Epigraph

Eliot explores a myriad of interpretations of the meaning of logos in the Four Quartets through Einstein’s theory of Relativity, by examining it through the bending of space and time, ultimately using this lens to arrive at the conclusion of the Incarnation. This curvature of spacetime opened the doors to the reality of a new method of understanding the world: non-Euclidean Geometry. Non-Euclidean Geometry differs from several key postulates of traditional Euclidean Geometry. These reworked…

Having formally sketched the ultimate and proximate settings in which human life is organized in 4A and 5A, in chapter 6, “To Be and Have a Living Body: Meditation on Job 10,” David Kelsey begins to address what human beings are. Kelsey argues that Job’s story of his own “having been born” (Job 10) narrates an account of his birth in two entwined, but distinct ways. These two ways of telling the story of his birth “also tell the story of the birth of every human person” (242). Job’s particular…

novel, Montag and Faber express their own opinions of their society. In both events, this caused conflict between the people. In addition, conflict began to arise when Montag started to realize how much of a follower Mildred is towards society. The epigraph states, “If they gave you ruled paper, write the other way.” Basically, what this means is that you don’t always have to follow what you’re told to do. Be unique, be yourself and don’t follow what others do just to satisfy them. Write what…

The epigraph above opens the introduction to the 1926 study, Mongrel Virginians: The WIN Tribe. Sponsored by the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) and the Carnegie Foundation, Mongrel Virginians investigated the moral and social character of the Amherst County Indians. Arthur Estabrook, alongside co-author and sociologist Ivan McDougle, used family pedigrees and sociological investigation to determine the genetic and moral make-up of the group they called the “WIN” tribe, a pseudonym meant to signify…

At the beginning of the novel in the epigraph the words of Charles Lamb were displayed by Lee stating, “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.” Within her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee establishes the idea that children are free from the racism of American society as they maintain their innocence until their moral education begins. She weaves into the novel that the transition to adulthood in the early nineteenth century in America, especially in the South, caused the development of…

group of people. In Yen Le Espiritu’s essay, We Don’t Sleep around like White Girls Do: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives, she mentions the moral standard in Filipina American and Filipina immigrants communities; she said, “My epigraphs, quotations of a Filipina immigrant mother and a second-generation Filipina daughter, suggest that the virtuous Filipina daughter is partially constructed on the conceptualization of white women as sexually immoral.” (Paragraph 2, Yen Le…

Esther Akerewusi Ms. Jackson ENG4U 31 May 2018 The Leverage of Language in Gilead What is Language? Language is a method of human communication, either spoken or written, that consists of the use of words in a structured yet conventional way. In the book, The Handmaid’s Tale, the people of Gilead are powerless as they have no means of communication amongst themselves. The use of religious language creates power for the Gilead government to control the behaviour of its citizens while neologism…

“Did I request thee, maker, from my clay to mold me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?” This is in the epigraph from the best-selling novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley is best known for this novel and wrote it in 1818 and was revised in 1831 according to Britannica. When most people hear the name Frankenstein, most think of a monster made out of body parts. This is only about half way true, while he was made of body parts, head, brain, heart, and limbs, he…

The sense of place in Wideman’s Sent For You Yesterday, Gay’s Provinces of Night, and Chute’s The Beans of Egypt Maine transcends physical boundaries and is “seen heard, smelled, imagined, love, hated, feared, revered, enjoyed or avoided.” In Sent For You Yesterday, generations of Homewood inhabitants unconsciously become products of their landscape. The novel 's characters—Brother Tate, Doot Carl, Albert Wilkes (among others)—become manifestations of the history and experiences of Homewood, as…

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” (W.B Yeats, “The Second Coming”). This quote is the epigraph in Chinua Achebe 's book “Things Fall Apart”. The second half of his book you start to see the Ibo culture falling apart which could be the result of a few different things. W.B Yeats once said that things do not collapse on their own but that their must be outside pressures as…