Bøger af Alice Wood

The story of the monsters involves two brother cats Collins the elder brother and Peter. Peter was a very naive cat who always depended on his brother Collins for protection. He could not go anywhere without Collins. One day as they were taking a walk they met a female cat called Bobby whom they were very afraid of. The cat scared them when he spoke to a monster. Peter was very afraid of monsters. So as they walked round the garden in the neighborhood, Collins was kidnapped by the monster and Peter was left alone. He was very worried and started searching for Collins without success. Suddenly, Peter decided to seek help from the female cat who he was afraid of. He had to put his fears aside and approach bobby for help. So as they searched for Collins together with another friend, eventually both Bobby and his friend were kidnapped by the monsters and Peter is left with nobody to help him. He had learnt so much since Collins was kidnapped and he was now brave to search for his brother and his friends. We walked to the woods of the monsters and when he got there, the big monster tried to threaten him but he was not afraid. He confronted the monster and eventually rescued his brother Collins and his friends. They walked back to their garden happily and Collins was happy that his brother had become a brave cat. The story gives children the courage to face the world and overcome fears. Some children depend entirely on their parents or older people for help and when they encounter a problem on their own, they cannot handle it. We learn from Peter that nothing is impossible and our fears can make us stronger and fearless. It is all about building confidence in us.

Carol is a young girl who is only 15 years old, and lives with her parents. Next door there is a boy called Melvin who is the same age as Carol and happens to be Carol's best friend and the only person that Carol trusted in the whole world because he never waved in their friendship. He was very helpful and friendly person to Carol than anyone else had ever been. Carol could not even trust her own parents as she had no confidence in them except in Melvin who later she realized was not a trustworthy friend as she had always thought. One day Carol felt extremely paranoid about monsters who were watching her. She tried to control the problem but realized she needed to know who was watching her. So one day she confides to Melvin about it and went ahead to find out who the monster was. She went to a museum where they were many paintings that had meanings which were helpful to her. She knew she would find her mystery through the paintings. When she visited the museum again she was taken underground where the makers of the paintings worked from and she began to learn more about paintings. Without her expectation, she was waved away to the world of watchers who were very secretive. And in the process she discovered that Melvin his best friend was an agent of the watchers and he was the monster who kept watching her. She confronts Melvin about it and feels unhappy that it was his friend who betrayed her. The story of Carol teaches us not to put all our eggs in one basket. Carol's trust was all in Melvin and she could disclose anything to Melvin only to realize later that Melvin was not the kind of friend she thought he is. It encourages us to choose our friends carefully and not disclose every single thing about ourselves to our friends.

This study examines the physical form and cultic function of the biblical cherubim. Previous studies of the cherubim have placed too great an emphasis on archaeological and etymological data. This monograph presents a new synthetic study, which prioritises the evidence supplied by the biblical texts. Biblical exegesis, using literary and historical-critical methods, forms the large part of the investigation (Part I). The findings arising from the exegetical discussion provide the basis upon which comparison with etymological and archaeological data is made (Parts II and III).The results suggest that traditions envisaging the cherubim as tutelary winged quadrupeds, with one head and one set of wings, were supplanted by traditions that conceived of them as more enigmatic, obeisant beings. In the portrayal of the cherubim in Ezekiel and Chronicles, we can detect signs of a conceptual shift that prefigures the description of the cherubim in post-biblical texts, such as The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and the Enochic texts.