Mortal Engines

Like forceful conduct at home, stalking is a wrongdoing of constrain and control. Stalking is conservatively portrayed as "a course of lead facilitated at a specific person that incorporates reiterated (no less than two occasions) visual or physical region, nonconsensual correspondence, or verbal, created, or induced risks, or a mix thereof, that would realize a sensible individual fear." Stalking hones in like manner may consolidate constant cases of leaving or sending the setback undesirable things or presents that may go from clearly nostalgic to bizarre, after or sitting tight in for the loss, hurting or undermining to hurt the loss' property, condemning the loss' character, or bothering the loss by methods for the Internet by posting singular information or spreading gossipy goodies about the loss (nij.gov, 2007) Stalking conduct outlines eagerly mirror those ordinary in various forceful conduct at home cases. The illustration is regularly enacted when the stalker's advances toward their setback is puzzled, paying little regard to whether the stalker is hoping to set up an individual relationship or continue with an earlier settled relationship despite the cravings of the loss. The stalker may attempt to beguile their setback into a relationship by sending blooms, sugary treat and love letters, attempting to "show their veneration." However, when the loss spurns their unwelcome advances, the stalker habitually swings to threatening. Such attempts at threatening…

Although Aquinas wrote about the harmful aspects of gluttony, there are hints that he may be guilty of this sin himself. While he seems to judge the other deadly sins rather harshly, especially pride, he is surprisingly lenient in his analysis of gluttony and justifies it in many cases. For example, Aquinas claims that eating too much or becoming drunk on accident is simply a venial sin, and that gluttony is not a mortal sin unless one forsakes God in favor of food. Aquinas also mentions many…

humankind by consuming bread and wine in which Jesus did at the Last Supper before his death. This allowed individuals to receive God’s gift and hoped to be rescued from sin. Another way the Christian Church was able to gain support of medieval society was through the sermon. The purposes of the sermon were to educate the people of the Christian faith and their beliefs, make the contents of the Bible known, explain the idea of original sin, help people understand confession, and explain the…

something other than yourself. Just as reconciliation is a way to heal that alienation, a Band-aid does the healing of that cut. This does take time just as reconciliation does. A person can’t walk in and say forgive me. They must go through the sacrament by confessing the sins and then by giving penance. Penance or poena is the pain that you must go through to be healed. In the same way, as I have said, you must care for the cut which would be the confessing in reconciliation. Then, you would…

If you are walking down the street you should stop and ask people what they consider unforgiveable. If you are like me, you will be fascinated by the answers you get. Their answers will be as varied as the people who give them. I myself have a list of unforgiveable actions which, while being small, will immediately cause me to lose respect for the individual performing said action. The thing that jumps to the forefront of my thoughts is the sin of lethargy. I use the term ‘sin’ because that…

Disbelief or untruthfulness towards God can result in sin. Another way to look at sin is when people fail to achieve the intentions God may had for them. An example of sin is the Adam an Eve story, God strictly told Adam and Eve to not eat from the tree. However, they disobeyed God’s word and had ate from the tree anyways. This soon lead to separation between God and people as well as a separation from one’s self. This is where the origin of sin came to be. There are many consequences in life…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne displays how one sin can ruin the lives of many. His purpose is to show how holding in a sin and not being truthful can haunt you and lead to your end. Hawthorne uses several rhetorical device to convey this message, including: antithesis, anaphora, and metaphor. Throughout the text, antithesis is commonly used, especially comparing life and death. For example, Dimmesdale states “Many, many poor soul hath given its confidence to me, not only…

This argument, however, does not take into account what C.S. Lewis mentions in Mere Christianity: man’s innate ability to discern good from evil. Additionally, this interpretation suggests that it’s possible for one to commit mortal sin without sufficient knowledge. Are we to say that understanding good and evil in this way is a mortal sin? However, one may object, saying that Adam and Eve ‘knew’ evil by partaking in it, thus committing a sin. This interpretation would be accurate if the tree…

The Seven Deadly Sins Today, written by Henry Fairlie, expressed each sin and how it is manifested in our society. One of the seven deadly sin is avarice which means, extreme greed for wealth or material gain. This entire chapter gives examples of how people act of avarice and how it envelopes our being. One example that most people can imagine would be Scrooge and how his greed took over his entire life and put him in misery. Fairlie continues and explains how possession will possess the owner,…

Many inventions played key roles in American expansion. Canals and railroads set a path connecting towns and settlements. Trains and boats featuring steam engines carried goods needed to sustain life and luxury in these places. The tin can made it possible to transport previously perishable goods. Although all of these made expansion possible, one invention in particular made southerners want to expand; the cotton gin. These inventions catalyzed US expansion in the 1800’s. Canals spread…