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Egyptian Life: A Cycle of Sunrises and Sunsets Present day Egypt is filled with pyramids, tombs, hieroglyphs on stone, and other relics documenting a complex religious history. Understanding a religion full of stories, family trees, and many gods and their relation to one another, is one of the biggest mysteries Egypt has to offer. While scholars differ on the names and purposes of the gods and their relation to one another, there is an agreement that Egyptians were searching for an…

Wuthering Heights, a novel written by Emily Brontë, illustrates the drama of the Earnshaw and Linton families over two generations. Heathcliff, a formerly abused orphan from Liverpool, influences many of the key events described in Wuthering Heights. His undying love for Catherine Earnshaw drives the plot of the novel accompanied with his prior history of abuse lead Heathcliff to commit acts, such as abusing his own relatives and forcing a marriage between his niece and son. In Emily Brontë’s…

The film opens with a war sequence, in which a young Russian sailor is forced by a Nazi officer to shoot the skipper of his barge in exchange for his own life. Then the action moves to 1974, to the remote Orthodox monastery in the same area where the war episode happened. The former young sailor, now Father Anatolii, lives here as a monk. Apparently known as a holy man, he is visited by many people seeking spiritual and medical help. Father Anatolii deals with many different individuals…

Bernie Sanders once said, “For many, the American Dream has become a nightmare”. Americans feel that they can longer accomplish what they could have done easily 50 years ago. With most of the country’s currency in the hands of a small percent of its population, it’s very unlikely that one can ascend from rags to riches. There are many reasons why the American Dream is considered defunct, but it is primarily caused by overpopulation, poor political decision making, and an uneven distribution of…

William Shakespeare said, “The eyes are the window to your soul.” In the Postmodern literary world, characters’ souls battle loss, alienation, isolation, and purposelessness. William Faulkner made a career out of exploring the darker side of life in the rural South and gave readers a glimpse of the social, economic, and racial prejudices his characters endured and hopelessly struggled to escape. This state of hopelessness defines the plight of the Bundren family in Faulkner’s classic As I Lay…

food for her children or cleaning her house. As we arrived to church, that’s when it really hit me that she was gone and I started feeling a weird feeling inside my stomach since I was really nervous of having to see her inside that coffin. Walking towards her coffin was really hard for me since it’s a very sad and hurtful experience that no one like to go through. I started to tear down as soon as I saw her 3 children cry for her. I gave them my condolences and let them know that we had to be…

In A Discussion of Rites, Hsun Tzu discusses human desires and the way in which they are satiated through ritual. When a person is in constant struggles to fulfill their desires, that person loses control of their life. Since ancient times, rulers have noticed this, so they “established ritual principles… to train men’s desires and to provide for their satisfaction” (89). These kings also recognized that desires and material goods matter greatly to man, so “ both desires and goods were looked…

and Arthur go to Lucy’s Grave they notice its empty and in order to keep her from reentering he decides to place the chunks of Wafers into the coffin in order for her to not reenter. Here Van Helsing uses the wafer for the first time in the novel, and it shows a weakness Vampires have towards materials of Church, since Lucy could not get back into the coffin unless he removed the wafers so it proved that they had something that could help them from getting hurt. Later in the novel after Mina is…

Many people might have a life without meaning and full of tragedy. In Pearl S. Buck’s novel, The Good Earth, was about Wang Lung, the main character who was a poor farmer who had good fortune for a few years after his marriage, until a drought occurred which made Wang Lung and his family move to the south, while a revolution began. The revolution gave a chance for Wang Lung and his family to return back to the north and live as one of the wealthy families, but in the end Wang Lung’s sons decided…

William Coffin said that “The Christian right talks a lot about “traditional values” and “family values”. Almost always these values relate to personal rather than social morality. For the Christian right has trouble not only seeing love as the core value of personal life but even more trouble seeing love as the core value of our communal life” (Coffin 2004: 158). I think that Coffin said it well when you apply this quote to a church and politics…