...Kite Runner Essay (Make-Up) The Kite Runner is Khaled Hosseini’s first novel. Born in Kabul, Hosseini draws heavily on his own experiences to create the setting for the novel; the characters, however, are fictional. Hosseini’s plot shows historical realism, as the novel includes dates—for chronological accuracy, including the time of the changing regimes of Afghanistan. Amir’s happy childhood days fall under the peaceful and affluent era of King Zahir Shah’s reign, a time when Amir and his friend, Hassan, could themselves feel like kings of Kabul, carving their names into a tree. In 1973, Dawood Khan becomes the president of Afghanistan. This era is reflected in the novel when the local bully, Assef, harasses Amir with his brass knuckles and...
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...The Problem Of Evil Free Will Defense In this essay I am presenting the Theodicy for the Free Will Defense as an answer to the problem of evil. I will attempt to present answers to the following questions: Why did a good God allow for the presence of evil in the world? What is “evil” and how can we recognize it in day to day life? What resources do we have for dealing with evil? Furthermore, how our ability and gift of free will applies in all areas both good and evil. We must understand that “evil” is a word with broad applications. Webster’s Dictionary defines it as: “morally bad or wrong; wicked. Harmful; injurious. Unlucky; disastrous. Wickedness; sin. And anything causing harm, pain, etc.” However, even this is truly difficult to use as a true definition. In the Bible, evil is anything that brings sorrow, distress, or calamity, including moral wrong doing, where human beings choose to do what hurts other human beings, or any part of creation. Generally, evil works against the life-giving God and to put anything in God's place. There was a time, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when optimism in human achievement was so strong that evil's existence was associated with ignorance, and its disappearance with greater knowledge. If humankind only knew more; soon would come the end of all evil in the world. Since then, two world wars, and countless smaller ones, combined with growing problems of over-population, racism, ecological...
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...The Speaker of The Epic of Sundiata narrates the story of Sundiata, the rise of a great ruler. This essay will analyze three examples from the text where religious people, events or activates foreshadowed Sundiata’s future power. The first example from the text goes as follows: “Lahilatoul Kalabi was the first black prince to make the pilgrimage to mecca. On his return he was robbed by brigands in the dessert; His men were scattered and some died of thirst, but God saved Lahilatoul Kalabi, for he was a righteous man.” These lines say that because Kalabi was a moral man and tried to travel to mecca through the harsh dessert, God helped him when all his belongings were stolen by thieves and was stranded in the dessert. This suggests to people that great kings need to be righteous and good to gain favor with god. Sundiata proves this when he is faced with the queen mother’s scheme that seeks to destroy him with witches. In order for this plan to work, she most first prove to the witches that Sundiata is not a moral and good man so they can destroy him. When the old witches execute there test, they end up finding out that not only is Sundiata not a bad person but he is a great and righteous person. This shows the reader that he pass the criteria set by the lines above to be a great king. The second...
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...Austin Cook 9/22/14 Clay Hamerick Golf History and Informative Essay Golf throughout history has, at its basics, started from men carrying sticks hitting balls on the ground and become a game with extreme depth, excitement, competition, and relaxation. Some historians believe that it was the Scottish who invented golf. Although there are two different theories, European history of golf, and Ancient Asian history of golf. Two of the most ancient regions golf-like sports have been mentioned in are the Greeks and the Egyptians dating back to 2,600 B.C. The sport dates back to the time of Julius Caesar. Although it was not the golf that is played today, it was a similar game. They played by striking a feather-stuffed ball with club-shaped tree branches. Golf was also traced back to the Song Dynasty in China during the years 960 to 1279. The games of these times were not exactly the golf that is known today; the roots of today’s game can be traced back to Scotland in 1457. The game was then outlawed by King James II of Scotland, as it detracted from the training for the military (Schwietzer, 2013). Golf became a pastime in Great Britain in the seventeenth century, and that was a familiar theme throughout the world. In 1860, the first British Open, a tournament that is still played today, had taken place. The popularity of the sport then began to spread throughout the entire world. The first permanent golf club in North America was founded in Montreal, Canada, in 1873 and was...
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...these, “Spaces for Love.” Also, traditionally we would expect love between opposite sexes but there is tremendous amounts of literature written now that involve love between the same sexes. My goal in this essay is to show that through the change in old and more recent literature nature has been key in traditional views of love settings/places. To reach this goal, I’ll be using and comparing quotes from the bible’s Song of Songs and Paul Monette’s Gardenias to show how nature has always been an important part of places for love. Starting with Song of Songs, it is said to have been written by King Solomon himself but it is also believed to be a compilation of Arabic wasfs that were translated into Hebrew. It was first published in English in 1611 in the King James Version of the Bible. The idea of love being heterosexual is represented very clearly and the concept of nature plays a huge part in this love story. There are so many references to fruits and plants and a clear distinction of man and woman. “As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.” (Song of Sol. 2:3) In this quote the woman is comparing her place under her beloved with sitting under an apple tree. She’s connecting her feelings she has being with her love to the joy of being under an...
