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The character traits of these three characters can be compared to god's call for everyone to account for their actions on the Judgment Day.... For instance the Plowman follows the Gospel, loves god and his neighbor as well; he also works for Christ's sake, and faithfully offers tithes to the Church.... The moral lesson conveyed is that Christians must act or do as per the word of god for them to be strengthened and have a firm foundation.... They can therefore overcome the evil tactics of the devil by first having the full armor of god; the holy word of god, and abiding by it always....
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83) This quotation, and the story about the Indian boatman who managed his boat through the hazards of rocks and waterfalls when the river was low, made a very big impression on me because it helped me to find a new way of thinking about life.... In connection with the image of the river, and the skilled boatman enjoying the challenge of guiding his craft through the water, this concept makes sudden sense to me.... I appreciate the value of all these things, but sometimes I look around at the natural world, with all its beauty and all its problems and I really wonder what it all means....
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He lifted the mountain of Govardhan for seven days to protect people against the deluge of rain sent by the god of heavens and rains, and that is why Hindus celebrate this day (Toomey 123).... Other times the food is set before the god often behind a concealing cloth.... Upon eating this food, the participants are giving the most profound honor to the god.... Rituals should be performed to honor god and at the same time to pay the god for all the favors....
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In terms of religion and spirituality, water has been given an extremely important status, and has been used to denote many things.... Eliot appears to have interwoven all these meanings into his use of water, which seems to imply that he is speaking of humankind's loss of its humanity and its connection to god.... This could be a punishment for lack of belief, as water has often been used to bring punishment and the wrath of god.... It also reflects many faces of society, looking as it does at such a variety of people.
Is Eliot speaking of the human soul as a wasteland In this paper I will try to address this question, and thereby also explain why the concept of water is so prevalent in the poem; if one interpretation of the poem is that he is trying to show humanity and its spiritual beliefs have become a wasteland, that it has lost its spirituality, its connection to the divine, then we can look at water as a metaphor for that spirituality and thus the lack of water throughout the poem assumes a greater significance....
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This is one of Holden's repeating patterns throughout the novel-he reveals only as much as he sees fit, but rarely does he tell the whole truth.... He does not feel comfortable revealing his inner self to an adult, and we will see this again and again in the novel.... The bottom line of his resistance to self-disclosure is that he does not feel comfortable in the world.... In fact, he feels that he is a part of the world in which he feels he does not really belong....
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Poets are the people, who can think emotionally, and that is why they can reach nearer to the divine things and abstract things.... The body and the soul are two different things and the body is mortal while the soul is immortal.... The ordinary people live a life like the small insects in the fruit of Umbar.... They don't know that there is an infinite divine world beyond this small material world....
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The gifts at first were small and eventually they grew over time.... In Christian faith, gifts symbolize the presents given to the baby Jesus by the wise men and even became a symbol of reminder of Christ's birth.... We did not even have to put much into it.... A few times a year, nearly everyone becomes a part of this ritual....
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This research is being carried out to evaluate and present how the river Nile informed every aspect of Egyptian civilization paying special attention to the agriculture and transportation, politics and economic activities, and beliefs and religion.... Moreover, the yearly floods during spring had made the soil extremely fertile when the river overflows to the banks.... Irrigation of agricultural lands also comes from the river.... Around one to four million people lived in the Nile Valley while the rest thrived along the delta and oases located westward from the river....
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