...Natural Effects on a Boy Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions has the entire life of its author’s experiences, virtues, and detailed imperfections. Rousseau’s Confessions is one of the first notable autobiographies and has influenced many forms of narratives. It inaugurated modern day autobiography and inspired a narrative technic used in many great novels. Rousseau wrote this autobiography in order to tell the world about himself and express the nature of man. He did not want to be known by how people thought of him, but rather be able to tell people exactly what happened in his life and let them be the judge. Rousseau begins Confessions by stating, “this is the only portrait of a man, painted exactly according to nature and in all of its truth, that exists and will probably ever exist” (57). He included embarrassing experiences and personal thoughts from throughout his life to show every possible virtue of his life. He portrays what every boy encounters from mischievous trickery to entering sexual adulthood. The events that change his life and himself become a consistent theme while he describes his childhood, sexual cravings, and natural thoughts of a boy’s life. One of the most common subjects in Rousseau autobiography is the story of his childhood and the nature of a boy. Rousseau’s mother passed away during his birth, which strained the relation between him and his father. When they tried to speak of her the conversation would end with tears because his father saw Rousseau’s...
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...Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Influence of “The Aeneid” and “Confessions” in Dante's Poem Dante in his poem “"The Inferno" talks of his journey to hell and back. He narrates it in the form of an autobiography. The poem does, however, indicate a strong influence from Maro's "The Aeneid" and Augustine's the "Confessions." The influence from the two in the “Inferno” range from the themes, concepts, literature devices and the language styles used. Maro Virgil, the author of the poem “The Aeneid” was a controversial figure in most Christian texts at the time. His influence in the “Inferno” is clear because Dante uses the name for the leader in the poem. Virgil is an influence in the poem rather than just a fiction figure or character. Dante does not borrow directly from the Aeneid, but expresses his own ideas in different twist. A major difference in the texts is that while Dante uses the underworld to denote hell, Virgil extends the physical world, as we know it. Dante feels that the pagan Virgil is contradicting in his ways, and Dante’s hell is an extension of Virgil’s underworld. Virgil influenced the way Dante denotes hell in specific circles or steps. While Virgil had only three; Tartarus, Elysium and Lugentes Campi, Dante had nine; Limbo, Gluttony, Lust, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery. Apparently, it is also clear that the concept of underworld is yet another influence Dante received from Maro’s “The Aeneid” (Maro 930-939). Throughout the “Inferno”...
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...did not do. Many individuals tend to make false confessions because they feel pressured into doing so. This pressure sometimes comes from themselves, the police officers, and how susceptible the individuals are to suggestibility. The interrogation process, age, and other vulnerabilities among adolescents is what makes individuals confess to something they did not do. This has been evident in many cases in the United States, and other studies that have tired to prove this...
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...evidence be disclosed in an interview with a suspect? An experiment with mock-suspects” (2009) by Steven Sellars and Mark R. Kebbell, is a review of different experiments done by others regarding the strength of evidence and timing of disclosure of the evidence to suspects of crimes. This paper is important because it provides useful knowledge for police to have when interviewing suspects and trying to get confessions. According to different researchers referenced in this article the consensus is that if you have strong evidence against suspects it leads to a higher rate of confession. However there seems to be more controversy in the studies of when the evidence should be disclosed to suspects. Some say it should be very early on in the interview. Others say it can be dangerous to disclose evidence early if your goal is a confession because the suspect will become defensive and go into denial mode and stay there. The initial moments of the interview shapes the relationship between the interviewer and suspect and might be better used to develop trust, which could lead to later confession. Another reason against early disclosure is if the police present their story first the suspect can shape their story in order to protect themselves. The authors who do favour early evidence disclosure still believe it...
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...“Literary Analysis of First Confession by: Frank O’Connor” Frank O’ Connor’s “First Confession” is a fastidious short story about fear of eternal punishment for childhood sins. This is a story of a misunderstood young boy who feels disdain and disgust towards his grandmother’s looks and old ways. He also feels anger toward his relatives because they sided with his grandmother. He blames his grandmother for his childhood sins. From trying to lash his sister with a bread knife, not eating the food prepared by her grandmother, kicking his grandmother on the shin, to the extent of planning to kill his grandmother. These childhood sins have to be confessed to a priest because of Jackie’s fear of damnation and eternal punishment. His sister accompanies him to the church on his first confession. After the confession, the priest gave Jackie a very light and absurd punishment of three Hail Mary’s and to suck a bullseyes, which his sister finds ironic. An analysis of “First Confession” reveals a boy’s first confession as a fundamental experience of becoming a better individual. Frank O’Connor is careful with his words as to not fear the character but empathize with him. The story “First Confession” is written in first person point of view which assists in O’Connor’s depiction of the characters confession. "I decided that, between one thing and another, I must have broken the whole ten commandments, all on account of that old woman, and so far as I could see, so long as she remained in...
