Confessional

“After Plath’s 1963 suicide many critics examined the writer’s different facets, contrasting her put-together, polite, and dexterous self with her raging, explosively-creative inner self” (“Sylvia”, Poems). Plath’s career in writing is explained in all of her poems from her life experiences. She was a very successful writer and attended great colleges. The collection of poems and novel she had written throughout her life were very personal. She wrote one of her most interesting poems, “Mirror”,…

The Gospel of Mark is often regarded as the gospel of swift action. The introduction in Mark is brief and we find ourselves very early entrenched in the ministry of Jesus. When we get to the 14th verse of chapter 1, we are introduced to the ministry of Jesus and provided a summary of his message, “Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.”…

Mussolini’s ability to utilise the Roman Catholic Church also accounted for his rise to power. Mussolini was able to use his close relationship with the Church to win over members of the clergy, therefore coaxing the Pope to convert Italy into a more confessional, secure state . Mussolini’s passion for fascism also enabled him to secure his power over Italy- his extreme work ethic and promotion of fascist views ‘for the Fascist, everything is in the state, and nothing human or spiritual exists”…

Howling at the Skull: An Analysis of the Intellectual Institutions in Allen Ginsberg’s Famous Poem There were many events in the 1950’s that cause poverty to the community for instance; there were rebellious youth, wars, and government system issues. Society was very unorganized like the Howl mentioned some of the events that occurred that time period. In addition to this, there were also some other issues that became popular during the 1950’s. The beat generation, for example, became popular…

The significance of a book may not come until many years after its initial release. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman was first dismissed by the critics of her time. It was not until many years later that critics and society would learn to understand her writing. One of the reasons it took so long for the importance of the “Yellow Wallpaper” to be recognized was because it brought to light the real unrealistic expectations women were facing during that time. Readers especially male at…

Neruda’s poems refract the universal nature of the tensions and the possibilities present in the reality through his individual and confessional views. In his essay Frames for World Literature, David Damrosch states that “…world literature operates in a multi-dimensional space, in relationship to four frames of reference: the global, the regional, the national, and the individual. Similarly…

The Protestant Reformation was a massively important European religious and political movement. For the first time in over half a millennium, the European Church split. H. G. Wells said that this happened because people, “objected not to the church’s power, but to its weaknesses… Their movements against the Church, within and without, were movements not for release from a religious control, but for a fuller and more abundant religious control.” While the Catholic Church was undeniably becoming…

Leprosy, now commonly known as Hansen disease is one of the world’s oldest and most feared maladies disease. In over a thousand years the illness has managed to afflict millions of people all around the world. For centuries throughout many cultures and religions the disease was seen as a punishment from Gods or Goodness and divinely inspired and thought to be highly contagious. During the Middle Ages there was widespread beliefs about the causation of leprosy. As a result individuals who had…

that presents a group of strange but hilarious, everyday workers in a Dunder Mifflin Paper Company office building. It not only influenced many comedy TV shows today, but it started the popularity of mockumentaries, the single-camera setup, and “confessionals”. One of the amazing features and unique things about the show is that it has no laugh track or studio audience. The cast of this show was incredible, with different personalities that provide bizarre humor for the look of an ordinary…

I want to know how we could get them to be more faith to Sunday Mass and to fill the confessional rooms. The one sad thing about Los Altos is that sports are more important than faith. Families often skip Weekend Mass for soccer game and practices. I picked up a book called, “Keeping your Kids Catholic: It may seem Impossible but it can be…