...and send it back, or sprinkle around the house to keep out evil. Use in purification baths. Use with a poppet or carry in a sachet to send back a spell to the one who cast it. Also Known As: Nettle Leaves, Stinging Nettle, Beggar's Lice, Common Nettle Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Nutmeg Carry nutmeg for good luck, and to increase psychic powers. Use in money and prosperity spells. On green candles for prosperity, sprinkle nutmeg powder. It is a hallucinogen when made into a tea and is very toxic in large doses. Use no more than a pinch. Also Known As: Myristica Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Orange Attracts abundance and happiness through love and marriage. Focus on a yes or no question while you eat an orange, and then count the seeds. The number of seeds will give you the answer. An even number of seeds and the answer is no, an odd number of seeds is yes. You can use the leaves and flowers in love rituals to bring on a marriage proposal. Adding...
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...to the greatest European cultural movement and great innovations within the fields of science, art and literature. The Renaissance art finds its roots mostly in Classical Greek and Roman art. Early renaissance art was created in parallel with late Medieval art and it was also greatly influenced by Gothic arts, an older art style that was developed in the 12th century and during late middle ages. Although religious topics and events remained very popular which reflected the influence of medieval art, but more emphasis was placed on the meaning and the realistic qualities of the artwork by renaissance artists. As the political and social domination of church started to diminish and the humanist movement grew in popularity, the renaissance art took a different direction and distinctive characteristics started to develop in different areas. The artists started to separate themselves from their Middle Ages heritage by going against the religious traditionalism. To keep up with the humanist movement the renaissance artists started to portray more life-like and more realistic human forms, and they broke from medieval traditions in painting, sculpture and architecture. The decline of Church absolutism also altered people’s religious views and produced a different view of life. The renaissance patrons demanded art that showed joy in human beauty and life's pleasures. The renaissance artists had to produce arts to meet the tastes of their patrons. A combination of social and political conditions...
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...Secret, Wind, and Root Words, on their own, stand with pride, clarity, and determination. They are beacons of language and creative expression with limitless meaning and interpretation. The combination that words, when placed together, can form has the potential to be formidable, bringing together meanings rich with culture, vigour, and beauty. Independent of each other, words can catalyze a chain reaction of events, initiate new dialogue, and inspire intrigue. Together, they can pierce the page they stand on should they feel inclined to join in such an act of rebellion. Three words that pack a particular punch are “secret”, “wind”, and “root”. This essay explores how the words “secret”, “wind”, and “root”, share the disposition of being capable...
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...practice to evil doings and malevolent behaviors. Voodoo embraces the belief of spirits and a direct line of communication through possession and rituals. This religion believes in spiritual intervention on their behalf. Voodoo embodies various religions and its influences to untimely bring together voodoo It combines bits of culture from other African religions, thus making it complex, religions such as Christianity, specifically Christian Catholicism. It can be considered holistic based on the intertwining connection of supernatural and physical heeling. Voodoo believes in many spiritual forces, it consists of one major creator Bondye who does not intervene in any aspect of a person physical of spiritual life. Main worship then passes on to Loas; they differ from saints and angels in which they are not prayed too they are served. Loas are believed to be responsible for different aspects of human such as fertility, youth and beauty. Voodoo has many rituals in order to promote spiritual intrusion, communication and worship. Rituals may include singing and dancing, it involves but is not limited to animal sacrifices, zombification, etc. In this religion there are priests who are as supposedly chosen by dead ancestors. In Haitian Voodoo the practice of zombification is known to be far from folktale to practitioners, the fear of undergoing this painful process is used for population control. Zombification in Haitian society is defines as the dead being reason for evil purposed...
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...films have grown to nurture their escalation into developing as a child. Children have viewed different characters in different colours and patterns, whether idolizing them, favouring them or even despising them; those characters succeeded in impacting the mentality of those children, marking a point of interest that I would like to thoroughly investigate in this research assignment. Bearing that in mind, I have centered the aim of my research on the pink innuendos flaring from the very similar roles of the helpless princesses of Disney – the same innuendos that are now mostly looked as the societal norms of the Disney world. Some particular films that I have studied include ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow White’, ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Beauty and The Beast’, ‘Tangled’, and ‘Mulan’. Through the utilization of those films, I have carried my study in an order that would allow me to scrutinize the similarities assigned to the ‘pink’ customs fitted to Disney princesses, and any other differences that could break the code followed through years on the films – hence an investigation in the representation of conventional Disney princesses. Disney films have allowed children to compose a preconceived idea of women or female roles in the films or even in life altogether, as helpless, and in need of an external party (usually male – or the Prince Charming) to come in and switch their lives into the better. These stereotypical roles assigned to the princesses are usually coloured...
