...or Maria the Jewess also known as Maria Prophetissima in Latin, Maria Hebraea, Maria Prophetissa, Miriam the Prophetess; Mariya the Sage and Mary the Prophetess, was an alchemist who first appears was in the works of the Gnostic Christian writer Zosimos of Panopolis, another well-known alchemist. According to him, she's identified with Miriam the sister of Moses and lived between the first and third century A.D. She is attributed with the invention of several kinds of chemical apparatus and is considered to be the first non-fictitious alchemist in the Western world. In the 4th century, Zosimos wrote his book “Peri kaminon kai organon” (On Furnaces and Apparatuses) which is considered to be the oldest book about alchemy. In it, he describes several of her experiments and instruments. In his writings, Mary is almost always mentioned as having lived in the past and being one of the “sages.”...
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...doubt that it won’t be an easy process, there will be obstacles, and there will be challenges, how you overcome these things are up to you. Your reaction to these hardships could in fact make it or break it. This process of achieving your dreams is shown in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. Coelho’s novel was written to show the importance of dreams and having something to live for. In an interview with a magazine, Coelho explained, “The Alchemist is about -- well, it is a fable about the necessity we have to follow our dreams.” Coelho also added, “They will lose their jobs, they will start having problems, but it is the only choice because in any case, you have to pay a price for your dreams,” when he was asked about the problems that may evoke when people would start chasing their dreams. To Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist was written to show the self sacrifice that needed to be made to follow your dreams. The Alchemist outlines the adventures of Santiago, as young shepherd, as he travels from his homeland in Spain to Egypt in search of a treasure that appears in his dreams. During this journey he meets many people such as a wise king, a merchant in fear to live out his dreams, his true love and the Alchemist. On the way to the pyramids, he comes across numerous difficulties and temptations but moves on undeterred to fulfill his dreams. Santiago must go on a journey alone, sacrificing his sheep, his love, and comfort of his...
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...Plot The Alchemist follows the journey of an Andalusian (southern Spanish) shepherd boy named Santiago. Believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, Santiago decides to travel to a Romani fortune-teller in a nearby town to discover its meaning. The gypsy woman interprets the dream as a prophecy telling the boy that there is a treasure in the pyramids in Egypt. Early into his journey, he meets an old king, whose name was Melchizedek, who tells him to sell his sheep to travel to Egypt and introduces the idea of a Personal Legend (which is always capitalized in the book). Your Personal Legend "is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is."[3] He adds that "when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." This is the core theme of the book. Along the way, Santiago meets an Englishman who has come in search of an Alchemist and continues his travels with him. They travel through the Sahara desert and during his journey, Santiago meets and falls in love with a beautiful Arabian woman named Fatima, who resides with her clan near around the desert Oasis. He asks Fatima to marry him, but she says she will only marry him after he completes his journey and finds his treasures. He is perplexed by this, but later learns that true love will not stop nor plead to sacrifice one's Personal Legend, and if it does, it is not true love. Santiago then encounters a lone alchemist who also teaches...
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...and so does every grain of sand. Soul doesn’t only keep us alive but it supports our existence as well. Soul gives meaning and purpose to our existence. God created every soul in a different way, no soul resembles to one another, soul is an 'inner identity'. As you age, your body gets older, weak, tired, but spiritually you don't feel it. You hear people say, " I don't feel 50 years old!" That's because you are feeling your soul. Your soul never ages, get sick, or dies. The 'soul of the world' is according to various systems of thoughts, an essential connection between all living things on the planet. 'Soul of the world' is related to our world in much the same way as the soul is connected to human body. According to “Alchemist” In "The Alchemist", Santiago goes on a journey for his own personal treasure. He comes to know about this treasure by soul of the world. "The Soul of the World is nourished by people’s...
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...1. Main Characters: Santiago the shepherd (is the protagonist and demonstrates the seeker and dreamer in everyone), Melchizedek, the king of Salem (the person that explained a personal legend to Santiago and tells him to follow his own legend), the crystal merchant (hires Santiago to work for him and talks about how he could never make a pilgrimage to Mecca and is a character who characterizes another by contrast), the Englishman (hopes to become an alchemist and he stands for the limits of knowledge from books), camel driver (represents living in the moment and obtaining wisdom from unlikely sources), the alchemist ( assists Santiago get to the pyramids), and Fatima (represents true love, selflessness and unconditional.) 2. In the novel the...
