Today there is no dispute that Paul is the author of I Corinthians. "Both external and the internal evidence for the Pauline authorship are so strong that those who attempt to show the apostle was not the writer succeed chiefly in proving their own incompetence as critics."1 As internal evidence, Paul identifies himself as the author in 1 Corinthians 1:1 and 16:21. External evidence of Paul writing this letter is supported by people such as Clement of Rome (c. 95-97) and Augustine (c. 400). ... For instance, the purpose of the letter was to address problems in the local churches of Corinth...

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Being a lonely child while living in Salem, Massachusetts Hawthorne devoted a lot of his time to writing and he eventually graduated from Bowdoin College. Writing being the one thing he knew he wanted to do, Hawthorne secluded himself for 12 years to learn to write fiction. ... It's been known that, "Hawthorne was influenced chiefly by authors in the great tradition - Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Bunyan- ( Baym.16). ... As Owen attempts this challenge, "he is forced to do battle with the mass of his society, which not only misunderstands him but even actively condemns his purposes" (...

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Explaining that the savage "fulfills a structural requirement of the story: a savage counterpart to the refined European woman," and also that the biggest "difference is the one implied in the author's bestowal of human expression to the one and the withholding of it from the other... Achebe pointed out that "in place of speech they made 'a violent babble of uncouth sounds,'" also saying that "it is clearly not of Conrad's purpose to confer language on the 'rudimentary souls' of Africa." ... So, I stand now and say that depending on one's interpretation of Jo...

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The purpose of John's action is to make Ann happy. ... John's purpose in setting them up was to make Ann happy and his reason was to show Ann his devotion though sacrifice. ... This author's style of writing is unique in that her work is comparable to the bible. ... Also, the ways this author describes snowdrifts are like that of snakes. ...

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The next author to give me an insight on Italy was Dante". ... It is actually more like an autobiographical journey of life through its author, Dante Alighieri's eyes. ... Written originally as a long poem separated into cantos or songs, he basically wrote with the personal purpose of recording where all of the people he came in contact within his life, will go when they die. ... Due to the fact that Dante poured his heart and soul into his writing there are many symbols that relate to his personal life. ... The authors gave me a view of the people while the lectures provided more of a...

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The Relationship between Stories and Their Sources Most authors use some type of source when writing a story. ... The source can be used for many different purposes. A certain author may use a source to show different parallels between two stories or to show similarities between events or characters. ... Whatever the authors reason for picking a certain source it seems to give the story completion and significance. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...

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Henry Morris, a respected theologian, expresses this belief when he wrote "The books of the Old Testament, narrating God's dealing with the people of Israel, would be provincial and bigoted, were they not set in the context of God's developing purposes for all mankind, as laid down in the early chapters of Genesis" (17). ... Despite hundreds of years of careful study, no precise author can be discerned from the text or from history. ... While many Orthodox Jews still hold to this belief, most theologians, non-Orthodox Jews, and Christians no longer accept this view and instead see ...

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Arthur Miller, winner of many literary and dramatic awards, is an incredibly influential force in American drama. His plays deal with issues common to every society. He makes the audience face fault, weakness, and ignorance; subjects we would typical hide from. At the same time he emphasizes strengt...

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The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. It tells us what is going on at present with Obi's trial and backtracks to the past in order to reveal what kind of man Obi is: an educated man, a young man who is Nigerian but who has studied in England. Most significantly, this first chapter juxtaposes the two extreme cultures that are at work in the novel as a result of colonialism. The scene between Mr. Green and the British Councilman, and the scene among the Umuofia Progressive Union are juxtaposed against each other to illustrate their differen...

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