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...Christian Duty in the Natural World It is the responsibility of Christians across the United States, as well as globally, to protect, preserve and repair the natural environment of the planet. When individuals pollute or otherwise harm the planet, they are, in effect, disrespecting God. While this may seem farfetched, it is rational when one recognizes that humans first assumed the responsibility of tending the global environment when they entered into the very first covenant with God during the times of the Israelites. Additionally, while having broad focus on what to fix may be preferable to some, there are better methods for beginning the conservation work. In the very first book of the Holy Bible we see God demanding of us to be stewards of the environment. In the Bible we see, “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” (ESV Study Bible: English Standard Version, Gen. 2:15) In this passage it is clearly apparent that God assigned the responsibility of stewardship of the planet to man. By taking a more allegorical approach to this particular piece of the Bible, a reader can see that the Garden of Eden is actually the planet Earth itself, pre-sin, and God’s placement of Man and directions to him as the charge put forth on maintaining the planet. Yet another example is found in Leviticus 25:23, “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.” In this verse...
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...to the next moment. Making one feel that feeling that they haven't felt in a long time or be that perfect expression of words to portray ones mental or emotional state during a moment in time. This paper is to respond to the poem given in this weeks readings of which we are to analyze it's elements, form, language, etc in order reveal whether ones a skeptic or a true lover of the written word. Depending on the poem it can be of such memorable legendary words as of the words of William Shakespeare’s “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” which has been used in countless movies, proposals, and pick up lines. However, those words of that simple phrase could have been taken into many factions of the question. A summers day can be that of beauty with the sun shining upon ones face and the ocean waves crashing against your feet or birds singing a romantic rhapsody of which brings a euphoric peace about oneself while in that moment. Although, the other side of that coin would be him describing a dark gloomy summers day filled with rain and thunderstorms but his words went on to describe the latter. Shakespeare’s poems, playwrights and other works have placed the ups and downs of life not only on an international platform artistically but proving in his time that no matter the class of a person we are all pawns in the game of life. One of his...
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...How would you survive an island full of rambunctious boys? Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding is an allegorical novella that uses allusions, symbolism, and irony to convey the idea that evil is within us. The story takes place during World War II, when a group of schoolboys are being evacuated from England. They crash on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and have to fight for their lives in a new and strange environment. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, find a conch and use it to gather the other children in an attempt to form order. The elect Ralph as the leader and they work together as a civilization, at least at first. Unfortunately, some of the elected hunters would rather have fun, hunt, and play savage. This leads to a feud between the boys. Eventually, Jack, the leader of the hunters convinces the majority of the boys that fun...
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...develops as a gendered and socialized member of the culture in which he lives. Folk stories, and more modernly, fairy tales, serve to influence the collective and individual unconscious in gender roles and gender identities. In examination of the various treatments of classic tales we can identify a running theme of subjugating the feminine in the service of patriarchy. Fairy tales are a specialization of folk lore, similar to myths and quests in that each subclass identify and reinforce gender roles. Hero stories accentuate the bravery and skill of the young boy who identifies with them but simultaneously reinforce that boy’s understanding of how to relate to the feminine (in many such tales the feminine is relegated to a helpless beauty he must rescue). Similarly, fairy tales, “by producing the female subject as complemented and completed by her relation to a male partner,” allow patriarchy to “naturalize sexual identity, masking the cultural construction of the feminine, thereby continually reproducing women in a subordinate position.” (Ebert) While we can recognize the voice of patriarchy in the motifs of these time worn tales, it is specifically how these tales are assimilated by the unconscious that perpetuates and...
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...the brute force of his actions. For a moment, Othello declared Desdemona as faithful and honest, yet out of the same mouth tarnish her fidelity. His tragic flaw was his gullibility, and jealousy was the cause of his depravity. Iago's meaningful efforts to raise doubt and use manipulation entices the emotion of pity that resulted in his deception and Othello's downfall. In classical attire, the "appeal to pity is praised as one of the most powerful emotional means of persuasion because it uses not language," (Smith, 2008, p. 3) but also conveys visual aid and imagery of suffering. Although, jealousy was the root of his displaced actions, it was all too late and Othello condemned himself as "an honorable murderer, if you will/ For naught I did in hate, but all in honor" (5.2.301-303). This statement, shed light on his catharsis to the audience and brought attention to the evil schemes of Iago, and less on the transgressions of Othello. Othello serves as a witness of a high ranked individual who had a lapse of judgment in his character and his motives. For he can easily be forgiven in a blink of an eye--not out of pity, but rather for...