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...sees as her sister’s false confessions of love, the honest and youngest sister, Cordelia, chooses a path of sincerity to not profess her love for her father. Outraged, the king then banishes Cordelia and divides the land between Goneril and Regan. This decision comes to haunt Lear, when the two sisters take away his title and drive him mad. Cordelia’s honesty, loyalty and maturity are traits that separate her from her sisters and contrast their untruthful, unfaithful and insecure nature. To begin, Cordelia and her sisters are very different in the sense that Cordelia is honest and her sisters are untruthful. Cordelia portrays a very honest character and her integrity is evident from the beginning of the play and it is carried through all the way to the end. “Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less.” (I. ii. 91- 93) This line is delivered after Cordelia is once again asked by Lear to confess her love to him after she already she has nothing to confess. She is being honest with Lear when she tells him she simply loves him the way a daughter should. Lear was expecting Cordelia to act like her sisters and exaggerate her words to make him feel loved and honored. Sadly, Cordelia is nothing like her sisters and her honesty outrages Lear, who disowns her and banishes her from his kingdom. On the opposite hand of this situation are Goneril and Regan. Their exaggerated confessions of love place them on the opposite...
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...The Sacrament of Reconciliation is one of the many parts of the catholic culture. Before you can enter confession you must first go through Baptism and Conformation. The Catholic Church does this so you are mature enough to know right from wrong. Before you ask for confession you must know what a sin is and why it is wrong. Overall before you confess you must have an understanding of the Catholic Church and their teachings. The Sacrament of Reconciliation takes places in the church where you and your priest talk about the sins you have committed. After you have confessed your sins, the priest will ask you to repent by saying prays. The Sacrament of Reconciliation allows you to interact with God through the priest and gives Catholics the option for a fresh start. There are three elements of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Conversion, Confession and Celebration. Yet the most important the most important thing is once we are forgiven we must pass that along and forgive others who have done us wrong. Our faith our rules. There are many different cultures in the world today, each culture has different views and traditions. Within every culture there typically are stages to becoming an adult. Some stages are more extreme than others. Regardless, everyone will experience trials and tribulations before being recognized as an adult. These stages are often called rites of passage. Nancy Bonvillian and Brain Schwimmer define rites of passage as “Rituals that mark culturally significant...
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...The Confessions of Saint Augustine St. Augustine main conflict was accepting God in his life. He struggle to acknowledge that God has possessed him. His father was a pagan, but his mother was such a devoted Christian woman; she dedicated her life to pray for the conversion of her son. St. Augustine was a teacher and during his youth days he encounters conflicts with Christian morality. He questioned himself many time “who am I” and “who are men?” he was a sinner and lived a very disorderly life. For example, as a child he was not baptized, he was not initiated in the Christian formation and he became afraid to sin after receiving the sacrament. This kept enriching his Manichean beliefs, he was “seduced and he seduced others, deceived and deceiving by various desires” and his doubts about encountering the truth kept increasing. He was too proud, too full of vanities, he had affairs with many women, and even had a son, but he realizes that his vision that happiness cannot be found in worldly pleasures but in the search for truth beyond the material world. “My heart was made dark by sorrow, and whatever I looked upon was death” he refers to the death of his closes friend whom he had perverted, and whose death he felt and wept bitterly. He became very desperate, confused and mad because he...
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...Martin go home on bail if he confesses to the burglary and Martin agrees, signing a statement that he broke into the house in question. In another interview room, Kirsty is being interviewed by DC Sharp. He positions his chair right next to her and screams at her over and over again that she must confess to the burglary. Kirsty is crying and upset but DC Sharp continues to shout at her, banging his fist on the table in front of her. After an hour of this treatment, Kirsty signs a confession. Assess the possibility of excluding the confession. Introduction The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ("PACE 1984") is an act designed to protect the public from unfair treatment and to allow Police Officers in England and Wales to pursue the course of justice and to reduce crime. Within the act there are rules to which all police officers must conform and a guide for the public to protect against unfairly obtained evidence. In this essay are two suspects who have against them a signed confession. This essay will assess the relevant sections of the act and assess the possibility of the evidence being...
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...How To Make A Confession Page on Facebook! Confession pages are becoming a viral on Facebook! Be it a college, school, locality, company and even groups, everyone has a confession page where people can confess things in front of everyone or may dedicate to someone without revealing their identity. Creating a Facebook confession page is easy, just follow these simple steps: 1. Log into your Facebook account and click on Home. 2. On the left side-bar menu, select Like Pages. Now, click on the button at the top which says Create Page. 3. Select Cause or Community and name your page. Eg. XYZ Confessions. 4. After getting started, put an an appropriate cover and display picture. It is usually the logo or a picture showing the name of your organisation. 5. Now you are over with the Facebook page and you need to link it to the anonymous form. To create and link a form using Google Docs: 1. Go to https://docs.google.com and sign into your Google account. 2. Click on Create and select the Form option. 3. Choose the desired title and theme. 4. Click on Question Type and change it to “Paragraph text“. 5. Replace the ‘Untitled form‘ with ‘Confessions’ and in the Question Title write “Write your confession here” 6. Click on View Live Form and copy the URL. You may shorten this URL using goo.gl . 7. Now, go back and click on Choose Response Destination and select New Spreadsheet. Name your form and save it. 8. Finally, paste this URL along with some info about your page...
