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    again. The reference made here is to the religious story of how Moses wrote the Ten Commandments on a tablet of stone. The visual in the ad is that of white colored Tide tablets used to bleach white clothes to remove stains. The tagline “The Greatest Tablets to Come Along since Moses Came Down from Mount Sinai” compares the crucial importance of the tablets that Moses once had with the bleaching tablets that Tide manufactures in order to provide clean white clothes to consumers (Harris, 2013). The second

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    The Ark of Covenant is a gold-covered wooden chest with the lid covered described in the book of Exodus. The Ark of Covenant contain the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. In the book of Exodus Moses gets a command from God to build and ark of acacia wood. On the ark were the tablets of law which God was about to give Moses. In between the two cherubim God promises to speak to Moses, as often as he shall give him commandments in reference to the israelites. The ark was designed to show that

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    importance of various artifacts found in Sumer. Cemetery and graves are among the most important sites which provide the most crucial evidence about everyday and multiple aspects of Sumer. Clay tablets and cuneiform script presented the legends, religious and cultural span of Mesopotamia. These tablets and inscription also hinted at the political and geographical association of Sumer with rest of the world. Many precious things such as gold, silver, carnelian, lapis lazuli found in Sumerian Royal

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    In “The Book of the Heart: Reading and Writing the Medieval Subject”, written by Eric Jager, he states that in the world of visual art in the medieval era, “book of the heart” was a commonly used image. Mr. Jager point out the different trends the term “book of the heart” goes through. Focusing on how the term went from literal to a commonly used figurative phrase, he tries to show how a frequently used term made such an impact on the past and the present. Using medieval art, literature, and other

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    think that it began with the Greek civilization that influenced the development of classical civilizations.” Mesopotamians used the water from the Tigris and Euphrates river to irrigate their geographical area. Having agriculture, they lack of wood, stone, and metal resources. Baghdad, the capital of Iraqi, is the heritage of the Sumerian

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    When I had read the article Nazi death camp's final survivor dies, I had thought that the text structure was claim and supports. The reason why I feel that claim and supports is the text structure is because underneath the heading, A Mouthpiece For Those Who Cannot Speak, it had claimed, “He was a frequent public speaker, wrote a popular book and led dozens of youth trips to the destroyed camp in Poland.” The supporting detail that added onto that was, "He was committed to making sure that the voices

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    They also trained themselves to become a professional army. Later they arrived at Mount Sinai, where Moses retrieved the Ten Commandments from God. He recorded it on two stone tablets. After Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he found out that the Israelites were worshipping a Golden Calf when he was gone. Moses smashed the tablets in furious. The fault is mainly Aaron’s. Aaron was sent to soothe the Israelites and keep them good. But he led them into a wrong way by letting the people drifting off

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    archeological discovers in relatively recent times that Aztec mythology and accounts are becoming more and more clear. Evidence of human and non-human sacrifices has been dug up as well as tablets depicting events within Aztec mythology. As Karl Taube said “Excavations soon revealed that the Coyolxauhqui stone lay at the base of the stairway on the Huitzilopochtli side of Templo Mayor. In other words, each sacrificed human prisoner thrown down the

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    evidence for the Ark to not exist. ("Noah's Ark Found in Turkey?"). For example, an ancient tablet reveals new details about Noah’s Ark prototype. The tablet tells a story about the roots of the Old Testament tale of Noah. It tells a similar story, complete with detailed instructions for building a giant vessel known as a coracle. Also, the tablet says that animals should enter “two by two.”( "Ancient Tablet Reveals New Details about Noah's Ark Prototype”). With saying this, Noah’s Ark does exist.

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    Indus Valley Civilization: In the region of South Asia, Indus Valley civilization is acknowledged as the oldest civilization which is situated in the region of India's western drift and Indus River (Hirst, 2017). This civilization performed central government and delivered well developed cities and towns along with compositions and controlled food productions. This civilization is different from those of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and hence was not overwhelmed by intense figures of religion (Green,

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