...Sam Guinto Mrs. Hellmuth 9/7/11 Per. 5 The Scrolls of the Dead Seas The Dead Sea Scrolls, what exactly are they? Well, in this essay I shall be explaining and educating you on this subject exactly. You probably have more questions other than this, well, let us begin this journey of learning about the Dead Sea Scrolls. So what are the Dead Sea Scrolls. Well first off lets start with the legend. Legend says one day Sheppard were walking by a stream, threw a walk, they heard a shattering, found a cave full of treasure, and in that treasure was a set of decayed scrolls. These scrolls are called the Dead Sea Scrolls. These Scrolls were a copy of the biblical book of Isaiah. These Scrolls were most likely placed there by the same people at the time of the Great Revolt against Rome in CE 68-70, when Jerusalem was besieged and finally destroyed by the Romans. One other manuscript find also prepared the way for the Dead Sea Scrolls. A small scrap, now known as the Nash Papyrus, was discovered in the 1920's in Israel. On it was a copy of the Ten Commandments as found in the book of Deuteronomy. There were scripts found in the library of Qumran and they had 200 manuscripts on them. The theory is that the library was made and or found by a Jewish sect known as the Essences , and the scrolls were put there to keep the knowledge hidden. Now, there is much more information about the Dead Sea Scrolls but this is just a overall summary of it. I hope I have helped you and answered...
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...Suad Hersi ENG 4UE-25 Ms. WinicK August 6th, 2015 Dreamland “A poem is a communication from one soul to another that makes one or both hearts sing” (Mayes, 1998). A good poem should be written with a concise and accurate use of diction and connotation in order to accurately portray a meaningful theme or hidden message. Poetry has the ability to encapsulate broad ideas with a minimal use of words through the use of different literary and poetic devices. Edgar Allan Poe’s unfortunate loss of both parents and upbringing with adoptive parents were his inspiration for his many poems and short stories, which reflected on his alienation, loneliness, grief and sorrow. I believe the poem “Dreamland” by Edgar Allan Poe is the best poem in the world for the reason being that it uses an effective form and rhyming scheme and effectively uses literary and poetic devices such as allusions, personification, and hyperboles in order to convey the message of grief and one’s search for their “dreamland”. The form of the poem Dreamland is written in Iambic Tetrameter couplets that are separated into different stanzas. Poe uses an A-A-B-B rhyming scheme during every stanza, which focuses on making the last word in the end of a verse rhyme with the following line’s last verse. Poe effectively captures the poetic device of allusion as he uses references to mythology such as El Dorado to capture the essence of paradise and hope. In the poem, “Tis...
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...as the “scramble for Africa.” The policies adopted by imperial powers and colonial officials forced peoples of different societies to deal with their colonizers on a regular and systematic basis. These interactions provoked a variety of responses from Africans. 1. Traditions and Encounters; Jerry H. Bentley and Herbert F. Ziegler; 2006; McGraw-Hill 2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica Inquiry Question: How did Africans react to European imperialism? Part I - Working with Four Source Documents[1] Document #1: From a letter from one African leader to another in German South West-Africa. 1904 All our obedience and patience with the Germans is of no use for each day they shoot someone dead for no reason at all. So, I appeal to you my Brother, not to ignore the uprising, but to make your voice heard so that all Africa may take up arms against the Germans. Let us die fighting rather than die as a result of bad treatment, imprisonment, or some other calamity. (Disaster). Tell all the chiefs down there to rise and do battle. -Source: Samuel Maherero, a leader of the Herero people. Question: What does this source say about how Africans responded to European Imperialism? Document #2: From a speech to chiefs by an African queen mother, 1900 Now I have seen that some of you fear to go forward and fight for our King. If it were in the brave days of old, chiefs would not...
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...Ha Nguyen Instructor: D. Aleksandrova English 102 Poetry Essay June 17, 2013 My Beloved - Annabel Lee “Annabel Lee” was the last poem that Poe composed, and was first published in November, 1849, a month or so after his death. Poe once said, “The death of a beautiful woman is the most poetic topic in the world”, that’s “Annabel Lee.” The poem is about a beautiful, but painful memory. The speaker of the poem is remembering his long-lost love, Annabel Lee. The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are envious. He retains his love for her even after her death. The poem has since become one of Poe’s most popular works. “Annabel Lee’ follows Poe’s favorite theme, the death of a beautiful woman, which Poe called “the most poetical topic in the world”. The love between the narrator and “Annabel Lee” is so strong and beautiful and pure that even after her death, the love remains alive, eternal, because the souls of the lover remain united. Poe begins the poem by painting a romantic and fairy tale story, telling us that the story we are about to hear happened “many a year ago”. Akin to a fairy story, the author takes us to a kingdom by the sea that existed in the remote past, when both he and his beloved Annabel Lee were (Poe line 1-4) It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; In stanza two, Poe tells us...