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...Research Question: What is it that allows Walt to finally confess his true burdens in the scenes where he receives a reading from the shaman, he finally goes to confession with the priest, and he gives his final real confession to Thao? Brian Neuman Dr. Paul McCormick English 110.01 29 February 2012 Clever Title War is hell they say, and so far that statement has held up to itself. After a man has experienced war it changes him for better or worse. The main character in Gran Torino, Walt, is one such example of a man touched by war. The things that Walt has seen and done have affected him, and hardened him, both inside and out. However even the hardest shell can be cracked. In the film it is Walt’s interactions with caring individuals allow him to finally relieve the burden that he is carrying. Walt is quickly portrayed as a skeptic, but nevertheless when he visits Sue’s family he allows the family shaman to do a reading of him. With us having seen Walt’s tendencies, it is quite surprising that he agrees to such a strange ritual. He seemingly agrees just to humor Sue, but is surprised with what he is told. The shaman hits the issues that are bothering Walt more than anyone else, “he says you have no happiness in your life. It’s like you’re not at peace.” You can see just from Walt’s reaction how true that these words are. By analyzing this scene you can learn a few things about Walt. The most important is the fact that he is not only unhappy with the death of his wife...
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...Alexandro Ramirez English 1302 Professor Robin Russell 4/12/13 Critical Essay #1 “First Confession” At the beginning of the story, O’Connor, in the short story, “First Confession”, may use the all-knowing or omniscient point of view. He describes to choose any act of the character and any thought of the character, and he tells the goodness and the bad side of the character. Instead the story is written in first person point of view. The narrator in this story is also the main character, or protagonist. This way the reader is allow to the see the world in the eyes of Jackie, and his point of view about his grandmother, Nora, and Mrs. Ryan, and women itself. Jackie does not stand her grandmother at all, he relates her as the source of his entire problems, “and all because of that old woman!” Even thou his grandmother lives with him, because of the dead of his grandfather, he was actually afraid of her, he had to make excuses to his friend so he won’t go inside his house to play because, “because I could never be sure what she would be up to.” He also is disgusted by the woman’s love of porter beer, her inclination to eat potatoes with her hands, “she had a jug of porter and a pot of potatoes with-some-times-a bit of salt fish, and she poured out the potatoes on the table and ate them slowly, with great relish, using her fingers by way of a fork,” and of course favoring Nora, “she knew Mother saw through her, so she sided with Gran.” Nora his old sister was a pain to...
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...The Help: Character, Dignity and Self-Respect Rachael L. Tuminski PHI2000 Character, Dignity and Self-respect Paper Capella University February, 2015 Abstract: This paper will examine the parallels and give examples of the teachings of Aristotle, Epictetus and St. Augustine, using the motion picture The Help directed by Tate Taylor. Introduction What gives human beings their character, dignity and self-respect? What makes up them up in humans? Aristotle, St. Augustine, and Epictetus all attempted to answer this very question examining human nature very closely. Aristotle took on the subject of character; Epictetus took on the topic of dignity and St. Augustine the topic of self-respect. In the movie The Help directed by Tate Taylor each of these reasoning’s can be addressed in detail and example. Aristotle and Character Aristotle approached the subject of the virtuous character like this; the soul is in two halves one being the rational and the other being the non-rational. His definition is best discussed in Nicomachean Ethics II.7: “Excellence [of character], then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. Now it is a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.” (1106b36–1107a3) An example of this in The Help is in the character of Skeeter Phelan; in the movie Skeeter has come back home...
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...A confession is a formal statement admitting that one is guilty of a crime. Confessions are also made in order to stray from guilt and to make things right. Just like how John Proctor, A middle aged farmer In The Crucible by playwright Arthur Miller, confesses his sins in order to bring justice and make peace. In the play, John Proctor is connected with Abigail Williams, a teenage girl who is sought out to win Proctor for herself after committing lechery with him. His involvement with her leads him to have to make confessions which will influence him in many ways. Throughout the play John Proctor confesses to Elizabeth, his wife, about committing adultery, to the court for committing lechery and, to Danforth about his involvement in witchcraft...
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... The Crucible In Class Essay (Revision) In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller is about pride, and reveals that when people have too much pride it can cause suffering to not only them, but to other people around them. John proctor is a tragic hero because he is neither entirely virtuous nor evil, his tragic flaw is his pride, or hubris. John learns that his pride causes himself and other people around him to suffer. His pride is a big problem in this play because it leads to his own and other people's’ deaths, even though he tries to stop it. John causes many problems because he does not want to admit to the things he does because he is too prideful. The main mistake John makes in this play is he commits adultery. John does this because he is very prideful and thinks he can get away with doing this, but after he realizes that this was the wrong thing to do his pride still keeps him from admitting to it. Even though Elizabeth knows what he did, because he confessed to Elizabeth, he still did not want to admit what he did to the town. John wants Elizabeth to forgive him and is trying his hardest to earn to earn her trust back. “Spare me! You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven months since she is gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot speak but i am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into...
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