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    Andy Biersack "Stand up for what you believe in‚ even if it means standing alone." Andy Biersack was born December 26‚ 1990. He is the vocalist and main lyricist for Black Veil Brides. Black Veil Brides is an American Rock band‚ created by Andy Biersack in 2006. The name Black Veil Brides is a Roman Catholic term for when a woman marries into the church and gives up all the pleasures of life to‚ devote her life to God. Biersack chose the name because he views rock and roll the same way. You devote

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    In “The Minister’s Black Veil”‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne suggests that some people find it easier to create outlandish stories rather than face the truth. Hawthorne discusses this through the reaction of the townspeople. The townsfolk question Mr. Hooper’s reasoning for the dreadful veil he wears. They are scared that Mr. Hopper may have found about about their secret sins. When Mr. Hooper‚ the minister‚ shows up for church wearing a black veil covering his face‚ people start to question if he is really

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    thought the minister wore the black veil that covered his face except from his mouth and his chin to hide from his parishioners as he did something to be embarrassed of. But after I finished reading I got various hints indicating that he wore the black veil to hide from his sin and secret. However‚ when Mr. Hopper’s wife asked him to take the veil away‚ he told her that he wore the veil as a symbol for his commitment to his religion. When parishioners saw Mr. Hopper wearing the veil‚ they were shocked

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    "Reverend Mr. Hooper wore the black veil to symbolized secret sin; this veil represented how everyone has something in their heart that no one knows about." Everyone of these articles begins with a statement about secret sin and this why Reverend Hooper wore the black veil‚ the congregation were led to believe that the reason behind his choice to wear the black veil was because that had sinned himself and he was human and they were all to sin by nature. But the real choice behind this is that Reverend

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    Jonathan Edwards was a minister who gave the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Ao” to his congregation. Edwards did this to connect to his people on a personal level‚ The theme of Edwards sermon is for people not to sin. His writing was very dark and intense to say the least. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the “Minister’s Black Veil.” Hawthorn did this to show how something as simple as a black veil can change someone’s life. Out of the two pieces of writing jonathan Edwards had the stronger of

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    are very good lawyers for our own mistakes‚ but very good judges for the mistakes of others.” In “The Ministers Black Veil‚” Nathanial Hawthorne exposes a theme of revealed sin and underlying guilt. Throughout the story‚ the author creates this idea that people spend a lot of their time judging others by their actions rather than by their own. Reverend Hooper chooses to never remove the black veil. It conveys this feeling of secret sin and is only confirmed when at his deathbed‚ he says that everyone

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    throughout American literature especially in the Hawthorne’s The Minister’s Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown. Hawthorne’s The Minister’s Black Veil is a parable‚ suggests his purpose for writing. According to Webster’s dictionary‚ a parable is a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth‚ religious principle‚ or moral lesson. This is exactly what Hawthorne is trying to accomplish. The black veil that Pastor Hooper wears causes confusion and creates fear within his congregation

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    In the short story The Black Cat‚ there are a few symbols represented throughout the story. The one that I think is the most interesting is the Black Cat itself. This cat is always around when things relate back to when the man abused and killed his former cat Pluto. The cat also reminds the man of Pluto by the way it looks and acts. The narrator might feel guilty about what he had done to Pluto and as a result seeing these similarities in this new cat‚ or the cat only serves the purpose to help

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    Why are modern Muslim women adopting the veil‚ hijab or turban even when their mothers did not wear it? How does veiling shape the identity of these Muslim women? Is such voluntary modern veiling necessarily more oppressive than the pressure Western women are under to always dress up‚ look good‚ feminine and desirable as they walk out of their front doors? Discuss with reference to literature on Muslim women in Western minority situations and/or in predominantly Muslim countries. Refer to essential

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    Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of Black Folk "For now we see through a glass‚ darkly" -Isiah 25:7 W.E.B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk‚ a collection of autobiographical and historical essays contains many themes. There is the theme of souls and their attainment of consciousness‚ the theme of double consciousness and the duality and bifurcation of black life and culture; but one of the most striking themes is that of "the veil." The veil provides a link between the 14

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