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...activity can support and maintain the health of ecosystems while human activity is able to have adverse impacts on both organisms and ecosystems. Sea turtle also plays key role in the sea ecosystem. This essay will indicate the important roles of sea turtles on two sea ecosystem, beaches and marine systems, and negative effects of human activity on the turtle and sea ecosystem. Sea turtles have played vital roles in maintaining the health of the world’s oceans for more than 100 million years. According to Ruckdeschel and Shoop (2006, p.2), there are seven species of sea turtles in the world’s oceans, including flatback, green, hawksbill, Kemp’s ridley, leatherback, loggerhea and olive ridley. The roles of those species consist of maintaining healthy seagrass beds and coralreefs, providing habitat for other marine life, helping to balance marine food webs and facilitating nutrient cycling from water to land. To more specific, there is an influence of sea turtles on seagrass beds. Sea turtles, especially green sea turtles, is an animal eating seagrass. This action of the turtles assist in maintaining the health of the sea grass beds because sea grass needs to be constantly cut short to be healthy and help it grow across the sea floor. Wilson, Miller, Allison & Magliocca. (n.d.). Sea turtles also bring some benefits to Beach Dunes. Sea Turtle Conservancy (2014) has claimed that turtle eggs provide dune plants with the nutrients, which makes dune planes grow up and become stronger...
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...TermPaperWarehouse.com - Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory Join Search Browse Saved Papers Home Page » Religion Topics Bib104 In: Religion Topics Bib104 1. According to the text the structural features of 'repetition' and 'inclusion' are… 2. What is the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls? They gave us a much older collection of Old Testament manuscripts 3. According to the readings the Old Testament canon was completed after the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. 4. Old Testament narrative normally does not directly teach a doctrine. True 5. In our readings this week the Bible is described in part as, "the Word of God given in human words in history". True 6. The Modern View of the Bible approaches biblical documents as highly reliable. False 7. Until just after World War II the oldest OT manuscripts we had dated from about 200 B.C. / False 8. According to Fee and Stuart's analysis they think most people do a very good job of handling Old Testament narrative passages /False 9. The focus of the ___________ is on Jesus and his claim to be the Messiah. 10. Which of the following are not among the common causes people misinterpret biblical narratives mentioned in the text? 11. According to Fee and Stuart's analysis God is the hero of all biblical narratives/true 12. According to Fee and Stuart what is the antidote to bad interpretation? Good interpretation...
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...proper management of oilrigs. Due to the continual persuasion by profit-driven US corporate and financial elite, US government made it acceptable for the required work level of Mineral Management Service (MMS) to dwindle between 2005 and 2009. As a result, the safety regulations for workers and the environment were left up to drilling organizations. The lack of a constraining factor to stabilize safety resulted in negligence as the drilling companies found it cheaper and more convenient to assume that all operations were going well. As a result, the effectiveness of the rig blow out preventer was overlooked. The rig blow out protector is a back up device in which shear rams are intended to clamp a pipe shut. In 2000 the MMS “urged” deep-sea oilrigs to have blowout preventers. However, a 2002 study disproved the ability of rams to shut a gushing pipe. The rams were too weak to cut through the piping’s joints which compromises 10 percent of total surface area....
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...fully using named examples. Prokaryotes are unicellular microorganisms without a nucleus; they are divided into two groups’ Eubacteria and Archaebacteria. These microorganisms are very small and invisible and are known as the most dominant species on the earth’s biosphere as they are found almost everywhere on earth, they are predominately, found in our body’s immune system, and they are mainly responsible for the decomposition of dead matter which in return benefits both plants and animals. They are found in the air that we breathe, in the food that we eat, in deep seas, in cold and hot temperatures, sea corals, in salt water, fertile soils and in short, they are so diverse in their form of habitation and adaptation, as different types of bacteria adapt to different types of environments in different forms of life. However, bacteria are grouped according to their uniqueness, features, structure, functions, and contribution to human life. Prokaryotes are so beneficial to us because they act as defences to protect us from various diseases. The essay will examine the significant impact of prokaryotes to human life. The word bacteria may be frightening to most of us; in many cases it is often associated with many negative and harmful aspects such as infectious diseases, dental decay, mould and smell. But bacteria provide us with both positive and negative aspects which can contribute significantly to our human life. Prokaryotes are very important to the biosphere, as a great...
