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    Passion expressed and confessed clearly brings peace and love, but passion repressed undoubtedly brings guilt suffering and death. Passion brings peace and love to Hester because she expresses and confesses passion clearly to others. In the early years of Hester’s punishment the magistrates of the colony demand to take Pearl away from Hester because they believe Hester is unable to raise Pearl in a Puritanical way. This is because Hester has sinned and because Pearl was unable to answer how…

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    The fruits of her labor are shown through Raskolnikov asking her for the New Testament, showing at least an acceptance and desire towards religion. In addition to that, Sonia also acts as a redemptive character for Raskolnikov. Upon hearing his confession, Sonia responded with a form of telling Raskolnikov penance in order to assist in the relinquishment of his guilt, saying, “‘Go now. Go this very moment, and stand at the crossroads; bow down, and first kiss the earth which you have defiled;…

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    It is clear that if Hester had never gotten pregnant with Pearl in the first place nobody would have really figured out that she and Dimmesdale committed adultery. Besides the fact that Pearl almost indirectly showed everyone that Hester committed adultery because her husband was in England, yet she was pregnant. Although it turns out that Hawthorne wrote her in with greater intention than just a means for the people to find out about Hester’s pregnancy. Pearl was put into the story to show…

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    Anybody Will Do Punishing criminals has always been a major part of what is considered justice, as the saying goes an eye for an eye. People naturally lean towards that extremely crude form of justice, and so they care about nothing else besides the fact that they get someone’s eye. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller and “Trial by Fire” by David Grann, extreme actions are taken over the deaths of children. People are accused of causing the deaths, yet none are at fault. They are all killed…

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    Throughout the play of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, things always have a twist to them. Deception, which is defined as “the act of tricking someone by telling them something that is not true”, can be seen in the play through the main characters of deception, which are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the witches. Women characters are portrayed as manipulative and deceiving characters throughout the play. In the very first scene, it begins with the witches saying “Fair is foul, and foul is…

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    Nestorius

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    1 Nestorius placed a special emphasis on the humanity of Jesus. He began preaching against the title Theotokos or Mother of God, beginning to be used of the Virgin Mary. He distinguished between the logos (“divine nature”) and Christ (the Son, the Lord) as a union of divine nature and human nature. He refused to attribute the human acts and the sufferings of Jesus to the divine nature, arguing that God could not suffer on the cross, as God is omnipotent. Therefore the Virgin Mary, could not be…

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    Augustine's Conversion

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    Augustine’s conversion played a very significant role in his life. It shaped him and his thoughts, especially towards doing God’s work. When he was not conversed yet, his sins and guilt made him feel uncomfortable. As he said in the beginning of Book (VIII) thus before he was conversed, (Thus I was sick at heart and in torment, accusing myself with a new intensity of bitterness, twisting and turning in my chain in the hope that it might be utterly broken! For what held me was small thing, but it…

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    Confession “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned,” I began slowly, “It has been two months since my last confession,” picking up the pace as the familiar rhythm and motions overcame the meaning of the words. Recalling the familiar script, I recited the words to the beige screen that separated me from the priest. My eye stared ahead blankly, and my mind wandered to the beginning of an ache forming in my knees. As the script came to an end, I shifted my weight, hoping to stave off the coming…

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    First Confession

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    In ‘First Confession’, both Nora and Jackie are rewarded. Who deserves, and who doesn’t deserve, the reward, and why? Jackie And Nora This story is set in Ireland ,1982, where families in Ireland are very religious. The story is evolved around Jackie the main character in the story. The story is about this little boy confessing his sins to a priest, which then leads to some life learning experience for Jackie. The summary of this story is that, Jackie’s grandfather died ,and the grandma has…

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    children and wife. Judge Danforth insisted John to sign his name as a true confession. John refused to do so. He stated, “You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs...Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!”(133) After his verbal confession, John had an epiphany. He realized that he could not lie to save his…

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