I don't think that there was much written about the devil
tempting Jesus in the garden at Gethsemane. I think that most of the accounts of this
moment involve Jesus, the apostles, and prophets of old who comes to him in his time of
need. This "agony in the garden" is when Jesus offers prayers indicating that "the
spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." There is no temptation offered here. Jesus
prays to God that he wishes to have this cup "pass him by." However, he does state that
if he must drink from "this cup," he will abide and do so. It is at this moment where
temptation is not seen, where the battle between good and evil is not as evident.
However, there is a battle between desire and duty. The poignancy of Jesus praying to
his father to avoid the fate that is in front of him in terms of the cross is brought
forth with ideas from the Gospel of Luke, who says that the prayers that Jesus offered
were so authentic, that "his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down upon
the ground." There is not much in way of temptation here, but rather the searching for
the summoning of will to do what in one's heart know what needs to be done. I would
think that if one were searching for temptation, I would focus on the time that Jesus
spends out in the desert in order to test his own faith and devotion to God. In this,
one sees a great deal of offerings from the devil in order to tempt
Jesus.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
What were the words Satan used to tempt Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane?
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Which lake is bigger, Lake Superior or Hudson Bay?
(I have edited your query, since only one question is
allowed per post.)
There's really no comparison when it
comes to the sizes of Hudson Bay and Lake Superior: The second largest bay in the world,
Hudson Bay is vastly larger. Hudson Bay is more than 850 miles long, compared to Lake
Superior's 350 miles. Hudson Bay comprises 470,000 square miles, while Lake Superior is
less than one-tenth that size (31,820 square miles). One of the largest fresh-water
lakes in the world, Lake Superior is somewhat deeper, however (1332 feet maximum to
Hudson Bay's 330 feet). Hudson Bay drains an area of nearly 1.5 million square miles
compared to Lake Superior's water catchment area of 49,305 square
miles.
How does Lady Macbeth find out about the witches?Does Macbeth tell her?
In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth
tells his wife about the witches in a letter. Act 1.5 begins with Lady Macbeth reading
the letter aloud.
She begins the scene reading the word,
"They," which is a pronoun that the reader understands refers to the witches. This
means that she begins reading the letter aloud--and the scene opens--after she has
already read some of the letter. Macbeth, presumably, tells her about the witches in
the unread portion of the letter.
He also tells her more
about the witches in the letter, which she continues to read aloud. The witches,
however, are not the main topic of the letter--the predictions they made and the coming
true of one of them are what the letter is really about. And Lady Macbeth's response to
the letter, once she's finished reading, demonstrates
this:
Glamis
thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt beWhat thou art
promised.... (Act
1.5.15-16)
She's already
determined that Macbeth shall be king as the witches
predicted.
In addition to serving the dramatic/pragmatic
purpose of introducing Lady Macbeth and informing her of the predictions, the letter
also reveals more about Macbeth's personality. Macbeth reveals that he "burned" with
desire to question them further--he is desperately ambitious. And he has already made
the decision to trust them--something he wasn't at first so sure he should do. This
will lead to his downfall.
Friday, March 4, 2011
In Chapter 12, why does Ralph's plan to elude the hunters fail?William Golding's Lord of the Flies
At first, as "a spasm of terror set him shaking," Ralph
cannot grasp "the fatal unreasoning knowlege that comes to him again." He wants believe
that the hunters have just had an accident in their killing of Simon. But, he knows now
intuitively as Simon has known that the beast is in them. Ironically, Ralph finds the
same clearing that Simon has used, and he discovers the pig's head. The knowledge,
then, comes to him that the boys are truly savages, but they are human.
He hides in the thicket near Jack's camp after talking with
SamnEric, telling them the hunters will not think to search for him so close to their
camp. However, in the early morning, Ralph awakens to voices and the cries
of SamnEric who are made to reveal Ralph's hiding
spot.
