Here on Earth Essays

  • Obsessive Love

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    Obsessive Love Here on Earth, written by Alice Hoffman, is an everyday life story which belongs to the literary period of realism. Realism is often described as a movement in literature which presents life in a very practical way. Usually, works in this literary period contain characterization and plot as similar as possible to what is found in everyday life. Donna M. Campbell states, “Broadly defined as a faithful representation of reality or verisimilitude, realism is a literary technique

  • Love and Destruction in Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth

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    Love and Destruction in Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth Dangerous love was an attraction for March in Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth. The story suggests that her love is pure from the beginning and that she could only love her counter part Hollis. The twist and turns that this novel brings shows the doom that falls upon March and Hollis's relationship. The affection grows to lust and then to a need for their bodies. March and Hollis's need for the love of each other lead to each of their destructions

  • Gabriel Drofyak: Why Were Humans Put On Earth?

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    Drofyak Why were humans put on Earth? Humans were put on Earth because of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but what were the specific reasons? God wanted someone who he could trust, but also someone who could choose from right and wrong, and God was willing to guide us to choose the right. Our God wanted to be a father and make us his beloved companions and he did that by blessing us. But we utterly betrayed Him and refused to listen to God, and he cursed the Earth. So even after we have betrayed

  • Does Christianity Lose Its Meaning?

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    Is Christianity losing its meaning? This is the question that many ask as many people today are becoming Christians just by name, but not actions. Despite people describing themselves as Christians, very small proportion of them really know what Christianity ought to be and as they do not attend Christian gatherings or practice the teachings. Christ exemplified the core Christian virtues of love and hope through his teachings and actions, which they should be practiced by every believing Christian

  • Argumentative Essay On Do Aliens Exist

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    aliens exist due to the fact that Earth was here 5.4 billion years before the first humans appeared as well as the fact that water is found on planets other than earth. Water has been found on multiple different planets in and out of our solar system. Any form of life needs water to grow and survive. NASA supports that they will have full proof of extraterrestrial life within the next two decades. "I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we're

  • The Danger of Overpopulation

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    a lot of waste and the earth won’t be able to handle this amount of wastes someday. The media will play a very important role to aware people about such a problem, and to start solving this problem. And one of the smartest ways to discuss the problem and aware people of it, is to present it to the audiences in an ironic way as cartoons. Take for an example, these two cartoons. The first cartoon shows the earth as a human being and it is beaten up which show us how the earth is suffering from overpopulation

  • Yahweh: The Role Of God In The Hebrew Bible

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    resembles both good and bad characteristics. One really particular characteristic of God that is portrayed in the Hebrew Bible is the role of the Creator. In the Book of Genesis, we get the story of how the Earth was made. The Book of Genesis tells two big creation stories: creation of Earth and of man. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over

  • If I Forget Thee Oh Earth Analysis

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    The exposition of, “If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth” is that in the future, there is a nuclear war on Earth that leaves it uninhabitable causing a great percentage of the population to make a new home known as, “the Colony” on the moon. Meanwhile, some people stayed on Earth in hopes of coming up with a solution so that everyone may return home. Over time, these efforts proved to be useless against the radiation as Clarke describes that, “one by one the radio stations had ceased to call: on the shadowed

  • Mormon Religion

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    (also known as the Mormon Church) was founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith. It is believed that Joseph Smith was a prophet who saw God the Father and His son Jesus Christ in a vision. He was directed to rebuild the church that Christ had started while on Earth. Since the death of Joseph Smith, many prophets have follow is continuing the work of leading others to God through a relationship with Jesus Christ and also by living their lives through the teaching of the Bible and the Book of Mormons. The Mormon

  • Contrasting Outlooks in Dream of the Rood and The Wanderer

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    Dream of the Rood and The Wanderer maintain opposed perspectives that greatly influence the way they view their common state of desolation. The dreamer and the Cross in Dream of the Rood embrace a religious ideology that gives them hope, whereas the earth-walker in The Wanderer embraces an existential view that leaves him to suffer his loneliness. The characters' differing outlooks greatly influence how they view their exile, their ultimate destination, and the journey to this destination, their "homecoming

