The Silver Chalice Essays

  • The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain

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    The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain is a spectacular story which takes place about twenty years after Jesus ascended into Heaven. It tells of how a young man named Basil was adopted by a rich merchant. But, when the rich merchant died, Basil’s cousin stole Basil’s inheritance; and made him a slave. After a few years he was to be rescued, married, and to gain back his inheritance. The story begins when a rich merchant named Ignatius asked Theron, a seller of pens, if he was willing to give Ambrose

  • Essay On Wicca

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    about the religion. Most covens and Neopagan groups did not allow people under eighteen into their coven, and so many teenagers started using books to find out more. Because of this, quite a few books were published to provide for them, including Silver Ravenwolf's Teen Witch: Wicca for a New Generation and Scott Cunningham's Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner. This helped wicca to get more younger people involved in their religion, and it has been thought that the reason why so many young

  • Martin Heidegger

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    Martin Heidegger Note: The main work from which text was drawn is "The Question Concerning Technology". Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher, who developed existential phenomenology and has been widely regarded as the most original 20th-century philosopher. His works include complicated essays such as "An introduction to Metaphysics" and "The Question Concerning Technology." In his essay "The Question Concerning Technology," Heidegger attempts to create several intricate arguments

  • Byzantium Civilization

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    expresses adoration, sympathy, prayer, and distress. The Attarouthi Treasures consist of fifteen objects: ten chalices, three censers, a wine strainer, and a dove. The artifacts were found buried in the vicinity of the ancient town Attarouthi. This town was a stopping point on the trade routes. The chalices were used to hold wine during the Liturgy. Upright frontal figures decorated most of the chalices with Christ appearing as a beardless young man. The dove represents the Holy Christ that descended over

  • Kiss Of The Fur Queen Tomson Highway Analysis

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    gift for her will be “the silver cup, that holy chalice.” Highway’s use of symbolism— “holy chalice”— elevates the significance of the though-to-be ordinary cup to the one that carries marital meaning. In Christianity, the Holy Chalice, or the Holy Grail, is a treasured item, for it retains important historical and religious values. The item, though fictional, is so valuable that many conflicts and war had occurred in the world of literature. In this context, the holy chalice holds a meaning of an item

  • Celtic Metalwork

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    illuminated manuscripts and the jewelry that made this age thrive. Mostly using exquisite metals like gold and silver and encrusting valuable gems for there designs. Furthermore the true metallurgical services of the Irish blacksmiths were not only limited to manuscripts. People still needed every day objects, which helped widen the blacksmiths’ skill set. People needed things made like chalices, platens, crosses and even door handles which was all done by the Blacksmith

  • Creative Writing: The Christmas Clock

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    The grandfather clock began to toll the hour, its chimes reverberating deep into Arthur's bones. Was it his imagination, or was the Christmas tree growing taller with each stroke of the clock? At the twelfth chime, there was a great flash of light from the top of the clock, and smoke rolled through the room. Arthur thought he saw his godfather perched on top of the clock, cloak billowing out behind him like wings. Arthur had the impression of fire spitting from his mouth, but then Kilgharrah’s trunk

  • What Is Satanism?

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    What is Satanism? Satanism is the religion of the flesh. Happiness, to the Satanist must be found here and now. No heaven exists to go to after death and no Hell of burning punishment awaits the sinner. Strongly attached to our family and close associations, we make excellent friends. Satanists do not believe that you can love everyone and treat every person the same. By failing to hate you make yourself unable to love. Feared by their enemies and loved by their friends, Satanist's build their

  • The Tragic Story of Judas Iscariot

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    The Tragic Story of Judas Iscariot Judas Iscariot. A man who usually strikes fear into the hearts of Christians and Jews alike. But who is this praised man of Kerioth, really? He betrayed our LORD for 30 silver shekels. Yet, there HAS to be SOME good in him, or else, why on earth would Jesus pick him? I'll inform you on Judas' possible motives, thoughts that may have been running through his head before and after the fact, his culpability, and the status of his soul. Most people believe Judas'

  • Essay On Odenwald Germany

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    Odenwald Discover the Odenwald in Germany. Odenwald (Odin’s Forest) in Germany is filled with mystery, endless legends, culture and history. For all those nature and history lovers out there, Odenwald Germany is a gem to be explored, whether you travelling by car, motorbike, bicycle or on foot. Odenwald Germany has something for everyone. If you prefer towns or cities to the open spaces filled with fresh air, rolling hills, deep forests and wildlife, Odenwald Germany has an abundance of medieval

