Abomination

be worthless and treated unfairly. As a black woman today, I know that one word alone is like the Helen of Troy, which was “the face that launch’d a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium.” This word and what it stands for is an abomination to not only the United State of America, but to the entire universe. Words like that are created to make someone feel worthless, useless, and undesirable. I cannot fathom seeing how people…

In modern times, society frequently sees the seclusion of jail as a hard punishment for those who have done wrong. However, this punishment has far evolved from the practice public shaming, whipping, and sometimes hanging of criminals of the seventeenth century. During this era in American history, the religious Puritans had no tolerance for those who did not live by their rules and punished those individuals in an effort to keep Puritan morals in line. In the historical fiction novel The…

The Unraveling of a Culture In Things Fall Apart, the missionaries bring with them to the village of the Ibo people a mindset and a way of living that the villagers were never previously exposed to. The missionaries provided the villagers an unexpected alternative to the culture and beliefs that they had grown accustomed to throughout their lives. Surprisingly, many more villagers came to accept the alternative than one would initially expect. At the same time, there were plenty of villagers who…

of view that euthanasia, not matter the intention is still an act of murder and is unforgivable. From this point-of-view this is an act of utter cruelty (Lu, Matthew 58). From the arguments discussed this point of view sees that euthanasia is an abomination and a disgrace to what has been given to us. Medically assisted suicide should not only be illegal but condemned by all. WORKS…

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is portrayed as a man of strength. In the final pages of the book this fear to be anything else but a “strong man,” is what ultimately leads to his suicide in the most ironic way. The fear of being seen as weak not only to himself but the in the eyes of everyone around him, not only lead to his death but drives the entire story. Okonkwo's need to be seen as no less than strength comes from his father. Throughout the writing we see the hatred Okonkwo…

As we view the evolvement of American literature, we begin to move away from the transcendentalist impressions of writers, and move toward a more realistic notion. The texts and authors of this era were greatly influenced by the circumstances around them: the American Civil War, the rush to the Alaskan Yukon for gold, or the Industrial Revolution, which incited them to see the world in a different light than those before them. To a reader with little to no knowledge on the background of the…

In the novel Night, by Elie Weisel, the Nazis reduce the Jews to objects that are a nuisance to them, stripping them of their value as humans. This dehumanization happens very gradually during the Holocaust, like a frog being cooked in water that slowly boils. The Jewish people adapt to any and every circumstance they’re thrown into. When they’re first moved to the ghettos they embrace it saying it’s their own land separated from the cruelty and that really the German’s are protecting them. This…

The United States of America is the home of millions of people from various parts of the world. Throughout this country we can find a miscellany of culture and languages. Language has been around since the beginning of time and in todays society there are innumerable benefits of speaking various amount of languages. In a present day world it possesses an ordinary ideal for individuals to know more than a singular language in which he/she has full control over their first or native…

problem is that according to Aquinas the unnatural equals bad and the natural equals good so anytime a person does something unnatural then they are doing something wrong. The Catholic Church used Aquinas’ Natural Law moral theory to commit many abomination like the purge against “witches” and gays, which are not universal truths as there is nothing in the world that makes gays not natural. A normal definition of natural is everything that exist in the world is treaded as natural, which is…

performing homosexual acts with one another. The behaviors done by the people of Romans are still seen today as a result of the fall. Those who have read other book of the bible concerning marriage and purity understand that homosexual acts are an abomination. God designed marriage and sex to be between one man and one woman. Romans teaches us that these relationship flaws can be repaired by salvation through Christ, however. This is supported in Romans 5: 9-11. With that comes repairs of more…