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the Inferno, he needed to see the consequences of losing the True Way beforehand or he could have had a completely different reaction to Beatrice saying his mind is “like a stone, so darkened that the light of what I tell you strikes it blind” in Canto 33 of Purgatorio. Journeying through the Inferno and Purgatorio before meeting Beatrice allowed Dante to better understand where she was coming from when he first met her. Virgil does a lot for Dante throughout The Divine Comedy.…

Dante’s Inferno and “The Uncommitted” Some people stay in bed all day and only get up to do the bare necessities ; while other people get up every morning with the mindset that they are going to change the world. In Dante’s Inferno, written by Dante Alighieri, nearly every punishment is intended to represent a contrapasso, a reflection of being punished equally for the sinner’s crime. Dante’s Inferno is an epic poem whose writing began in 1308 and was completed in 1320, which was a year before…

Children begin to grieve the loss of their primary caregiver even when there’s a history of maltreatment (Goldsmith, Oppenheim, & Wanlass, 2004). Caregivers often feel guilt and shame for not being able to keep their family intact, (Haight, Kagle, & Black, 2003). Despite the decision to remove a child from their home, the goal of CFS is family reunification, (Pecora , et al., 2009). Supervised visitations, which are scheduled, face to face contacts between caregivers and their children in…

Life 's Journey Everyone knows that life is hard, and sometimes people make mistakes. To move past what they have done and better themselves one must look at the mistakes in their past and see fault in oneself . Dante Alighieri wrote the epic Dante 's Inferno when he was 35 years old and going through a midlife crisis He was going through a rough time, as he had just been tricked into being exiled from Florence Italy, his home he loved. He wanted to move on with his life and grow as a person…

Thematic Observation In these two poems, both of them are describing the culture of Hong Kong. In “Mother Tongue”, the writer Tegan Smyth is half-breed of Hakka Chinese and Australia. She writes about languages, culture, and humanity, etc. This poem has illustrated that language plays an absolutely necessary and important role in awaring cultural identity as expected. Lots of expressions and characteristics of the two different places were frequently used to represent the difference between…

Plato’s student who learned from his teacher, Socrates. He became an excellent philosopher through Plato’s teachings, but was remembered for inventing modern logic by himself. Wisdom and knowledge were valued by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and in canto four, Dante revisits a place of peace, Limbo. Aristotle is present in Limbo because he wanted to allow others to explore the world, the mind, and for humans to be themselves. His values lead him to Limbo just like many other great…

Byrons work, ‘Childe Harolds Pilgrimage’, the poet brings forth a much different sentiment about love than that of Wordsworth’s through a number of stanzas that share a great deal of similarities with a certain portion of Homer’s Odyssey. In the second canto of the work, stanzas 17 to…

In this study, we will be examining Gaetano Donizetti’s 1835 bel canto opera Lucia Di Lammermoor and its treatment of the title character’s mental disorder, from a feminist perspective. Lucia’s madness is hinted at multiple times during the unfolding of the story and as the dramatic tension rises, but it has fully developed by the time when, in the midst of the wedding celebrations in Act III, Raimondo appears and tells the assembled guests that Lucia has murdered her bridegroom, Arturo. Lucia’s…

Dominican Republic is a very important country in many ways. Firstly, the Dominican Republic has a very important history. Secondly, in the Dominican Republic the location is in the caribbean, and it natural resources were in danger. Thirdly, the Dominicans are bilingual but the country mostly speaks spanish, and the capital is also very historical. Fourthly, they play many sports and many tourists come to this country. Please allow me to continue in further detail This country is has a very…

On the evening of March fourteenth, the talented singers of Carl Sandburg High School put on an excellent performance for friends and family to enjoy. Although it was rather short concert, I still had the pleasure of hearing eight diverse groups sing at this year’s Winter Choir Concert. At 7 o’clock on the dot, the women of Treble Choir came out on stage. As the chatter in the audience hushed, the president of the group announced who they were and briefly talked about the two pieces they were…