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having homesickness and fear of what may happen to them. Over the course of the novel though they turn into these unbelievable savages and they actually are in a smaller world of what is happening on the outside world and the war. The book almost has a Garden of Eden like experience with lots of fruits and trees and lush jungle. But in both stories a beast or a snake causes the break up or loss of grace. In Lord of the flies the beast ends up splitting the group into 2 because of fear which then…

The Silmarillion is a fantasy epic by J. R. R. Tolkien that plunges you into a world full of the rich histories of the people that live there. Furthermore; it is a collection of five consecutive works; the Ainulindale, the Valaquenta, the Quenta Silmarillion, the Akkallabeth, and the section of the rings of power and the third age. The Ainulindale brings you into the mist of Eru Illuvatar and his holy ones the Ainur. At once the Ainur begin singing Ea (the universe) into existence. Nevertheless;…

In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, epic simile is frequently used to create elaborate and sweeping comparisons that contribute to a character’s development. In Book IX, Milton compares Eve to a list of goddesses by writing “To Pales, or Pomona, thus adorned / Likest she seemed Pomona when she fled / Vertumnus, or to Ceres in her prime / Yet virgin of Proserpina from Jove” (393-6). This comparison constitutes as a epic simile because it spans multiple lines and goes into great detail. One thing that…

The book of Genesis from the Holy Bible starts off with the story of creation. This particular version of the Holy Bible was authorized by King James the first, during the colonization of the New World. This passage from Genesis reveals powerful, commonly held interpretations not only about God, but also about the relations between male and female and between the human race and the universe. God, a deity hovering over a desolate and watery void created the world by commanding it to fill the…

Proving someone loves something or someone is also sacrificing for it. In Lord of the Flies, Simon dies trying to help the other kids on the island realize that there is no beast. The beast is described as a snake, which can represent the serpent tempting Eve from the Bible. It is certain that Simon is the Christ-figure because of his actions and name. Disciple Peter’s name in the Bible was Simon. He helped the littluns go to the forest when they were hungry. Simon can prophesize his death just…

Throughout the diverse cultures and religions in the world, there are many different creation myths. Each culture has their own creation myth and there are many similarities, or motifs, within these creation myths. The three creation myth motifs that I thought were the most important were humans being made perfectly in the first attempt, an angry god punishing humans or another god, and women being created after men. Several cultures’ creation myths describe humans as being made perfectly in…

The important role that healthy interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships play is depicted in the model of the Trinity. According to Darrell Johnson’s Experiencing the Trinity, “we are created and redeemed to enter into the love each person of the Trinity has for the other” (64). This statement encompasses both intrapersonal and interpersonal interactions. The Trinity is one; thus the love that each person in the Trinity has towards another person in the Trinity is the love that the Trinity…

Film Dr. Roy Mittelman June 14, 2016 The Garden of the Finzi-Contains is an Italian film portraying the effects on Italian Jews in Ferrara Italy, with the rise of Mussolini in World War II. The film narratives one of the wealthiest Jewish family Finzi-Contain family tries to wall itself off from the Holocaust. The children of the Finzi-Contains family, Micol and Alberto, invite their circle of friends for continuous rounds of tennis at their garden, since there are banned from the tennis…

A sacred tree is all it takes to introduce sin to the pure. “the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.’” Why would god and the other believers allow these people to commit these forbidden sins? However, who could resist the temptation of knowledge and the desire for something you can’t have. Women play an immense role in both stories, for…

On January 20th, 2017 Donald J. Trump was elected as President of the United States. He has only been President for a couple weeks yet it feels like his four years should be over. With the Republicans in charge of the congress there is nothing in is nothing in the way of accomplishing whatever they want; not even their conscious and sense of moral. In his opinion piece "Republican Fausts" , David Brooks is successful in his attempt to persuade his Republican colleagues that they have the…