society is exactly the same. The Iroquois and Christians display how every culture has something that makes it different from any other culture. Every culture in one way or the other holds a deity of some sort to a higher status. What often differs between the cultures is the level of importance or value placed on this higher deity. The Bible places God on a level much higher than any humans could ever be on. God is seen as the almighty creator of everything in this world from plants‚ to animals and humans:
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PHILIPPINES CEBU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY CEBU CITY CAMPUS CORNER M.J. CUENCO & R. PALMA STREET‚ CEBU CITY‚ PHILIPPINES Tel. No.: (032) 412-1270 Telefax: (032) 256-1537 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION LEGEND OF ORMOC CITY MS.JOENORAMAE L. MATA DECEMBER 2012 THE LEGEND OF ORMOC CITY On July 16‚ 1595‚ Father Chirino and the other Jesuit missionaries arrived in Leyte. In May 1597‚ Fathers Alonso Rodriguez and Leonardo Scelsi founded the mission of Ormoc. This date marked the conversion
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An Analysis of the Twin Brothers’ Motives in “The World on the Turtle’s Back” In “The World on the Turtle’s Back”‚ the right-handed twin is portrayed as the benevolent “Master of Life” (200) and the left-handed twin is seen as the devious one. In my opinion‚ the left-handed twin is not the antagonist of the story. The hatred towards the left-handed twin initiated when he killed his mother at birth. “He said he saw light in another direction‚ and said he would be born that way” (89). His
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Despite countless numbers of stories told about how women were disrespected and unappreciated‚ although that might be true in some cases‚ it isn’t for the Iroquois. The Iroquois women were very well respected and honored and loved in their society. They had skills and wisdom that were valued in their communities and always were given a lot of power in decision making in what goes on in their society. Females had the right to vote for which men they want to see in “The Great Council”‚ which is a
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While each story is different‚ they often involve two gods descending from heaven and creating the world for necessity. The Iroquois creation myth‚ “The World on the Turtle’s Back” is an interesting story on the creation of earth. I enjoyed reading this story because it was a new perspective on the creation of man that I hadn’t heard before. The story tells of the pregnant wife in the sky-world who disregarded the rules of the eternal tree and‚ as a sort of punishment‚ falls through the clouds
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Turtles Hatching The poem Mark O’Connor wrote "Turtles Hatching" at a time in his life when was closely studying nature. In this poem Mark O’Connor closely observes turtles hatching and contemplates the ritual that turtles share with the beach. This poem also has close connotations to life cycle and family. Mark O’Connor begins the poem with one single line which emphasis the information that he is giving the reader. The continuation of this line from the rest of the poem to the next without
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the story “ The World On A Turtle’s Back” it talked about how when the girl fell through the hole in the ground in the Sky World she tried grabbing the edge to stop her from falling but she couldn’t hang on and Fell through the hole.. “ However‚ between her fingers there clung bits of things that were growing on the floor of the Sky World and bits of the root tips of the great tree” (26). This textual evidence talks about how the world was created and what helped create the world and all of the things
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Compare&Contrast The World on Turtle’s back was about a female and male which lived in a sky world. In this sky world was a big tree and on this tree grew crops for the two to eat every year. A day came when the two were curious and started to dig a hole next to the tree. It wasn’t even 10sec. and they broke through the world‚ it spooked the male so he stepped back. The Grandma got down and stuck her head through the hole and then‚ she fell falling from what seemed to be the sky. Then the story about
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be an endangered species. Luckily‚ this isn’t the case for us‚ but for endangered sea turtles it is a reality. Some of the older turtles‚ which are 140 to 160 year old‚ can lay hundreds of eggs every time they go ashore. However‚ only one or two of these eggs survive. Some turtles have been known to live more than 250 years‚ but because of poachers few actually survive that long. The cycle of life for the turtle is hard‚ and the beginning is a very rare thing to witness. I had the amazing opportunity
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CONTENTS Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Sands of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sand Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Control Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Dagger of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Game Interface
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