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    The Slayer: A Short Story

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    and the Lil Bit, still unsure about why. If the Slayer wanted her Watcher dead, he supposed she'd deal with him herself. Once Joyce, Dawn and Giles were outside the mausoleum, Spike closed the door behind him and hurried back down the steps to the catacomb of…

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    Batman! I was “introduced” last summer by my obsessed boyfriend (at the time) to all things Batman. Comic books, movies, cartoons, collectibles, he had it all, and it sparked my interest. Over the course of the next year I grew to love Batman almost as much as him, my primary interest being the recent Dark Knight Trilogy. The trilogy consists of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises (the only Batman feature length films not to include “Batman” in their titles). Batman Begins…

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    World renowned author, ethicist, and theologian Lewis B. Smedes once argued that , “The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.(Diederich)” Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado highlights the sequence of events Montresor endures to enact revenge on Fortunato. Montresor believe that he has been wronged to the point of…

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    Revenge: we all have sought it one way or another, but few of us have wanted revenge to the point where we change as a person all together. “ The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe is a story of a man named Montresor who was insulted so much that it pushed him to get revenge on Fortunato in the form of murder. Ironman 3 by Shane Black is a action packed story about the billionaire playboy named Tony Stark who watches his friends, family, his home, and innocent people be killed or destroyed…

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    The story deals with the theme of abandonment, a theme that reoccurs throughout Poe’s life. Almost everybody Poe cared for abandoned him or died. When the narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado” locks Fortunato deep within the catacombs and leaves him to die, the narrator enacts a very personal form of abandonment. When the narrator chains his victim to the wall, the victim doesn’t even bother to fight: “he was too much astounded to resist” (Cask 18). The narrator takes the time…

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    tenth century the sarcophagi fell out of use and became very limited to the wealthy and prominent Christians in Roman society. By the Middle Ages sarcophagi were rarely used and were beyond the reach of the majority of Christian members. Likewise, catacombs and underground burial places were out of date during the eighth and ninth centuries, despite the importance of the art history of early Christianity. By the 9th century, most graves were in churchyards and linked closely to the…

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    tad bit more of a casual experience head down to the hotel’s Cellar bar. The bar is a great place to bend the elbow with locals having toast after work from the vast selection of Irish craft beers or perhaps a Jameson on the rocks. Cellar has a catacomb-like ambiance with high arched ceilings and walkways and exposed rock and mortar coves and nooks. The food is great as well serving proper modern Irish pub dishes using the best local and seasonal…

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    The power to change is man’s greatest struggles, since a strong influence that lead them to where they are now. It is also the price and journey that both Montresor in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell Tale Heart” and the narrator of the “The Cask of Amontillado”, another of poe’s story. In both story the narrators, both indicate that they want to get rid of an addiction they had that is driving them to madness, and in order to do so they, must do it at any cost. Both narrator clearly plan…

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    Creon Foils In Antigone

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    but refuses to argue because the man is a prophet, therefore showing that Creon does have control issues. He can cause a prophet to stop arguing with him simply because Creon says he doesn’t want to. “Away with her! Wall her up close in some deep catacomb, As I have said,”(pg 288 lines 990-991). He acts on his impulse with Antigone and hurts a family member in order to keep power and follow the laws that he made. No one will question his actions, so he is free to act on his mortal motivations…

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    Mary, The Mother Of God

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    As early as late first or early second century, the very first depiction of Mary has been recovered. The location of these ancient images of Mary are along the walls of the Catacomb of Priscilla in Rome, Italy (Dictionary: Marian Art). Mary, in early Christian art, was illustrated in three manners: a mother, an empress, or someone in prayer. Images such that depicted Mary as a being of great status conformed the people into…

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