Confessional

Bridget Heal's The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany and the book under review here, Carol Engelhardt Herringer's Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England, 1830–85, provides a narrower focus and allows for the confessional and cultural understandings of denominational distinctions to shine through. Herringer,…

When someone says the word Nazi or Holocaust, the first thing that comes to mind for most people is the catastrophic mass murder of millions of Jewish men and women. This of course is true, but what most people don’t know is that over 5 million people who were killed were not Jewish. This mainly consisted of Polish people or people who did not meet the Nazis standard they set for what they believed to be a “perfect human”. So they too were forced into concentration camps and brutally murdered.…

Lewis displays throughout his article how the plot has supplementary the face of Guy Fawkes as icon to our political system. He remarks that even thought the Gunpowder plot of 1605 futile at the level of orthodox action, the Anglo American political culture was stuck by it. He uses the image of Guy Fawkes to originate a dominant nihilist assessment of totalitarianism. The plot idea was to terminate the Parliament; therefore, everything and everyone in it would perish. Filling the basement with…

In the book of Ezra, the main focus is the return of the exiles to Judah from Babylon, and the restoration of Jerusalem and the Temple. This return was approved by Cyrus, who was the king of Persia at the time. Under the imperial rule of Persia and permitted by the edict to return to their land, the exiles were able to eventually implement the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Law of Moses, as an authoritative tool in both public and personal life. The idea of the Law…

In my poetry portfolio i have a variety of different kinds and pieces of writing. The first piece of writing in my portfolio is the explication that I wrote on the poem “Dirge in Woods” by George Meredith. The purpose of my explication was to explain how the speaker used his or her contemplative tone to get his points across to humanity. The next piece of work in my portfolio is the critique that I wrote on Maggie Fitzmaurice’s explication. She wrote her explication on the poem “The Tide Rises…

humans will slowly just bring each other down and end the world ourselves instead of natural causes. In the outsiders the meaning is different and instead leans toward to the fact that everything good soon has an ending. The style of this poem is a confessional, because it examines personal memories and experiences with Robert Frost and his outlook on the world. It refers to multiple possibilities The title of this poem isn't obvious and is difficult to really find out the true meaning. This…

the unspoken sins. “Well, since you said that the last time we spoke, I can only assume you’ve failed to complete your penance,” the invisible judgmental voice said from behind the division. “Or, as we’ve discussed before, you’re lying in the confessional,” he continued, recalling the previous discussions held in this room: lessons on the sanctity of confession, the confidentiality of confessions, and the importance of completing my penance. “Yes, Father,” I conceded, again shifting my knees,…

The dimly lit theater was filled with anxious and excited figures eager to see the musical spirit Banks – often stylized BANKS – welcome us into her own live musical territory. This concert was a continuation of the ongoing and more recent tour called The Altar Tour, which was at the time cementing its path boldly throughout West Coast. The identity of the concert can be described as a powerful, audacious, and enlivening showcase of emotional strength and confidence in those emotions – whether…

because concealment no longer exists. This raises the question of the truth: whether transparency is a means of updating the truth or a way of compelling it because transparency needs certain opacity to exist, which refers to the problem of the ‘confessional glass’ described by Barker. It is made of a material which is transparent when viewed through. Transparency conceals the idea of clarity. Illusion of truth happens very quickly.…

Anthem is a book written by Ayn Rand during the 1930s, it is a dystopian tale of a young man, Equality 7-2521, who was recognizably intelligent in a world where people aren’t supposed to be distinctly recognizable in any way. He had knowledge that was “regarded as a treacherous blasphemy” (Anthem, foreword) which would put him in danger, maybe at the cost of his life. Rand wrote the book in a strict, simple style. The way she explains how everything happens with little detail leaves the…