...HERE). Much focus was on the biblical concept of “spiritual deadness” and the unfounded presumption by the Calvinists that it means mankind is born completely unable to respond willingly to God Himself. The analogy of being “dead” is seen throughout the scriptures, but can it be demonstrated to mean that mankind is born completely and totally unable to willingly respond to God Himself, as the Calvinists presume? Are we born dead like Lazarus, a corpse rotting in the tomb (a link scripture never draws), or are we dead like the...
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...Dictionary is “The ability to choose how to act.” The tragedy at the end of Romeo and Juliet is closely related to the free will of Friar Lawrence. The Friar consistently choose to act without thinking of the consequences, or not act at all. If Friar Lawrence had notified the families once the plan started to fail, or if he’d been more stubborn with Juliet requiring her to leave the tomb their lives might’ve been saved. This is why Friar Lawrence’s judgment or lack thereof caused the tragedy at the end, and why the tragedy was a result of free will. Friar Lawrence’s decision of free will to marry Romeo and Juliet was the one of the reasons behind the tragedy at the end. On the wedding day both Romeo and Juliet are at Friar Lawrence’s cells and The Friar says “Come, come with me and we will make short work, / For, by you leaves, you shall not stay alone / till holy church incorporate two into one.” (2.6.35-38) If The Friar hadn’t married these two young lovers this would have stopped the chain of events that lead to their death. The...
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...Anne Carson once said “I wanted to find one law to cover all of living. I found fear.” Miller Williams’ poem “Thinking about Bill, Dead of AIDS” expresses specific ways in which fear impacts a person when faced with a painful situation, regarding HIV/AIDS in particular, when articulating the experience of the speaker losing a loved one to AIDS. When it comes to human suffering and overcoming affliction, fear prevents one from surviving, understanding, and accepting the tragedy in which they are suffering from. To start, Miller Williams’ poem, “Thinking about Bill, Dead of AIDS,” begins with looking at the concept of suffering in a physical sense, rather than in its emotional form, We did not know the first thing about how blood surrenders to even the smallest threat when old allergies turn inside out, the body rescinding all its normal orders to all defenders of flesh, betraying the head, pulling its guards back from all its borders (Williams 1-6) The stanzas illustrate that the body is unable to relieve a person from the pain that is being inflicted upon them. When the sickness is too severe, fear takes over the body and, as Williams described the action in the poem, “surrenders” to the illness (Williams 2). Fear can penetrate much deeper than the mere imagination of the human mind. When one is paralyzed by stage fright, or rendered speechless when faced with the task of delivering heart wrenching truth, that is only the surface of the water. The poem illustrates that...
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...Don’t Let the Dead Sea Die Whether it's the rising sea levels, desertification or melting glaciers, climate change is rapidly changing the landscape of our planet. We may be one of the last generations to see some of the Earth's most cherished places, among which is the next door Dead Sea….… Around three million years ago, what is now the valley of the Jordan River and Dead Sea, was flooded by waters from the Mediterranean Sea. The waters formed a narrow, curved bay which was connected to the sea. Approximately two million years ago, the land between the Valley and the Mediterranean Sea rose to such an extent that the sea could no longer flood the area. Thus, the long bay became the lake we call the Dead Sea. A unique combination of several factors makes Dead Sea's total attraction: the chemical composition of its water, the filtered sunrays and oxygen-rich air, the mineral-rich black mud along the shoreline, and above all that is the spiritual legacy of the place. The area has a Biblical history. King Herod used it as his spa, and King David made it his retreat. It is believed to be the site of five biblical cities: Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zebouin and Zoar. More ominously, the Dead Sea witnessed the extreme, supernatural fire that violently destroyed the sinners in Sodom and Gomorrah down to make the lowest dry point on earth and one of the saltiest water bodies in the world. To this salty lake the blessed holy Jordan River feed. The Dead Sea is fed by the Jordan River...
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...fact the boy’s father, “His sister stood beside them in her apron/ To tell them ‘Supper.’” (126). As the poem progresses, the boy’s hand gets cut off from the saw. The speaker and the boy’s sister rush him to a doctor, where the boy would eventually bleed to death leaving the family in shock and disbelief. In the final two lines, the remaining family decides to continue on with their lives, “No more to build on there. And they, since they/ Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” (127). The speaker of Out, Out- displays a clear and simple reaction to grief and death in the final lines of the poem. The speaker’s son dies toward the end of the poem. As a father, this is a devastating loss to him and to his family. The speaker is shocked and couldn’t believe that his son actually died at such a young age, but he decides to move on almost immediately as his grieving process. The speaker depicts life as a very delicate thing but it can end very unexpectedly. However, life goes on with or without you, so you must cut your loss, no matter how tragic it is, and move on from it. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, the speaker has a close...
