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- 361: Christ Is The Answer - John Saward
- ... truth concerning Christ's message, bishops and clergy will not have the correct tools to lead Christ's people to salvation. The Pope's goal was to show Christians how to be servants of the Lord. This brings humility and opens eyes to the Glory of God. The more people listen to this and structure their lives around it, the more they are going to open the eyes of those people ... and others will seek out the truth and live by example. The Foundation of this message was sent by Pope John Paul II , who is the Vicar of Christ. He takes the place of our Lord here on earth. The Pope takes his place at the head of the Church, just as Peter did when Jesus anointed him the first Pope. The Pope must weigh out society and plug in it ... church's Christology. As we have already seen , in Redemptor Hominis he links the institution of the Papacy with the Incarnation." (Saward , 17 ) In taking a direct approach at linking the Papal office with Our Lord made flesh, the Pope is continuing a long succession of tradition. He has kept together the very walls of the Church by caring on Christiological based faith. Within those very walls of faith lies ...
- 362: Hinduism
- ... that every single religious individual in India ends up with a Bhagavan. Although those Hindus who particularly worship either Vishnu or Shiva generally consider one or the other as their 'favorite god' and as the Lord and Brahman in its personal aspect, Vishnu is often regarded as a special manifestation of the preservative aspect of the Supreme and Shiva as that of the destructive function. Another deity, Brahma, the creator, remains ... has become a living element in the religion of the people. Brahma, the first of the three Hindu gods, is called the Creator; he is the father of gods and men, the Vedic Prajapati, the lord of creators. The term is used for the Absolute, or the Ultimate Principle, beyond which nothing exists or has any reality. In the Upanishads, Brahma is said to be beyond all description. "This universe was enveloped in darkness - unperceived, indistinguishable, undiscoverable, unknowable, as it were, entirely sunk in sleep. The irresistible self existent lord, undiscerned, creating this universe with the five elements, and all other things , was manifested dispelling the gloom. he who is beyond the cognizance of the senses, subtile, indiscernible, eternal, who is the essence of ...
- 363: Bebb v. Law Society
- ... and in his judgement he stated that there were "at least" three grounds upon which this disability has been proved. The Master of the Rolls refers to a statement made three hundred years ago by Lord Coke suggesting that women are not allowed to be attorneys. The Master of the Rolls states that although the language employed by Lord Coke appears to be "doubtful" , he claims that he does not find it to be so. What one finds particularly strange about Cozens-Hardy's deliberation is that he openly admits that the statement to which he referred to made by Lord Coke, from the "Mirror", cannot be regarded as the highest form of authority. However he goes on to state that this "alone is evidence of what the common law was, and that there was, ...
- 364: Durga Puja
- ... the immersion of the clay made Idols in the sacred river Ganga (the Ganges) on the evening of Dashami. Indian Mythology tells - long back, Mahishasura, the king of Demons, being indulged by certain boon from Lord Shiva, the supreme Hindu God, started his tyranny over Heaven. Scared and hopeless gods earnestly requested Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva to kill Mahishashura. Then from these three gods, a divine vigour came out and took the shape of a woman - she is goddess Durga. This vigorous goddess got married to ...
- 365: Byron's Don Juan
- Byron's Don Juan One writer who has not recieved nearly enough credit for his works is George Gordon, who later became known as Lord Byron. This is the man who wrote his own poetical version of Don Juan. Don Juan is a man who is known for being able to arouse the desires of women and to love every one he meets. This Don Juan can be viewed, however, as a loosely disguised biography of Byron. Lord Byron's father, Captain John, has ancestors that go back as far as the Buruns in the time of William the Conqueror. Back in this time it was very common for people to marry their ... father soon followed, but it wouldn't be long before he would disappear to France and end up dying in 1791. It was just as well because his parents never got along very well. In Lord Byron's early years he experienced poverty, the ill-temper of his mother, and the absence of his father. By 1798 he had inherited the title of 6th Baron Byron and the estate of ...
- 366: Hamlet And Comic Relief
- ... and stepfather, but not really his kin or kind at all. Immediately thereafter, the king questions, How is it that the clouds still hang on you? (1.2.66) Hamlet responds with, Not so, my lord, I am too much in the sun (1.2.67). He means that the king has called Hamlet son too often (Fisch 220). Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats / Did coldly furnish forth the ... noticed this? In act two, Hamlet thrusts a number of bitter jests at Polonius. Excellent well; you are a fishmonger (2.2.174), says Hamlet in response to Polonius question, Do you know me, my lord? The basis of Hamlet s jests is apparently his intuition that Polonius forced Ophelia to stop seeing him. In Hamlet s opinion, Polonius sacrificed his daughter s happiness in order to impress the king. This ... better keep her out of the sun, too, because even the sun can produce bastard pregnancies (260). Words, words, words (2.2.192), says Hamlet, in response to Polonius question, What do you read, my lord? Of course, Polonius wants to know the meaning of the words in the book that Hamlet is reading, but Hamlet s answer suggests that they are meaningless. Polonius then follows up with a clarification: ...
