Bathsheba

“boss lady”. The two joined by his father Walrus (Lowell Landes) and Little Jo (Pamela Harper) live in a community called the “BathTub.” It is cut off by a wall called a levee. Hushpuppy attends school like most kids and with the help of Miss Bathsheba (Gina Montana) Hushpuppy learns of these creatures behind the levee called “Aurochs”. Wink knows he doesn’t have much longer to live. He is trying to toughin Hushpuppy up by showing her how to survive on her own. Him and Hushpuppy at times…

Love is a beautiful thing. Love is defined as an intense connection between two people. Love can sometimes drive people do things they would not normally do. This is evident in the book The End of the Affair. In the book, The End of the Affair, Sarah and her lover Bendrix display what love is. They adore one another. The problem with their relationship is the fact that Sarah is married to Henry. The love Sarah has for Henry does not compare to what she feels for her lover Bendrix. Her love for…

When I read biblical texts now I read it with a more feminine lens than I ever have before. I think it is incredibly important for biblical stories to get taught accurately and that definitely includes many stories involving women that often get misinterpreted. There are many different examples of words getting inserted into stories that make the female character portrayed negatively, such as Eve. When Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, many people are taught…

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (AN ART FILM) An art film or art cinema is typically a serious, independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is intended to be a serious artistic work, which is experimental and not adhere to mass audience. They are made basically for aesthetic reasons than commercial profit, and contain exceptional or highly individualistic content. It includes, among other elements, a social realism style, an emphasizing on the passion of the…

Sodom and Gomorrah Summary: Sodom and Gomorrah are two exceptionally evil cities. God sends angels to see just how evil the city of sodom is. The angels enter the city and are taken home by a man named Lot. That night the evil people of Sodom beat on Lot door and demanded he send out the angels to them. The angels go out and strike everyone blind. The next morning the angels convince Lot, with his wife and two daughters, to flee the city. God then destroys both Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and…

The first theme is prophecy, which is utilized extensively in both the book of Samuel and the Ramayana to foreshadow ruin. In the book of Samuel, the catalyst for the Rape of Tamar was King David’s own sexual immorality with Bathsheba and his indirect responsibility for the death of her husband. In the nevi’im, the prophet Nathan rebukes David in the name of God, prophesying “…The sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me [God] and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be…

disobey God. “One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her.” 2 Samuel 11:2-4 In conclusion we see how Odysseus is a great leader and husband and father. Maybe…

Imagine tuning in on Monday night with your family to watch your son’s favorite movie: David and Bathsheba. Your spouse gets up during a commercial to grab water, when a commercial featuring a young girl in a field comes on. You watch in dismay as that young toddler witnesses a nuclear explosion. “Lyndon B. Johnson’s Daisy Girl” opens on a shot of a girl in a field picking daisy petals. A voice begins counting down from ten, and suddenly there is a nuclear explosion. Johnson comes on to say, “To…

The Heroic Acts of Odysseus We can honestly all say that Odysseus is the main hero in The Odysseus. Out of the majority of characters in The Odyssey, Odysseus is one of the best military leaders, fathers, and he is a great husband to Penelope. He is a very, very important and main character in Greek mythology, and in The Odyssey. He is a hero because of all the heroic things that he has done up to the point of when he gets re united with his family. The things that he does throughout The…

the couple to get married outside of God’s will. An example of this issue was shown with David in regard to Bathsheba. “Perhaps the most prominent regulatory rule of marriage (here including betrothal) is that the husband has an exclusive claim to the sexual activities of his wife.” (Jackson, 239) David was not Bathsheba’s husband, but had sexual intercourse with her anyhow. Bathsheba was actually someone else’s wife. David broke the law, by having sexual intercourse with her while she was…