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…fate catch him for his luckless wantonness!)” (pg. 1277; lines 886-899) Oedipus’ stubborn desire to uncover the truth about Laius’ murder and the mystery surrounding his own birth, led him to the tragic realization of his awful doing. Teiresias, Jocasta…

…from human race. He is electing by His Spirit and Word in the unity of faith. He is doing it for himself. He is defending and preserving his beloved ones. The Church is nothing else than the mysterious reality. Gods reality is present in our worldly…

…have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick's next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws…

…the tragic paradox of human love, individuals dependent on each other but unalterably separate and mysterious to one another in their separateness… Iago is an envious, insecure human being who functions as a perverted magician-manipulator, cunningly altering…

…. When the lights go out, the viewer can only guess that Lucy's life is in danger. Lucy's tension of task is created by needing to discover who or what is in her house and why. This is also combined with tension of mystery. Lucy's life and what lies before…

…personas of the two, or the sheer mystery of the incident. Stories of both people were given equal attention. I like the editing of the film, the long poses that were left in and the questions that prompted them. Black Box Germany is a very well crafted story…

…I DO not usually drink coffee. In fact, I am amazed at people who cannot go through the day without having a cup or two. If I were not aware of the physiologic effects of caffeine in the body, I would have thought that coffee had some mysterious…

…with nothing more than the "blueprints" of their tomorrow for which we have used to embrace the today that has reflected a world long lost but forever remembered. The ancient world will forever remain a mystery to us, but the aspect of their cultural advancement…

…much accepted as tolerated, treated as mysterious foreigners, an “Oriental”, rather than a threat. But by the 1870’s, with the depression of 1873 and the rise of mechanization, Nativists and other working-class whites began to view the Chinese as a serious…

…), The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842-1843), and The Purloined Letter (1844) are regarded as predecessors of the modern mystery, or detective, story. Among Poe's poetic output, about a dozen poems are remarkable for their flawless literary construction…