Confessional

Kevin Gates has released his debut album, By Any Means 2. The interesting title and imagery of the album fits his current situation and speaks on what he’s been going through this year. Gates is currently serving a 6 month jail sentence for a misdemeanor of battery on a woman at one of his concerts in October of 2015. The image of the album shows what it looks like to be a jail cell wall, with an engravement of his face. The album name is a sequel to his 2014 By Any Means, he released this album…

During the medieval period, European society lived in the shadow of the Roman Catholic Church until at least the reformation, and so the Catholic Church had a profound effect on the moral landscape of the time, particularly around areas of sexuality and sin. In order to regulate and control sexuality, the church employed various methods, foremost amongst them the encouragement of chastity and it’s aloft alternative celibacy for the clergy, the institution of marriage, as well as establishing…

it. Simply saying it because it is written down is redundant, and means nothing to the practitioner, which simply reduces the effectiveness of the spell or ritual. Look at it this way, the Catholic practitioner has taken the time to go to the confessional and confessed their sins. They are instructed by the priest to say the “Our Father” as a penance. When the prayer is simply read with little conviction, and “Amen” is said, simply because the word is printed there, is the person truly sorry…

Women who lived outside of convents had more popular, unorthodox methods to express religious beliefs. Elena/o de Cespedes was born a woman and lived life as a man while intersecting with religion. Elena/o had travelled extensively, and participated in lesbian relationships where she stopped. For all intents and purposes, they were a good citizen and had not expressed any heretical beliefs. They did, however, have an affair with a priest’s sister. There were other factors at play in their…

Have you ever been in a toxic environment? I’m not talking about the nuclear toxic either, but rather the one where you’re forced to be around people that are no good for you. Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy’s Life, was stuck in one as a young boy. His mother was known to pick out bad boyfriends and settled with one named Dwight, who is probably the worst one mentioned. He seems to have a strange aura around him and it shows through the way he treats Tobias. There are many more people in this…

Sexton 's was labeled a confessional poet because she possessed many qualities that gave her a great poetic voice. She pulled the norms from society and created another perspective that would only be revealed to an open minded individual who could accept another 's point of view, and criticize it against their own. According to Kaplan, Anne 's poem "Her Kind" showed Anne 's strengths for her early work by adopting the persona of a possessed witch. She expressed ambiguous attitudes toward her…

The word ‘trauma’ is derived from the Greek word for ‘wound’ and is defined as a wound that is inflicted by a sudden mental shock caused by a traumatic event. For Barbara Thorson in I Kill Giants, trauma takes over her everyday life. In order to escape the harsh reality of her everyday life, where her mother is dying from cancer, Barbara creates her own imaginary world where she has the power to kill giants. From experiencing trauma at a young age, Barbara has social and developmental issues.…

According to Jewish history, the first Yom Kippur occurred after Moses returned from his second trip to Mt. Sinai with the replacement set of tablets containing the Ten Commandments. Moses had broken the first set when he discovered that the Israelite children were not worshipping God, but rather a golden calf. While Moses was making his second trip, the followers fasted from sunrise to sunset hoping that God would provide them forgiveness. Moses descended the mountain on the tenth of Tishri…

privilege needs to be in place to care for the clients, there are strong opponents to this provision. The first challenged to the clergy-penitent communication privileged was in New York in 1813 (Yellin, 1983). The confidentiality of the Catholic confessionals developed the clergy-penitent and it slowly expanded from there (Hails, 2012). The clergy-penitent communication must be in a private setting and the clergy must be providing spiritual information. The privilege does not extend to clergy…

illustrations, similes and overly dramatized sarcasm. In analyzing this literary piece the persona should be set aside from the author so as to give the poem its truest meaning. Anne Sexton a renowned poet who rose to fame through her so-called self confessional poems such as “To Bedlam and Part Way Back” (1960), "You, Doctor Martin," "The Bells," and "The Double Image" was able to convince her readers that her poems echoed her life but in actuality her…