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    middle east during that time. However, there were also scholars who have criticized him and his preachings. There have been many forms of literature that depict Muhammad in a very vile and repulsive light such as Salman Rushdie’s novel, “The Satanic Verses”. Although he claims that his novel is a work of art, and should not be interpreted in a literal manner. However, I think that his novel insults Muhammad and is also offensive to Muslims as he uses several Islamic themes and allusions and degrades

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    Carnival in history is a grand celebration that most normal people today in Louisiana would have called Mardi Gras. The grand festival of Carnival is famously known for critiquing numerous social, gender, political, and religious norms during the Renaissance. William Shakespeare’s play about cross dressing Twelfth Night and John Milton’s religious fictional Paradise Lost utilize the festivities and the enjoyment of traditional festivities carnival ideas like Viola’s and Satan’s disguises; role reversals

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    “I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing” is a free verse poem written by Walt Whitman. The poem is about a memory the persona has regarding a solitary oak tree in Louisiana. The persona speaks quite highly of the oak tree and, in a sense, almost envies the oak tree because the oak tree is able to be alone. Essentially, the persona in the poem is lonely and wishes they could be more like the oak tree they are so fond of. This poem examines the topic of loneliness and displays the persona’s viewpoint

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    IDENTITY CRISIS IN SELECT NOVELS OF SALMAN RUSHDIE The question of identity is the most controversial issue in postcolonial time and literature and it can be regarded the most important because of its crisis exist in all postcolonial communities. Due to the circumstances of post colonial era and the problematic conditions that faced newly freed nations and countries in their search and formation of self identity the crisis floated on the surface. In the following of World War II, the act

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    earth and body. In “And death shall have no dominion,” Thomas portrays the redemption of the soul in death, and the soul’s liberation into harmony with nature and God. Thomas best depicts his beliefs, though abstract and complicated, to the reader with the use of analogies and images of God’s presence in nature. Appreciating the virtue of humility in “Shall gods be said to thump the clouds,” Thomas associates God with thunder, rainbows, and night only to remind us

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    tells a story of seasons passing and things in nature to an end it is a narrative poem, which is a poem that tells a story. The title of this poem is not obvious because Robert Frost uses metaphors and symbolism in Nothing Gold Can Stay. When Robert Frost says gold he is referring to things in life that are valued and beautiful for the complete title actually means that nothing that is precious lasts forever. Although there is no specific line of verse on the poem consistently repeated, the word gold

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    is describing just that. Whitman used past tense throughout the entire poem. I believe that this poem is someone reflecting on a moment in life where they made a choice between knowledge and true happiness. The character’s ability to connect with nature helps them make a tough decision about what they want in life. Whitman shows this through careful word choice and natural imagery. The title and first line of the poem are exactly the same, “When I heard the learn’d astronomer” (Line 1). Whitman’s

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    enchanted light” by Pablo Neruda and “Sleeping in the forest” by Mary Oliver? If you haven’t you should go read them now because they are two good poems that state that we need to take care of nature. Even though Ode to enchanted light and Sleeping in the forest both say we need to start taking care of our nature they have different styles and elements. Ode to enchanted light by Pablo Neruda and Sleeping in the forest by Mary Oliver are two very good poems but have different writing styles such as the

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    Last Child in the Woods, written by Richard Louv, is filed with multiple rhetorical strategies for the purpose of developing his argument of nature verses mankind. In today’s society, technology has become essential for a person to properly function. Louv draws the reader’s attention to the lack of nature in the lives of today's technology obsessed generation with the application of devices such as: anecdotes, sarcasm, and the use of rhetorical questions while also building to power. One rhetorical

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    According to the Entwistle (2015) “Cosmology is the science of nature, structure, and origin of the universe as a whole.” Most of the cosmological issues relate to methaphysics and ancient beliefs, but it uses scinetific approach instead of philosophical. Modern cosmology is mostly presented in theories, mathematics, physics and astronomy branches. I consider Christian cosmology to be an allie to psychological stands about cosmology. The most basic explanation why do I believe that cosmology (or

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