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    ‘What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet‚ but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight’. From this we can see that Christian faith leads us to believe that our attachments can give rise to suffering. If we desire our brothers possessions and and ungrateful for what we do have‚ we will experience

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    Pantheon in Rome Today‚ I will attempt to compare two religious structures belonging to the Classical style of the Ancient Greek Architecture: the Parthenon of Athens (Greece) and the Pantheon in Rome (Italy). They both have visible differences and similarities in architecture and perhaps had parallel purpose and functions when they were built. First of all‚ there is an abyss of time‚ about 600 years‚ separating these two constructions: the Greeks built their Parthenon during the High Classical Period

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    Fasting and Other Preoperative Considerations When you are having surgery‚ one of the preoperative subjects that your Glendora General Surgery will discuss with you is how long you need to fast before your surgery‚ and when you need to reduce or stop your dietary supplements or medications‚ especially if you are going to have a general anesthesia or another form of sedation. It is also important for you to understand why you need to strictly adhere to your surgeon’s advice. How long you will need

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    (AGG) During time of war in the village Golestan‚ Afghanistan a girl named Najmah and in the village Peshawar‚ Pakistan a girl named Nusrat both have many similarities as they go through conflicts throughout this story. (BS-1) Najmah‚ her mother Mada-jan‚ and her father Baba-jan go through many physical conflicts during this war. (BS-2) Nusrat and Najmah also go through many emotional conflicts during their travels of war. (BS-3) Despite the fact war puts a negative effect on these people‚ it also

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    The Five Pillars of Islam allow a Muslim adherent to demonstrate total submission to the will of Allah. The Five Pillars of Islam are Belief (Shahada)‚ Obligatory prayers (Salat)‚ Almsgiving (Zakat)‚ Fasting (Sawm)‚ and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj). Total submission to Allah occurs in three ways. Shahada strives to promote dedication and total acceptance of faith. Hajj and Salat assist in submission to Allah as they are practical manifestations of faith that provide a continuous link to Allah.

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    However‚ in spite of the many differences‚ there are similarities between the two stories. Romeo and Juliet and “Teen Couple Executed by their Parents…for daring to fall in love‚” both involve the deaths of the couples all happening at a young age‚ all of them dying before the age of 19 before any of their parents died. Throughout both stories a common factor is that the couples were forced to make adult decisions about their lives and love lives; while‚ the adults around them were making many poor

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    In Judeo-Christian mythology‚ one of the best recognized stories from the Old Testament is the story of Noah and the Ark‚ and how they survived God’s great flood. This story is a common one throughout many mid-east cultures‚ both past and present. The most notable of these is in the ancient Mesopotamian mythology‚ with the story of Utnapishtim and his story of survival of the gods wrath. Though both are telling what is assumed to be a tale of the same event‚ there are many similarities as well as

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    The slave laborers were exhausted. They lived in camps infested with disease. The Nazis used gas tanks to murder the weak. There are many similarities as well as differences between The Holocaust and The Crucible. The Holocaust can be compared to The Crucible for a number of reasons. In the beginning of the Crucible‚ a scene told the audience how a teenaged girl‚ Abigail‚ helped her employer‚ John Proctor‚ commit adultery. She knew she had grudges toward some people‚ including her mistress‚ because

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    Similarities between Creon and Antigone In Sophocles’ play Antigone‚ Creon was engaged in a conflict with Oedipus’ daughter Antigone. Creon and Antigone did not see eye-to-eye the entire play due to extreme differences. Creon and Antigone had many similarities despite their enormous discrepancies. Having as many differences as they did‚ it made them uniquely similar in numerous ways. The similarities that Antigone and Creon shared were independence‚ loyalty toward their views‚ cruelty and arrogance

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    and cyberpunk is filled with potent imagery and symbolism‚ thoughtful use of lighting‚ colour and film techniques like camera angles to evoke his futuristic world. When exploring the texts Frankenstein and Blade Runner‚ the most dominant similarity between the texts is the questioning of unchecked scientific progress and the limits of these advancements before human nature is threatened. In Frankenstein Shelley presents us with a protagonist who‚ from a very early age is curious to the basis of

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