Western Literature: Western Literature Week Sixteen

A. Meaningful 40
a. "40" this number is important to the stories in bible.
b. In the story, Noah's Ark, God made it rain forty days and caused flood to kill those bad guys in the human world. After stopping raining, Noah let a raven go out for checking the situation. (From then on, ravens represent evil and bad things.) When the raven headed back, there was an olive in its mouth. That is the reason why olives are regarded as it can undo the bad things.
c. Moses walked in the desert for forty years.

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B. Sharing Experience
a. Venice-- St. Marco Square

b. Rome

* Sunday's Service-- The Pope prays for everyone in St. Peter's Square every Sunday.

>> St. Peter-- He always holds a key cuz before Jesus died, he chose to give the key through heaven for St. Peter. Jesus said: "What you pardoned in human's world, I will pardoned in Heaven."

>> The Denial of Peter three times-- Because Jesus was a criminal at the moment, if Peter admit that he's his teacher, he couldn't finish the task that Jesus left to him.

* Pantheon-- "Pan" means all and "the" stands for gods.

* Coliseum (Collesseum)

* Trevi Fountain and Poseidon-- The precise tradition calls for one to throw the coin over one's left shoulder while standing with one's back to the Trevi Fountain.