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...Jared Filart Mr. E.P Salazar Year IV-A March 7, 2014 Maturity over Message? The Little Prince written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is one of the most controversial novels of its time. It reflects the main ideas about relationships. The Alchemist on the other hand is about one person, named Santiago, who tries to achieve his personal legend. This personal legend is his goal in life. Despite some differences in the notion of maturity as present in these two texts, they both exhibit the theme of observing not only through the eyes but with the heart. I. The Little Prince a. The Quest of the Little Prince The topic regarding the quest of The Little Prince, somewhat is a debatable subject because of the fact that it was not explicitly stated, although despite this, it was seen in the story that he was searching for his true purpose. At the start, the Little Prince asked questions stubbornly just like any child would. This was not his true purpose, but it is related to it. Children are naturally curious and want to explore without knowing it. In the book, the Little Prince was actually “bored” of his planet. This was seen with the fact that throughout the course of the book, he was only in his planet for a few days; he spent the rest of the time exploring other planets because he was fed up with his rose. He wanted to give the rose some space, and by doing so, he left his planet and actually found his true purpose, which was to look for answers to life. ...
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...Background Information In the past, alchemy grew in popularity from as early as 300BC for the hopes of changing matter of lesser value into its greatest potential. Alchemy mainly practiced the act of transmutation: the changing of one element into another element. The practice is most commonly known for the goal of converting metals, such as lead, into gold. However, around the 17th and 18th century, alchemy’s relevance diminished as chemistry went on the rise during this time. With this decline of alchemy continuing, should alchemy be titled as a dead science, pseudoscience or to never actually be considered as a science? In recent history, chemistry emerged from alchemy, and ever since then alchemy was only a thing of the past. Ultimately, one classifies the practice of alchemy as no more than just a pseudoscience. Alchemy has been practice universally and has undergone multiple forms causing a lack of accuracy and clarity in its purpose. The practice of alchemy also revolved around the spiritual view of the world,...
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...Ben Jonson (1572–1637). The Alchemist. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. | | | | |Introductory Note | | | | | |BEN JONSON was born of poor parents at Westminster in 1573. Through the influence of Camden, the antiquary, he got a good | 1| |education at Westminster School; but he does not seem to have gone to a University, though later both Oxford and Cambridge gave | | |him degrees. In his youth he practised for a time his stepfather’s trade of bricklaying, and he served as a soldier in Flanders. | | | It was probably about 1595 that he began to write for the stage, and within a few years he was recognized as a distinguished | 2| |playwright. His comedy of “Every Man in His Humour” was not only a great immediate success, but founded a school of satirical | | |drama in England. “Sejanus” and “Catiline” were less popular, but are impressive pictures of Roman life, less interesting but more| | |accurate than the Roman plays of Shakespeare. ...
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...Kayla Herbert The Alchemist On Demand Happiness cannot be achieved without struggle and sacrifice I totally agree with this statement one hundred percent.I believe that you have to sacrifice and struggle with your life before you can fully achieve true happiness. I believe that it’s worth all the struggle and sacrifice if you earn your happiness in the end.If the happiness you want is so big and eternal than the sacrifices you make to achieve it shouldn’t be a question,you should no that with happiness comes great sacrifices. When you struggle in life it shows that you have character and it shows that you really want the happiness you seek in life.When you struggle with the obsticles on the way and you get past them,it shows that your strong enough to get past more obsitcles I believe that the more we struggle and the more we sacrifice the more happiness will be achieved. In the movie Pursuit of Happiness,Chris Gardner is a person who doesn’t have a job,and he has a kid.He get’s kicked out of the house he lived in and the only money that he is making is from selling items to doctors,but when that goes down the drain he is left with nothing,wearing the same clothes everyday and cleaning up in the nearest bathrooms,he barely get’s food at the end of the night. But when he runs into the someone who offers him job classes and get’s him a job in the end all because he could do a rubik’s cube.He passes his test and in the end he get’s the job.He struggled those...
