Divine Providence

Why Blackstone River is A National Corridor The Blackstone River changed Rhode Island horrendously. I think the Blackstone river is a National corridor. The reason why Blackstone is a national corridor is because of it change the way how people looked at, its destruction it had caused and the mills. The Blackstone River caused a whole lot of destruction and havoc around Rhode Island. “similar amounts of rain fell throughout the Blackstone Valley. These rains slowly, but steadily raised the…

In 1635, John Winthrop expelled Roger Williams from Massachusetts. John Winthrop was scared of Williams’ ideas on divorce, church and state, and slavery. Williams was very ahead of his time because his ideas are the bias for how society thinks about issues today. He even had his personal ideas used in the Constitution. After his exile, Williams got caught lost in a forest during one of the greatest winter storms ever recorded. He stumbled upon foreign lands that would soon become Rhode Island…

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachussets on January 19th, 1809. He was a well known poet of his time and many well known poems. Some of his most famous works are " The Raven", The Masque of the Red Death", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and many other short stories with morbid, and dark qualities to them. Althoug Poe was a great poet, he had a hard life from the time he was born till the time of his death in a hospital on Sunday, October 7th, 1849. When Poe was 18, he was broke and had no job…

and what crimes he thinks are worse than others. At some points in the story he even goes as far as to justify or pity some of the sinner even after he knew their crimes. He could have also written it to entertain. After all it is called The Divine Comedy. This book could bring an attraction from the audience from saying “Hey, if I do this, I will end up here.” It brings this relief to people also by people imagining that bad people where bad people will end up. Old AP questions Possible…

In the modern contemporary society, copying from another person, whether it be on a test or any other assignment, is frowned upon. However, there aren’t any consequences for this act in the period of time depicted in Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, as this wasn’t recognized as a punishable sin. During this period, the deepest and darkest parts of Hell was home to thieves and liars, where their souls were lost and tortured for eternity. One who cheats does so by committing thievery as they steal…

Fear as a Propaedeutic (Dante’s use of fear as a propaedeutic) Dante Alighieri wrote a famous book called Dante’s Divine Comedy in the 1300s that is still used in classrooms today. The most famous text of Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic poem called Dante’s Inferno. In this epic poem Dante makes a trip through Hell, purgatory, and heaven. Virgil serves as Dante’s guide through the underworld. Dante uses Virgil as his guide because Dante says that Virgil is the best poet of all time. Virgil and…

T.S Eliot once said, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” Eliot 's poem, “The Waste Land” (1922), embodies the essence of this quote; take from what is already there, and place his own updated interpretation for the modern audience to provide their own temporal relativist view on top of the already layered meaning of the original work quoted within Eliot 's poem. The…

challenges and struggles from battling Poseidon, the creatures in the sea and battling the suitors to reclaim his home. Odysseus had to fight creatures from the underworld and at the same time seek guidance from the divine in order to reach his family. On the other hand, Inferno is a divine comedy written by Dante Alighieri. Dante the protagonist…

Throughout Dante’s Inferno, the narrator keeps doing one thing in particular: he sympathizes with nearly every sinner he talks to in many of the circles of Hell. Whether it 's for someone who lost their true love, someone who was put in a tragic situation, someone “unintentionally” involved in something sinful, etc, Dante feels sorry for them. Virgil, Dante 's guide, plays a big part in showing what (the author) Dante was trying to say- sinners don 't deserve sympathy. Sympathizing with sinners…

immoral acts is considered an offense against the divine law, resulting in some form of eternal suffering depending on the severity of the crime. In the first part of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno, the reader is presented an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. As the pair descend through Hell, Dante is exposed to the brutal suffering that is a reality for those who have defied the divine law. In Canto V of the book, Dante…