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...But, even after all that’s happened, and even after the fact that I was dead wrong about there being no happy ending for me, none of that is even the best part. No, the best part is always saved for last. Here is one of the transcripts of Southside Jimmy’s transformation treatments with Dr. Chicavonov. Dr. Chicavonov: “Good morning, Mr. Balenducci, how are we today?” Jimmy Balenducci: “What the hell do you care?” Dr. Chicavonov: “Oh, I care. I care. Of course, I care. You are my life’s work, Mr. Balenducci.” Jimmy Balenducci: “When the hell am I going to get out of here?” Dr. Chicavonov: “Maybe, someday, maybe not. But, first, let’s see how your treatment is going today.” —PAUSE— Dr. Chicavonov: “Ah, ah, ah, good, good, I see your pupil’s have become fully dilated once more and your breathing is back on track. It’s important, so important with the breathing. It helps to keep your cells fully alive with oxygen and it helps to fight off pathogens.”...
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...Lycidas By John Milton Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear The poem begins with the speaker lamenting the huge task before him (memorializing his friend), and then invoking the muses. Then, the speaker reminisces about how the speaker and a guy named Lycidas were shepherds together. Sadly, it turns out Lycidas is dead. Then, the speaker starts to address a series of figures from the Ancient world – nymphs, muses, you name it – and asks them all where they were when Lycidas drowned. But before he gets too accusatory, he realizes that thinking about how Lycidas could have been saved if someone had intervened is pointless. His friend is gone, and all the hard work he put in on earth is worthless, because he died before he could achieve fame. Enter Apollo. Yep, Apollo. He's always sticking his nose in where it doesn't belong. Apollo (the poem calls him by his Roman name, Phoebus) tells the speaker to cool his jets. He...
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...story. This is a book where you lose your childhood, your faith in a meaningful world, and your concern for individuals. You're stuck in a nightmare. Sucked up into a mysterious whirlpool of death and pain. You're defending yourself from elimination. You're being wiped off the face of the map. Once upon a time you were an innocent youth with big dreams about being a concert pianist. Once you loved life and the world, and now you're shooting it to pieces. Day after day, the hornets bite you and worms lap your blood. You're a cornered animal. You don't fit anywhere. The falling rain is monotonous. There's endless assaults, poison gas, nerve gas,...
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...The poet is divided into five sections but through section 1: the burial of the dead, readers could realize fully about imagery and the role of speakers. In the first section, Eliot conveyed pictures from views of different speakers which are riddled from gothic imagery. This part of The Waste Land can be seen as a modified dramatic monologue. The four speakers in this part are frantic in their need to speak, to find an audience, but they find themselves surrounded by dead people and thwarted by outside circumstances, like wars. Because the parts are so short and the situations so confusing, the effect is not one of an overwhelming impression of a single character; instead, the reader is left with the feeling of being trapped in a crowd, unable to find a familiar face. It is made up of four vignettes, each seemingly from the perspective of different speakers. The first is an autobiographical snippet from the childhood of an aristocratic woman, in which she recalls sledding and claims that she is German, not Russian. The woman mixes a meditation on the seasons with remarks on the barren state of her current existence ("I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter"). The second is a prophetic, apocalyptic invitation to journey into a desert waste where the speaker will show the reader "something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; / [He] will show you fear in a handful of dust"...
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...“Nothing Lasts Forever” ENG125: Introduction to Literature Instructor Shawn Mangerino November 25, 2013 Patricia Martinez In all aspects of life we have a beginning and an end. Not many things last forever and if they do they do not usually stay the same. In life things change, and they end. I believe the pieces I have chosen both speak of endings and changes. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” describes a sunrise and the beauty of it and how that beauty fades as the sun continues to rise. In “I Used to Live Here Once” the main character is remembering her childhood home and in the story visits the home and describes the changes. I choose these pieces because they are both about endings and change and use symbolism to describe the changes. These pieces both show the change in a very detailed way even though one is a poem and the other a story. In comparison they may not look the same but when you read the words in both you can imagine what is being seen and feel that you can see it fade, as nothing lasts forever. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” I found it is full of symbolism. "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold, Her early leaf's a flower, But only so an hour, Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day, Nothing gold can stay.” (as cited in Clugston, 2010) In the poem the first line states “Natures first green is gold” the symbolism I find in this line is green refers to new life or birth, often times you hear...