- 367: The Gospel Of Luke
- ... patron who sponsored the circulation of Luke and Acts. The third Gospel presents Jesus as the Son of Man. The first three chapters and the beginning of the fourth give us the entrance of the Lord into the race, beginning with his genealogy; how he was born and made one of us. Then chapters four through nineteen trace for us the first part of his ministry among men, and especially, his ... triumph. Luke's historical narrative begins as follows: With the birth of Zechariah and Elizabeth's child, John. Elizabeth was barren, she and Zechariah were well along in years but Gabriel, an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah saying, "Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son and you are to give him the name John and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit." Zechariah questioned the angel, "How ... so. A virgin named Mary was pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David when the angel, Gabriel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you. Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. ...
- 368: The Aztec Nation
- ... 9). There is a dual creative principle found throughout the Aztec culture, split not surprisingly between the masculine and the feminine. This dual creative principle was expressed in the form of two gods, Ometecuhtli, "two lord," and Omecíhuatl, "two lady." Both resided in Omeyocan, meaning "the place two" (Caso 9). Aztec gods were created when Ometecuhtli and Omecíhuatl had four sons, to whom they entrusted the creation of the other gods ... entire year in how to conduct himself as a personage of the court. He was taught how to play clay pipes, and was given an entourage to attend to him as though he were a lord. Dressed in the attire of the gods, this impersonator of Tezcatlipoca would stroll the streets smoking fine tobacco from gilded reed pipes carrying a bouquet of flowers. Any citizens who met him on the street ... is due, according to several investigators basing themselves in legends and Aztec tales, to the fact that the first Aztec Ruler Acamapichtli (1376), had for a main wife a woman called Ilancueitl, daughter of the lord of a nearby town. This girl was sterile, which caused that the Aztec Lords offered their daughters to him and he also took his women slaves as companions. Logically, this caused that more than ...
- 369: Charles Lindbergh
- ... 107 mph. 10:52 A.M. There is a breeze blowing from the NW at 10 mph. Lindbergh begins to feel tired, although only four hours have passed since leaving New York. He descends and flies within ten feet of the water to help keep his mind clear. 11:52 A.M. He is currently four hundred miles from New York. His altitude is 200 ft over Nova Scotia. After flying over the Gulf of Maine, the Spirit of St. Louis is only six miles off course. 12:52 P.M. Wind velocity has increased to 30 mph. Lindbergh flies over a mountain range and clouds soon appear and thicken as the Spirit of St. Louis approaches a storm front. 2:52 P.M. His current altitude is 600 ft. His air speed is 96 ... from an altitude of 800 ft to 7500 ft to stay above the quickly rising clouds. 8:52 P.M. The cloud that first appeared as fog is still below. A thunderhead looms ahead. Lindbergh flies into the towering cloud, then turns back after noticing ice forming on the plane. 10:52 P.M. Lindbergh s fight to keep his eyelids open continues. To keep warm, Lindbergh considers closing the ...
- 370: Remains Of The Day
- ... to assist in this matter" (196). Behind each minor task of Stevens, Ishiguro raises deep questions about human beings’ relationships to their employers, and the repression of emotions which frequently occur. When Stevens learns that Lord Darlington’s reputation was totally wrecked after it was revealed that that he had sued a newspaper for libelous accusations about his alliance with Nazis, Stevens realizes that all his years spent trying to be ... spend your whole life trying to please one boss because you may find in the end that it was not worth it. Ishiguro draws a comparison between the intense loyalty of a butler to his lord and the loyalty of the German people to Hitler. Though Stevens insists on referring to his father as "sir," his loyalty to him leads to a break in his professional duty to his employer, since ... Stevens’ inability to acknowledge the decline of his father’s abilities may in fact be a suppressed emotion of love for him, but he cannot possibly acknowledge that. If Stevens had a healthier relationship with Lord Darlington, he might have been able to relate to his father as a son, instead of just another loyal employee. A key case of Stevens’ inability to realize the expression of love is his ...
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