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    , is a prolific writer and a minister of the Church of Christ. He closes each chapter of The Agony & Glory of the Cross with “The Cross…there is no other way!” Thus, I have taken Reverend Hodge’s declaration for the title of this review. He further explains his thesis of the importance of the cross: “Jesus could not save Himself and still be our Savior. There is no way but the cross.” The unique approach to teaching the New Testament – and Christs’ journey to Calvary – requires several readings,

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    The figures used on both pages are similar, crosses, birds, horses, fish, and felines. Also, the stylistic choice of putting figures inside circles was reoccurring. In the Frontispice, the image on the left, there is a decorative arch encasing a cross. It appears that the artist attempted to make the image symmetrical, with the line of symmetry running vertically down the middle of the page. There is only one definite difference between the

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    An Article about Roadside Memorials Essay

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    shape of a Christian cross, whereby the name of the deceased is carved in the cross’s horizontal line. Normally surrounding the memorial are flowers and other gifts to illustrate grief. This stone is situated at the location of the person’s death. Roadside memorials are put there by the family and relatives of the victim as a method of immortalizing their memory. It reassures them that although the person has died,

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    Roadside Memorials Essay

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    one in a car accident. While a grave marks where a body is finally laid, the roadside memorial marks the last place where a person was alive. The memorial is usually kept up by family and close friends and is decorated with flowers, messages, and a cross or plaque. However, often times controversial, these families believe that their moral authority to remember a loved one trumps any governmental regulations set in place. While they have been recently popping up throughout the Western world, they

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    You manage to force a smile as you approach the entrance to the so called, “space of empowerment”. The passing strangers’ smiles show happiness, but you simply cannot understand why. In your mind, fog is draped over the trenches like a calming peace over the hellish battleground. Bullets will soon fly across rusted barbed wired fences. You can almost smell blood, so fresh you could almost taste the bitter metal used to destroy the body. This is war- not the child 's backyard play . World War

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    he then knew who she was. The facial features looked somewhat like how she use to look in his memory, but tears started to escape his eyes as he kept staring at her. His heart raced as he didn’t notice how close she really was to him. He put the cross into his pocket, trying his best to hide it, and walked away as quickly as he could. To hope that his mother wouldn’t know it was him. When he arrived home, Eric still wasn’t there, but the tv was on. How long was I out? Dylan guessed that Eric

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    On Painting by Leon Alberti is, in essence, a book of guidelines for novice painters. Alberti explains that since paintings are meant to represent things that are seen, they need also be approached this way. In his theory, he breaks up the way of painting into three important components circumscription, composition, and the reception of light. Within these three are guidelines for the portrayal of subjects, spaces and emotion. In the historia, or the work of the painter, there is circumscription

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    Zebrafish Research Paper

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    Informative Speaking “Zebrafish Based Regenerative Heart Treament” In March 2003 Mark Richardson decided that he was going to take the ultimate plunge into commitment by proposing to his longtime girlfriend, Jeanette. Instead of getting down on one knee in a crowded room to profess his love, Richardson came up with a much more novel approach. After enjoying a meal at the Coral Reef restaurant in Disney’s Epcot Center, Richardson arranged for a professional scuba diver to appear inside

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    everything he made is credited to him, thus art historians could only have a strong idea about the amount of works he actually made. Cimabue created two large crosses, both made out of wood and decorated neatly. The first surviving cross was made around 1260 and the second cross is dated between 1287 and 1288. The earlier Crucifix is located in San Domenico, Arezzo, and it is his only work that could be attributed to a pictorial phase, however, all documentary evidence is lacking. The second work was commissioned

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    Langston Hughes’’ poem titled “Cross” Langston Hughes’ poem title “Cross” has a couple of different denotations and a few alternate connotations of them. Denotations and connotations “Cross” provide a deeper look into the mind, soul and psyche of the poet and also helps better understand the issues faced in America by Hughes. Cross reveals the many layers of thought and confusion going on in the mind of the Langston Hughes as well. Denotations of the word cross vary; it means to be angry, annoyed

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