Canto General

In this passage, Santiago uses a despondent, honest tone both demonstrating the hurt she feels from her fighting parents, but also the way she still doesn’t understand many things about her world. The author also has strong connotation and diction, further pressing her words out to the reader. Santiago pushes out a sense of pity and sadness towards the reader using Negi’s young innocence as a way to promote the agony Negi feels inside. She describes her parents being “locked in a litany choked with should have’s, ought to’s, and why didn’t you’s.” Negi cries on the inside, knowing that the “fights accomplished nothing, as far as I could see, except to make everyone miserable.” Mami becomes “sullen and irritable”, while Papi “disappeared into…

The famous poet, Pablo Neruda, was deeply in love with a woman named Josie, who reciprocated that affection and they became a couple. Despite their feelings for one another, the bond between them was broken because of Josie. Neruda loved Josie; However, Josie was too in love with Neruda. She was too clingy and paranoid that Neruda would leave her and as a result, Neruda did leave her. The relationship between Pablo Neruda and Josie fell apart due to jealousy, distrust, miscommunication, anger,…

Orlando Furioso is a is an epic poem of the Renaissance written by Ludovico Ariosto. The poem consists of cantos including different characters. There are important characters that show how woman behaved and the domestication process in connection to men. The character of Bradamante, a female Christian knight, who falls in love with a Saracen warrior named Ruggiero, can be analyzed through specific cantos in the story. This character is a figure of how woman want to be seen with a sense of…

groaning tree, as he makes his way through the seventh level of Hell. Dante was introduced to Pier della Vigna, a trusted counselor of Frederick II, in the form of a tree as his punishment. As Dante enters conversation with Pier della Vigna it become clear to the true significance of della Vigna’s contrapasso. As Dante says on the seventh level of Hell, “I am convinced he thought that I believed the groans I heard were issuing from shades who hid from us behind trees.” (Canto XIII, 24-26). Here…

In this canto the diviners’ heavily distorted bodies have twisted necks with their tears strolling down their backside. Upon seeing these sinners in this state he says “I leaned my face upon the projecting stone/and let my tears flow down” (Dante Alighieri 73). The state in which Dante sees these sinners is so disturbing that it appeals to his human heart and he does not feel even an ounce of trepidation before he starts crying for these sinners. Dante being the only person to cry for these…

canon. In the world of Dante’s Inferno, components of real history and Greek and Roman mythology exist simultaneously. An excellent example of Greek and Roman myth and history merging is in Canto IV, where we see a combination of poets, scientists, and mythological characters co-inhabit limbo. Vergil, who usually inhabits limbo as well, points out famous writers when he says, “that shade is Homer, the consummate poet; the other is Horace, satirist; the third is Ovid” (88-91;35). All of these…

2400 Zhiyuan Li Is the general will always right? In November 2014, China released a draft amendment to its Criminal Law, including exempting nine crimes from the death penalty. However, a considerable number of people almost immediately expressed their strong disagreement on lightening punishment for those crimes and asked for the most severe punishment instead. If we regard reducing death penalty crimes as the general will, or what is best for the whole society, the opponents might therefore…

There is no doubt that there exist institutional and individual bias in promotion board process.” In order to have an increase in blacks as general officers, would be to (1) make the promotion board more transparent, allowing the members to understand the promotion criteria in which the board members base their selection on. (2) remove any indication of the officers assign branch/job and (3) remove the members’ Army official photo. These changes here could drastically change the out come of the…

Many people in the world don 't realize that one of the greatest minds had possible learning disabilities. Albert Einstein at a younger age was labeled as dull, dyslexic, even autistic or schizophrenic. However, he overcame these “labels” and became very famous for his scientific knowledge. When Einstein was 16 years old, he always wondered what it would be like to ride his bike on a beam of light, 10 years later he came up with a special theory of relativity, which lead him to find out that…

how to write, but only the character Chaucer does not know how to write. Chaucer starts off the Canterbury Tales, by talking about all of the all of the pilgrims on the trip, and how they started off on the Canterbury pilgrimage. When the pilgrims agree to the hosts deal, Chaucer puts in a safeguard, this is the brilliance of the writer Chaucer because he uses himself as a quasi-scapegoat, that he is just restating the stories to the best of his memory, and he can 't isn 't going to censor…