...English Essay Bridget Keehan: Sorry for the Loss (2008) Throughout human history, we have looked for answers. And we still do. Answers can be found in religion, science, philosophy, but some questions have no conclusive answers. One of these questions is ‘what is good, and what is evil’? While we have laws and rules, both as religions and society, the distinction between good and evil is never precise. Does an evil offense make the offender evil or is it only the offense itself that is evil, and not the offender? These questions are what this story revolves around. Sorry for the Loss is a short story from 2008, written by welsh writer Bridget Keenan. The story is told in the third person from the point of view of the story’s main character, the prison chaplain Evie. This makes the story very personal, as the reader gets access to Evie’s thoughts on prison life and on some of the major themes of the story. One thing to note is that almost all of Evie’s thoughts are related to the prison, which creates a sense of confinement, something that ties in well with the setting of the story. The story begins in medias res, which means that the reader has no background information about Evie or the prison, and is immediately presented to the main plot of the story. Furthermore, the story contains an open ending, which does not give the reader full closure on the main plot nor the major themes. This composition creates a sense that the actual plot is less important than the themes...
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...Morton, who was found guilty for murdering his wife Christine was sentenced for fifteen years in prison. Later founding that Michael was Innocent after reinvestigating his case, capturing DNA testing and finding new evidence was able to help prove his innocence. The theme of this essay a widow husband who seek to fight for his freedom in prison and staying connected with his son. Michal son Eric gave him a reason to have hope that they would one day reunite and his son would know for himself that he did murder his wife. The point of view of this essay although a man is falsely accuse for a crime he did not commit he is self-determined to fight. Tomorrow is not promised in society careless mistakes can cause someone’s life to be more self-aware and appreciate life. In Colloff’s essays states “I didn’t just want to get out,” Michael told me. “I wanted to know exactly happened to me” Michael had questions going through his mind a man who works, establish a family, and tries to live a norm life got to fighting for his Innocence. After reading “A life Worth Ending” by Michael Wolff’s shares his personal experience about his mother final illness and personal issues that he struggled with health care system. His mother faces a condition call dementia which is a disorder which mentally caused by the brain or injury. The mother started losing her memory as she aged. The theme of this essay is a man who goes through his journey in the healthcare system looking for the best quality of health...
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...Essay No. 1 February 9, 2003 Response to “FBI's Tracking of Muslims Raising Alarm with Some” Have Muslims been treated unfairly in this country? In an essay “FBI’s Tracking of Muslims Raising Alarm with Some,” posted on the Internet on October 6, 2002, Philip Shenon and David Johnston write about how FBI set a surveillance campaign to track young Muslim men they think have terrorist cells inside United States to assist Al-Qaeda. They monitor the suspects’ telephone calls, e-mail messages, Internet use, and their credit card charges. They also dare to monitor the suspects’ gathering places, including mosques. The surveillance program has helped the FBI to arrest dozen of young Muslims in western New York, in Detroit, in Seattle, and in Portland, Oregon since late summer. Philip Shenon and David Johnston, the authors of the article, say that the surveillance campaign is centered in the Detroit, Michigan area because the largest population of people of Arab descent lives there. In the article, the authors report that some Arab-Americans and Muslim groups are not happy with what is going on inside their communities. They have complained about the FBI’s unfair accusation that these young men have some connection with Al-Qaeda. In my opinion, the authors of the article have done a valuable thing to make people aware of these problems. I think that the FBI is not doing a great job. I don’t think it came with a right idea to solve this problem. The FBI’s effort to go after...
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...According to the book “Ways of Reading” by Bartholomae, Petrosky, and Waite, panopticism in Foucault’s paper is the all Seeing Eye. He starts his essay of by talking about the plague in the seventeenth century. There was a closing of the town and its outer lying districts. Each street was placed under the authority of a syndic, who keeps it under surveillance. Each house was watched over by the syndic who would come to lock each door from the outside of the house. Everyone was quarantined into their homes. The severity of this lack of freedom was expressed in Foucault’s essay when he said inspection functions ceaselessly. The gaze is alert everywhere, and a considerable body of militia, commanded by good officers and men of substance, guards everyone, everywhere, to prompt the obedience of the people. Foucault discussed the rise of lepers, which also gave rise to disciplinary projects. Rather than separating people into groups, like they did during the plague, multiple distinctions were used to separate people. The plague-stricken town was, as Foucault states, traversed throughout the hierarchy, surveillance, writing, the town immobilized by the functions of extensive power. In order to have the perfect disciplinary functioning, one would put themselves in the place of the syndic during the plague. This control over people functioned to cut them off from all contact with each other. According to the reading, Foucault talked about the Panopticon, a building that was separated...
