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Our world is filled with quotations that bring us insight, provide an interesting thought, or give an important perspective. Take a moment to consider the quotations listed in the prompt. Choose one quotation for your focus. In a short paragraph, explain your interpretation of the quotation.

Consider these questions:

What does this quotation mean to you?
Why do you think the author wrote this quotation?
Be sure to use specific examples or textual evidence from research, the readings in this class, or your own experiences and knowledge.

Prompt:

Quotation 1: A sentence from The Book of Genesis, Chapter 6

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Quotation 2: Lines from The Epic of Gilgamesh, from the section “The Storm and Its Effects”

[The water] attacked the people like a battle./Brother saw not brother./Men could not be recognized in heaven./The gods [even] were terrified at the cyclone./They betook themselves to flight and went up into the heaven of Anu./The gods crouched like dogs and cowered by the wall.

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Answer: in the short paragrapgh it states that," The world is filled with quotations that bring us readers insights." the author is trying to tel his/her readers that people are always looking for answers to something that could be towards, a person, or even a thing. i think the quotation means that there is always a answer to your question.

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