.... was badly advised by three friends who were ill equipped to counsel, and had no grasp of the spiritual realities that God teaches. God permits suffering in the life of the believer in order to strengthen his faith. It is precisely when the hedges are moved from around us that we find ourselves depending upon God. The more we are deprived of the temporal supports for our earthly happiness, the more we are driven to the Lord for our comfort. This is why Job was chosen. Because of his completely undeserved suffering, his steadfastness in faith, and his complete submission to God, Job received the honor of becoming a chief figure in the Bible .....

.... events in history which has change science fiction into what is today, the “…explosion of the first atomic bomb and landing on the moon� (Gunn and Boucher 5). Think about it, seeing a little space ship go millions of miles into space and landing on a moon. People would thinks to themselves wow. Or seeing a huge mushroom cloud fling into the air and destroy everything it touches. That the only purpose of science fiction is to “…deals with events that did not happen, may have happened, or have not yet happened� (Gunn and Boucher 1). People often have a hard time understanding that Science Fiction and Fantasy are very different fro .....

.... The story is set in and around the Dominican Republic, around the 1950-60’s. The main character in this book is Annie John, she is a black girl in a English ruled and own colony. She is a smart tall girl of an inquisitive nature. She has always been smart in school, but her more �wild� side has always driven her towards yearning other experiences. She is a slightly conceded girl and always wants to be the best in her circle of friends and in school. She enjoys being the center of attention and does everything she can to achieve this. She has changing relationships with a couple of girls throughout the book and we can see how tho .....

.... So various, so beautiful, so new Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night� (Arnold, 830-831). Matthew Arnold gives his views on life, love and the world. He explains that the wor .....

.... system of forced migration, while others argue resettlement was carried out for commercial advantage, defence strategy or simply as a genuine response to penal dilemmas . The majority of convicts were sent from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and comprised mainly working class men and women . The typical age of the British convict sent to Australia was 26, and single . The proportion of females transported was relatively low, initially compromising only 11 percent of those sent . Contrary to popular belief, most of the arriving convicts were healthy and fit with the majority of females categorized within a child bearing age. .....

.... of moral terminology, Poe writes as though "Christianity had never been invented." (Hoffman 171) Poe did offer to posterity one tale with a moral. Written in 1841 at the dawn of Poe's most creative period, Poe delivers to his readers a satirical spoof, a literary Bronx cheer to writers of moralistic fiction, and to critics who expressed disapprobation at finding no discernible moral in his works. The tale "Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral" presents Poe's "way of staying execution" (Poe 487) for his transgressions against the didactics. The story's main character is Toby Dammit, who from infanthood, had been flogged lef .....

.... merely as "a personification of the writer’s memories, dreams and affections;" meanwhile, Housman’s central character is one "who could at once be himself and not himself" (Scott-Kilvert 26). In what Housman himself regarded to be one of his best poems, "XXVII: Is my team ploughing," the focus is placed upon a conversation between a dead man and one of his friends from his previous life (Housman 18). "XXII: The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread;" meanwhile, expresses an emotional wonder discovered in the eyes of a passing soldier (Housman 15). Both the ambiguous quality of the dead .....

.... children at all. The town that Samuel Paris lived in, Salem was an ordinary town. Salem was located near the wilderness. The continent spread far west and most of it was a mystery to the people of Salem. Every now and then Indian tribes would move in and out of there. But in the town of Salem lots of helpful people, and no one really had time to fool around. Everyone in the town knew one another and there was no, “minding your own business”. Everything was everyone’s business and this would soon cause problems. The people of Salem believed that the wilderness that lies next to them was a home for the devil. “ .....

.... One day Paul D invites Denver and her mother to go to the fair in town with him. On their way back from the fair they see a mysterious figure sleeping on a tree stump close to their home. The girl sleeping on the stump looked very tired and in need of help. When Sethe asks the girl what her name is, she replies by saying it is Beloved. This comes as great shock, because that is what Sethe had wrote on her dead child’s tombstone. Beloved soon ends up staying with the family for months. Mysteriously Paul D leaves the house. Beloved becomes strongly attached to Sethe. Soon peculiar things start to occur. Things such as Belove .....

.... into the light of true reality: ideas in the mind. Yet, if someone goes into the light of the sun and beholds true reality and then proceeds to tell the other captives of the truth, they laugh at and ridicule the enlightened one, for the only reality they have ever known is a fuzzy shadow on a wall. They could not possibly comprehend another dimension without beholdin! g it themselves, therefore, they label the enlightened man mad. For instance, the exact thing happened to Charles Darwin. In 1837, Darwin was traveling aboard the H.M.S. Beagle in the Eastern Pacific and dropped anchor on the Galapagos Islands. Darwin found a wide array of a .....