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    The seven deadly sins are lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Lust is an uncontrolled desire, gluttony means to consume too much, greed it to never be content, sloth is to be physically lazy, wrath is and uncontrolled rage, envy is to be jealous, and last but not least pride which means to think your better than others in other words your ego is to big but pride can be used as good or bad depending on how you use this terms. There were seven deadly sins that were used though…

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    Virgil and Dante are now entering the 8th circle of hell, fraud towards other people. The guard of this circle is the Greek god Janus. Janus is the guard because he had literally two faces. Here, sinners have misled and deceived friends and enemies alike to serve their own selfish goals. They have been fake, deceitful, and malicious. They now live in a world of plastic where there is a constant clamor of conflicting communications. The sinners faces are distorted and grotesque because they have…

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    The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Romans and Galatians is a part of a larger set of commentaries, published by Zondervan Publishing Company. The contributors for the Romans section are Everett F. Harrison and Donald A. Hagner; for the Galatians portion of the commentary, the contributor is Robert Keith Rapa. The general editors are Tremper Longman III and David E. Garland. The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Romans and Galatians used the New International Version, which is the most popular modern…

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    Juan Rulfo Symbolism

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    Some believe that after death there is only one of three places you can go: Heaven, hell, and the one that is least spoken about is purgatory. Heaven is paradise while hell’s suffering is interminable. Purgatory is similar to hell in one aspect which is the suffering, but it is not infinite. A person goes there if they were not necessarily bad nor good. It’s a place where a person can be expiated for their sin. In Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo uses Comala as a symbol for purgatory. Juan Rulfo uses…

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    themes are weaved into the play to show how shakespeare viewed the society he lived in. The seven deadly sins is used in the play to show how each sin can poison a life until the person loses their life. Doubt is also used to give reasoning behind the characters thoughts and actions. Revenge is also a major theme of the play. Overall, multiple themes make the plot come together at the end. The seven deadly sins play a major role in breaking apart the “perfect characters” as they are first…

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    The Canterbury Tales' are full of lust, greed, and all other manner of sins. But in the last of the tale, we hear the true message of the story and finally meet a character who is moral and upstanding in the Parson. The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, is an unfinished collection of stories. The overall plot is that a group of pilgrims who are visiting the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury are having a contest to see who can tell the best story. 'The Parson's Tale', which is thought…

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    Have you ever had an experienced that rocked you to your core and changed the way you regard the world around you? In the story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the protagonist is doing exactly that, struggling to remain faithful to his beliefs. Brown leaves his wife on a journey of a wicked nature. While on this journey he is arguing with a dark man about continuing on this journey. He feels the pressures of a stigma that those around him are honest, good, faithful people. He…

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    Kant's Jealousy

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    In Kant’s Jealousy, Malice, and Ingratitude he writes that there are two methods by which men arrive at an opinion of their worth, by comparing themselves with the idea of perfection and by comparing themselves with others. Kant favors the first comparison over the latter suggesting that by comparing ourselves to perfect it is a constant and therefore we can move ourselves closer by improvement. In comparing ourselves to others however, this is not a constant in that there are many variables…

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    Rachel Gold December 10, 2015 Mrs. Doucette Inferno reflection piece Option 1 Is there a relationship between sin and punishment? I think so. Each sinner of their circle had to match a punishment to their crime. In the first circle (Limbo) are the unbaptized and the virtuous pagans. The first circle are punished by living in a fake form of Heaven. A good example of how the two are connected. In the second circle the lust are punished. They receive a violent wind in this tornado and they are…

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    “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”( Erich Fromm). Greed suffocates the heart’s ability to find love and happiness in the world. Wholesome things are often overcome by the need to find everlasting success. Your wealth and possessions might seem important today but family and true happiness are worth far more. There is a similar situation in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge is overcome by…

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