... town and even in this school, people get confused with the ways of God and the ways of the "world", which are two separate entities. The people of the "world" rationalize this way; they look at Christ as merely a prophet, and therefore their view of The Last Supper and the crucifixion is a bitter and doleful event that needlessly ended the life of a great man. This is so wrong, in fact ... it can't be farther from the truth. The people of the church, however, look at the prophecy and look at the teachings of the Son of ... God, and rejoice in the forgiveness of sins bought with the Blo...

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Taken at face value, John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, vividly depicts the hardships that the people of the 1930's were made to suffer. In the novel, these hardships are shown via the Joad family. However, when looking deeper into the many hidden allusions and parallels between the lines, the reader will find numerous references to the Bible and its stories. Jim Casey, a former preacher is one such ... for every person in the family. The night before leaving on the trek to California, the Joad family along with Jim Casey reminded me much of the Last Supper. Jim Casey, once again be...

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... as I had imagined while reading the bible. Some of the differences were: the importance of Mary Magdalene, the point of view in which the movie is portrayed, and the end of the movie. First, Mary Magdalene appeared a lot in the movie, but was not mentioned as much in the bible. In The Gospels, Magdalene was proclaimed as simply being a woman that bathed Jesus' feet at the Last Supper with expensive perfume. There was ... not much else mentioned about her. In fact, her name is not even mentioned. But in the movie, she is Jesus ... ' woman. She follows him around and is portrayed as his l...

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• Grade Level: High School