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...Jimmy Kim Professor Stayton English 201 21 April 2015 Western and Eastern Cosmologies According to Drew Dellinger, the word cosmology has two definitions. The first definition of cosmology is: “the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the universe, with its parts, elements, and laws, and especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and freedom (Drew).” The second definition of cosmology is: “the branch of astronomy that deals with the general structure and evolution of the universe (Drew).” Therefore, cosmology is the study of the origin of the universe, and it can be interpreted through a philosophical or scientific perspective. But for this essay, I will interpret cosmology in a philosophical, literary perspective to study “cultural perspective which the universe is shaped, ordered, operated, and men's role in it.” The goal in this essay is to illustrate philosophical, literary similarities and differences between Eastern and Western cosmologies by using King James' The Fall and David Cusick's The Iroquois Creation Story. The Eastern and Western cosmologies are defined by philosophical and literary perspectives, not based on geography, culture, and language. The Eastern cosmology is based on collectivism and Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang is Chinese philosophy which describes “opposite or contrary forces and actually complementary, interconnected, and inter-depended in the natural world (Palmer, 25).” This means that...
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...Celtic Culture Who are the ancient Celts? The celts are an ancient european culture, first coming to the present day U.K. in the 3rd-5th century.(source #1 / 1) In this essay I will attempt to familiarize you with this ancient culture and their folk beliefs, customs and traditions. The Celts. When people think of them today we tend to associate them with Ireland, and Scotland, but in reality they were a people of vast territory; controlling much of the northern Alps (Source #1 / 1). Why do people tend to associate the Celts with the British Isles? Simply because the current day Island of Britain and the surrounding British isles never came under total control. Prior to Roman expansion into their territory the culture reigned mightily, acquiring the regions of Britain from an earlier people reports (source #1 / 1). Even after the successful invasion of Britain the islands surrounding including Ireland and Scotland remained largely unconquered and a safe haven for Celtic culture. They were fighters, according to (source #2 / 2), the celtic people served as mercenaries for the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. Because of this fighting spirit, the six Celtic languages survived (source #2). This allowed their culture to thrive. It is important to note there are two ethnically diverse and distinctly different groups of people who comprise the “Ancient Celts”. They are the “Gauls (from areas including France) and the Celtiberians (based in Iberia).” (Source #2 / 2). These people all...
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...English Macbeth Essay Macbeth by William Shakespeare is a very dark and powerful tragic play. There are many characters in this play that are two faced, loyal one minute, and deceiving the next. One of the individuals who immensely represents these attributes is Macbeth himself. Macbeth is a warrior who is manipulated by his own wife and the three witches which leads him to become a greedy, ambitious and brave king. Ultimately because of his overconfidence, he dies devastatingly. . Macbeth bumped into three witches after his battle. The three witches tell Macbeth he will become thain of cawdor and glamis, and then king. He then becomes the thain which opened up an opportunity for him to become king. He then writes a letter to his wife in which he wrote to her about everything that was going on and she decides they need to kill the king in order for him to seize the throne. Macbeth kills the king but his wife has to return the daggers to the guards, to frame them for the crime, because Macbeth did not. After all that the King Duncans' sons run away becuase they fear that they were gonna be put to blame. Macbeth then becomes king. Once he became king, he did not want anyone else to have the same power as him or to do the same thing to him, as he did to King Duncan. Also he remembers one of the prophecies of the witch where they told Banquo the his children will be king. So he then orders the murderers to kill his best friend, Banquo and his son, Fleance . Macbeth is then...
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...Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book I Kings, Empires, Bigotries and Victories Introduction There are two parts in this essay: the former part Kings and Empires compares the beginning of the universe with the formation of empires and looks at the several transformations of the world as the manifestations of the great power of the ruler; whilst the latter part Bigotries and Victories takes reference from the the quote “History is written by the victors” and the bias narrations in some stories to bring out the darker attributes of the worldly reality and its celebrated protagonists. Kings and Empires It is said that an unknown god commanded the jumbled elements in the universe to fall into order. Then, he assigned characteristics to these elements; fire is the lightest while water is the heaviest. To this mighty god, the world without boundaries was chaotic and restless. By being powerful enough to command and order these rudiments, he laid out systems and set up the foundations of the universe itself. His values became ‘the order’ and his words became ‘the law’. The creator and Jupiter are thus similar, as both at one time, ruled the cosmos and wielded this great power of the king. However, they should not be confused as the gravity of influence new rulers can bring to the world could have been another analogy that Ovid may have wanted to make through his retelling of the banishment of Saturn, Jupiter’s father. Throughout the text, the kingship of the universe has changed...
