Confessional

1. What is TV’s “most enduring contribution to culture”? (1) Television’s “most enduring contribution to culture is twenty-two-minute solution.” Twenty-two-minute solution gives a false idea to people that your real life problems can be solved within twenty-two-minutes just like in sitcoms on television. People are expected to solve their problems in quicker amounts of time like in sitcoms even in real life situations. 2. List two ways in which the TV serves a “teaching” role in culture. (1)…

Let us now examine the Lutheran Churches of America and what this Protestant denomination of the Roman Catholic Church expresses as the plan, path, and doctrine of Salvation, or Soteriology? The third largest group of Christianity in the United States according to the US Census Bureau is the Lutheran faith. The Lutheran Church first established its presence in the United States of America in the Colony of New York (New Amsterdam) in the 1640s [28]. Since this date, the Lutheran church has grown…

Both The Conformist’s Marcello Clerici and The Conversation’s Harry Caul are racked with deep and abiding guilt that color their motivations and actions throughout each film. The first man, tortured by a childhood trauma for which he feels tremendous guilt, reacts by embracing fascism, seeking to absolve the abnormality he feels marked with through its radical uniformity. The second experiences guilt as a result of an occupational hazard—the unintended external consequences of his surveillance…

Born and brought up in a traditional South Indian family, Adiga is a true Indian both in spirit and thought. Much has been said about Adiga as an outstanding and an unassailable story teller. If Mulkraj Anand is considered as a socially committed novelist, Adiga is often applauded as a painter of vivid Kittur, a microcosm of Indian social milieu. Adiga has published four short stories The Sultan’s Battery, Smack, Last Christmas in Bandra and The Elephant between 2008 and 2009, drawing upon…

and effects more than just the person committing the sin. When Simba gets tempted, has a guilty conscience, or has to admit a wrong doing that he has done is the movies way of showing reconciliation. The song Hakuna Matana is considered Simba's confessional penance…

From Detachment to Authentic Forgiveness, Empathy, and Hope: Participating in the Spirit’s Solidarity with the Poor and Sinners Calvary starts with Jack’s confessional with his face blurred by the screen. Rather than a usual listing of grave sins, the man begins with announcing that was molested by a priest for five years as a boy. Now, he is looking for someone to compensate for the sin of the priest. Since the priest who violated him is dead, and above all, killing a bad priest would not…

In “On the Rainy River” the tone is confessional in the beginning. O’Brien says that the story is something he has never fully told to anyone before because he still feels ashamed of his indecision on the Minnesota-Canadian border. In “Mirrorings” Grealy writes with a resentful tone about when…

“To Speak of the Woe that is marriage” and “ Shooter” are both intense poems that express the horrific nature of violence endured by innocent people. Robert Lowell uses the dark and intimate experiences common to confessional movement poetry in “ To speak of the woe that is marriage” to address the fear and hostility endured by a woman married to an abusive husband. On the other hand, Lamar Jorden’s “Shooter” from the slam poetry movement, explicitly addresses the violence in society and mainly…

3 Dead Girls Chris Broadstone recently edited together a collection of some of his short films, 3 Dead Girls. Overall, these three short films are some of the best micro budgeted shorts I have seen, and that opinion holds strong after screening many short film festivals over the years. One of the limitation of short films is trying squeeze an entire story within a very short period of time. With the 2000 short film, Scream For Me, it is readily apparent. We’re given much of the backstory…

The issue of same sex conduct has been a controversial not only in America, but across the globe with some countries outlawing it. Gay rights have sparked controversies with proponents and opponents coming out strongly guns blazing, giving different views in support or against the issue. The receptive environment surrounded by the desire to expand civil liberties and grant rights to individuals regardless of whether they are straight or not has, further, perpetuated the issue. The concept of the…