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...Sun Hwa Choi English 3 Thursday Evening Class Professor Humphrey Due May 21, 2015 Essay 4: Development of Heroes (+Hamlet) The Heroes of the Greek and Rome poetries share few common uniqueness. They are heroic in that they all sacrifice, they are all intelligent, they all have their own faith or luck, they are all remembered or also known as Kleos and they all wander and deal with many problems. We have read many of them in this course such as Odysseus, Oedipus, Aeneas, Achilles and Beowulf. Then there is the great Hamlet who is not one of the Greek Heroes but a character from a play by William Shakespeare. Today in this essay, I want to compare some of the Greek poetry characters with the Prince Hamlet. First of all, I want to talk about few similarities between Hamlet and one of the Greek poet characters we have learned from this course. In my opinion, the story of Hamlet itself can be very analogous to the story of the poetry Oedipus. Both of the story have a plague or a outbreak going on from the beginning of the story. In the Oedipus the King, it starts with the Plague of Thebes where then Oedipus start to take actions for his people. This is where he shows his heroic features being a great leader for his city and sacrificing himself to solve the problem. The play Hamlet also starts with an outbreak and there seems to be something strange. The play starts with, "who’s there?" (Act 1 scene 1 line 1) by one of the guards. The fact that the play starts out with a question...
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...Vickie Shipley Professor Marek ENC 1102, SEC 87 27 October, 2013 Drama Essay: "Hamlet's Ghost- To Believe or Not to Believe” Of all the plays written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is the most intriguing. As the plot develops, themes such as indecision, deceit and revenge become apparent. As is expected, questions about the characters' motives arise as these themes are portrayed. Questions regarding Hamlet's love for Ophelia or his sanity arise. However, these questions develop throughout the story. The most important question arises at the beginning of the story in Act 1, and affects Hamlet’s every thought and action thereafter. Is the King's ghost a good spirit, merely seeking justice or an evil spirit sent to corrupt Hamlet? Perhaps the ghost is genuinely that of the dead king, but the fact that the ghost uses Hamlet to exact revenge and demands he commit the mortal sin of murder, clearly shows it to be an evil, malicious demon from hell. During the era in which Hamlet was written, there was a common belief of demonic intrusion, and corruption by the devil. Even today, it is not too difficult to find people who will agree that specters are evil demons, sent up from the bowels of hell to corrupt and destroy the living. In fact, a recent CBS poll reveals that almost half of all Americans believe in evil spirits, and that the dead can return in certain places and situations (Alfano). Because of this belief, the appearance of the spirit, along with the assumption of its...
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...Dogma Essay ver. 1.1 In this essay you must make an analysis and interpretation of the enclosed text: Julia Blackburn’s short story “The Mermaid”, but there are some rules that you must obey: The structure of the essay: • 1 introductory paragraph (in which you ask a question, put up a theory or present your text). • 3 main paragraphs (in which you discuss various aspects of the text. Each paragraph must contain a short quotation from the text) • 1 conclusive paragraph (in which you sum your findings and put them in relation to your introductory paragraph) Length: 2 pages (with double spacing) – no more, no less. Criteria for marking: 1. Good, error-free language 2. The conclusive paragraph “answers” the introductory paragraph. 3. Coherence from one paragraph to the next. Julia Blackburn, The Mermaid (A British short story published in 1998.) The man was still there poised in indecision and staring at the thing which lay heaped at his feet. I saw then that it was not a human corpse, or the trunk of a tree, or a bundle of sail that he had found, but a mermaid. She was lying face down, her body twisted into a loose curl, her hair matted with scraps of seaweed. The year was fourteen hundred and ten and it was very early in the morning with the sun pushing its way gently through a covering of mist that floated aimlessly over the land and the water. The man had never seen a mermaid before except for the one carved in stone...
