Main Characters of the Ramayana Dasaratha -- King of Ayodhya (capital of Kosala)‚ whose eldest son was Rama. Dasaratha had three wives and four sons -- Rama‚ Bharata‚ and the twins Lakshmana and Satrughna. Rama -- Dasaratha’s first-born son‚ and the upholder of Dharma (correct conduct and duty). Rama‚ along with his wife Sita‚ have served as role models for thousands of generations in India and elsewhere. Rama is regarded by many Hindus as an incarnation of the god Vishnu. Sita -- Rama’s wife
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By the end of the novel‚ The Chocolate War‚ Jerry Renault was broken down mentally and ruined by the Vigils. The Vigils is a club of the school that only certain people can be a part of‚ they give people assignments that must be completed no matter what they are. The Vigils are very strong and have a lot of power in the school system. Jen Menzel states in her article‚ Intimidation in Cormier’s Tunes for Bears To Dance To‚ We All Fall Down‚ and The Chocolate War that‚ “The Vigils have the capability
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God. They believed that Jesus Christ was not God and taught that Jesus was a human who had gained the hidden knowledge needed for salvation. The main problem with this ideology is that it denied the divinity of Christ‚ thus attempting to divide the trinity and deny the nature of God. The Gnostics believed that the human body was evil. They could not fathom that a good God created the human body (Jesus Christ‚ p. 233). From looking at internal evidence from scripture one can infer that God did create
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TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES Introduction Colin E. Gunton was a British systematic theologian born in England. He is one of the many theologians who have had meaningful influences in the field of doctrine concerning the Creation and Trinity. He spent years as the Professor of Christian Doctrine at King’s College London and he is the co-founder of the Research Institute for Systematic Theology at this same college. Though his untimely death in May of 2003 has left a void in Christendom
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Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline and Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd are wonderful summer reading novels for incoming freshmen‚ but which is the better book for incoming Trinity Hall freshmen? Orphan Train brings the reader back to U.S. immigrants’ lives during the 1920s and what it was like to live as an orphan in that time period‚ compared to how foster children in the present day are treated. Secret Life of Bees brings the reader to a different era‚ 1960s South Carolina‚ when people
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Matthew and Nathan were born in Oklahoma. Matthew is the three brothers’ cousin. The brothers spent much of their youth travelling around the South with their father‚ Leon‚ a traveling United Pentecostal Church preacher and their mother‚ who taught them when they were not in school. According to Rolling Stone magazine‚ "While Leon preached at churches and tent revivals throughout the Deep South‚ the boys attended and were occasionally enlisted to bang on some drums. They were home-schooled or enrolled
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The article‚ “Offerings at The Wall‚” by Don Moser gives the reader a better understanding of why John Wilson leaves a gift at the wall each summer in honor of his friend‚ Leon because the article talks about how tons of different people bring offerings to their late loved ones and why they do such a thing. This quote from the short story‚ “Zebra‚” by Chaim Potok discusses about The Wall and what John Wilson did with Zebra’s drawings: “The photograph showed John Wilson down on his right knee before
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life. On June 1979‚ Jean Leon along with an accomplice‚ kid-napped Louis Gachelin‚ a cab driver in Miami Florida‚ demanding a several thousand dollar ransom (6). Leon was captured by police officers but was not with Gachelin (6). Concerned that Gachelin would be murdered if it were known that Leon had been captured‚ the police officers made a radical decision. To find where the accomplice was holding Gachelin they beat the information out of him (6). The abuse sustained by Leon was twisting his arm behind
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Kerensky Early life and activism Alexander Kerensky was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) on the Volga River on 2 May 1881. His father‚ Fyodor Kerensky‚ was a teacher. and director of the local gymnasium. His mother‚ Nadezhda née Adler‚ was the daughter of a nobleman‚ Alexander Adler‚ head of the Topographical Bureau of the Kazan Military District. Kerensky’s father was the teacher of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin); members of the Kerensky and Ulyanov families were friends. In 1889‚ when Kerensky
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people as outsiders with no purpose or outstanding qualities – reflecting the theory of Otherness and seen as no loss to the tribe. However‚ as the Umofia community grew it attracted people such as Nwoye‚ Okonwo’s son‚ “It was not the mad logic of the Trinity that captivated him…It was the poetry of the new religion‚ something felt in the marrow” revealing a lexical field of religion‚ Achebe uses the literary technique of characterisation to develop and challenge Nwoye’s original ideas of religion. His
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