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A Desire of the Heart Shirley and I were married between the Arts and Theology years of university so our financial resources were very tight. I was working on a tree nursery farm just south of Winnipeg for the summer months between semesters as well as preparing for a move to seminary in Saskatoon. As a result, we could not afford to take off more time than a four-day weekend. This was hardly enough time for my face to heal from all the mosquito bites I had acquired while riding a tree planter…

Mark Frayn’s Copenhagen takes us on an historical sleuth adventure that is performed by the ghosts of Danish physicist Niels Bohr, his colleague and “adopted son” Werner Heisenberg, and Bohr’s wife Margrethe. Heisenberg was an overall boyish companion of Bohr who would go on long walks and talk physics to. However, the mystery is when Heisenberg visited the Bohrs in Copenhagen in 1941. The play explores the meeting and discusses different topics, such as building atomic bombs, escaping Nazi…

payments to the DSDP until the disagreement between them was resolved. The disagreement between the parties stemmed from many things inclusive of the Valilas declining to sign a “standard –form “associate agreement” provided by Mr Januzaj. Based on the postscript of his letter to Mr Januzaj, Mr Valilas stated that he was prepared to pay on a ‘performed UDA’ basis each month. The reasoning for this decision as stated in the letter was based on the lack of trust between parties and his primary…

The narrative Private Peaceful, written by Michael Morpurgo, is a World War One novel set in the early 1900s across countryside towns in England, France and Belgium. It follows the story of Thomas ‘Tommo’ Peaceful and his close family. It thoroughly explores their struggles through life in the early 20th century, including World War One. Throughout the story, injustice is a recurring theme before and during the war. This is evident in the class system of the era which treats lower class citizens…

Diary entries act as a window to the true thoughts dwelling in the mind of a person with the lack of fear of offending another and due to the exceptional way writing on paper allows the words to flow freely and allow lengthy, humanistic thinking. Dracula by Bram Stoker consists of these unadulterated thoughts along with factual reporting from Newspaper clippings. Along with this, letters between characters offer a connection and interaction that generally would not translate well with only diary…

down by themes: Jeremiah 1-29 – The Broken Covenant and Imminent Judgement, Jeremiah 30-33 – Restoration and the New Covenant, Jeremiah 34-45 – The Final Days of Jerusalem and Judah, Jeremiah 46-51 – Oracles Against the Nations, and Jeremiah 52 – Postscript (Hays, 2010, p. 146). Lastly, Jeremiah does make reference to the coming Messiah, not as…

Is Beowulf A Hero? We call many people heroes in the modern world, and we hold them to certain standards, higher than those we hold ourselves and those around us to. We expect them to be strong, valiant leaders in the face of crisis. In the epic poem Beowulf, with an unknown author, there is some speculation as to whether or not the main character, who shares the story 's name, is truly a hero. When analyzing the text, one must take into account both modern standards of heroism and much older…

Hidden global analysis We need to read the first two chapter of Genesis in order to understand the basic setting of the whole story in Genesis 3. It is the story of God’s creation of heaven and earth and all the living, then the fall of the first human beings brought the human tragedy: suffering, conflict and destination. This biblical story contents many elements/motifs of a story of ancient Near East that we need to know with a commentary! For example, where is the location of Eden? How do the…

Phenomenologists claim that materialists overlook the fact that we gain phenomenal knowledge whenever we experience new feelings (Lewis, Postscript 130). Lewis defends himself against this phenomenal objection by saying that the Materialist Mixed Theory of Mind does account for the feeling of pain, because when we describe pain in physical and functional terms, we are implicitly claiming that…

Following World War Two, tensions were high between the USA and Soviet Russia. The two countries had been part of an alliance during the war, but after Hitler’s defeat the Russians initiated a struggle for global supremacy between communism and capitalism that was to last the next forty-five years (Roberts, 2013). This struggle became known as the ‘cold war’. During the height of this ‘war’, the US government had ‘committed vast resources’ to an extremely effective programme of anti-communist…