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Essay Instructions: Compare the character ?Buffy the Vampire Slayer? to the Hindu Goddess tradition, devotion to the Virgin Mary, and Wiccan views of the Goddess. Which is Buffy most like? From which does she differ the most? Why? What is unique about the character.

This is "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" the series, not the movie or book

Essay Instructions: In an essay of approximately 400 to 500 words (with a typical font and spacing, this will be approximately 1-1/2 to 2 pages), respond to the following:

Compare and contrast Giotto?s Arena Chapel to Duccio?s Maest? (reconstructed, both sides). In your answer discuss all of the following four elements: (1) the subject, (2) the interpretation and style, (3) the context, and (4) emotion.

Do this using ONLY the examples that Kloss discusses and explains in his lectures. Do not use Internet sources for inspiration nor as help.

Please read the following information on College-Level Writing before you begin your assignment.

Lecture 6: Giotto and the Arena Chapel?Part I
Lecture 7: Giotto and the Arena Chapel?Part II
Lecture 8: Duccio and the Maest?

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This is what I started to write. Please be advised the professor is very strict about structure. She demands clear statements and to the point. Also please keep all elements the subject (sources also important here), the interpretation and style, the context, and emotions.

my beginning of the paper
Arena Chapel of Giotto (1303) and Maesta of Duccio?s (1308) are masterworks of Medieval European art. The first is a chapel which contain the fresco cycle and the second is a very large altarpiece comprising multiple images, both masterpieces have similar subject but were painted with different intentions and in an instinctive artistic styles.
Duccio was the first and greatest painter from Siena whose painting inhabited artistic ideas of the late middle ages of the Gothic period and Byzantium traditions which were well established in Italy. Giotto was Italian painter and architect from Florence considered first from the artists who contributed to Italian Renaissance.
Arena Chapel in Padua, was commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni as a penitence for his son usury, which was considered unjust at that time and it was used as a family worship and burial space. The most influential work of Giotto is painting decoration of the interior of the chapel. The subject of a fresco cycle is the life of Virgin Mary and Jesus, his live, passion, death, and Resurrection. They are large narrative scenes on the walls and huge Last Judgment on the Entrance. The sources for The Life of the Virgin and the life of Christ are not only biblical is apocryphal gospel of Saint James and the Meditations on the Life of Christ by the Pseudo-Bonaventura.

Essay Instructions: i need a research paper on the importance of the roettgen pieta wooden sculpture of the virgin mary holding the dead body of christ.

Essay Instructions: The following is an except from my textbook
The argument from scripture:

the most religious have been revered body of the written materials (scriptures). These serve
many functions. They codify the particular religious beliefs of the group. They often contain
important historical information prophecies, descriptions of rites and ceremonies, prayers, and
other information relevant to the religions. In the JEWISH tradition the scripture include the
writings Christian call the old testament, as well as copious commentaries on them, the Christian
scripture are called he bible. The Islamic scriptures are called the Koran.

There are different ways to frame the argument from scripture, one version is quite straight
foward as illustrated with respect tot he Christian bible.

Argument from scripture

premise 1. bible says god exists.
Premise 2. the bible has no errors.
2a. God protects the bible form being in error.
conclusion: therefore god exist.

The objections to the argument from scripture
1. the non believer would first of all claim that premise 2 is, in fact, quite mistaken. The bible is
a very interesting set of ancient writings. It after contains accurate historical and geographical
information as well as more piously relate religious writings. However, an unbiased reading also
reveals numerous factual mistakes, confusions, contradictions, and unsavory stories. There are
mistakes concerning pales names, historical events ans incorrect customs of the time. Not all of
theses errors are crucial with regard to the authors? religious intentions, but they are manifest
errors nonetheless.
Some serious apparent errors and contractions in the bible include the following:

there are also 2 different and contradictory stories describing the birth of Jesus in the gospels of
Matthew and Luke;

there are serious contradictory reports among the gospels and other books of the new testament
about eh resurrection story of Jesus;

the word ?virgin? as in the virgin Mary and the virgin birth of Jesus is a mistranslation

there are at least two different and contradictory creation stories in Genesis.

there are also stories recounting divinely sanctioned activities which seem unsavory and
unworthy of a being who is claimed to be all-good, which is to say kind merciful and loving. For
example, the number of occasions the bible says that god commands genocide.

2. In addition, the non believer could also point out that the argument from scripture commits a
fallacy of begging the question or, as it is sometime called, arguing in a circle as illustrated

premise 1. bible says god exists.
Premise 2. the bible has no errors.
2a. God protects the bible form being in error.
conclusion: therefore god exist.
note: the premise 2a cannot be used because God in this premise because his existence if the
conclusion of argument which hasn?t yet been proven.

In some he non believer holds that there is nothing remarkable or suggestive of a Devine, rather
than human, origin of the judeo-Christian scripture. Therefore even other scriptures would
contain the kinds of blemishes that one would expect to find in any ancient writings with
multiple authors and editors composed of the course of a thousand years, there is no significant
evidence in any of it of the intervention of any Devine personage.

The paper instruction is prove the argument from scripture is false and this does not prove god
exist.
Paragraph 1: should state the introduction
paragraph 2: explain the premises and conclusion of the argument
paragraph 3:explain wether the argument is sound or not (like proving an idea through logic)
paragraph 4: expalin the most plausible objections that someone who rejects your evaluation in
paragraph 3 could raise against your evalutaion. Also explain why these objections are
groundless.
paragraph5: state the conclusion.