  • Love vs. Lust in Andrew Marvell's Poem, To His Coy Mistress

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    I know that there is a unique difference between love and lust. In the Andrew Marvell poem “To His Coy Mistress,” I would argue over the issue of love versus lust. In this poem, we are introduced to a man who is infatuated with a young woman and wants to become intimate with her. He tries to pursue this young woman, but the woman is playfully hesitant. The man is trying to explain to the young woman if she keeps being resistant to him, they would never get a chance become intimate. Could it be that

  • An Analysis Of Edward Abbey's View Of Nature

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    Nature always has been and always will be the only constant and consistent thing in this world. It was here long before humans inhabited the earth and it is going to be here long after we are all gone. A few years ago, my family took a vacation to Arizona, while we were there we went to see the Grand Canyon. Seeing that and knowing that man had no role in the creation of it really puts into perspective just how amazing nature is. Granted, at the time I really did not care much about any of that,

  • Environmental Air Pollution

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    in creation. I do not believe that life on earth began spontaneously, nor do I believe that the earth is so delicately balanced. I don’t believe that the earth and its ecosystem are fragile. Many radical environmentalists do, they believe man can come along, all by themselves and change everything for worse. After hundreds of millions of years, they believe that we are the last two generations of human existence. And they think we can destroy the earth all by ourselves? I simply cannot believe this

  • The Pros and Cons of Going to Mars

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    explore the earth up and down, uncovering every rock and looking in every hole along the way. However, thousands of years of exploration have led to earth becoming a tapped resource. Humans now may ask the question; where do we go from here? Many answers have been suggested but one answer stands out from the rest, Mars. Nowadays humans view Mars as the next frontier, apparently forgetting that Mars is an eight-month trip, each way. What people don’t realize is how good we have it here on earth; water

  • Analysis Of E-The Book Of Everlasting Day

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    offers of the everlasting day, howsoever divinely and luring they might be: “I climb not to thy everlasting Day, / Even as I have shunned thy eternal Night” (11.1.541-542). For, she is earth- abound, committed to the cause of the earth. The Canto is a justification and glorification of the importance of the earth which eventually helps the poet in pointing out how Matter is the seedbed of spirit and how, in the last count, the real transformation is the transform action in the unit, in the

  • Birches Bending Into the Past and Out of the Present

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    explains the branches are bent because of an ice storm. This first wishful desire of children playing on the birches directly contradicts the statement he makes in which the speaker vividly describes how an ice storm bends the branches. The use of imagery here sets up a contrast between his childhood memories and the adult he has become. The adult in him can use reason to state exactly what happened, while his inner child only wishes it could be so simple. This theme of childhood is prevalent throughout

  • Gender of Nature: Mother Earth

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    Gender of Nature: Mother Earth “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair.” -The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran There is no voice more comforting than Mama’s. In the womb we are suspended in safe warmth, hearing every noise that Mama makes. And we don’t just hear her voice. We feel its vibrations, its muffled hum, through our ears and our entire forming bodies. It’s no wonder that that is often the only voice that can comfort us in the distress

  • Plato and the Forms

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    current reality and that it is only possible to achieve perfect knowledge and truth after our soul leaves our body and goes to the next realm where we can become or attain the Forms. Now I believe like Plato, that we can’t attain perfection while here on Earth, but I do believe that we must strive to reach perfectio...

  • The Importance of Biomes

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    organisms, and substrates found in the environment. Generally, a biome refers to a community of similar organisms that are found in a particular climate zone. There are six biomes of earth found in three climate zones. The three climate zones are called tropical, temperate, and polar climate zones; and the six biomes of earth are deserts, grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, rainforests, taiga, and tundras. [lecture] Biomes are generally differentiated on the basis of the temperature and precipitation

  • Philippians 5-11 Research Paper

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    of biblical times is described, when Jesus surrendered his sacred/holy relationship that he had between himself and God. He did this so that he did not feel like he was superior to all of the other people that walked alongside him while he was here on earth. Scripture tells us that Jesus had given up that relationship when he downgraded himself to being nothing more than just a servant in God’s eyes, because by doing so, he was able to display his devotion and love for His father by giving up his