" The extermination of the nations glorifies Yahweh as a warrior and promotes Israel's claim to the land ," while their continued survival " explores the themes of disobedience and penalty and looks forward to the story told in Judges and Kings.

His story " The Fall of the House of Usher " ( 1839 ) explores these ' terrors of the soul ' while revisiting classic Gothic tropes of aristocratic decay, death, and madness.

Written by Paul Cornell, the first story entitled " The Black Ring " explores Luthor's more aggressive lust for power in the wake of his exposure to a power ring in the Blackest Night event.

The story explores many ideas and themes, including anarchism and revolutionary societies, capitalism, individualism and collectivism, and the Sapir – Whorf hypothesis.

Whedon and the writing staff had been considering developing a story arc in which a character explores his or her sexuality as the Scoobies left high school, but no particular effort was made to assign this arc to Willow.

This novel is a continuation of the story that ends in a cliffhanger in The Vampire Lestat and explores the rich history and mythology of the origin of the vampires, which dates back to Ancient Egypt.

The Haggadah explores the meaning of those verses, and embellishes the story.

The story further inspired Margaret MacArthur to write " The Legend of Duncan Campbell " as an accompanying song which explores the beginning of the tale in Scotland.

His novel explores themes including civilisation versus nature, the psychology of solitude as well as death and sexuality in a retelling of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe story.

Several of the themes that the story explores are maturation, heroism, cowardice, and the indifference of nature.

" Montana ", for instance, is about the insane ramblings of somebody who is about to die ; " Idaho " explores a famous rock story in which John Lennon, having consumed hallucinogenic drugs, believed he could drive his house ; " South Carolina " is about getting rich as a result of a bicycle accident.

The story explores how the university of the 1960s was an " Atlantis ", an imaginary kingdom isolated from the troubles of the world.

In Stephen Vincent Benét's 1937 story " By the Waters of Babylon " ( originally titled " The Place of the Gods "), a young man explores the ruins of a city in the northeastern United States, possibly New York, generations after a war in which future weapons caused " The Great Burning ".

* John Henry Days, 2002 American novel by Colson Whitehead, which explores the story of the African-American folk hero of the same name

* 33 Variations, a 2007 play by Moisés Kaufman, explores the story of the variations ' composition.

* Andrzej Wajda's film Man of Marble explores the myth-making process behind a fictional Polish Stakhanovite, telling the story of his rise and eventual fall from grace.

It is the story of a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man's nature as well as greed and evil.

Project Nim, a documentary film by James Marsh about the Nim study, explores the story ( and the wealth of archival footage ) to consider ethical issues, the emotional experiences of the trainers and the chimpanzee, and the deeper issues the experiment raised.

Rather than telling a story by starting at A and going through B to C, The Mask of Orpheus explores the Orpheus myth in a number of directions at once, examining the various contradictions which are in the various versions of the myth.

The story of Hedy Lamarr's frequency-hopping spread-spectrum invention, was explored in an episode of the Science Channel show Dark Matters: Twisted But True, a series which explores the darker side of scientific discovery and experimentation, which premiered on September 7, 2011.

The story explores, through action and intricate dialog, the survival instincts of these men in terms of their competition with each other and with their environment.

Based on the true story of the von Trapp family, The Sound of Music explores the views of Austrians to the takeover of Austria by the Third Reich.

This episode reveals much of the back story for the Dax character, and explores the relationship between Jadzia Dax, Curzon Dax, and Benjamin Sisko.

By using various narrators expressing their interpretations, the novel alludes to the historical cultural zeitgeist of Faulkner's South, where the past is always present and constantly in states of revision by the people who tell and retell the story over time ; it thus also explores the process of myth-making and the questioning of truth.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

These cases, for all their rarity, are so dramatic that friends and relations repeat the story until the general population may get an entirely false notion of how often the hymen is a serious problem to newly-weds.

You want from me the story, but a story is about ' why ' and then, perhaps, about how.

`` When you pile your `` guy '' on the bonfire tomorrow night, I wonder how much of the true story of Guy Fawkes you will remember??

What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.

She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question.

Athenaeus tells a story of how Agamemnon mourned the loss of his friend Argynnus, when he drowned in the Cephisus river.

Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.

Scholars dispute whether and how much Plato's story or account was inspired by older traditions.

The most common myths are the creation myths, that tell a story to explain how the earth was formed.

The Old Testament story of Judith illustrates how a woman frees the Israelites by tricking and assassinating Holofernes, a warlord of the rival Assyrians, with whom the Israelites were at war.

It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.

Bede relates the story of Augustine's mission from Rome, and tells how the British clergy refused to assist Augustine in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.

Having described how the Israelites and Joshua have carried out the first of their God's commands, the story now turns to the second, to " put the people in possession of the land.

Some biblical scholars believe Jonah's prayer () to be a later addition to the story ( see source criticism for more information on how such conclusions are drawn ).

The game was given a large amount of advance publicity in the comics, with story lines often revolving how the characters each acquired his / her vehicle.

* Played by his grandson Richard Attlee, in the TV series Dunkirk in 2004, and in Jerome Vincent ’ s ' Stuffing Their Mouths with Gold '; the story of how the National Health Service came to be.

In an interview around the film's DVD release in 2001, Elwes said, " The studio didn't know how to sell itas an adventure, fantasy, comedy or love story, it had to rely on word of mouth ".

In the study of mythology the term " myth " refers to a traditional story, often regarded as sacred, which explains how the world and its inhabitants came to have their present form.

Also suggested as a possible influence on Poe is ‘ The Secret Cell ’, a short story published in September 1837 by William Evans Burton, describing how a London policeman solves the mystery of a kidnapped girl.

Though no historical support exists for the flag story in the Fellin battle either, it is not difficult to understand how a small and unknown place is replaced with the much grander battle of Reval ( Tallinn ) from the Estonia campaign of King Valdemar II.

Show creators Julia Smith and Tony Holland also wrote a book about the show in 1987, entitled EastEnders: The Inside Story ( ISBN 978-0-563-20601-9 ), telling the story of how the show made it to screen.

The story of Prometheus ' sacrifice-trick in Hesiod's Theogony relates how Prometheus tricked Zeus into choosing the bones and fat of the first sacrificial animal rather than the meat to justify why, after a sacrifice, the Greeks offered the bones wrapped in fat to the gods while keeping the meat for themselves.

The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.