Confession

Sunday morning, we went to the catholic church of the Newman Center located at 472 North Pleasant Street which is about one hundred meters away from our dormitory. After breakfast, we walked for about five minutes, and saw the entrance of the building. There is a sculpture on the top of the entrance of the building. Many people came from different direction keep entered. Most of the people are old people, and there are also some students, families with children here. When we came in, a father in…

Could it ever be possible to run a society with morality based on doing what needs to be done in order to achieve an end goal by any means necessary? The Emperor’s Club is an interesting film about Sedgewick Bell, a boy who follows Machiavellian principles throughout his life. The film demonstrates the effects of his lifestyle on himself and the people around him. It demonstrates how his actions create conflicts with his peers and elders. When creating conflicts with others, he often finds…

Dimmesdale’s decision to leave Boston changed him internally and externally. His newfound freedom allowed him to become in charge of his own identity by telling Chillingworth to leave, but by dismissing him, he lies again. When Chillingworth lies to him too, it shows that Chillingworth continues to walk the path he started, lying more and more. Dimmesdale, who had a reborn freedom and found his identity chose the same path as he did before, continuing to lie. Even though his action of burning…

The story of Medea, written by the Greek poet Euripides, is about a woman who goes on a vengeful killing spree, after being scorned by her husband, Jason. Having already killed prior to that her scorn fed her murderous impulses. Her worldview indicates that she prays to the gods/goddess to go unpunished for her sins. She seeks out revenge for those who have caused her pain. As a result, Medea believes that revenge is justified. Medea seeks revenge to justify how her husband Jason has mocked…

“Tell Tale Heart” and “Squeaky Boots:” A Comparison What makes a person insane? Could it be their behavior, mental patterns, or even a chemical imbalance? One could say that guilt could lead a person to become insane. Guilt is an emotion that everybody experiences. Guilt shows us that there can be afflictive consequences for bad decisions. In “Tell Tale Heart the narrator wants to kill an old man because of his vulture eye. When the narrator succeeds in killing him he starts to hear things and…

big of an effect the Act has of the reduction of false confessions, it has at the very least reduced the use of abusive tactics within the interrogation room. The argument is however, that these tactics have just been moved outside the interrogation room. I think it can also be argued that the Pace Act opened the door for videotaping of interrogations within this country. 2. 25% 3. Confessions save time by avoiding trials because confessions usually lead to guilty pleas. Also, if there is no…

Passion expressed and confessed clearly brings peace and love, but passion repressed undoubtedly brings guilt suffering and death. Passion brings peace and love to Hester because she expresses and confesses passion clearly to others. In the early years of Hester’s punishment the magistrates of the colony demand to take Pearl away from Hester because they believe Hester is unable to raise Pearl in a Puritanical way. This is because Hester has sinned and because Pearl was unable to answer how…

It is clear that if Hester had never gotten pregnant with Pearl in the first place nobody would have really figured out that she and Dimmesdale committed adultery. Besides the fact that Pearl almost indirectly showed everyone that Hester committed adultery because her husband was in England, yet she was pregnant. Although it turns out that Hawthorne wrote her in with greater intention than just a means for the people to find out about Hester’s pregnancy. Pearl was put into the story to show…

Anybody Will Do Punishing criminals has always been a major part of what is considered justice, as the saying goes an eye for an eye. People naturally lean towards that extremely crude form of justice, and so they care about nothing else besides the fact that they get someone’s eye. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller and “Trial by Fire” by David Grann, extreme actions are taken over the deaths of children. People are accused of causing the deaths, yet none are at fault. They are all killed…

Throughout the play of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, things always have a twist to them. Deception, which is defined as “the act of tricking someone by telling them something that is not true”, can be seen in the play through the main characters of deception, which are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the witches. Women characters are portrayed as manipulative and deceiving characters throughout the play. In the very first scene, it begins with the witches saying “Fair is foul, and foul is…