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Tea Ceremony Japanese Culture
592 words
The Japanese Tea Ceremony has been a tradition in
the Japanese culture for many years. The ceremony
incorporates much of the Buddhist religion with
the ideals of Zen. The ceremony has many steps
that end with drinking tea that is said to cleanse
the spirit. In order to obtain a complete
understanding of the cultural significance of the
ceremony, it is necessary to understand the
history behind the ceremony and how it evolved
into what it is today. Tea was first introduced to
Japan by a group of ...
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Ode On A Grecian Urn
955 words
The Portrayal of Eternal Innocence and the
Sufficiency of Beauty in John Keats's "Ode on a
Grecian Urn" Imagine the following: a bride
dressed in white on her wedding day, savage men
chasing after women, the lingering subject of
love, or a peaceful, uncorrupted town. What do
these topics have in common? Through the use of
these topics, John Keats portrays the theme of
eternal innocence and the sufficiency of beauty
throughout his poem, "Ode on a Grecian Urn. " In
the first stanza of the poem whi...
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Lords Supper Holy Spirit
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... his is seen in Philippians 2: 13, which says,
for it is God who works in you to will and act
according to his good purpose. Therefore, Calvin
believed that God chooses us, and we dont choose
Him. The third point of Calvinism is Limited
Atonement, which teaches that there is a fixed,
limited number of people who will be saved, and
that nobody else will be accepted by God when this
number is complete. This is one of Calvin's most
controversial doctrines in Calvinism. The debate
on limited aton...
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Criticism Of The Storm By Kate Chopin
646 words
While it has traditionally been men who have
attached the "ball and chain" philosophy to
marriage, Kate Chopin gave readers a womans view
of how repressive and confining marriage can be
for a woman, both spiritually and sexually. While
many of her works incorporated the notion of women
as repressed beings ready to erupt into a sexual a
hurricane, none were as tempestuous as The Storm.
Kate Chopin was a woman whose feminist viewpoints
were far ahead of her time, which of course
garnered her more ...
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Beginning Of The Book Victorian Era
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Tess of the dUrbervilles is subtitled A pure woman
and this is how Thomas Hardy sees and portrays her
throughout his novel. As the novel progresses the
reader is introduced to many aspects of Tess as
she grows from being a child on the verge of
adulthood to a mature and experienced woman. In
some parts of the book Hardy describes Tess as
very passive but in other parts of the novel she
is shown as a powerful and even godly sort of
woman. The character of Tess is first shown near
the beginning of...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Feels
464 words
The Catcher in the Rye Essay Each person s value
systems contribute to the way they are perceived
and identified. I have two siblings, and I
consider them to be complete opposites. While my
sister might love and cherish one thing, my
brother might smother and denounce it. In J. D.
Salinger s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden
Caulfield s siblings all have different value
systems. It is because of these differences in
value systems that Holden has different attitudes
toward Allie, D. B. , and ...
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Characters In The Play Tragic Character
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Desdemona: Loyal Wife of Othello Othello is also a
unique tragedy in that it focuses on the
destruction of love through sexual jealousy. It is
a domestic tragedy. Othello is, however, a truly
romantic character because he is very passionate
and full of deep feelings. It keeps one wondering
what could have possibly brought the sweet
Desdemona to be his wife. Was it because he has
lived a life of adventure and war and he is
somewhat exotic due to his origins and dark
complexion? On the other hand,...
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Cain And Abel Adam And Eve
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In the year of 1952, John Steinbeck published the
novel that I have been practicing for all my life
(McCarthy, p. 117), East of Eden. He decided to
hold nothing back from the reader and scrutinize
the very aspect of human nature using the Biblical
stories of Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel as a
backdrop. This story of good and evil and mans
downfall is centered on the dark and twisted
figure of Cathy Ames, later Kate Trask. Through
this pure embodiment of evil, Steinbeck
demonstrates how the cha...
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King Charles Vii Roman Catholic Church
970 words
Joan of Arc: France and England had an unstable
history with one another and in 1337, King Edward
III of England decided to lay claim to the French
throne based on a relation on his mother s side
(Walker 219). This led to the Hundred Years War,
which would consume the people s lives from 1337
to 1453 (Walker 220). During this time there was a
great plague sweeping Europe, the Black Death
which was the cause of millions of people s
unseemly demise. Joan was a young peasant girl
born in 1412, whos...
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Work Modern Day
827 words
Michael Leunig Essay By Malcolm Wanstall Question:
Write an essay in which you discuss how Michael
Leunig challenges us to examine our life in the
modern world. Make sure you refer closely to the
visual techniques he uses to convey his ideas
Answer: Michael Leunig is a very successful
cartoonist whose cartoons ponder the minds of even
the greatest philosopher. He is one of very few
cartoonists who have managed to convey such
thought and feeling into a thing that is generally
considered to be a l...
