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    Biblical Allusion Novel: “His tone implied that Mother failed to grasp our mission‚ and that her concern with Betty Crocker confederated her with the coin-jingling sinners who vexed Jesus till he pitched a fit and threw them out of the church. Bible: “Coin-jingling sinners”‚ in the Bible they are also knows as the Sadducees‚ they didn’t believe in heaven and resurrection‚ they believed people would live again after death and they denied the existence of angels. They strongly opposed the Pharisees

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    the choice of what to do. Central to John Steinbeck’s East of Eden the theme of good vs. evil shows through the description of landscape‚ Samuel Hamilton‚ who represents supreme goodness‚ and Cathy Ames Trask‚ the most evil character in the novel. From the first chapter‚ the author outlines the central structure of good and evil in the form of the symbolic landscape of the Salinas Valley in California. The narrator learns to tell east with its "good" sunlit Gabilan Mountains from the western

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    on the island a navy ship comes and reluctantly rescues the boys. Lord of the Flies depicts savagery and destruction of marooned British boys. Golding wrote this book as a post-war humanistic‚ allegorical book with analogy to the Bible. Through biblical references in settings‚ symbolism‚ and overall meaning‚ Lord of the Flies becomes a religious allegory.

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    adventures aboard the whale ship‚ Pequoud‚ which mainly include chasing a whale called Moby Dick. In Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder‚ Alberto Knox encourages Sophie to think about her life philosophically through various examples from history. In East of Eden‚ John Steinbeck follows the life of the Trusk and Hamilton families‚ a basic portrayal of good vs evil‚ and how you can choose which one to be. Throughout Moby Dick‚ the theme of an unavoidable destiny is clear as demonstrated by Captain

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    In “How to Read Literature like a Professor” he uses many literary terms like symbolism and allusion but the one literary device I’ll be focusing on in this essay will be how he used allusion throughout it. One of the allusions used is in chapter five “When in doubt… it’s from Shakespeare”. The author alludes to past Shakespeare plays and how they’re depicted later on in the 1970s and around the 1980s. Some of his plays have transformed into completely different ideas from what they originally were

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    Latafat Junaid S/O Qadar Khan Nationality Pakistani D.O.B 03-08-1984 Marital status. Married Passport No: BN 4177701 ISSUE DATE. 5rdjuly 2007 Expiry Date: 8th July 2013 Languages: English‚ Urdu‚ Pashto‚ Panjabi. * Read * Write& * Speak Latafat Junaid S/O Qadar Khan Nationality Pakistani D.O.B 03-08-1984 Marital status. Married Passport No: BN 4177701 ISSUE DATE. 5rdjuly 2007 Expiry Date: 8th July 2013 Languages:

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    Unattainable Perfection Everything is ruined if an eye is not kept on the entire picture of the situation. The novel East of Eden‚ by John Steinbeck‚ and the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude‚ by Gabriel García Márquez‚ both emphasize the negative outcomes that are met during the futile attempt to create a perfect world. Attempting to create a world where everything runs without difficulty can be extremely difficult in itself. Characters use land as an output when they are put in these difficult

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    the Eden Project: (Johnson‚ Scholes and Wittington‚ 2008) Political Factors Since the political environment in the United Kingdom and also in the region of Cornwell is stable‚ this factor also deals with the issue of local and national government support for tourism. In the case of the Eden Project‚ one can state that there are several governmental resources‚ especially financially: Internationally the Eden Project is supported by the European Social Fund of the European Union (Eden Project

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    David Pham Professor Robert Guffey English 100 13 November 2012 Frankenstein: Into the Depths of Allusions An allusion is a figure of speech that is a reference to a well-known person‚ place‚ event‚ or literary work. These allusions are typically used by an author who intends to make a powerful point without the need to explain it. Mary Shelley ’s Frankenstein provides many examples of allusion ’s. She connects the story of “Prometheus”‚ Coleridge ’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ and Milton ’s

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    of good and evil‚ the final decision is up to the person facing the situation. In East of Eden‚ John Steinbeck

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