The story of Chatterton had inspired one of the three episodes of Vigny's luminous philosophical novel Stello ( 1832 ), in which Vigny examines the relation of poetry to society and concludes that the poet, doomed to be regarded with suspicion in every social order, must remain somewhat aloof and apart from the social order.

The story examines the life of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The story examines the relationship between images of an imagined World Apocalypse and the experience of one man's personal, individual apocalypse.

The story is loosely based on a true case and examines the issue of human trafficking and sexual slavery.

Although the story evokes universal themes of romance and love, it also examines the properties of the " Australian character ": existential isolation ( brought on by both geographical and environmental conditions ) and strong cultural ties to Great Britain.

Vulcan Park and Museum ( VPM ) features spectacular views of Birmingham, an interactive history museum that examines Vulcan and Birmingham's story, a premier venue for private events and a beautiful 10-acre ( 4 ha ) urban green space for visitors and locals to enjoy.

Loosely based on the best-selling book Tour of Duty by Douglas Brinkley, Going Upriver examines the story of John Kerry and the key events that made him a national figure and the man he is today.

A short story, " Out of Time ," examines the life of Bruce Banner ( the Hulk ) in a Sentinel prison camp.

The study of a genre in this way examines the structural elements that combine in the telling of a story and finds patterns in collections of stories.

This work examines the story of the Van Dúnem family, a prominent Angolan family of Dutch descent.

" In this story, he examines Ottumwa's prospects as potentially the " Cooperstown, NY " of the video game industry.

* Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, ( the Miller's Tale is a story that humorously examines the life of a cuckold ).

While contrasting the Enûma Elish with the Genesis creation myth found in the Book of Genesis, Wink examines the psychological effects of each phase of the story.

He used the invitation from editors M. Jerry and Helen Weiss, to contribute a short story to their fantasy anthology, Dreams and Vision, which examines the morality of going to war versus terrorism.

" The Birth-Mark " is a romantic short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that examines obsession with human perfection.

This rather brief story examines the concept of totally unempathic and ' logical ' humans (" Null-O "' s ) in an obvious parody of the plot and concepts of The Players of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt.

The film tells the story of a precocious young girl ( Barton ) from a gated community who befriends a male landscape worker ( Rockwell ), and examines the societal repercussions of their friendship.

Rather than simply handling " mechanical " aspects of fiction technique such as plot or dialogue taken individually, McKee examines the narrative structure of a work and what makes the story compelling or not.

The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.

In Mesopotamian religion there is a story of a man who, after traveling through the darkness of a tunnel in the mountain of " Mashu ", entered a subterranean garden.

* 2004: Robert A. Segal, professor of theories of religion at the University of Lancaster, defines " myth " broadly as any story whose " main figures personalities -- divine, human, or even animal.

In this caustic story, the Jew converts because he logically concludes that only a religion supported by God could prosper despite the corruption of its leadership.

Cook believes that both contemporary Jews and contemporary Christians need to reexamine the history of early Christianity, and the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect consisting of followers of a Jewish Jesus, to a separate religion often dependent on the tolerance of Rome while proselytizing among Gentiles loyal to the Roman empire, to understand how the story of Jesus came to be recast in an anti-Jewish form as the Gospels took their final form.

In this mode, the story would include not only political and diplomatic history but also events relating to religion, commerce, education, and entertainment.

) George Zebrowski, in his afterword to the story, speculates that Heinlein was parodying Campbell in the character of Calhoun, who goes insane and actually believes the false religion created by the Americans.

', central figure of ' Mercenarism ', the religion practised at the time the story takes place

A traumatic breakup McElwee experienced prior to filming made it difficult for him to separate personal from professional concerns, shifting the focus of the film to create a more personal story about the women in his life, love, romance, and religion.

Perhaps the most significant legend to survive from Mesopotamian religion is the Epic of Gilgamesh, which tells the story of the heroic king Gilgamesh and his wild friend Enkidu, and the former's search for immortality which is entwined with all the gods and their approval.

In the Christian religion the belief developed that the story of Isaac's binding and of Jepthah's virgin daughter were foreshadowing for the sacrifice of Jesus, whose sacrifice and resurrection allowed the sins of mankind to be washed away.

A commonly anthologised story is The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoevsky from his long psychological novel The Brothers Karamazov and is told by one brother to another to explain, in part, his view on religion and morality.

Years later in 2003, a two-part story entitled " What Really Happened in INCOMM-Part 1 " and " What Really Happened in INCOMM – Part 2 " was posted to alt. religion. scientology by a former Scientologist named Dan Garvin, which described events within the Church leading up to and stemming from the Penet posting by "- AB -".

Matthew Paris included this passage from Roger of Wendover in his own history ; and other Armenians appeared in 1252 at the Abbey of St Albans, repeating the same story, which was regarded there as a great proof of the truth of the Christian religion.

The book scandalized the British public upon its first publication, because it included the Christian story of Jesus in its comparative study, thus inviting an agnostic reading of the Lamb of God as a relic of a pagan religion.

As the story begins, Algol is ruled by King Lassic, who while originally benevolent, becomes a cruel dictator after converting to a new religion.

It is a story told as a sermon might be delivered: an allegory ... each scene is at once so simple and so charged and layered that it catches us again and again ... Somehow all of Bergman's own past, that of his father, that of his reading and doing and seeing, that of his Swedish culture, of his political burning and religious melancholy, poured into a series of pictures which carry that swell of contributions and contradictions so effortlessly that you could tell the story to a child, publish it as a storybook of photographs and yet know that the deepest questions of religion and the most mysterious revelation of simply being alive are both addressed.

Papp went on to produce four more of Hwang's plays, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama The Dance and the Railroad, which tells the story of a former Chinese opera star working as a coolie laborer in the nineteenth century, and Family Devotions, a darkly comic take on the effects of Western religion on a Chinese family.

* Evangelistic sermons-seeking to convert the congregation or bring them back to their previous faith through a recounting of the foundational story of the religion, in Christianity, the Good News.

Such stories also have counterparts in other Indo-European mythologies: the slaying of the serpent Vritra by Indra in Vedic religion, the battle between Thor and Jörmungandr in the Norse story of Ragnarok, the Greek account of the defeat of the Titan Typhon by Zeus.

In the collection's eponymous story " Axiomatic ", the protagonist enters a store selling mods not only for every variety of psychedelic experiences, but for altering one's personality traits, sexual orientation, and even religion.

" He also said that the telling of his vision story " excited a great deal of prejudice against me among professors of religion, and was the cause of great persecution, which continued to increase.

Writing of the " unusual excitement on the subject of religion " described in the First Vision story canonized by the LDS Church, Milton V. Backman, associate professor of history and religion at Brigham Young University, said that although " the tools of the historian " could neither verify nor challenge the First Vision, " records of the past can be examined to determine the reliability of Joseph's description regarding the historical setting.