Confessional

"The Office" is a mockumentary-style sitcom that aired on NBC which is network television from 2005 to 2013, capturing the mundane yet hilariously absurd dynamics of office life at the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Adapted from the British series of the same name created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, (making it a pastiche) the American version quickly established its own identity and became a beloved staple of television comedy. Set in a mundane…

Scholarly Initiation, Scholarly Approach As his confession in the beginning of the work Comparative Theology: Deep Learning across Religious Borders, he does not follow exactly a method for his doing comparative theology but rather his discipline when doing it. He also realizes that his examples are limited by drawing from his own studies and works on Hindu-Christian traditions. Lately, he focuses only on faith and tradition so it seems that the readers without a religious tradition are…

taught in the classroom.” St. Mary’s School Policy Manual at 32. Each lay and called teacher is contractually obligated “to set a Christian example”, “to maintain Christian discipline in love,” and to teach “according to the Word of God and the confessional standards of the Roman Catholic Church.” St. Mary’s School Policy Manual at…

writer with an innovative approach to reality and she has always been reluctant to explore publically the facts of her own life in first-rate detail. Spark proffers to let her fiction speak for itself. Being a Catholic convert she is not an overtly confessional writer, so when she uses raw material of her personal life she plains it into artistic shape. Spark’s autobiographical heroine, Fleur Talbot, represents her composer in Loitering with…

Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was a man of miracles and wonders. Not only did he create a long string of controversial accounts of apparitions and visions, he also created a legacy of followers, all praying to him for miracles and guidance. Famously known for the stigmata, amongst many other supernatural occurrences, he was a determined man dedicated to his vocation of service and prayer. We can all only hope to be as dedicated to our goals as he was, especially during those fifty years of suffering…

Film Noir, launched just before USA’s entry into the World War II and peaking during the Cold War, was a hybrid of glamour and grittiness, exposing a seamy underside of America during the mid century. Film Noir was cast with wised-up men and wordly women who might not have had the right answers, but certainly had all the right moves. More than often, they held mixed motives and malign agendas. The name ”Film Noir” was coined by french film critics whom, after the trade-blockade following the…

Triggered by the hope-filled thrill of a new lover, the structure of the poem correspondingly reflects the galvanized transformation of the speaker 's body. Anatomically, the poem is divided into four stanzas with five lines in each stanza, establishing a sense of uniformity within the poem 's structure. Each quintet concludes in an end-stopped line, two of the four final lines including an exclamation point that energizes the poem and, subsequently, the audience. The end of one stanza denotes a…

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the effects of the British and French colonial policies on the state formation at the Middle East after the World War One. The review of the process of creation of the mandate system and its consequences to the state formation in the area will be given at the beginning of the essay. Afterwards, the policies of both states will be analysed on two case studies of British mandate in Iraq and French mandate in Syria, including the…

Christians were dead before salvation (v.1). Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins. Και υμάς όντας νεκρούς τοις παραπτωμασιν και ταις αμαρτίαις υμών. The verse starts off with the word “Once”, telling the reader that this happened before an event or to their current situation. This tells the readers of the life they lived before they believed the gospel and received salvation. Paul tells his readers that they “experienced a living death” shown through the “vicious…

The corset is a prominent symbol of restriction. This article of clothing takes a starring role in the Ginger Tree, where a young woman refuses to wear her corset and be caged by the limited expectations of women. Her freedom starts to evolve as she refuses to conform to the wishes of the men around her. To become ultimately independent, she begins to work in a store as a clothing designer. Her agency culminates when she opens up a corset department for Japanese women, who buy them for their…