Human Passion; A Driving yet Destructive Force Life without passion is equivalent to a dry piece of toast. Although still edible‚ toast requires elements such as butter and marmalade to make it tasteful and therefore enjoyable. Likewise‚ life without passion is still livable; yet it is neither as enjoyable nor as fulfilling. Passion is usually considered to be an invigorating and desirable trait; however‚ when uncontrolled it can also serve as a dangerous and destructive mechanism to mankind
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Was the conquest of Mexico justified? Was it the work of men carrying out God ’s will on Earth? Or was simpler than that? Was it just greed and jealousy‚ as old as Cain and Abel? This question can be debated to no end by people on opposite ends of the spectrum. The Spaniards were quick to justify their actions as fair‚ proper‚ and necessary. However‚ a more modern‚ western mind can certainly look at the events and judge them to be unjust‚ perhaps even evil a likening to the violence and prejudice
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The Oxford English Dictionary defined a rebel as “a person who resists authority‚ control‚ or convention” . These are the characteristics of James Dean’s screen personas in Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause and Elia Kazan’s East of Eden. In a time where conformity was a dominant ideology in society‚ rebellion became a way to display your own individuality. Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden both respectively deal with the vexing problem of the asocial youth who remain stubbornly delinquent
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Religion is a two-way street. While it can save some‚ it is the downfall for others. In terms of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark‚ this is especially true. In this work‚ there also appear to be many subliminal references to sin; more specifically‚ the ten commandments. These examples range from “Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother” to the more obvious “Thou Shall Not Covet or Steal” and “Thou Shalt Not Kill” amongst others. In all‚ Shakespeare’s use of religion within Hamlet‚ shows how
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due to other factors‚ whereas the desire for peaceful co-existence and moral justice which religions continue to provide has increased substantially in recent centuries. Conflict is part of the human civilization‚ from the biblical accounts of Cain and Abel to Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan and even to this day we have conflicts all over the world. The deadliest conflicts in the human history are the ones fought less than a century ago‚ namely the World Wars. But this sudden branding of conflict
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his views are supplemented by a sarcastic tone‚ a choppy syntax and the use of repetition. D.H Lawrence uses a sarcastic tone to form‚ and assert‚ two contrasting views‚ praise of Hester and criticism of Hester. For example‚ when he writes “Abel! Abel!“ Abel!“ Admirable!”‚ he praises Hester‚ but he explicitly contradicts this praise by calling it a “farce”. D.H. Lawrence’s critical opinion of Hester is double sided; it
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Interpretation" Elizabeth Abel travels along the stepping stones given by Toni Morrison in "Recitatif" to draw her conclusions on the race of each girl. Abel uses conversation with a colleague‚ correspondence with Morrison‚ and a strong foundation of literature on the politics of racial issues in conjunction with feminism to support her opinion on the characters’ racial identities. This conclusion on the assigned races is also used as a springboard to highlight other themes that Abel has derived from "Recitatif
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literature for a quite long time‚ because most of their works are in oral forms‚ and spread from mouth to mouth among themselves. In House Made of Dawn Momaday tells how a young man‚ Abel‚ comes back from the white world and finds that he is lost between both the white and Indian cultures and the loss of identity. Even though Abel grows up in the tribe and is immerged in the Indian culture‚ but in other Indians point of view he is still an outsider because of his father. “His father was a Navajo‚ they
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James B. Donovan‚ a New Yorker insurance lawyer‚ was probably most famous for the two events that he took part in. One was his defense for a Soviet spy named Rudolf Abel in 1957 trial‚ which later led to the negotiation to exchange Rudolf Abel for an American pilot Francis Gary Power and also an American economic college student named Frederic Pryor; and the second one was his negotiation with Fidel Castro‚ Cuban Premier‚ for releasing American imprisoned in Bay of Pigs invasion‚ 1961. Bridge of
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Mrs. Slater- Victoria ‚ Victoria ‚ come in will u ??? (Victoria enters) Mrs. Slater – Im amazed at u. how u can gallivanting about d street with ur grandfather lying dead and cold upstairs. Mrs. Slater- get off n wear ur blacks ur Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Ben r coming to talk about poor grandpa affairs. (Victoria off‚ bell rings‚ henry enters) Henry- I am wondering If dey will come at all.when u n Elizabeth quarreled she said she d never set foot in ur house again. Mrs. Slater- Elizabeth
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