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    menis of Achilles‚ provide a look at heroic life and its relationship with death and immortality. The hero Gilgamesh is occupied with fear of death throughout the epic (George XIII). Achilles likewise is concerned with his metaphoric immortality‚ which can only exist after the death of his mortal heroic self. Both of the main heroes share many similar characteristics‚ including a dynamic outlook on life and death centered on the death of their heroic comrades‚ Patroclus and Enkidu‚ respectively. The two

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    Although the narrative or story of Noah and the flood is one of the great stories in the Bible‚ many question its originality. The biblical version of the flood in Genesis 6-10 is “quite close in many respects to the Mesopotamian flood stories” (The New Oxford Annotated Bible pg 19)‚ which were written beforehand. As much as they are similar‚ there are significant differences that distinguish the two tales and their reliability. The epic of Gilgamesh‚ written by the Sumerians between 2700 B.C

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    Man and Humanity in Search of Peace and New Future March 28th‚ 2013   Mahboob A. Khawaja‚ PhD “The hell of human suffering‚ evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity‚ who have most deeply sinned against it‚ were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them‚ what wrought moral evil and cruelty‚ treason to truth and progress‚ was not at all in their intentions‚ in their purpose‚ in their personal

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    The story of Noah and his Ark are recorded in Genesis‚ the first book of the Bible. It says that as God looked upon the earth‚ He saw only wickedness and corruption. Unhappy with the way mankind had turned out‚ He decided to destroy the earth. He went to a righteous man named Noah and ordered him to build an ark‚ "the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits‚ the breadth of it fifty cubits‚ and the height of it thirty cubits." (A cubit has generally been described as the distance between

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    Recognizing Humanity The capability for dehumanization is within all of us. This statement echoes through history up to the present time as true. Everyday humanity hears of incidents where the compassion and respect for human life is disregarded and demeaned. Everyday somewhere in the world someone is found wielding a gun or strapped with an explosive vest ready and willing to destroy innocent lives whose only crime was being at the right place at the wrong time. When sociologists try to understand

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    artist who inspired me that would actually require me to do more research I narrowed my choice down to a piece created by Giorgio De Chirico. I decided on this artist because I really like his ideas‚ for example‚ “de Chirico explained‚ there are more enigmas in the shadow of a man who walks in the sun than in all the religions of past‚ present‚ and future. De Chirico anticipated a mode of representation known as magic realism‚ in which commonplace objects and events are exaggerated or juxtaposed in

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    approached that his voice should manifest himself. In the night of the birth there were present with his mother‚ Asiya and Mary among the women from Paradise. The pains of labour ceases her and she gave birth to him – Pease be upon him – and light pearled around his glory‚ his face shining like the sun‚ illuminating the night; the night of the nativity which is joyful religion; the night in which Amina‚ the daughter of Wahb‚ received honor which He has never given to any woman. To her family came someone

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    What Is Humanity?

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    Humanity: What Does it Take? It was for six years that one man faced senseless killings‚ going on with life under command instead of free thought. World War II was one of the bloodiest wars to date‚ a time when it seemed as if nobody’s life was worth anything except perhaps the chance to end someone else’s. Some of the horrendous crimes committed against the human race that occurred over the course of this war are depicted in great detail in the books Night and The Diary of a Young Girl. These

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    Noah and Utnapishtim’s Wild Ride Almost every religion in the world has a story about the “Great Flood” which destroys the earth‚ and each teaches its followers a different story about this disaster. While the Babylonians have the story of Utnapishtim from the Epic of Gilgamesh‚ the Judeo Christians have Noah from the Bible. Both men save a few people and many animals. In these stories‚ Noah and Utnapishtim seem to have similar situations‚ but a further analysis shows how truly different the two

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    Importance of Family Life Shelia August AUSOC 101.11.1 Prof. Maxey November 9‚ 2011 Why is Family life important? I am employee for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. I work on death row and I can’t help but to ponder how someone at the age of 27 or younger can be on death row for years; what have we done wrong as a society to produce people who so young but who are unfit to live in society. I know that this is a question without an easy answer. But it’s one we all should ask and strive

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