Cunning folk

believe is in the minds of multitudes of people around the globe. These two words are doubt and questioning. Throughout my adolescent years, I’ve come to realize that doubt and questioning are constant companions of mine. Religious and non-religious folk alike deal with this, and figuring out how to deal with these consistently rampant thoughts are merely a piece in the widespread puzzle of faith. In reading Strength in What Remains, as well as acknowledging my own personal experiences, I’ve…

Cultural Revolution.” Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Reading across the Disciplines. 7th ed. Ed. Katherine Anne Ackley. Stamford, CT: Cengage, 2015. 268-271. Print. Michaud, Ellen. "The hero next door: exactly what is it that makes ordinary folks risk their lives to save others?." Saturday Evening Post 2011: 36. Academic OneFile. Web. 14 June…

strike back at the Yankees, who had tried to kill his stepfather.” Understandably, the mistreatment of his family did not sit well with Jesse. He went out to seek revenge, even though he wasn’t even past his teens. Although he was still young, his cunning became the stuff of legend when he dressed up as…

Life in the Iron Mills exemplifies the struggles that face many “have-not” citizens that authors throughout history have been discussing. Life in the Iron Mills is a tragic yet poignant story of the effects of a man’s socioeconomic status. Although set in the nineteenth century, the story is all too familiar. The short story begins with a reflective narrator begging the audience to read the story with an open mind not tainted by the ideals of high society (Davis). The narrator suggests the…

who then was about 8 years old took action since the girls were apparently alone in the house. The older sister ran downstairs to make some holy water with salt, which she then sprinkled on her sister and in every corner of the house. When she was finished there were bruises around the little sister’s neck but the bruja was gone, having fled outside and up into a tree. It never bothered them again! Various prayers and “sound prayers” work. “Ya Baha’u’llah!” has cleansed many a home, and the…

This multi-vocal representation of feminist features reflects a unifying concept, a consistent line of thought. Some are from classical myth with Little Red Ridinghood (renamed Little Red-cap to point up her revolutionary potential) representing folk myth. Some are actual women, biblical (Delilah, Salome, Pilate’s wife) and more recent (Pope Joan, Anne Hathaway, Mrs Darwin and Frau Freud). The largest group are the wives of unpraised famous men, classical (Midas, Tiresias, Aesop, Sisyphus,…

master during slavery often kept slaves alive and away from beatings. This manipulative nature continued on after the Civil War into the period in which Dunbar was writing “An Ante-Bellum Sermon.” African Americans at the time had to remain aware and cunning in order to endure and survive the unpredictability of the emerging Jim Crow laws…

In a society where individuals put on a mask to hide their true identity, the same masks also obscure one’s vision. Written by Flannery O’Connor, “Good Country People” explores the lives of four characters who have different backgrounds and specific traits spanning from intense manipulation to outward rejection of others opinions. By utilizing an omniscient narrator and developing the four different characters in “Good Country People”, Flannery O’Connor displays how regardless of the background…

“Odyssey” while Hesiod wrote “Works and Days.” It is said that poetry was originally used to tell a story so people could remember it easier. Most of the epic poetry was written in Latin. This is the beginning of the Odyssey: SPEAK, MEMORY- Of the cunning hero, The wanderer, blown off course time and again After he plundered Troy’s sacred heights. In the medieval times, between 455 and 1485 poetry was being toyed with in regards to the language and subject matter. Ballads came out at this time.…

foolish to get married: “He knew nat Catoun, for his wit was rude, that bad man sholde wedde his similitude/Men sholde wedden after hire estaat/For youthe and elde is often at debaat/But sith that he was fallen in the snare/He moste endure, as other folk, his care.”…