Cultural depictions of Jesus

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and its interpretation by Baz Luhrmann. By Madhav Mishra. A little over four centuries ago, William Shakespeare published the modern day classic Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy about two star-crossed lovers who marry each other against the will of their feuding families. Ever since its first performance, the play has spawned a number of interpretations and adaptations of the original. A recent noteworthy adaptation of the play by the well-known…

Claude McKay was an influential leader of the Harlem Renaissance who also advocated against the racism that African-Americans receive. He wrote many works for this cause, among them was the poem “America” inside of the text of his book Harlem Shadows. People have many different thoughts and beliefs about the poems. James R. Keller tries to give his analysis of "America" along with McKay’s other works. Keller explains this in his article titled as “ ‘A Chafing Savage, Down the Decent Street’:…

Reformation” (190). Oxtoby begins his discussion of the Protestant Reformation with a broad overview of the Churches influence within Europe at the time of the Reformation, as well as the cultural advances that were taking place throughout the continent. After setting up the stage for the religious and cultural practices that had taken root in most of Europe,…

They state, “…these women become more useful as cultural symbols and rallying points than as real people whose historical role is accurately understood” (Yeh, Olaguibel, 169). The role of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a religious figure is often portrayed differently depending on where in the world one lives. For example, many North American evangelical Christians find it difficult to understand why the Virgin is often regarded more highly than Jesus across Latin America. The authors Yeh and…

never cared to observe. I didn’t learn as much about death on my trips to the cemetery as I had anticipated. Instead, I was educated about life. Headstones are just like books about a life—one that has come to an end. In America, we seem to share a cultural duty to speak for the dead. Hence, it was logical that I…

of Holcomb by relating the residents' experience of a separation of unity and a loss of innocence with a biblical connection. Readers familiar with the bible can compare the murders to the crucifixion of Jesus- the Clutter family was very religious and had high moral standards such as how Jesus was the epitome of moral values and both had untimely and unjustifiable deaths. In other parts of the story, Capote frequently mentions how the town bonds through their faith as he is aware that this is a…

Sandcastles In April of 2016, the visual album, Lemonade, took the internet by storm. After America’s most influential singer opened up about what was once kept as personal, the reactions and underlining messages were unforgettable. Being able to dissect the art of making lemonade into a personal diaspora to cultivate and strengthen others into learning the art of the grieving process was goal of the album. Contrary to popular beliefs, Beyoncé wanted the outside world to see that she was human…

other. Heinlein romanticizes humanity and fails to account for our shortcomings. We are weak and incapable of giving ourselves completely to each other. We need the strength of God to truly love each other. “Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did” (1 John 2:6). We must live temperately, as Christ did, in order to live in Him, to have access to His loving strength. Without temperance, Heinlein’s dream of a perfect reality is just that: a dream without any basis in reality. In…

contradicted by the fact of overrepresentation of African-Americans in prisons and jails. The criminal justice system has been shaped by racial inequality. The context for this problem is a long-standing pattern of historical intolerance and cultural depictions of African-Americans as criminals. In particular, “African-Americans have been viewed as suspicious, violent, and dangerous. Such portrayals have contributed to assumptions that they are more likely to be involved in criminal activity;…

Akhenaten, the son of Amenhotep III, was an Egyptian king of the 18th Dynasty who brought many cultural reforms to Egypt during his reign. It is generally thought that Akhenaten acted through his reign without any precedent or foreshadowing. However, it has also been speculated that he may have drawn his ideas from the rule of his father. Akhenaten, with his revolutionary focus on Aten and being the first Egyptian king to truly embrace monotheism coupled with henotheism, revealed the importance…