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...RAVAGE FOR DESIRE I will analyze the three main characters; Prospero,Caliban and Miranda from the play ‘The Tempest’ by Shakespeare in my essay. I will be analysing the relationship of the three and also refering to the other characters that effected by them. The first thing that draws attention is the title of the play. ‘The Tempest’ name first associates with the destructive force that tear down everything including the social positions and hierarchies. But when you finish reading, it means not the revenge of Prospero but the possibility of tranformation that he gives to the other characters in the play. The tempest also helps Prospero to regain his position as the Duke of Milan by destroying the new regime and bringing back the other characters to their old positions. Prospero is one of the main characters for shaping the whole play with his plan. He reserves all the features of west civilization which are power, wisdom and magic, in addition to his being as a saviour from the squalidity. He rules the nature with his learning and wisdom. In scene 2 , we are informed about the life of Prospero when he tells his daughter Miranda about why they are in that deserted island for twelve years, how his brother Antonio usurped his kingdom with the help of Alonso,the king of Napoli and tells that they are still alive because Gonzalo provided them with clothing,food and books from his library that he owes his power and wisdom. Gonzalo shows us how good people are mocked...
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...are moved far away from harms way and are forced to live with a old professor (Lewis, 7). In the old professors house they discover a magical wardrobe that leads to Narnia. The wardrobe’s supernatural characteristics were discovered early on by the youngest Pevensie Lucy (Lewis, 10). This initiation of surreal events by Lucy plays into the creative fantasy that is the world of Narnia. This sudden acceptance of fantastic events by Lucy can be compared to C.S. Lewis’s Of other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1975) in which he suggests this phenomenon to be “a special type of longing” (Of other Worlds, 30). The world of Narnia is described as a snow-covered land surrounded by immense pine forests and fragmented by streams. The geographical layout of Narnia plays an important role in the creation of the...
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...MODULE 8 – ESSAY 3 DEGREE PROGRAM THEOLOGY/TURABIAN PRESENTED TO PROFESSOR KEVIN HARTLESS FOR ENGL 101 – D09 BY REV. JOSEPH T. WHITAKER, III LU23755920 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY LYNCHBURG, VA AUGUST 11, 2015 2 Christian Environmental Responsibility The Holy Bible gives clear instructions concerning the natural environment and the Christian’s sacred duty to preserve and restore the planet Earth. God has provided direct instructions as well as guidelines in principle, for all Christians to obey and honor. The question arises, what conduct and actions are imperative and biblically mandated for Christians to engage in concerning the environment and its preservation and restoration? Research reveals that God requires mankind to contribute as caretakers and stewards over His wonderful creation. The Reason for Christian Environmentalism The dictionary definition for environmentalism is expressed as: “Advocacy of the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment; especially: the movement to control pollution.” The primary foundational reason for the practice of environmentalism is, because of the universal pollution inflicted upon all of creation as a result and consequence of mankind’s Original Sin. The fallen angel Satan introduced sin into the universe in his rebellion...
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...Jensen 5 Ritchie Jensen Mrs. D. Romberg Literary Studies 23 April 2008 Major Essay #4 Revenge causes the characters in Hamlet to act blindly through anger and emotion, rather than through reason. It is based on the Old Testament principle of an eye for an eye; this action is not always the best means to an end. Fortinbras, Laertes, and Hamlet were all looking to avenge the deaths of their fathers. They all acted on emotion driven by the want for revenge for their father's deaths, and this led to the downfall of two, and the rise to power of one. Since the heads of the three major families were each murdered, the eldest sons of these families felt that they needed to take some kind of action to avenge their father's deaths; this need to bring honor to their respective families was ultimately the demise of Laertes and Hamlet. To set the background we will start with Hamlet himself. Hamlet is the prince and heir to the Danish throne, under the King, his father, also Hamlet. His father has recently enjoyed a wildly successful military campaign against the King of Norway and actually killed King Fortinbras in a one on one battle to the death. By doing this, he is made a clear target of Prince Fortinbras, the son and soon-to-be-king of Norway. Also looking at his recent successes is his brother Claudius, who allegedly plots to kill the elder Hamlet in order to steal wife and Kingdom. Once the deed is done, Hamlet is visited by a ghost who explains the plot...
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...In this essay, I will talk about the Greek myth theseus and attempt to connect to our modern culture. I will compare a very important historical figure, Simon Bolivar, and compare him to Theseus and his story. The Central focus of this essay is that the Greek myth of Theseus illustrates that ones achievements deliver positive rewards, and a society that chooses to select leaders based on merit, instead of heredity, tend to be stronger above their peers, this can be for better or for worse. First, we will talk about the myth itself and Theseus’ story before becoming king of Athens this is a long story, but I’m adding this to show Theseus showed his competence as a leader before becoming king, which is probably what lead him to found Story...
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...CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW ESSAY Presented to Dr. Timothy Swinson For BIBL 425 – Romans By George W Rimel October 1st, 2014 * Creation: Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. [1] God created Man and Woman to live in harmony and be obedient to him, to have a relationship with him; He gave them everything a beautiful place to live all kinds of things to eat. And one rule, Genesis 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.[2] From that point on mankind has been lost and sin entered into the world, God was disappointed and placed a curse on the man and the woman and kicked them out of the Garden of Eden. * What does Romans inform us regarding Creation? 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:[3] We cannot see the air we breathe, but it is there lest we die. We cannot see the gravity which holds us to the earth but it is there. There are laws and things set into motion from the beginning of creation that care for us, which a majority of the people of today are not even conscious of, and refuse to...
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