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...freedom, suppressed, no collective freedom. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, is constructed by the main themes of isolation and suffering. Moreover, sin and the Puritan law are narrowly connected, making the wish of freedom almost an impossible achievement. Over the course of the novel, Hester is the only one who truly manifests her right of individual freedom. However, she has been punished by the Puritan law, which considers her attitude as a threat to the Puritan community and its religion. Hester’s freedom starts since the moment she decides to carry her punishment in New England and not going back to England, where she could have lived a new life without feeling guilty. Furthermore, her self-determination gives her enough strength to use silence as a weapon, and thus not revealing who Pearl’s father is. Hester’s freedom progresses throughout the novel. It all begins after coming out from prison, when Hester wears a stunning embroidered A on her breast which symbolizes pride instead of shame. What is more, her attitude, while she is on the scaffold carrying the small...
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...punishment for murder, political or religious dissidents. Yet, since the 19th century tolerance and respect for life has become of great importance. In this essay I will seek to answer if capital punishment should be reintroduced. Some people say that capital punishment acts as a deterrent. Facing this punishment a murderer may think twice before committing the crime. If one takes somebody’s life he has forfeit his own right to life. However, statistics show that crime rates in countries that practice capital punishment have not gone down. In fact, the United Stated murder rate is 6 times bigger than that of Britain or Australia. Neither country has the death penalty. Texas and Oklahoma have historically executed the most number of inmates who were sentenced to death, though in 2003 their murder rate was higher than the national average. ”I have never heard a murderer say they thought about the death penalty as consequence of their actions prior to committing their crimes” says Gregory Ruff, police lieutenant in Kansas. The life imprisonment, for some anti-death penalty activists, would be the best way to deter crime. On the other hand, assaults in prisons all over the US have more than doubled in the past decade, according to statistics gathered by the Criminal Justice Institute in Middletown, Connecticut. Even the prison walls can not stop these kind of criminal from committing further crimes. Of course, there are criminals who think that they will never be caught; and the best...
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...victimization of an individual based on that individual's race, religion, national origin, ethnic identification, gender, or sexual orientation. Hate crime is committed daily here in the United States. When I think about hate crimes it’s in two different words both different meanings. Hate is a strong feeling of dislike, are too strongly dislike. Crime is an act or behavior that breaks a law. A crime is usually punished by a fine or prison time. Lately it has been a lot of hate Crime mostly gays has been a victim of the terrible crime. I hope to learn more about the crime itself and the history it has; I also will do more research on why it took so long to become a law. I will be looking more into the horrible murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming teenager who died after being kidnapped and severely beaten in October 1998, and James Byrd Jr., an African-American man dragged to death in Texas the same year. It was more than 77,000 hate-crime incidents were reported by the FBI between 1998 and 2007, or nearly one hate crime for every hour of every day over the span of a decade ; part of my research will be why it took so long almost ten years before hate crime can become an law, who is to say if it would of came an law in 2000, would it of been so many hate crimes, are not because a lot of people can do the crime but afraid of the law. So it could have been hate regardless but crime maybe not. While writing this essay I plan to have a thesis and outline, revise and editing will...
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...This essay is over the novel The Scarlet Letter and this is an essay about three main controversial characters that were key to this story. The main points focused on in this essay were good and evil deed and actions they have done throughout the novel and how it affects the readers overall attitude at the end. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses the symbols of light and dark to depict good and evil among the characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Hawthorne introduces Hester by saying, “She came forth into the sunshine” (72). The sunshine shows Hester has some light coming down on her instead of the town looking down on her and her sin of adultery that she has committed. One of my other details on this reference is, Hester being in the dark prison means she had no freedom, but outside with the light shining on her she had her freedom back. Another dark quote was, Hester said, “Thee must gather thine own sunshine, for I have none to give thee” (Hawthorne 95). This meaning that Hester’s sin shows she has no sunshine to give other because he sin has erased all good she had once had in her....
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...English essay Bridget Keehan ”Sorry for the loss”, 2008 A butterfly is a free and a beautiful animal, which you can symbolize freedom and beauty. But some things can also have an evil and dark side. The yearning for freedom and the possibility of being together with family and friends when things happens appears in the short story “Sorry for the loss” by Bridget Keehan from 2008. In the short story we meet a chaplain named Evie and a young criminal named Victor Zamora. Evie has to tell Victor Zamora that his Nan died the day before on a hospital, but the meeting with Victor turns out to be a bit strange. Evie is a chaplain and she had worked in the prison for over a year, but she does not really like being there (p. 1, ll. 18-19). All the noises in the prison make her uncomfortable. When she has some time on her own, she uses the time to meditate and pray, because she is very religious. Evie is a very kind person, and she always try to under how the prisoners feel, when they are in there. At one time she even imagines Jesus being one of the prisoners (p.2, ll. 40-42), this shows us that Evie is a person who is very good at putting herself in other people’s situations. Because she is this nice person who is good at talking with people without judging on their past, makes her a very special person in a prison. But when she has to tell Victor about his Nan, she gets a bit scared, because she is nervous about his reaction, which also shows us that she is quite a fragile person...