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Hester And Pearl Nathaniel Hawthorne
881 words
Often in a literary work, the author strives to
use literary devices in order to convey certain
points to a reader on a different level. Nathaniel
Hawthorne uses several literary devices to give
his novel The Scarlet Letter depth. One of these
devices is symbolism. Hawthorne utilizes symbolism
to convey certain points or themes to the reader
by using ordinary objects. Three of the elements
he uses as symbols are the settings of the Puritan
town and the forest and weather. The first of the
two ma...
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Pleasure And Pain Acute
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The first question that arises from this statement
is what is a good moral choice. How can we
determine what good is, when there are many
differing opinions? Is an action good if the
nature or the intentions of the action are
considered good? Or is it the consequences of the
action that determine the goodness of the action?
Is it a combination of both the intentions and the
consequences of the action, or the actions´
effect on society? The New Collins Concise
Dictionary lists over thirty d...
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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Literary Devices
465 words
NALYSIS OF COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE,
SEPTEMBER 3, 1802 In Composed Upon Westminster
Bridge, September 3, 1802, by William Wordsworth,
the speaker, again, his sister, reflects upon a
beautiful view of the city by using such literary
devices as rhyme, personification, hyperbole, and
imagery. The speaker manages to create a vision in
the readers mind that is so vivid, that one can
picture oneself on that very bridge. This poem is
another example of Wordsworth's desire to create
poetry using...
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Kill His Wife Characters In The Play
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Othello is a unique tragedy in that it focuses on
the destruction of love through sexual jealousy.
Jealousy is not inherited in a person, but
developed from the fatal factors of their
character. Othello is plagued with his ego and
pride which contributes to his demise. Othello is,
however, a truly romantic character because he is
very passionate and full of deep feelings. It
keeps a person wondering what could have possibly
brought the sweet Desdemona to be his wife. Was it
because he has lived ...
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Protestant Reformation Martin Luther
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Religion is a predominant force in our world
today. It also had a strong impact on the lives of
those alive during the Protestant Reformation.
Many changes were brought along by this historical
chain of events. Recently, many incidents have
occurred to change the way people view religion.
Examples include the Holocaust and, more recently,
the Branch-David ians in Waco, Texas. Even a more
spectacular event in history occurred when a group
of people decided that just because everyone
around them h...
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Nazi Ideology Inferior Races
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Racial Propaganda during the Third Reich One of
the most central ideals in Nazi ideology was that
of a continual attack against other races deemed
inferior by Adolf, more specifically Jews. Racial
minorities were used as scapegoats with which the
Nazis blamed for what was wrong with the country
on. In the speeches to the masses at Nazi rallies,
they would start off by bringing up all the
problems that they have been having, the
depression, the Versailles Treaty, and any other
hardship that they ...
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Lotus Flower Traditional Values
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Lakshmi; the Obedient Hindu Female Goddess. Female
Goddesses stand as powerful symbols, as well as
role models to be mimicked in the life and death
of the Hindu people. There are two distinct types
of female goddesses in the Hindu faith, the
Goddesses of the Tooth and the Breast. Sri, or
better known as Lakshmi, is defined as a Goddess
of the Breast. The Tantra, the Bible of the Hindu
people, describes Lakshmi as having a colour like
that of the inside of a lotus, with the lotus
flower standing ...
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Captain Vere Billy Budd
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To form simply one opinion or show merely one
aspect of this story is naive, rude, and closed
minded. How may one stick to one deli mea, moral
questioning, or out-look on a book that jumps from
such cases like frogs on lily pads? Just as
Melville has done, I shall attempt to arrange my
perception of Billy Budd, in a similar fashion.
That is, through an unorthodox practice (that is;
jumping from pt. to point), of writing an essay I
shall constantly change and directions and goals
of what it is I ...
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Sun Also Rises Members Of The Group
1,335 words
In Hemingway s The Sun Also Rises, each character
is caught up in an elaborate social dynamic in
which their manner of acting, or their style,
dictates how they view and value one another. This
proscribed right way of doing things shapes how
Jake describes his friends, and in turn shapes the
reader s view of the characters. Each character
has specific attributes that either fall into the
right or wrong category that help shape the reader
s conception of the character. When Jake reflects
on his p...
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Rainy Season Civil War
550 words
Theres no security in this area, people are always
fighting, and thats why they do this. This war has
turned everyone into an outlaw Agawai Akot, a
former slave, commenting on the revival of the
trade in southern Sudan in 1995 If there is no
general and massive distribution of food, we are
going to have a major crisis in the Sudan in the
coming weeks, months, and it is going to last for
years Marc Hermant, head of mission for the
humanitarian group Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF)
in southern Suda...
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