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Nicholas Seagle Trouble in Paradise

This Hell looks a lot like Paradise

Adventure
English
2475 Words
No Age Recommendation
291
0

It looked so perfect. Such a flawless island, but just because you're in paradise doesn't mean you're safe from danger and problems. When 34 year old Vincent Ruff is on vacation in the Bahamas, he is caught in the crossfire of a terrorist attack and must put all of his survival skills to the test as he must get off the island with a handful of other survivors. Will they escape Hell in Paradise or burn in the fires of the decaying island? [more]

Keywords: Hell, Paradise, Action, Drama

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Gwinevere Keethley Paradise

Short Story
English
353 Words
Ages 14 and up
461
5

I see this horror every day. I walk in, endure hours of unceasing torture, and walk out broken. [more]

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Rev. Dr. Karen A. Atkins, PhD. Paradise

Bibles
English
452 Words
No Age Recommendation
72
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Paradise (Persian: پردیس, Greek: παράδεισος, parádeisos, from Hebrew gan "garden" in reference to the Garden of Eden) is a religiousor metaphysical term for a place in which existence is positive, harmonious and eternal. The Abrahamic faiths associate paradise with the Garden of Eden, that is, the perfect state of the world prior to the fall from grace, and the perfect state that will be restored in theWorld to Come. [more]

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John Milton Paradise Lost

Poetry
English
79865 Words
Ages 8 and up
284
2

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton. The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men". Milton's story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan and the other following Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and banished to Hell, or, as it is also called in the poem, Tartarus. In Pandemonium, Satan employs his rhetorical skill to organize his followers; he is aided by Mammon and Beelzebub. Belial and Moloch are also present. At the end of the debate, Satan volunteers to poison the newly created Earth and God's new and most favored creation, Mankind. He braves the dangers of the Abyss alone in a manner reminiscent of Odysseus or Aeneas. After an arduous traversal of the Chaos outside Hell, he enters God's new material World, and later the Garden of Eden. At several points in the poem, an Angelic War over Heaven is recounted from different perspectives. Satan's rebellion follows the epic convention of large-scale warfare. The battles between the faithful angels and Satan's forces take place over three days. At the final battle, the Son of God single-handedly defeats the entire legion of angelic rebels and banishes them from Heaven. Following this purge, God creates the World, culminating in his creation of Adam and Eve. While God gave Adam and Eve total freedom and power to rule over all creation, He gave them one explicit command: not to eat from the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil on penalty of death. The story of Adam and Eve's temptation and fall is a fundamentally different, new kind of epic: a domestic one. Adam and Eve are presented for the first time[citation needed] in Christian literature as having a full relationship while still being without sin. They have passions and distinct personalities. Satan, disguised in the form of a serpent, successfully tempts Eve to eat from the Tree by preying on her vanity and tricking her with rhetoric. Adam, learning that Eve has sinned, knowingly commits the same sin. He declares to Eve that since she was made from his flesh, they are bound to one another ‒ if she dies, he must also die. In this manner, Milton portrays Adam as a heroic figure, but also as a greater sinner than Eve, as he is aware that what he is doing is wrong. After eating the fruit, Adam and Eve have lustful sex. At first, Adam is convinced that Eve was right in thinking that eating the fruit would be beneficial. However, they soon fall asleep and have terrible nightmares, and after they awake, they experience guilt and shame for the first time. Realizing that they have committed a terrible act against God, they engage in mutual recrimination. [more]

Keywords: paradise lost, john milton, classic literature, epic poem, epic poetry, religious poetry, christianity, the fall of man, war in heaven, adam and eve, satan

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EINsamer wANDERER Peace Paradise

Das höllische Paradies

Short Story
German
2784 Words
Ages 14 and up
348
2

Peace Paradies - Das höllische Pradies So lautet der volle Titel, meiner bis jetzt schlechtesten Kurzgeschichte. Aber ich habe [more]

Keywords: Peace Paradise - Das höllische Paradies, Peace, Paradise, Das, höllische, Paradies, Mystery, Monster, EINsamer, wANDERER, Kurzgeschichte, Horror, Ab 14 Jahren

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Kaitlyn Garlets Paradise

She's an alien in disguise as a human; but then again, she's a human. What is she? Will she find out? Or will she die not knowing the truth?

Fantasy
English
2416 Words
No Age Recommendation
377
1

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Sudhanshu Shekhar The Paradise Love

The Paradise Love

Fairy Tale
English
9729 Words
Ages 16 and up
74
0

How Calcu becomes Calcu Z with a new power in game world with the light magic of fairy? [more]

Keywords: Enter

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F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise

Fiction
English
80137 Words
No Age Recommendation
188
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Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her. [more]

Keywords: This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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