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    Dimmesdale will spend hours awake praying, whipping himself and denying himself food. One night Dimmesdale cannot sleep her he climbs the scaffold where Hester once was forced to stand. Dimmesdale all of a sudden feels a sharp pain in his chest and lets out a loud cry; this alerts the attention…

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    Revenge is a dangerous game to play; it takes over the mind and often blinds one from seeing the big picture. In life, there is more than meets the eye, we are often distracted by our minds we miss out on the overall view, as the imperfect human beings we are we let our emotions take over. We have to teach ourselves to stop, and think, to look at the big picture and see what is really going on around us. There are so many things in our lives that make us who we are, and are the reasons why we…

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    While Claudius is praying, Hamlet has the chance to exact revenge but rather reconsiders and “[Ups his] sword; and know thou a more horrid hent: then he is drunk asleep, or in his rage….” (3.3) Once again, this shows how Hamlet finally has the chance to kill Claudius but hesitates…

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    Job makes his final submission, to humbling himself in before God. In the second. We see framework, in which happened in Job liife, is resumed and brought to a close. God 's view was disappointment and a slight anger denounced against the three friends, who are required to expiate their guilt by a sacrifice, and only promised forgiveness if Job will intercede on their behalf. The sacrifice takes place and then a brief account is appended of Job 's after life his prosperity, his reconciliation…

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    penance like Guido, he was still saved by the angel. And even if the logician has Buonconte’s physical body and no matter what he does with it, Buonconte’s soul would not be affected. In addition, the logician might have possibly done this due to his anger. He might have thought that hiding his body from everyone would not allow him to enter heaven but only purgatory because he was not able to undergo any rites. Otherwise, he might as well have done that to Buonconte’s body to take revenge…

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    do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son had done’” (91) At this moment Elie realizes he needs all the strength he can get to not make mistakes and abandon his father. Even though he didn’t believe in God’s strength to help him, he prayed to him despite that. Praying to God in this moment despite having very little faith in him shows that he is still obtaining a small piece of faith inside of him in hope for survival of himself and his…

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    head with a steel rod, killing him instantly. And thus leaving Russia without its eldest heir. His religious views and his actions only continue to blur his image in a web of confusion. At one point he would kill someone and the next he would be praying for them. At one point after a mass execution, he handed the preacher a small bag of money telling him to give his blessings to them all. Ivan spent twenty four years on his reign of terror killing many boyar families and leaving destruction…

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    What do I think Success is? I think success is three major points; setting a goal, over coming obstacles, and knowing your limits. For you to have success, I feel you need to work hard for what you want. Without time, hard work, and dedication you are never going to achieve anything and reach your level of success that you are hoping for. I think that you need to have a clear goal in mind. When I say goal, I mean starting somewhere small. You need to work up to lead greater success’s. You…

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    seduced, women who often sired his children, he never brought them back to Olympus with him or offered to make them a god so he could look at them for all eternity. This could have been because bringing Zeus’ mistresses to Olympus to become gods would anger and offend Hera. But this could also imply that Zeus thought Ganymede would be an exception because he was a man, therefore, not as great an offense. Hera would still be offended by Ganymede’s presence, however. Partly because “he stole her…

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    The Apostle Saint Paul

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    The Apostle Saint Paul is most influential leader of the first generation of Christians and the second most important person in the history of Christianity. Apostle Paul devoted his life to disseminating the good news and reinforcing the right instructions. He was born 4 B. C and 64 A. D Tarsus in Cilicia in South Center Turkey and around 20 miles away from the Mediterranean Sea Coast. The birthplace of saint Paul Cilicia was an early Roman state. Paul comes from a Jewish family, and his father…

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