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...FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPLETION OF HEBREW LANGUAGE TOOLS OTCL 505 BY RONALD C. WILLIAMS, JR. WINSTON SALEM, NC MAY 8, 2013 Word Study Step 1: Identifying the Word 1. Question to answer: Transgressors found in Isaiah 53:12 It is this word that reminds readers that Jesus was on the cross among transgressors and he took one to paradise with him who recognized whom He was. WSG Figure 1: Comparisons of Versions Literal: KJV Isaiah 53 Isaiah 53 King James Version (KJV) 53 Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form or comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought...
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...The Problem Of Evil There are many events throughout the world that occur, that we cannot explain. The evils that exist are moral and non-moral evils. The moral evils that exist are poverty, oppression, persecution, war and injustice. The non-moral evils that occur frequently but not usually on a daily basis are earthquakes, hurricanes, storms, flood, drought, and blight (philosophy. Lander.edu/intro/hick.stml). These evils happen with thousands of people dying daily for no reason. The problem of evil is a touchstone of any religion. The direct confrontation with evil results in suffering, and thus endless questions about the meaning of life. That is why all religions have to give a proper answer regarding the origin, nature and end of evil (www.comparativreligion.com/evil.html). Many people think these occurrences are evil and why does God allow them to happen. To believe in God is difficult because of all of the evil that he allows. This is because many evils (for example, the suffering of children) seem to serve no justifiable purpose. Therefore, these kinds of evils count against the existence of God. These evils are called gratuitous (or pointless) evils. (http://www.equip.org/articles/addressing-the-problem-of-evil-). The pointless evils that exist show that God may not exist. The different religions of the world justify that a God does exist. Many religions of the world believe that you cannot have good without evil because it helps to keep things balanced...
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...Jenny Jones 3-3-09 English 101 B Talking Dirty to My God! My paper will be on 2 different poems and there from the book “Talking Dirty to the Gods”. The first poem is called Silkworm and the second poem is called Janus. Both the poems focus on the culture, beauty of life and history. My paper will in tell about the art of poetry and the art of how to tell a story inside of a story. When slaves were to tell stories, they couldn’t write down there dreams or there life and what they went through, so they were to say it in a story form. So they, meaning the kids would never forget there heritage. Therefore, when they became slaves they would sing songs and they would also make other things to remember there past to show there future. The first poem I chose was Silkworm on page.53 when reading the poem it made me think about love and how it was taken away from a lot of African Americans. In the first line it says “they made a fancy catch for a nightgown out of me”. When I first read this poem I, at first didn’t understand what the book was insinuating, but after reading that line about three times it made me think about the slaves and there body being taken advantage of and body being sold as if we were animals to be bought and used for pleasure. To look at this in a different way would be, were you are made to be someone else’s toy and to also not have a real purpose...
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...In the Igbo language, the word “ezigbo mmadu” describes their version of a good person. “Amid the Igbo, someone is referred as ezigbo mmadu who possesses good conduct or moral fiber – qualities that are worthy of emulation by others (Agulanna 139).” In their culture, when a woman is called beautiful, she is not only beautiful for her outward appearance, but also for who she as an individual. “…the Igbo employ the word nma to denote… both ‘beauty’ and ‘goodness’ (Agulanna 142). ” A woman who is described as nma is also the Igbo good person. In the Igbo community, the basic definition for the word “good” is that which promotes community interest and human wellbeing, so then their definition of “bad” is that which destroys community and social interest and human wellbeing. Someone who is regarded as good has three defining qualities; respect for social norms and customs, loyalty for ancestors, and good moral conduct. From a young age, the Igbo are taught that community must always come first. …a person is only a ‘good person’…if he or she reveres the social custom or norms… what constitutes the norm of right and wrong is nothing more than social custom… a person’s actions are judged...
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...One of the most common types of a conversion is the change from one language to another, otherwise known as a translation. I believe that the common goal of a translation is to change the way an idea is formatted while still being able to have the idea to keep the same essence and spirit of the original copy. The same can be said for a translation of languages as to the translation from a novel to a movie. Although the format has been changed, the goal is to keep and convey the original message in a different medium. What a translation allows is the spread of different ideas to a wider and broader audience base that may not have been able to experience the idea otherwise. In the case of the novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck and the 1952 version of the movie East of Eden I view the movie to be a translation which becomes a broader and somewhat more accessible version of the original story. Even though the movie was created to capitalize on the huge monetary success of the novel, the film makers felt the need to drastically change the film in a way that changes the principal tone and meaning of the story. I feel that the arguments made in the movie are radically different from the ones made in the novel and by my definition, the movie a poor translation of the original novel. The original novel by Steinbeck had been highly anticipated and when it was release it found high sales while it received mixed reviews from critics and was highly controversial. 1950’s America wasn’t...
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