Nine Worthies

or strings attached to our gift giving. Now I’ve gotta do something for you. Give something back. Measure up. And we treat a day of Thanksgiving no differently. Obligation. Duty. Somehow, we must give God a gift of equal measure – a thank you note worthy of his appreciation. But there’s the hang up; you can’t. What could you possibly give that Jesus doesn’t already have? If life and forgiveness with God is a transaction, our sin leaves us dead every time; sorry, but your card is denied; your credit

Softball is a difficult sport to play. While playing the game, players must follow the rules. Some rules can change, kind of like people. It is up to that person to make a positive or negative change. In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, many of the characters change dramatically. If Miss Havisham was still alive in this novel, she would make positive changes for herself, Estella, and Pip. First, Miss Havisham would learn to express her feelings. She realizes days before her death

royal scepter, but he still needed the confidence of his commanders in order to rule effectively. He established this confidence in the assemblies throughout the Iliad. The assemblies acted as forums of discussion and delegation, where those who were worthy, could speak and voice to their own heroism. To understand the essence of the assembly, it is easier to view them as an advisory council. Where the commanders of the Achaean force advised Agamemnon on appropriate courses of action. Agamemnon’s power

black Mississippi girl, to the titles of an actress, philanthropist, publisher and producer. Even though both of them shows their own perspectives about the ideas of holding hope by thinking about the endless opportunities offered by the life and to worthy ourselves by being an inspiration for other lives, I agree with Winfrey because I believe her words are stronger about the relevance in holding hope in each of these aspects of our life in our way to destiny; and I found her words have an enduringly

has put itself at a prime place in the global market by offering competitive prices compared to the competition. It is obvious from the global automotive sales data that South Korea’s Hyundai KIA Automotive Group ranked from tenth in nineteen ninety-nine to a global rise to fourth in the world in the years to come that they have thought a lot about pricing competitiveness (Freeman 2008). With the company jumping six seats in the past years and leaving behind the Honda, Toyota, Fiat, and Chrysler; KIA’s

to have the man she loved had managed to have him sentenced to death and his wife being spared till birth. For the first time in months, John and Elizabeth are finally in each other's presence. With the time to himself, he has decided he is not a worthy man, that he is in fact a fraud, one who cannot die honorably. Now is the time to decide their own fate. Proctor can falsely confess to witchcraft and wrongly give the names of others, or die a fraud. The hope of living sways his mind one way before

children would be betrothed from early childhood, and Dante was promised to marry the daughter of a family friend before he met Beatrice at age nine. Also, Dante’s love for Beatrice was never intended to be known, which was common in the 14th century, and was called “courtly love.” The painting is describing the moment Beatrice first spoke to Dante, nine years after their first meeting, as described in Alghieri’s poem “La Vita Nuova”. It would be out of line for Dante to profess his love for Beatrice

Porter Word count: 863 Both “In the new landscape” by Bruce Dawe and “Your Attention Please” by Peter Porter are fine examples of Speculative Fiction worthy of being in a Year Nine anthology for 2012. The poems are in-depth hypotheses of what society will eventuate too, allowing the reader to ponder the way of living in the future: a true example of speculating. The poetic structures display careful imagery and

and demanded that a young maiden be sacrificed to him “on the appointed day in the eighth month” each year (Rosenberg, 331). The people were forced to obey the Yung serpent, for none of the men that they sent were able to defeat it. This went on for nine years, but on the tenth year, a brave maiden volunteered to be the next sacrifice, our hero Chi Li. This is the call to adventure, it was she who called herself, her heart and her mind. Since her parents had six daughters and no sons, that losing her

means for targeted recruitment of Englishmen willing to undertake the voyage and settlement of New England with the Massachusetts Bay Company. The most obvious demographic targeted by these points are those of the Puritan religion, as seven of the nine points used to justifying the venture directly related to the church or Bible, one of which is to counteract efforts carried out by Jesuit Catholic missionaries. Furthermore, some preference seems to be given for those of elevated economic condition