...FALSE PROPHETS: • In the last days of the Prophet’s life some misguided people arose to claim prophet hood. • When Abu Bakr was elected as the Caliph they started their preaching openly. • Among these false prophets were Tulaiha, Aswad Ansi, Musailamah and Sajjah. Tulaiha belonged to the Banu Asad tribe in the northern Arabia. • An army under Khalid bin Walid was sent which met them at Buzaka. • After a fierce battle Tulaiha’s army surrendered and he himself fled to Syria. He embraced Islam during the time of the second Caliph. • Aswad Ansi belonged to the Ansi tribe in Yemen. • He was an ugly man who kept his face veiled all the time. • He was nicknamed ‘’the veiled prophet’’. • Being leader of his tribe he revolted with the cooperation of the neighbouring chiefs. • He was the first false prophet who collected a large army in open revolt against Islam. • He was defeated and killed by the Muslims. • The most dangerous of the false prophets was Musalima. • He belonged to a tribe of central Arabia. • His tribe accepted him as a prophet. • Abu Bakr sent Shurbhil and Ikramah to crush the rebellion; later Khalid bin Walid joined them. Musalima,s army was defeated after a fierce battle at Yamamah in 633AD.Musalimah was killed. • In this battle about 800 Muslims were martyred. Amongst them were 360 Huffaz (memorizers of the Holy Qur’an). • Sajjah was a woman who belonged to the Bani Tamim tribe. • She claimed to be a prophetess and succeeded in mustering...
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...As well as addressing men's mental health to prevent men from acting out because they are lonely, have been humiliated and ridiculed which has caused them to use gun violence to solve those...
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...about a lonely bird that is caged up, wondering what it would be like to be free. Maya Angelou explains throughout her poem what the bird is feeling and seeing through his bars. In the poem; “I, Too”, Langston Hughes lets you imagine his poem about a black boy feeling very lonely, and wondering why he is being treated differently. In these two poems, the bird should be free and flying, but instead is being kept in a cage, while the other birds are free and they “dare to claim(s) the sky.” The black boy wants people to know he is not any different, he is beautiful too. Both poems have a way of expressing one main theme. “Caged Bird” and “I,Too” have Imagery, which is a big way that you can see the theme throughout these poems using your senses. In “Caged Bird” you can almost...
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...The Boy In The Striped Pajamas In class, we read the book, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. It was about the friendship of two young boys and how different their beliefs are. One of the boys is Jewish and the other has a father who works for Adolph Hitler and the Nazis, but Bruno (the son of the Nazi Commandant) has no clue what a Jew is or what a Nazi is. But Shmuel know that he is Jewish and that him and Bruno shouldn’t be playing with each other and that doesn’t interfere with their friendship what so ever. Nine year- old Bruno is very lonely, and ignorant until he meets his new best friend for life; he is very friendly to this boy that wears striped pajamas all day but still has many commonalities. Bruno had to move with his family to a place he thinks is named OutWith but is really pronounced Auschwitz, because of father’s promotion and his job is very important. When he left his lovely house in Berlin, he also had to leave his grandmother and grandfather along with his three best friends for life, Karl, Daniel, and Martine. Bruno and his family left their friends and family for a place with horrid scenery outside your bedroom window. The view you get is of a fence and on the other side; there are badly treated people. Another down about this new house is that there are soldiers and lieutenants walking in and out of your house as if they owned the place. The worst part about the house for Bruno and his sister was that there weren’t any other boys and girls their age...
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...The drover’s wife The drover’s wife is a short story written by Henry Lawson in 1892. Henry Lawson was a famous Australian writer, who lived from 1867 until 1922. He wrote fictive stories about the colonial period in Australia and is known as one of the most famous writers in Australia. The story is written during the colonial period, but that does not affect the story. The main theme in the story is the life of a lonely woman, who lives out in the bush with her four children. Her husband is a drover and isn’t home in long periods. Another theme in the story is the motherly instinct, and the will to always protect the family at any cost. The story takes place out in the bush in Australia. The family lives far out in the country, where nobody else lives. When problems occur there are no one to help, and the mother has to deal with it by herself. The eldest boy wants to help his mom when they have some problems, but she won’t always let him, because of her motherly instinct. The family lives in an old two-roomed house build of timber, slabs and stringy-bark. One day the family is out and one of the children sees a deadly snake, and calls the mother. The mother becomes dazzled and worried. They try to catch the snake because she wants to kill it, but the snake winds its way down under the house. The mother tries to tempt it out by putting small dishes with milk outside the hole. That doesn’t work, and they must let it be. It becomes sunset and the children have to sleep...