  • James Joyce's Araby - The Lonely Quest in Araby

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    selling flimsy wares. His grailhas turned out to be only flimsy tea sets covered with artificial flow-ers. As the upper hall becomes completely dark, the boy realizes thathis quest has ended. Gazing upward, he sees the vanity of imagininghe can carry a chalice through a dark throng of foes. 1 Carl G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soid. trans. W. S. Dell and CaryF. Baynes (New York, 1933), pp. 156-157. 2 William Bysshe Stein, "Joyce's 'Araby': Paradise Lost," Perspective, X11,No. 4 (Spring 1962)

  • James Joyce's Araby - Lack of Insight in Araby

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    Araby – Lack of Insight Readers of "Araby" often focus on the final scene as the key to the story. They assume the boy experi­ences some profound insight about himself when he gazes "up into the darkness." I believe, however, that the boy sees nothing and learns nothing--either about himself or others. He's not self- reflective; he's merely self-absorbed. The evidence supporting this interpretation is the imagery of blindness and the ironic point of view of the narrator. There can seem to

  • The Fourth Crusade

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    The Fourth Crusade Is karma the reason for the slow but evident sinking of Venice into the Mediterranean? Maybe it is indemnity for the cruel selfish acts of Venice during the Fourth Crusade. The Venetians along with crusaders robbed Constantinople for personal gains. The Fourth Crusade should be an example that it is crude and unjust to attack fellow men for no reason. The Crusades were a series of battles and short wars against the Muslims. In the eleventh century Jerusalem had been taken over

  • Economic Factors' Effects on the Pilgrimage of Grace

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    Sparked in Lincolnshire in October 1536 and expanding rapidly through Yorkshire and the far north, the Pilgrimage of Grace was a popular rising that presented a “major armed challenge to the Henrician Reformation” . The first modern writers, Madeline Hope Dodds and Ruth Dodds, argued that it was an association of interest groups with their own worries and priorities. Shortly after, A. G. Dickens supported the Doddsian argument stating that he saw a “fundamental divergence of interests and attitudes

  • Arabay by James Joyce

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    Select Literary Elements of “Araby” In “Araby” by James Joyce, the author uses several literary elements to convey the multitude of deep meanings within the short story. Three of the most prominent and commonly used by Joyce are the elements of how the themes were developed, the unbounded use of symbolism, and the effectiveness of a particular point of view. Through these three elements Joyce was able to publish his world famous story and allow his literary piece to be understood and criticized

  • Biography of Federico Garcia Lorca

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    Biography of Federico Garcia Lorca Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5,1898; died near Granada, August 19,1936, García Lorca is Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poet and dramatist. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift

  • Bram Stoker's Dracula Meets Hollywood

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    emerged as the most d... ... middle of paper ... ...James Craig. Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. Skal, David J. The Monster Show: A Culture History of Horror. New York: W.W.Norton & Co., 1993. Silver, Alain, and James Ursini. The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. New York: Limelight Editions, 1994. Tibbetts, John C., and James M. Welsh. Novels into Films: The Encyclopedia of Movie Adapted from Books. New York: Checkmark

  • James Joyce's Araby - Araby as Epiphany for the Common Man

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    James Joyce's Dubliners - Araby as Epiphany for the Common Man Joseph Campbell was one of many theorists who have seen basic common denominators in the myths of the world's great religions, Christianity among them, and have demonstrated how elements of myth have found their way into "non-religious" stories. Action heroes, in this respect, are not unlike saints. Biblical stories are, quite simply, the mythos of the Catholic religion, with saints being the heroes in such stories. The Star Wars

  • Paul Newman, James Dean, and Marilyn Monroe

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    foodstuff under the umbrella name Newman's' own, with all the profits going to support his project for children suffering from cancer. (classicfilm) Paul Newman, classically handsome with an abundance of sex appeal was offered his first film Silver Chalice, 1954 by Warner Brothers.

  • Events Of The Year 1952

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    The decade of the Fifties gave birth to Rock and Roll. When Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock became popular in 1952, the nation learned to swing to a whole new sound. But, Rock wasn't the only music of the Fifties. (Rewind the fifties jukebox) Other artists with other songs had folks humming' for much of the decade. Pat Boone, Perry Como and Patti Page - just to mention the "Ps". (Fifties Web) The feel-good innocence of a lot of the Fifties music reflects on the post World War II optimism in America