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    SETTING The Maze Runner is taken place in the post-apocalyptic era. The characters are in the middle of a massive maze. The shelter in the middle is called the Glade. PLOT The Maze Runner is about a boy named Thomas who is brought to a place called the Glade. He arrives there in a big elevator that they call the Box. Thomas has no memory about how he got in the Box or who he is. The only thing he knows is his name. When he gets out of the Box he is greeted by a group of about 50 teenage boys

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    Admire My Mother

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    Avalos ENC1101 Oct.26, 2017 My Abuela, Nory Let me tell you about wonderful women that not only raised me but my mother. This person is someone I admire and hope to be like her someday. My Abuela, Nory touched the heart and soul of everyone that met her, but none more so than me. She has always been there for me and my family. My Abuela has taught me many valuable things in life and hopefully, she will continue to do that. Nory is important to me because she knows how to cook, she knows how to have

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    Jesus’ words apply justly to both “saints and sinners”? Am I a saint or a sinner? I believe I am a sinner, I think everyone is a sinner. To be a saint you have to be sinless, which is impossible. So far all Whitefield has mentioned was that the audience is filled with self-deceived sinners. And he speaks of what Jesus said, “By their fruits ye shall know them.” George Whitefield also talks about how sinners dare not trust in church membership and sinners dare not trust heads or hearts. He never came

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    An example from Luke that shows Jesus came for the sinners is in Luke 7:44-48 it says: Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, ‘Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. 47 Therefore, I tell you, her

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    Hi hi~ So my answer to the question: what does the gospel mean to me? / How is it good news to me? Honestly, I’m not sure where to begin. But, I’ll try ~ First, I think it’s important to note that mankind has been under the condemnation of God when man first sinned – I think it’s more important for sinners to acknowledge that WE are all guilty of sin. If a sinner can’t acknowledge the hopelessness of his/her guilt before the lord... the idea of forgiveness becomes a foreign concept and one will

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    life where he is the Reverend, the one man in the town everyone should be able to trust, the one man no one expects to sin. The other side of his life is the sinner. This man who is supposed to be a religious man committed one of the worst sins a man of God could make. He helped break one of the ten commandments, adultery. One life is a sinner and one life is a very religious minister. Arthur Dimmesdale lead a double life that started as a sin resulted in a miracle, Pearl. Nearing the end of the novel

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    Dante, which character is named after himself. Yet, in the story Dante travels through Hell and is accompanied by his guide, Virgil, and meets various sinners. However, in the poem, Dante every so often would exhibit compassion or hostility using imagery, or diction, or both to different sinners, such as Ciacco the Hog, Bocca, and Count Ugolino. The sinner Ciacco the Hog, a Glutton in Circle Three, has a brief unplanned, compassionate moment with the character Dante as demonstrated with diction in his

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    Dante's Inferno Analysis

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    whom Dante looks up with profound respect. Dante the poet writes his version of Hell as 10 different circles and many ditches within, the deeper one goes the worse the sins get in his version of Hell. Through Dante the poet assigns each group of sinners in the circles and ditches a punishment. As seen in circle 4 and the 10th ditch of circle 8, the punishment fits the crime because, hoarders/spenders had a selfish drive that negatively impacted the lives of the people around them and in the view

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    Gilgamesh's Legacy

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    of Gilgamesh, legacy is a way for Gilgamesh to outlive his physical time on earth since he will never be able to achieve immortality. In Inferno, even sinners stuck in hell want Dante to bring back messages about them to the living in an effort to change their legacy. Despite some sinners not want to give their story to Dante, for both the sinners and Gilgamesh, their legacy makes the life they lived meaningful. Legacy among the living is a human concern across cultures, time, and religion

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    Analysis of Dante´s Inferno Essay

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    As Dante describes it, “The voice of each clamors its own excess when lust meets lust at the two points of the circle where opposite guilts meet in their wretchedness. (pg.73)” In life, these sinners were at one extreme interpretation of material things, and in death these two extremes punish each other until the end of time. Next, the sixth circle of hell is one of my favorite parts of Dante’s Inferno because of how well the punishment reciprocates

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