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...Rhetorical Strategies: How They Enhance the Essay Today, rhetorical strategies are ubiquitous. They can be discovered in the latest top box office cinematic movie, the beloved binge-watched television show on Netflix, the aggravating commercials we are forced to sit through, the latest best-selling book, etc. Applying rhetorical strategies helps the writer communicate with ease and fluidity. Rhetoric additionally helps the reader or viewer gain interest while making it pleasurable. All in all, rhetorical strategies are simply ways of effectively and adequately presenting material. In the essays of discussion the effectiveness of how imagery, emotional appeal and tone build the writers credibility and enhance the essay will be discovered. For example, Virginia Woolf uses rhetorical strategies in “The Death of The Moth”. Woolf begins by using imagery effectively throughout her essay by strategically incorporating descriptive details. Woolf encountered this moth in the day time, so she begins her essay by stating, “moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths . . .” (para. 1). This statement spikes wonder; what does that mean? She explains that moths in the day “ . . . do not excite that pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and ivy-blossom which the commonest yellow-underwing asleep in the shadow of the curtain never fails to rouse in us” (Woolf para. 1). Her sense of imagery is full of color and expression which helps her credibility in her writing. It truly makes...
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...Water Pollution Cause And Effect Essay Water pollution is a global plague that affects the people, animals, and plants. These life forms need water to survive. The causes are contributed greatly by the human population. Recently, laws have been passed to protect the precious drinking waters. Although they are in effect, most are ignored or loop holes have been found by major corporations so the can still "legally" dump harmful waste near water supplies. There are several factors that causes water pollution. One of the reasons that the water pollution problem is so severe is that it is not actually illegal to dump pollutants into water bodies. Sewage, sludge, garbage, and even toxic pollutants are all dumped into the water. Often, governments either do not care or simply look the other way. Across the world, about half of all sewage is dumped into water bodies in its original form. No efforts are made to disinfect the sewage or to remove especially harmful pollutants. Even if sewage is treated, problems still arise. Treated sewage forms sludge, which is sent out into the sea and dumped. Many cities and countries dump sewage out at sea. Often, they place it not far from their own coastline, often killing all the sea wildlife in the dumping area. In addition to sewage, chemicals dumped by industries and governments are another major source of water pollution. Raymond Furon could not believe his finds when he tested a river used by a reservation as a main source of water...
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...Introduction It cannot be denied that life has been much better thanks to the increasing globalization and internationalization in many aspects; for example, labour mobility and flexibility; advanced technology, and highly competitive products and prices; that benefits consumers all over the world. However, multinational firms with profit-maximising and cost-minimisation objectives have raised ethical concerns, such as pollution, child labour, workers’ salary below minimum wage, over working hours, welfare discrimination, etc. This essay is going to discuss the recent case of “BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico” in 2010 that has got many attentions of countries and international actors including some INGOs and WTO. The US president Barrack Obama has compared the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to the September 11 terrorist attacks as he began a tour of the region: "In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come”, said Obama (Telegraph, 2010). We will use the four well-known moral frameworks discussed throughout the semester (utilitarianism, contractualism, ethics of virtue and deontology) to analyse why and how heavy the impact that disaster had on society under different points of view across international actors and the BP company itself. I. The Facts On April 20, 2010, the methane gas from the well...
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...Stephanie Angulo AC1408307 SC260.2.1 Introduction to Ecology Assignment 8: Ecological Crisis of the BP Oil Spill April 25th 2015 On April 20th, 2010, a massive offshore drilling rig, formal known as the Deepwater Horizon, exploded and set fire. The explosion caused oil pipes to burst and spill thousands of barrels of oil into the Golf of Mexico. According to Do Something, an environmental website, have reported the death and injury of 28, more than 8,000 animals dead within six months, and 16,000 miles of coastline pollution (11 facts about BP oil spill). The BP oil spill has since became one of the worst ecological disaster in America's history. People living near the coast line has been affected due to polluted air and water. Many children had been sick and they had problem breathing fresh air. There were several issues with this oil spill: professional issues, ethics and new technology issues, legal, regulatory and political, safety issues, and environmental issues. If BP would have taken care of all these issues there had been no oil spill. The oil spill is the result of a series of events that eventually led to tens of thousands of barrels of petroleum to be leaked into the gulf. In September, BP released a report that analyzed the events leading up to the incident. The report shows that the fire was caused by a release of hydrocarbons from the well, and them onto the oil rig (BP internal investgation team) The Deepwater horizon was equipped with fail-safe mechanisms in...
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