Then, the savages climb to the top of
Castle Rock and heave two huge boulders down from the top. When one gigantic one comes
with such force that Ralph is thrown into the air momentarily. After he lands, Ralph
hears whispering, so he thrusts his spear through the growth and wounds someone. Having
done this, he knows he must run as he is being pursued. For, the savages are smoking him
out by setting the entire island on fire. Ralph runs, "hopeless fear on flying feet,"
until he encounters the British naval officer, who rescues him and the others who appear
on the beach.
How did events in England affect the development of the colonies?
Since most of the colonists came from England and since
England controlled the colonies, events in England affected the colonies'
development.
As an example, let us look at the English
civil wars that involved the Puritans, Parliament, and those who backed royal rule.
These lasted for about two decades in the mid-1600s. During the time that the civil
wars were actually going on, there was very little development of colonies. The English
were too busy with the wars to be able to pay much attention or put many resources
towards colonization. After the wars ended, however, colonization resumed and the
colony of Carolina, for example, was created.
This is one
of many possible examples of how events in England impacted colonial
development.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
In his poem "Frost at Midnight," describe what Coleridge wants for his son, and whether there is a connection with his own life's past experiences.
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, "Frost at Midnight,"
the author believes that his son will have experiences very much different than his own:
he will hear different stories (lore) and travel to places where the author has not
been.
...it
thrills my heartWith tender gladness, thus to look at
thee,And think that thou shalt learn far other
lore,And in far other
scenes!
This father recalls
that the only glimpse of beauty he saw growing up in a town was
what he spied between buildings: sky and stars.
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For I was reared
In
the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim,
And saw nought
lovely but the sky and
stars.
(It is important to
remember that Coleridge was a "first-generation" Romantic poet. Something that the
Romantics wrote of often was their delight with nature: this can be
seen not only in Coleridge's work—in particular (for example) The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner, but also in Wordsworth's work, and then in the works of the
second-generation Romantic poets: Byron, Shelley and
Keats.)
Coleridge imagines the "glimpses" of nature his son
will have (and we can infer that Coleridge will be at hand to guarantee these these
"interactions" that he did not have as a child). His son will know
the uncontrollable breezes that go where they wish—"By lakes and sandy shores," and
around the crags of mountains, and "beneath the clouds." In essence, Coleridge believes
his child will learn early to speak the...
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...eternal language, which thy
God
Utters, who from eternity doth
teach
Himself in all, and all things in
himself.
God will instruct
the boy and help to shape the man he will become. In this experience, the seasons will
be a delight to the boy: the grass, the birds, the snow, and the "sun-thaw" of dawn.
This is what the author dreams for his son.
It is easy to
appreciate Coleridge's concern that his son's experience be different; if you recall, he
notes that he only ever saw what little of nature came to him while
he looked to the sky between tall buildings. His observations of nature came to him much
later, and Coleridge wishes that an appreciation of these things will grow within his
son, as the child himself grows.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Why does Boyne end the book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in the manner he does rather than two paragraphs sooner?
It is important to note that there is a difference in
Bruno's father putting together the pieces of the puzzle and discovering the probable
truth of his son's fate than Bruno's mother and sister, as in the movie. The father was
the Nazi soldier in charge of the death camp and of putting the Jews to death. It is a
stark constrast to his son's humanity and his ability to connect with the little Jewish
boy on the other side of the fence...the message here is that under our clothes, we are
all basically the same.
The last paragraphs do two things:
they distance us from the story a bit with the "it happened a long time ago"
statement...a sort of effort to release tension and the reins of social responsibility
for the reader; they also make us question the statement "it could never happen
again". Of course, this sort of thing could happen again if we choose to close our eyes
and ignore the past. The past can and will come back to haunt those who do not
understand and remember. In any culture where two groups of people are warring, there
is the risk and threat of genocide. Take a look around the world today...is it
happening in the Middle East? In Africa? Your answer must be "yes." Boyne is
attemting to use the closing paragraphs as both a lesson and a warning. We must be
vigilant. We must not allow our neighbors to be oppressed, lest we also become
oppressed. We must also guard against becoming oppressors.
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