The Final Chapter

beauty, but she was more than a beautiful empress. After the death of her husband Theophilos, she came into power as regent for their son Michael III, who was only two years old at the time of his father's death. Theodora brought about the second and final reversal of iconoclasm. The conditions for this movement were excellent — the military had suffered in battle and the losses were seen as a divine act. The unfortunate events led to the loss of faith in the practice of iconoclasm. Theodora…

Chapter six of Practicing Christian Doctrine, by Beth Felker Jones, chiefly discusses Christology and the various heresies that have surrounded it over the years. Christology, which is the study of Christ, helps one to learn more about Jesus and his identity and how to live a good Christian life by forming a relationship with the Lord. In order for Christology to work, the person of Jesus must be known and a major idea discussed in this novel is homoousios, Jesus is full and truly God. Two other…

ordered to carry out the genocide are viewed as evil beings. In his book, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Christopher Browning discloses the real story of the people who were ordered to execute the horrific acts and points out real criminals of the Holocaust. Browning opens Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by providing…

by the schools. It is recommended that students finish the course a little before the end date so that the teachers have time to grade the students work and calculate the final grade. Power-points The power-points within the program consist of grammar points, activities that test your knowledge on the subject, and also chapters for the required books. It provides students with critical thinking questions and the necessary information required to take the quizzes. After every power-point, two…

The ending of any novel is most important for some readers. Endings form a readers' final impression of what they have read, and can quite literally make or break the novel. Critics agree that the ending represents a large area of contention (Biswell, 199). Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, wrote the novel with the intentions of the book divided into three sections with twenty-one chapters, with twenty-one representing an age of adulthood at that particular time. However, the US…

At the conclusion of chapter twenty seven of To Kill a Mockingbird the author, Harper Lee, begins and and also introduces the final four chapter of the novel by having the main character, Scout, say “Thus began our longest journey together”(page 340). This particular quotation is significant in reflecting the main plot of the final four chapters of the novel in a literal way, and also in a more metaphorical way; reflecting and conveying the main message, or moral, expressed throughout the major…

testament to how Jerusalem has suffered. In this chapter, Jeremiah is mourning Jerusalem and Judea as it lays in ruin by the assault and destruction of the city of Babylon. It’s sad to see such a great city be in ruins by the hands of Babylon, and anger is expressed by the Lord in the next chapter. In chapter 2 of Lamentations, God is clearly angry at the disorder and destruction of Jerusalem, and God brought judgement to the wicked land as God had warned. Chapter 2 deals…

politics. A great deal of descriptive information exists throughout the book, broken up into eight lengthy, however informative, chapters. Chapter One is the autobiography that Thomas Jefferson wrote when he was seventy-seven years of age, January 6th, 1821, that covered the life of Thomas Jefferson from 1743 through 1790, including the Declaration of Independence. Chapter Two is a detailed…

Grendel in the end gets a clear image of who he is and what he represents, but not without a journey of struggles. From the start of Chapters one and two, Grendel is merely exposed to the influence of the humans. Perplexed by the nature of their movements and thought…

Chapter 3 of ‘Social Geographies’ by Gill Valentine is a detailed representation of the current social themes within the home environment. Valentine’s background on social identity and belonging means that she can explore deeper meanings and aspects of the home, such as the home as a site of violence. It is clear that the book has been written for the use of students, as each section contains exercises, essay titles and further reading which would be useful. Chapter 3 outlines in the…