... and to lying. As a "stripling Cherub," Satan asks Uriel, an archangel, for directions to paradise in order to adore man and to praise God. Uriel does not see Satan's hypocrisy, "the only evil that walks / Invisible." Once on earth, Satan changes into a wolf, and then into a cormorant where he sits in the Tree of Life ... terrified at the sight of Jesus, Satan flees from the presence of the Son of God, afraid of the punishment that he could receive for causing the downfall of man. Since he is a whiner, a complainer, a liar, and a coward who harms the weak, Satan is hardly made of the st...

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• Grade Level: High School

... slavery, his voyages around the world, how he bought his way out of slavery, learned how to read and write, even how he eventually got married. Equiano was a very religious man eventually becoming a Methodist, religion was a huge part of his life and even his identity. A major focus of the narrative is the horrors of slavery, Equiano's detail of the Middle Passage ... endured. This testament served as one of few written accounts of how bad slavery could be and why it shouldn't exist at all. "I began to raise my fear from man to him alone, and to call daily on his holy name with fear and...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... next life or a definitive resting place/peace, referred to as Moksha or Nirvana. In the New World, Aztecs believed that dying in certain ways led to different post-death existences: a man who died in battle would become a humming bee that would bring on the sunrise, a woman who died in childbirth would be reborn into a goddess that would bring on the sunset ... , it was distorted to serve the earthly needs of the living. Chinese royalty and leaders used the Mandate of Heaven to justify their individual periods of ruling or policies. This invisible, God-given doctrine protected them, alth...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate