Key Themes In The Book Of Lamentations

3. In what ways did the Puritans attempt to make religion a controlling force in everyday life?

Throughout the existence of the Jewish faith, Hebrews/Jews have experienced many obstacles, which they have all overcome. Persecution and perseverance are two themes that occur throughout the history of the religion.These two themes play a role in the importance of history to Jewish people, show similarities to other races and religions, draw opinions and emotions of people and uncover a clear moral message within their faith. The story of Abraham and the covenant can be connected to all of the concepts I just identified. This story is where the Jewish faith first began. God spoke to Abraham and told him to leave his home in Mesopotamia and take him and his family to the land of Canaan. Abraham followed God’s wishes and moved to Canaan in 1800 BCE. Abraham's descendants the Hebrews, lived in Canaan but struggled due to

The Odyssey is an epic pome that shows tragedy that Odysseus and Penelope had to endure. However, Penelope’s pain and suffering was not tantamount Odysseus’. After the completion of the Odyssey, it is evidently clear that Odysseus dealt with far worse struggles and experienced pain that far surpassed Penelope’s. One example of Odysseus’s great struggle is that he experienced the pain of losing his soldiers, which where some of his greatest friends and comrades. Penelope, on the other hand, lost some of her family but Odysseus also suffers through this because they were also his family. Secondly, Odysseus experienced the exact same pain as Penelope since they were torn away from each other. Odysseus’s heart became a prize that women without

The Jews in the town were forced into a small ghettos in Sighet. Next, they are herded into cattle cars. After days and nights of cramming inside the car, exhaustion and starvation, they arrived in Birkenau. When they arrived in Birkenau, Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sisters. The Jews are evaluated whether they should be killed immediately or put to work. Eliezer and his father passed the evaluation. They are brought to the prisoner’s barracks. The Jewish arrivals is treated with cruelty. The captors march them from Birkenau to the main camp, Auschwitz. They arrive in Buna, a work camp, where Elie is put to work in an electrical-fittings factory. Under slave-labor conditions, severely malnourished and decimated by the frequent selections, the Jews take solace in caring for each other, in religion, and in Zionism, a movement favoring the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, considered the holy land. The prisoners are forced to watch the hanging of fellow prisoners in the camp courtyard. They even hang small child. Because of the horrific conditions in the camps, many of the prisoners begin to slide into cruelty, concerned only with personal survival. Sons begin to abandon and abuse their fathers. Elie himself begins to lose his humanity and his faith in God and in the

Each of these texts respond to phenomena relating to the Nile. The text: ‘Hymn to the Nile, ‘responds to the flooding of the Nile and how the Egyptians believed that the God Hapy who is quoted as being ‘the nourisher of all who thirst,’ (Hymn to the Nile Stanza 1 line 9) was responsible for this phenomena. This topic was significant to the ancient Egyptians because the Nile was central to their survival and without the flooding of the Nile they would have no fertile land nor be able to harvest crops for food and the people would starve. The text states that: ‘a million would perish among men’ (quoted from Hymn to the Nile stanza 3 line 5) when the Niles flood water was low. This phenomena is significant to Herodotus as it provided him with insight into the relationship between the Egyptians and the Nile and helped him better understand the God Hapy.

In the story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, The narrator defined Omelas as a Utopian city, where everyone in the city is filled with endless joy. The society that they have can be described as the perfect world. While everyone maintains a pleased life, there is a child that is mistreated by the town all to keep everyone happy with their lives. The child has to be locked up in a dark basement, where the child is feed every little and abused by the people in the city. If the child was not locked up and neglected the city could be in danger of losing that happiness, also in fear of the city being destroyed. Many people of the city chose to leave the city, because they didn't believe in the act of hurting that child. “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” (Guin pg 444) This quote is meant for the audience understand what the narrator is truly saying, which she is trying to compare the Omelas society as to the society today.

Wiesel uses the word Kabbalah when he is talking to Moishe which he explains as “the poorest of poor.” As they talked about Kabbalah he seems to have hope in his tone, and then that tone of hope seems to decrease as he starts to explain how much had begun to happen only soon after that. When Weisel is talking about Kabbalah, at first he uses the word in a positive way as he speaks to Moishe but then it quickly turns into something negative in the matter of one page. Weisel says “And in the course of those evenings I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity, in that time when question and answer would become ONE” (5). Weisel then goes on to say “ AND THEN, one day all foreign jews were expelled from Sighet and Moishe the Beadle was a foreigner” (6). The

During 1944, Elie Wiesel was forced from his home to undertake a great trial, known by many as the Holocaust. After the grueling meat grinder, known by some as the Shoah, he had survived, and was able to write his experiences years after the event. In short, Wiesel wrote Night to remind people of the horrors and conditions he had experienced within the concentration camps. Years after the Holocaust occurs, Wiesel shows the harsh treatment on him and his peers, enforced by the Schutzstaffel, such as working with great starvation and tiredness. The writing reveals the feelings of oppressed; starved; weakening men under the rule of fascist Nazis. It also reveals the trials he had endured on the mind and body, releasing those negative thoughts

thing. There was so much pain and sorrow in the plague times. The signs of the

born in daly city (california) - parents are stephen pelzer & catherine pelzer : parents are both alcoholics

How the Other Half Lives is a well written chronicle by Jacob Riss during the era of the late 1800s and the early 1900s in order to bring awareness of the abandoned immigrants that lived in what is described as the lower part of Manhattan. Immigrants from all over and different ethnicities like the Germans, African- Americans,Chinese,Irish,Jews,Italians,and the Bohemians would flee to New York. Most immigrants would live in what are called tenements which were owned by the some of the wealthiest families. After the year of 1900 approximately 80,000 tenements were created. A good majority of the population lived in tenements. Tenement living conditions were dirty and not safe for people to live in. They also had very high rates in crime and had a large amount of a variety of diseases. With many diseases there was more than 5,000 deaths due to cholera. Then he goes in depth in each chapter describing each race and the characteristics that they have and also how those immigrants are portrayed by others. Riss defines the harsh environment that the people live in and describes how the harsh yet shocking of the society. He speaks of the illegal and legal events that were happening during the time. Jacob also goes on to explain how each the adult suffered because of the number of infants that were dying.

Imagine your plane flying over the ocean when all of a sudden BOOM you here your plane get shot down. You later realize that your stranded on an island, but you 're not alone. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a book about kids that fled from England due to World War 2. While they were fleeing on an airplane they are shot down, leaving them on an island. With no parents and ages ranging from three to fifteen years of age you can just imagine what it was like. After months of being on the island civilization was lost, and the boys went savage, losing sight of realization. During this period you can pick out lots of biblical allegories and how they relate to the Bible. For example baptism, who the christ figure is, the breaking of the ten commandments and rape.

In El Salvador during the 1970’s the campesinos, the indigent class, were treated as second class citizens by the military and elite classes. To find salivation these people flocked to the Catholic Church for wisdom, love, and protection. To comfort their parish the priests of El Salvador often preached to the people that God wanted them to endure suffering for an eternal reward. However, after continuous violence by the military, priests such as Fr. Rutilio grande and others began to preach a new aspect based on the book of Exodus (3-14). This new teaching was about the Israelites freedom from the bonds of slavery to a new life with a future in a Promised Land. The priests started teaching the events of the exodus, because it was very similar

Imagine: It’s the mid-1940’s, and you’re in a concentration camp working as a slave. Your family is dead and/or missing, and you're slowly dying from starvation and abuse, seeing people die has become a norm for you and you live in constant fear that you will be next. This is what almost 9 million Jews had to face in Europe during the Holocaust and out of them, only 3 million survived. Now Imagine this: It’s the late 1900’s and you're an African American living in your home country of South Africa, but times are hard for you. Simply because of the color of your skin, you have been stripped of your rights and freedom. You are only allowed to do what the “white man” says you can do and if you question them it could mean imprisonment or even your life! This was the lifestyle of African Americans and many other minorities in South Africa in a time called Apartheid. In the following essay, we will examine two quotes from victims of both the Holocaust and Apartheid.

The Book of Numbers – in Hebrew, Bəmidbar, meaning “in the wilderness [of Sinai]” – describes the the Israelites’ long journey in the desert to take possession of God’s promised land. The Jewish Study Bible divides Numbers into three major units based on “geographical criteria” and “ideological motifs”. The first unit spans from Numbers 1.1 to 10.10 and details the Israelites’ encampment at Mount Sinai and their preparation for the long journey. The second unit picks up this narrative and describes the generation‐long march in the desert from Sinai to Moab. The final unit, starting with Numbers 22.2, narrates the encampment on the plains of Moab before entering the promised land of Canaan. Although the stories in these three units take place