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    Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, religion played an immense role in society. Romans saw religion as a duty to the state and to the community, not for the love of gods or the willingness to surrender themselves to the gods. During the Roman Empire the Romans practiced religion and worshiped their gods uniquely and in numerous ways. Worships practices, public religion, private religion and superstitious elements exhibit how the Romans practiced religion as well as how they view and…

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    The Sistine Chapel

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    The Sacrifice of Noah, sees Noah giving thanks to the lord at the altar for his safe delivery from the waters. The younger fugures atop the rams were later added to the painting by Domenico Carnevali in 1568. After Michelangelo completed these frescoes and removed the scaffold, he realized that the figures were too small and grouped together, making the story hard to follow from the distance of the floor. As he moved towards the altar side of the ceiling, he took to painting larger characters…

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    Jewish Passover Recall

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    Option A 1. What event does the Jewish Passover recall and celebrate? The events that are recalled and celebrated by the Jewish people are the 10 plagues that God sent on the land of Egypt. The 10 Plagues are: the river Nile was turned into blood, Egypt was overrun by frogs, Dust turned into lice, a swarm of flies came to Egypt, All Egyptian livestock died, Egyptian got boils, The worst hailstorm in Egyptian history struck, A swarm of Locust at all the Egyptian’s crops, Egypt came into…

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    Second Temple Essay

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    least 4 months (530 direct miles) in the road, despite the dangerous of the trip, “because of robbers and marauding groups,” God provided protection for them. After their arrival, the first thing they started to work with was the restoration of the Altar; erected in the seventh month after their arrival. In spite of being afraid from the surrounding towns, Zerubbabel “offered a burnt offering as it is written in the law of the Moises man of God” (Ezra 3:2). This first group worked hard as one…

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    prison is where both genders meet and are at the same level because of how everyone sins. What the 2011 production profoundly made by being set in the Cathedral, is having the characters themselves create the settings by going on and off the stage, or altar, during particular scenes. This helps the audience imagine the whorehouse, convent and prison…

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    salvation, you have to first become like Jesus. This means that if you want to go to heaven, you have to follow the rules, word for word. Orthodoxy is notoriously strict. They have a billion rules, one example is that women are not allowed near the altar because menstruation makes them unclean. They believe that there are 3 separate persons in the Holy Trinity, but they are all equal. The equivalents to the Pope in the Orthodoxy religion would be the bishops and patriarchs. They have supreme…

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    I have shared most beliefs and traditions for an example I have celebrated bin dances, shared mochi recipes, and pray to our ancestors by putting senko (a black stick burned that is burned) on the altar. I have also learned about different cultures such as the Chinese New Year, this holiday is when you pop fireworks and celebrate the new year. Another tradition I have learned is also from the Chinese, which is lion dancing, lion dancing is when two…

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    Movie Fallacy

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    that the boy was caught drinking the wine from the church. The Father brings in Donald Millers to explain to the Sisters his actions with the wine. Donald then explains his sins and begs for the sisters and the Father for them not to take him off the altar boys list. After careful consideration, they decide to keep him on the list with the other boys. I would consider this to be a pity logical fallacy because the Father is taking pity on the boy because he was begging the father to not take him…

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    The word holocaust was historically used to describe the sacrificial offering on an altar. The term had taken on a new meaning that referred to the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews since 1940s. The Holocaust was the darkest period in human history that occurred during World War II. The Nazi regime believed Jews were an inferior race and a threat to German racial purity and community. Their final solution was to deport European Jews to extermination camps, where they were tortured and murdered.…

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    Luther Movie Critique

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    historically accurate representation of Martin Luther and the Reformation of the Catholic Church. The first scene of the movie opened upon the church with an archway at the end of the nave lined with Corinthian columns. Also at the end of the nave was an altar and apse, typically scene in many church layouts of the time period, not to mention the church had stained glass rose windows and statues of several saints with in the worship space. The opening music that played, while looking upon the…

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