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...What is the need to go on a journey for heroes? Is it their lack in confidence or are they really trying to make a significant mark in society? In the books that we are currently going over in class, each of the main characters has a goal they want to accomplish whether it is for personal benefit or to help others. The reasons why certain people set out to achieve journeys is so that they can help out their community, achieve a goal and connect to who they really are. One thing that compels them to go on a journey is their mission to try and find who they really are. For example in the Alchemist, santiago is a really young boy who is trying to find his destiny. It isn't until the end that he realizes who he truly is. As stated...
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...(“Isaac Newton Quotes”). He spent his life trying to create advances and step outside the box of basic thinking. Isaac Newton did not have a normal childhood. Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, United Kingdom (“Facts about Isaac”). His mother wanted him to follow in his father’s footsteps by being a local farmer, but Isaac had other ideas. Isaac’s father...
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...of the government? There is definitely the rise of the middle class whom are wealthy and are diversifying to other parts of the world? Why? Are they unhappy living in China? Answers to these questions can imply that Taylorism has also a dark side, an extreme if taken over its full capacity. Forces of greed, selfishness, disassociation , non caring, non well being can also be prevalent. GOOD ASPECTS OF TAYLORISM ‘Toyota Motor Corporation in Freemon, California, pinned its recent success squarely on the “intelligent interpretation and application of Taylor’s time and motion studies.’(Kanigel,1997,p5) ‘Taylors work was, and still remains revolutionary. The original seed he sowed has spread and multiplied a millionfold. It has spread from mechanical operations on which he focused at the beginning of his career into activities such as...
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...fishing area, but a 1969 report by The United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East speculates that there may be untapped oil reserves under the surface. The Japanese Government’s is view that the Senkaku Islands are “clearly an inherent territory of Japan, in light of historical facts and based upon international law,” and the Senkaku Islands “are under the valid control of Japan”. With access to information at the click of a mouse, the world’s media plays a critical role in influencing the debate surrounding the sovereignty of the islands. This report will examine news articles from Japan, China and abroad in order to The first indications of Sino-Japanese relations can be traced back to the year 57 AD when Emperor of the Han Dynasty gave a golden seal to Japan. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, Sino-Japanese relations changed from hostility and an absence of contact to cordiality and extremely close cooperation in many fields. The Treaty of Peace and Friendship...
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...being a human being. We all do things we regret at some point. We are never satisfied with what we have, we always want more, then comes regrets. We regret not spending time with our loved ones, we also regret spending time focusing on silly things. If I knew that today was my last day on earth, what are the things I would want to change? That’s the question I would have asked myself. There is nothing I would regret more than nothing living my life the way I want to live it, or to live a life full of regrets and unanswered questions. I think that the things we do and the decisions we make reflect on our personality. No matter how terrible the decision seems at the moment, but there is nothing I would change in my life. We learn from our mistakes, we shouldn’t regret those mistakes. However, how can we live a life with no regrets? I don’t think it’s possible to not have regrets at all. I wish I wouldn’t have taken two courses with 4 credits each, I regret my decision. I was overwhelmed, and did not want to drop a course, I thought I could succeed in both of them, but unfortunately I failed both classes. I think that it was meant to be, but if had worked a little bit harder I wouldn’t be on probation today. Then, yes I do regret my decision, but at the same time I don’t. Deep in my heart I know it was meant to be, I was a fool to make that decision at first and I had to take responsibility for my actions. I second guessed myself because that was the first time I failed...
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...Poetry-01 British Drama-02 British Novel-03 Aspects of Language-04 School of Humanities Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110 068 1 Master’s Degree in English Assignments for 1st year Compulsory Courses Course Code: MEG Dear Student, This booklet contains all the assignments of the Compulsory Courses of MA (English) 1st year namely: MEG-01 MEG-02 MEG-03 MEG-04 British Poetry British Drama British Novel Aspects of Language Each course will comprise one assignment of 100 marks. This assignment will be tutor marked. Aims: The TMAs are concerned mainly with assessing your application and understanding of the course material. You are not required to reproduce chunks of information from the course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may have acquired during the course of study. These assignments aim to teach as well as to assess your performance. Please ensure that you read the texts and the accompanying study guides that we have prepared for you. Let me repeat: you must read all the texts prescribed. Do make points as you go along. If there is anything you do not understand, please ask your Counsellor at the Study Centre for clarification. Once you are able to do the assignments satisfactorily, you will be ready to take the exam with confidence. Instructions: Before attempting the assignment please read the following instructions carefully. 1 2 3 Read the detailed instructions...
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