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...Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis were responsible for the innocent people who had died during this tragic time. The Nazis set up giant prisons called concentration camps, where prisoners were starved, tortured, and worked to death. Approximately nine million Jews lived in the twenty-one countries. It is impossible to know the real amount of people who died, but six million is a estimate. The Jews were not a threat, they were people who lived in a society where they were alone, hurt, and died brutally in the Holocaust, for no reason....
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...Sorry for the loss – essay Sorry for the loss is a short story, written by Bridget Keehan in 2008. It is a story filled with contrasts, and tells the story of an innocent person’s courage, as she wanders through the harsh prison, to deliver some sad news to a killer-inmate. The story is playing out in what seems like a classic county prison. Evie, the catholic chaplain, is assigned to tell the inmate, Victor Zamora, that his Nan dead. As she enters his cell, she immediately notices, that Victor is not a regular long-term prisoner. Even though he has been imprisoned for five years, for killing a fellow student with a butterfly knife, he does not have any long-term staleness, as you would expect people like him to have. His skin is still olive and his eyes are blue, and they still have spark. And when she brings him the news, he does not react, as you would expect. He does not start to cry or become upset, which would be the typical reaction. And at the same time, she wonders, how something with as peaceful a name as a butterfly knife can be used to perform such a horrible act. The plot of this story proceeds chronologically, and we are thrown directly into the story without any form of introduction. There are no flashbacks, no flashforwards or foreboding. It is all happening as it would in real time, without any jumps in time. It is a third person, limited omniscient narrator, which is following Evie’s point of view. It is a third person narrator, because terms such...
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...Essay on Abuse of Human Rights Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, abuses of human rights have continued in the post World War II era. There are many atrocities that continued, however there have also been efforts to stop these abuses. Document 1 demonstrates the pass-system of apartheid in Africa. The pass-system was a system established by the English, where only the Native Americans had to carry a pass around with them in case they were stopped and checked by the English Police. This “pass-system” violated human rights because only blacks were subject to this system. If they were caught without a pass with them, they would be arrested. This was unfair to the blacks and violated their rights. Document 4 also states examples of how human rights were still being violated in the post World War II era. Document 4 is an article entitled “The Killing of Cambodia” published in 1982. It states that education and religious practices were not allowed. This violated the human right to freely practice religion and education. This article also states that families were broken apart in Cambodia, which is also another violation of human rights. Our Service Can Write a Custom Essay on Human Rights for You! A genocide in Rwanda violated human rights as well. Document 6 states that 500,000 people were carried out in the spring of 1994 in Rwanda. Thousands of Africans were raped, tortured and beaten. The international community did not do anything about these human rights that...
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...Religion of Colonial Life The aspect of religion in colonial life started out a little rocky in the beginning. The Protestants from England were unhappy with their corrupt religion, and wanted to start fresh in the New World called America. The reason it was corrupt is because they had no separation of church and state, and they wanted to be free to choose their own religion. However, when they got to the New World, things actually didn’t change that much. The citizens still didn’t really have the freedom to choose their religion. Inhabitants of Virginia were forced to attend the Church of Anglican, and pay taxes to keep it going. In 1698 a freedom to worship bill was put into place stating that people could worship whatever religion they wanted, but major limitations were put in place. The limitations were that the civil authority got to choose what groups got to practice this freedom. Later advocates for religious freedom argued that religious freedom should be defined as a natural right rather than as a right afforded by a civil government. Later on though, the Bill of Rights was created and the first amendment was basically freedom in religion in the United States of America. All the religions that had gained popularity and followings during this period were Catholic, Methodists, Quakers, Lutherans, Mennonites, Judaism, and Baptists. The first religion talked about is one that it still very popular and followed in today’s world, Catholic. The first Catholic colony...
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...Resettlement has been an important element in prison life throughout England and Wales for many years. It is when “prisoners and their families receive assistance and support from the prison and probation services and voluntary agencies to help them prepare for life after prison” (Justice, 2002). The objective is to hopefully lead prisoners towards recidivism, which will hopefully return ex-offenders to normal life, employment and housing. Criminological and social research done by Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) identified the following factors to be what influenced reoffending. These are; education, employment, drug and alcohol misuse, mental and physical health, housing, financial support, debt and family networks. The aim of this essay is to...
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...the light heavyweight division. After turning pro, Ali defeated his first opponents. Then on February 25th 1964, he fought, and knocked out, Sonny Liston in seven rounds, thus becoming the new heavyweight world champion. Ali defended his title nine times from 1965 to 1967 and became universally recognized as world heavyweight champion after knocking out World Boxing Association (WBA) champion Ernie Terrell in fifteen rounds on February 6th 1967. Ali often showed of his greatness by saying, "I am the greatest!" Soon after becoming heavyweight champion, Ali decided to change his religion and joined the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims), taking the Muslim name "Muhammad Ali." The Vietnam War then interrupted Ali's career. In 1967, he was chosen to go into the military, but he refused to serve, saying his religious beliefs forbade him to fight. While some Americans praised Ali for risking prison to...
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