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Rules And Rituals In Leviticus
300 wordsLeviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, also the third book in the Torah. The main points of the book are concerned with Levitical, or priestly worship. In the first section of the book there is a series of laws regarding sacrifices, burnt-offerings, meat, thank, sin and trespass-offerings, followed by the law of the priestly duties in connection with the offering of sacrifices. The Holiness Code of Leviticus was written mostly as a ritual manual for Israel's priests. Christians today a...
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Nicholas And Mr Conchis
686 wordsThe Magus, by John Fowles, is a six-hundred-and-five page book, which I have read all of. It was copyrighted in 1965 by Little, Brown & Company (Canada) Limited, and was dedicated to Astarte. John Fowles has written many other books, such as: A Maggot, Daniel Martin, Land, The Tree, poems, and literally dozens of others. The critiques of these books state they are all fiction, but are in a wide variety of areas. The main character, Mr. Nicholas Urfe, is extremely bored with life. He attended Oxf...
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Printing Press
1,007 wordsThe font of all wisdom The Gutenberg Revolution John Man 312 pp, Review Subtitles are becoming ridiculously long-winded. The one attached to John Man's little book claims that it is "The story of a genius and an invention that changed the world". This is true enough, though it says much about our increasingly semi-literate society that the name Johann Gutenberg alone is no longer assumed to be instantly recognisable. And yet the western father of printing has influenced cyberspace as much as any...
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Hero In The Book
419 wordsJames Daca nay E.L. In the book, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the Earth evaporates. Thats how it all started. Arthur Dent is now the last earthling in the universe due to the untimely evaporation of the Earth. His long time friend, Ford Perfect, who saved him, is an alien. He is thrown into a series of events, which throw his whole life off course. He eventually reaches the planet Magrathea, the most improbable planet in the universe, along with his odd crew of three ali...
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Use Of The Book Of Enoch
955 wordsWe first learn of Enoch in Genesis 5 but it leaves us with questions. Hebrews 11 has the answers and Jude quotes Enoch! How did Jude come to know the words of Enoch? They are not in the Bible. The answer of course, is The Book of Enoch. A book which is actually quoted not only by Jude, but also James the natural brother of Jesus. The quote in (Jude 14-15) & (1 Enoch 1: 9) is as follows: 'In the seventh (generation) from Adam Enoch also prophesied these things, saying: 'Behold, the Lord came with...
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Own Books
270 wordsRay Bradbury's science fiction masterpiece Farenheit 451 is a classic tale about a man named Guy Montag and his inner struggles. When the story begins, Guy is happily married and works for the government as a firefighter: a firefighter whose job is to burn down the homes of people who own books, which are illegal. He enjoys doing this, savoring the warmth of the flames and the thrill of destruction, but after a while he perceives the shallowness in himself and begins to wonder why people can't r...
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Small Flame Of Knowledge
417 wordsNicholas Sine Period 4 5/11/98 A Canticle for Leibowitz Throughout the history of mankind, man has wanted to learn. It was the knowledge that has been kept with him for generations that has also kept the human race from not progressing. More and more generations of man have evolved and yet one element of life has lived on through the roughness of nature, plagues and even world wars. Knowledge proves to be indestructible and unstoppable. In the first section of A Canticle for Leibowitz, Fiat Homo...
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Ishmael Quinn
753 wordsA review of... Ishmael In the past few centuries there have been a handful of books written that offer up ideas about humanity that are so completely new to a reader but are so completely convincing that they can force a reader to take a step back and assess all that they know to be true about their life and their purpose. Daniel Quinn has succeeded in creating such a book in Ishmael, a collection of new ideas about man, his evolution, and the "destiny" that keeps him captive. When I began readi...
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Invention Of The Printing Press
640 wordsJOHANN GUTENBURG AND THE PRINTING PRESS Long ago there was a man named Johann Gutenberg. He was a very intelligent man. He created one of the greatest inventions in history. He created the printing press. You may ask yourself, what is the printing press? I will soon explain. Johann Gutenberg was born in 1399 named Genefliesch zur Laden. He changed his name to Gutenburg after the name of his wealthy father's house. Gutenberg died in 1468 in Mainz, Germany where he was born. In the footsteps of hi...
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Vilna Gaon
4,460 wordsRabbi Eliyahu of Vilna - The Vilna Gaon 1720 1797 The "Gra", popularly referred to as the Vilna Gaon was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1720. His full name was Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna. The word "Gaon" means genius and that is proper for The Vilna Gaon. The Vilna Gaon was probably the most influential Jewish leader in modern history. The Gaon was even amazing as a child, at age 7 he gave a shirr in the great synagogue in Vilna. By age 10 he had already advanced to the point where he no longer needed ...
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Second Passage In The Book
406 wordsA Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Newton Peck The book took place in rural Vermont with a young Shaker boy named Rob Peck. The novel was basically about this boy going through joyful and trying times in his youth, and his friendship with his pet pig named Pinky. Robert Peck was the main character, he was loving towards Pinky and he was obedient, (he knew if he wasnt, hed be in big trouble.) Throughout the book you could tell that his emotions were opening up more, now that he had a pet to love and ...
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Main Struggle Of The Book
542 wordsMy book is titled Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton. There are two major themes to this book. First is man versus man and the second is man versus nature. The nature that man is going up against in this book were the supernatural monsters that terrorized the town. Through most of the second half of this book the northmen are fighting the monsters or preparing to. This is the main struggle of the book. These monsters are the eaters of the dead. The second struggle of this book is man versus ...
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Racism In The Story The Conflicts
682 wordsThe book Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry mainly deals with the struggles of one family trying to deal with racism and the effects it has on them and their lives. This is important to black people because it was not to long ago that slavery was ended. Racism in this book affects the characters because they didn't try to stop the hatred that was going on in their community. It is also about the fact that laws were not followed as they are supposed to. This was done by not treating everyone the same. F...
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