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...I was ignored by the other children that resided in my new home. I immediately learned that I wasn't the only one with saddening thoughts of the past. It didn’t take long to notice a boy that seemed just as lonely. None of the other boys bothered to talk to him. He looked sick, sad and had shaggy greasy hair that covered the majority of his face. We discovered we were both outsiders; no one cared to pay attention to us. In the beginning this boy was nothing but kind and encouraging. He told me to never forget about my parents, but explained that life has to go on. I wasn’t alone anymore; the horrific flashbacks had come to an...
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...Sticks and Stones COM/220 March 31, 2013 Sticks and Stones Today is Friday, the year is 1969, it is about 3:15 p.m.; the grade school-aged kids of bus number 7 are picking their seats talking, laughing, and excited about the weekend. A sad and lonely boy meekly walks up to the door of the bus, climbs the two steps, walks to the fourth row and sits down hoping with all his heart they won’t notice him today. It has been a rough week and he just wants to be home. His hopes of going unnoticed quickly disappear as his homework falls to the floor again. He does not want to look up; he knows who did it again but he doesn’t understand why. He is not that different from the others, a little thinner and smaller maybe. Tears well up in his eyes, he holds them back for now, he wants to yell but he remains silent for now. The boy sits down in the seat behind him again the boy “accidently” spits on him again. From somewhere behind him he hears the names again too embarrassing to repeat. A piece of trash from the can lands in his lap. Seconds later a food wrapper with goo all over it bounces off the window and hits him with a slimy splat in the face. His face red with embarrassment and anger, he yells at them, begging them to stop, to leave him alone. Finally, the driver steps onto the bus but his tormentors do not stop, they discretely continue for another 20 minutes until the bus slows as it approaches the drive of his rural home. They were relatively tame today no punching, no tripping...
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..."Dear Mr. President" (feat. Indigo Girls) Dear Mr. President, Come take a walk with me. Let's pretend we're just two people and You're not better than me. I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly. What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street? Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep? What do you feel when you look in the mirror? Are you proud? How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye? How do you walk with your head held high? Can you even look me in the eye And tell me why? Dear Mr. President, Were you a lonely boy? Are you a lonely boy? Are you a lonely boy? How can you say No child is left behind? We're not dumb and we're not blind. They're all sitting in your cells While you pave the road to hell. What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away? And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay? I can only imagine what the first lady has to say You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine. How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye? How do you walk with your head held high? Can you even look me in the eye? Let me tell you 'bout hard work Minimum wage with a baby on the way Let me tell you 'bout hard work Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away Let me tell you 'bout hard work Building a bed out of a cardboard box ...
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...The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, published in 1945, and The Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, and published in 2001, both focus on a teenage boy going on an adventure. The adventures each boy face are very different but also have many themes in common. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield gets kicked out of school and decides to stay in New York for a few days before the end of the semester, he discovers many things and has many new experiences. In The Life of Pi, while Pi and his family are moving to Canada from India by boat, the boat sinks in a storm which leaves Pi alone on a lifeboat with a bengal tiger. After many challenges and difficulties Pi eventually does make it to Canada where he lives out his life. The thing that makes these two...
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...In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens uses symbolism to enhance his themes. In this novella, Scrooge was excluded ever since he was a boy. As he grew up, he started to isolate himself from society, and bought a cold, dark, and lonely house in which people wouldn’t enter. Dickens also used Robinson Crusoe to show how miserable an excluded life can be. Charles Dickens employs symbolism to reinforce the theme of social exclusion in A Christmas Carol. Scrooge was initially excluded by his father from his own house. Scrooge was kept away from the home and stayed at school even during Christmas time. The Ghost of Christmas Past showed Scrooge a scene of him as a little boy, watching all the other children have fun during the holidays with their families....
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...About a Boy Loneliness is a feeling we all know. We all feel it sometimes. It sneaks in on you and drags you somewhere dark. For some people this is a constant feeling. For some people it doesn’t just stop here. If you’re lonely for a long time, you will often start to feel a little weird and abnormal. You will eventually even get left out from the group. This is what happens to the boy named Marcus in the film “About a Boy”. We get a sight into Marcus’ turbulent life, where he struggles with loneliness because of bullies. The first time we are introduced to this boy named Marcus, is when Will, a single man, takes a friend of Marcus’ mom out on a date. She’s called Suzie and promised Marcus’ mother, Fiona, to take care of him. Will seems nice and protective over Marcus. Especially when Marcus almost is claimed for killing a duck with a loaf of bread. Will here takes place and tells the park keeper, that is was already dead. What none of them know of, is that Will isn’t exactly who they think he is. Will attends a group for single parents, but actually, he has no kids at all. However, he pretends to have a two-year-old son named Ned. When Will first meets Marcus, he has the feeling, that he is a little bit weird. That thought soon gets confirmed. When Will and his date Suzie stops by Marcus’ house to drop him off, they find his mother Fiona, passed out on the couch. Fiona has taken an overdose and attempted suicide. This is the environment Marcus lives in. Marcus is afraid...
