Angelic Pretty

readers the derogatory comments made by Candy earlier in the story. Ironically, in death, Steinbeck describes a different woman: “And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly” (92-93). In other words, Steinbeck suggests that she heavily made up her face to mask the pain she…

its strong foundation through the Pantheon’s natural disasters and attacks it holds that antique and historic look and feeling. Interior Design “Michelangelo the great painter of the Sistine chapel once described the design of the Pantheon as an ”Angelic and not human design.”” (Roman). The structure of the Pantheon is a series of…

drying time, and the hours of styling that I had dealt with ever since I was little, all because I wanted to be loved and accepted. I wanted to fit into the box of typical girls my age who all had the exact same haircut so that I would be considered “pretty” by the rest of my classmates, but I felt miserable in that box and I didn’t know how to escape. Then, one night, I found a link online to the Locks of Love foundation website. That’s it, I thought. This is how I can come up with a great…

their little girl had turned out to be. As she grew up the lonelier and rejected Misty felt by her family. Every Sunday when all her sisters would get ready for church, she was confined to a chair where she would only wish she had Sunday dresses as pretty as…

So Hamlet's pretty vicious to the women in this play. He orders Ophelia for instance to "get thee to a nunnery" and he tells his mother Gertrude, "frailty, thy name is woman" even though Hamlet isn't terribly robust, as you may have noticed. Now there's been some backlash to us discussing gender dynamics in literature, but this is a really important contemporary approach to the study of literature. It's not the only one, it's not the only one that we do here, but it is one that matters. So a…

cops officially had their hands full, and even if downtown GCPD was obscure and unknown, the swell of low end criminals brought to GCPD was enough to keep it running. The cells were small and old, and other than a decent view of the water, that was pretty much all it had going for it. The downtown GCPD was always dealing with something from the petty drunks to the common thieves. It was rare for them to catch a major criminal, and majority of the time Batman beat them to it. Just like every…

one of the officers, Officer Justin Volpe boasted to other cops after the fact that he threatened Louima if he ever told anyone that, “I broke a man down last night,” (Greene). He was beaten by a police radio, punched, kicked, beaten up, sodomized pretty badly. Crucially, when they got to the station, they took him to the bathroom and sodomized him with a wooden stick. Simultaneously, the rammed it into his mouth, which broke all his…

The Irish author Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker wrote in 1897 the horror novel ‘Dracula’. From all accounts, that Stoker based his horror novel on Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, who was a malicious count resident in Transylvania, the now-existing Romania. Dracula is an epistolary novel that falls under the category ‘Gothic fiction’, which combines horror, death, love and lust. The word ‘Gothic’ refers to the pseudo-medieval buildings (Gothic architecture), in which many of the narratives are set. By…

by the Puritan society, as she is a young woman who committed an act of adultery and now has a child, but continues to remain physically attractive. Although she is being punished for her sin of passion, it is easily recognized that Hester is very pretty, as “the young woman was tall… had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off sunshine with a gleam. . .” (50). This beauty that revolves around Hester is something rarely seen in her Puritan society, and frankly, is something…

As spirituality becomes an increasingly popular tool in the service of mental health, the efficacy of spirituality on positive mental health must be examined. The question arises, not just whether or not spirituality is effective, but also “why or why not?” As a skeptic of spiritual practice, I have been curious about the effectiveness as well as the perceived effectiveness, and how those compare. Understanding this issue will be important in discovering which aspects of spirituality can be…