All That Heaven Allows

confront our reality as an audience. In Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows and Todd Haynes’s Far From Heaven, this idea of framing a certain reality is also expressed with their use of mirrors and other reflective surfaces to display a specific point of view. During the cocktail party scene at the Whitaker’s house, Frank Whitaker, in referring to how lucky he is to have such a beautiful wife, says, “It's all smoke and mirrors, fellas. That's all it is.” This statement sums up the plot of the…

In translating Baudelaire 's “Le Crépuscule du soir,” I primarily focussed on meaning, as opposed to meter, grammar, or rhyme scheme. To this purpose, the translation attempts to stay as close to the original text as possible, with a few subjective decisions made to preserve some of the connections which are made in the french. The first of these decisions actually occurs in the title itself, “Le Crépuscule du soir”. “Crépuscule” is literally “twilight”, and both words contain the ambiguity…

know when we are going to die. It is naturally so we don’t have to be afraid, we just need to do what we have to do in this world and know our purpose here. By dying, we don’t know what will happen next, but if you have faith in God we might be in Heaven. As I am living now, I do not want to think about death, yet because I am happy about having the chance to live. According to Jean-Paul Sartre, Death is Freedom because you are free from pain and worries. He said it because our soul was perfect…

Johnson carefully assesses many different “excuses” that theists give for why an all good, all powerful god approves or neglects to prevent the burning of an innocent baby. I believe his weakest “excuse” is when he claims that a baby going to heaven is only justified if it was necessary for the baby to suffer. If it was not, then it was wrong to allow it. I believe this is Johnsons weakest point because I feel as there is never a necessary reason for a baby’s death. Throughout Johnson’s passage…

God Defies Logic There is a timeless argument that if God is all-powerful (P), all-knowing (K), and morally perfect (M), a truly PKM God, and evil exists, then a PKM God defies logic. From a logical perspective, this argument makes sense. The dilemma arises, however, that if God defies logic, then the inverse is that logic defies God. That is, a PKM God does not follow the laws of logic as mere humans may conceptualize. In a black and white, right or wrong world, the argument that if…

Apostles, passed onto the Bishops Encorporates one into the unity of the Church The authority of the Church is Christ's authority and allows me to live in a fully human…

was straight forward with its meaning towards religion. “Pan” meaning everything and “theon” meaning divine. Therefore, “Pantheon” combined meant “all the Gods”. This then became a home to the seven Roman Gods; Venus, Saturn, Mercury,Jup iter, Mars, Sun, Moon. The temple of the Pantheon became a model of the Roman universe. Thus being that it united all of the Roman Gods in one…

highest dignity of all creation. He is granted free will and reason to not only determine what is right and wrong, but to choose it for himself. Some speculate that the Catholic church does not uphold human dignity, but that man is simply following blindly in the name of faith. This is not the case. Rather than destroy one’s appreciation for human dignity, the Catholic Church’s teachings on faith enhance one’s appreciation for human dignity particularly in the teachings regarding heaven, hell,…

Christians in a church building. In this particular poem, Dickinson is attempting to inform and instruct the audience of a single method of worship that can also be practiced in the home setting. The primary purpose for Dickinson’s poetry is to simply allow the reader to become attached to her aphoristic writing, which is a type of writing that compresses a substantial amount of meaning in very minimal words. The poem’s title, “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church,” is utilized in an arrogant…

at all. For the lines that state: "For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow; die not, poor death, not yet canst thou kill me, " death is personified as a ruler that takes control and manipulates the minds of its people. However; for those with a diverse way of thinking, this "ruler" is unable to control and manipulate these people. This way of thinking incorporates elements of the Christian faith. As a result, these people (ie. Christians) envision death to be a passage towards heaven.…