. Constantine now favoured none but Arians; he was baptized in his last moments by the shifty prelate of Nicomedia; and he bequeathed to his three sons (337) an empire ... found expression, bore decisive witness to the need and efficacy of the Catholic touchstone which they all rejected. About 340, an Alexandrian gathering had defended its archbishop in an epistle to Pope Julius. On the death of Constantine, and by the influence of that emperor's son and namesake, he had been restored to his people. But the young prince passed away, and in 341 the celebrated Antiochene Council of the ...
- 4549: A Seperate Peace
- ... lifeless. Phineas had absorbed it and taken it with him, and I was rid of it forever. At the end of the novel, Gene is rid of all his angst and negative emotions. With Phineas death, all traces of guilt had left his mind, body and soul. He had inherited the calm that Phineas had always enjoyed. After that point, he no longer felt any feelings of hatred, jealousy, envy, etc ... uniform: I was on active duty all my time at school: I killed my enemy there. I think that Gene gained a maturity that he never had during his education at Devon with Finny s death. His brain had cleared from its envious cloudiness and was finally at rest. There were no more battles to be fought, no more enemies to be killed. His guilt had been erased, and all doubts ...
- 4550: The Awakeing
- ... one who would understand to confide into. Rather than be forced to live in such a world of tyranny and succumb once again to the mechanical lifestyle she had lived for so long, she chooses death. In death, there are no expectations, no one to impress or be "proper" for, and most importantly she has no one to answer to, except herself. It is all these aspects of the plot, in the story ...
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