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... In his youth he was poor, abused by his father and lonely. At the start of the book we see Scrooge as a bitter old man who didn’t care about anyone but himself and money. But when the ghost of Christmas past takes Scrooge back we see that he was nothing like the man he is today. One of the main reasons why Scrooge is so mean is his father. He had an extremely lonely childhood as his father abused him and sent him to a boarding school. When we first see Scrooge in his past he is at the boarding school which is very rundown. "The school is not quite deserted," said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still." This shows that not only was he lonely because of his father but also he had no friends and was neglected. Having a hard relationship with his father made him find it hard to connect to people and to have a loving relationship with someone. The only person who really cared for Scrooge was his sister who came to the school to bring with back home. At the start of the story we are introduced to Fred who Scrooges nephew. We later on learn that his mother died. “a little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him as her 'Dear, dear brother.” The death of Scrooges sister, Fan must have affected him greatly as she was the only one who was there for him. “'You are quite a woman, little Fan!' exclaimed the boy.” Dicken is clearly commenting on how it is unfair for...
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...Kawabata’s use of such ingenious romantic symbolism within, "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket", as he searches for love, beauty, and harmony. In summary, this story tells a tale, of a university student walking along, when he hears the voice of an insect. Enjoying the song of the insect, he happens upon a group of children with beautiful lanterns out searching for insects. While the children are hunting insects, a boy finds a ‘grasshopper’, and continues to ask if anyone would like a ‘grasshopper’, until the voice of a certain girl exclaims that, "Yes", she wants the grasshopper. Carefully the boy captures the insect and releases it to the girl. Surprisingly, the ‘grasshopper’ is actually a much sought after ‘bell cricket’. This new discovery delights the little girl, and then the narrator realizes that the little boy must have known all along that he had found a ‘bell cricket’, and was saving it for that particular girl. Consider that Kawabata placed himself as the mysterious narrator of this short story. Knowing that he grieved from a lonely existence longing to be loved, one can see how he wished himself across the threshold of youth, as seen in the first paragraph, when the narrator peers "Behind the white board fence..." Also, he is symbolizing the children and all their splendor as he watches them, making reference in the second paragraph, to the "…bobbing cluster of beautiful varicolored lanterns, such as one might see at a festival in a remote country village...
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...dear. I have one last lesson to teach you.” “I promise, I understand the true meaning of Christmas. I even donated most of my money!” said Scrooge. He wondered what else he did not know. “You see, money isn’t the only thing you can give. First, I must tell you a story,” said Scrooge’s mother, “about your past” Scrooge looked puzzled. How could he not know something that happened to himself? Nonetheless, Scrooge sat down on his bed and listened attentively to her story. “A long time ago, before you were born, sitting on a rock was a little boy. He wore dirty clothes and looked terribly lonely. All the people in the town passed right by him. All except one came up to him. The stranger knew what it felt like to be lonely, so he aided the boy and helped him get a stable job.” “Why are you telling me about this younger boy?” asked Scrooge. He looked at his mother all puzzled. The story of this boy seemed irrelevent to him. “You see, this little boy grew up and became your father. After my death, he became bitter and got so caught up in his work. However, he still had a heart deep inside. That’s why he sent you on that apprenticeship- so you wouldn’t end up like him, when he was a child.” “Why are you telling me all this?” wondered Scrooge. After all this time, he still couldn’t fit the pieces of the puzzle together. “My point is, there are more ways help others than simply money. If that stranger taught your father valuable lessons along with money, he wouldn’t have become so greedy...
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...day: “…and it was summer, no school, and we sat on the grass in the sun behind my father’s garage…”(1 line2) The short story starts in media res and as reader you are thrown into the middle of things without previous introduction to the characters and events. You only get a very short introduction to the three boys, the protagonist, Hass and Morgan, who are the main characters of the story and to the settings which makes it easier for the reader to paint a mental picture of the three. The short story is build chronologically and probably stretches from the middle of the day until early evening. It could take place at any time. It is written in 1st person narrator and is told in past tense. It makes you get into the head of an 11-year-old boy who is also the protagonist. This means that you only hear his opinion and point of view of the event which colors the story. The protagonist is the leader of the gang consisting of three boys in the age of eleven to twelve-years-old. The three friends are the troublemakers in the neighborhood and the other children, including Simpson, are afraid of them. The boys are sitting smoking cigarettes and are talking about another boy from the neighborhood named Simpson, who they claim has said that he had sex with a girl under the...
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