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    Empathy is understanding another’s feelings In the play Bad Jews, all the characters had their own reasons for their actions and words. However, I feel more empathy towards Jonah because of his comprehension, his non-confrontational way and his lack of presence in his family members’ eyes. I felt empathy towards Jonah because he seemed to be comprehensive of both sides in the argument for the Chai. Although there was a verbal battlefield that he didn’t asked for in his apartment, he still calmly…

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    Biblical Imagery - Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel The spiritual titled, Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel, is a narrative and song that spans over many centuries. Enslaved Africans would sing this song as a sign of faith in God despite their oppressed situation. The lyrics of the song are in response to the horrific nature of the life of slavery and the overwhelming desire to part from it. Slaves had a spiritual connection with God and although they were suffering, they knew Jesus Christ and…

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    entertainment value. Peter Green from Daily Review claimed that Lilley’s character Jonah Takalua is a racist portrayal of Tongan individuals, and that the biggest issue is Australia’s lack of reaction to the apparent ‘blackface’ that Lilley wears. This miscommunication is likely because the sense of humour that is so common to Australian’s is viewed by others as offensive or uncaring. Summer Heights High mainly…

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    “There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you are useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.” - Sabaa Tahir. Unfortunately, in the novel The Scarlet Letter - Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Dimmesdale suffered the former to the point that he eventually died. Hester, Dimmesdale’s fellow adulteress, eventually deceased but it was most likely peaceful because she felt no conviction through publicly declaring what she had done. Through the suffering that…

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    “Mom, do you any updates on what’s going on?” I said to my mother in loose breaths. “Jonah, I have no idea. Constantly, I’ve been questioning every doctor I come in contact with and they all have the same response. I’m withholding that I am a nurse because the physicians may feel threatened with my medical knowledge. But, I am almost certain…

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    Book Report on The Giver The Giver by Lois Lowry tells the story of how Jonah came to the point of bringing memories back into a society rid of them. The book is set in a futuristic society that has adopted Sameness, erased memories of life previously, and eliminated war, pain, fear, and hared, along with other deep emotions. Throughout the story, readers experience a glimpse of what life would be like if we had a truly equal society, and it’s not as glamorous as some may expect. Equality is…

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    “The Goal” by Eliyahu Goldratt, is described by its back cover as being one of the most important business books ever written. First published in 1984, The Goal introduced the theory of constraints to the business world through the use of a fictional manufacturing plant. This fictional manufacturing plant, managed by Alex Rogo, demonstrates how large and complex systems can be limited in achieving their goals by a small number of constraints, or bottlenecks as the book calls them. In other…

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    67). Alex then begins asking questions about whether labor should be included in inventory or operational expense, but Jonah’s answer just raised more questions. Jonah said that he decided to define inventory and operational expense the way that he did, because he felt that by not considering the value added to a product through labor, it eliminated the confusion of whether the money spent on that labor was an investment…

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    From the shoes to the extravagant dresses, Emily found a way to make it work. She was insightful, although there were not many shoes to choose from, she always found a way to make her parents gasp. Her mother, Eleina, stayed at home while her father, Jonah, worked as a mechanic at the nearby steel factory. They lived in a two bedroom apartment right by Main Street; one of the busiest streets in the city. Financially, they were well off. They had bountiful food on the table every night and…

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    religion was because the first images Christians developed for Jesus could have been easily mistaken for those of Apollo. One of the images in which pagan art can be seen is in the catacomb painting named The Good Shepherd, Orants, and the story of Jonah. For Christians this painting depicts Jesus as the Good shepherd, but as for the pagans they believed that the Good Shepard was their god Apollo. Some other similarities between Apollo and Jesus is that they are associated with light and are…

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