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...Halloween vs. Day of the Dead Amy Barrows Com/170 10/31/2012 Margaret Munger Similar traditions are held between the Day of the Dead and Halloween, yet they have very different origins. They both started out as their own separate festivals/celebrations but over time they gained either Catholic or Christian tendencies. Which only served to make them even more similar, leading confusion for many Americans now a days. Most people know of the similarities but do not know of the origins of either! Even most Americans who celebrate Halloween do not know of it is origins! Day of the dead was a celebration to celebrate the Aztec goddess Mictecacihuatl, Lady of the dead. They celebrated for about a month long in their calendar what all know as August. They had all the same traditions as they do now but back then the altars/shrines they made were at the graves themselves to bring the family/descend person back to the land of the living. Aztecs would spread the flor de muertos (flower of the dead) from the grave sites to their homes. A way of leading the lost souls to their families and loved ones. Aztecs would even make foods and treats with the deceased name on the calaveras de azucar (skull of sugar). This all went on for many centuries until the Spaniards came and influenced their religion with more Catholic ties. Example being they changed the month-long celebration to be only two days coinciding with November 1, All saints day and November 2...
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...The daffodil, like many other flowers, is thought to bring happiness into one's life. Looking at this flower in a more symbolic manner, the daffodil represents the life that Trethewey and her mother has had to endure. Although the daffodil is only mentioned in one poem, many poems throughout Native Guard illustrate how the life of the daffodil is directly related and compared to Natasha Trethewey and her mother. The order in which the poems are mentioned is also significant; they demonstrate the progression stages of the two lives mentioned and the devastation that is brought when a life is lost. At the beginning of the book in the poem “Genus Narcissus” the daffodil is being compared to Trethewey as a child, because they are both in the beginning stages of life. Comparable to the flower Trethewey would be considered a new bloom sprouting in the early spring. “The road I walked home from school was dense with trees and shadows, creek-side, and lit by yellow daffodils, early blossom” (1-3).They are both innocent beings beginning life and Natasha is awaiting the chance to endure the happiness that life has to bring. Both Natasha and the flowers are considered gifts to her mother, therefore she sees herself as being one with the flower, “Childish vanity. I must have seen in them some measure of myself- the slender stems, each blossom a head lifted up” (13-15). Being a young child Natasha did not know that the flowers given to her mother as a small gift would one day represent...
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...that Juliet Capulet was not dead and was really under an effect of a potion Juliet decided to take this potion home and drink the potion giving to her by the man Friar Lawrence to convince people that she was as a matter of fact dead Friar Lawrence gave Juliet a potion that was so strong it made her unconscious for 48 hours and it made all signs of life gone from Juliet we asked Friar Lawrence why Juliet was so found to drink this potion he answered to us saying until recently we have word from Friar Lawrence talking about this dreadful scene. "Juliet did this tragic act out of desperation as she did not want to marry Count Paris as her parents were trying to force her to marry Count Paris, Juliet was very upset, as she knew her parents would not let her marry any other than Count Paris, as she also knew if they would not accept any other guy that they would surely not accept her to be married to Romeo, while-so she was already secretly married to Romeo Montague." S tomb now we have heard that Romeo Montague decided to go to the tomb of his wife Juliet to commit suicide, Romeo committed suicide for the reason that he could not live without his Juliet after Romeo had drank the potion he started saying to Juliet "Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks...
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...how men are turned into weapons, and Homecoming focuses on how the dead are merely statistics, no longer men. This dehumanisation is explored in both poems through the use of imagery, structure and dialogue, and themes. Throughout both Weapons Training and Homecoming Dawe uses varying and vivid imagery to explore the aspects of dehumanisation caused by war. In Weapons Training racist imagery is used to convey the dehumanisation process. The men must see the Viet Cong as an enemy and so racist imagery is used to dehumanise them, thus making it easier for their deaths to be justified. Dawe refers...
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