... novel critically, often shockingly, explores the nature of humanity. It raises the question: what is history? It asks: what is an ordinary human being? It cries: human activity is ordinary or heroic depending on the context it exists within; war is a sickening context. " (Young Adult Readers). Findley allows the reader to form their own conclusions by laying out a blend of heresay evidence and facts ... that can only be simlar to ones in hell its self. This novel deals with a special man who volunteers to fight the war for his country. This is not your ordinary man, he is what we call a...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... Crucifixion, so the Christian community had had plenty of time to think over the meaning of Jesus. This Gospel was written in colloquial Greek. It was apparently designed to instruct ordinary Christian readers or hearers, mostly of Gentile background, about Jesus. Mark doesn't share Matthew's special interest in Jewish tradition, Luke's in historical writing, or John's in sophisticated theology. An important ... teaching in Jerusalem. The parable of the wicked husbandmen (12:1- 9) is directed specifically against the religious authorities. A man (God) plants a vineyard (Israel) and lets...

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• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

... spirit or whatever name one gives to that power of comprehension we have. Would we all lose our mind tonight, by some kind of virus, then tomorrow we would be ordinary apes again, naked apes. Clumsy apes too, who would have little chance to survive. If it were cold, we would not have the idea to put on clothes, and next ... , Greece, in about the same time Aristotle lived there. Actually with them the history of Western philosophy starts. Plato wrote about many subjects, state-affairs for example. But in this context his thoughts about ideas especially are interesting. Plato's theory abo...

• Word Count: 5369
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School