Good Housekeeping

Breaking the Barrier Between Light and Dark The darkness within an individual is revealed once obstacles are dealt with uncontrollable behaviour. In the film directed by Robert Zemeckis, Cast Away and William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, events demonstrate the conflicts that occur between civilization and savagery. The two comparable forms of media show how the adoption of civil rules gradually leads to the loss of innocence. Certain characters such as Chuck Noland of Cast Away and the…

The topic of evil and why God so calls "allows" evil to happen has become a cliché that non-believers have used as a method to shame believer for their beliefs. The author in prompt seven makes the argument that if God was this so call good God why did he allow an event like the holocaust to occur. The author also implies that the position that God allows things to happen because of free will should be put aside when it is not realistic to believe in the real world where people are dying. The…

INTRODUCTION The two major fall outs of cultural fissions are Acculturation and De culturation. Aculturation is defined as a positive stance, a comprehensive acceptance of the tenets of one culture into another, while De culturation is defined as, negative process, a dreadful distortion of one culture by another. It is not merely a clash causing of alienation, but it also affects the death of the spirit causing not merely a crisis of identity or existence, but denial of existence. Kamala…

Have you ever stopped to look at a rose? At first you will see its fine beauty and presence; however, with a closer look you will find its thorns that are there to protect itself for survival. In the play “Fences” by August Wilson, we are introduced to a character named Rose Maxon. Her first name can be represented with a literal meaning relating the flower. She is a very admirable woman who is also strong and set in her ways. She is the wife to the main character Troy Maxon. While Rose is not…

The problem of evil and the conflict between good and evil have been the leading concerns in some of the twentieth-century British novelist. Evil is one of the Golding’s major concerns in the novels. He identifies the existence of good but he seems to believe that evil is a more powerful force and under certain conditions would dominate human life. Lord of the Flies express in Golding’s own words “the end of innocence the darkness of man’s heart” and “the fallen state of man” is the principal…

The Jinn’s characters are similar to the Christian entities of the Devil and his demons. However, the way that the West portrays the Jinn are caricatured, comic, and supernatural creatures. The Jinn are depicted as beings that grant wishes as the Disney’s version of Aladdin. In these accounts, the Jinn tricked humans and acted in a superficial matter. In a contrasting view, literature in the East represents the Jinn as frightful and sinister due to the Islamic religious beliefs. The divergent…

William Bennett and J.R. Tolkien represent evil in different ways. Bennett's example of evil is America's drug problem, which he addresses through its spiritual and physical aspects. Tolkien demonstrates evil through the "Balrog" (Tolkien 330). However, he only writes about its physical aspects. Bennett and Tolkien agree that evil is a physically harmful problem that requires a type of sacrifice. For William Bennett, the problem of evil is drugs. Drugs can cause extreme harm both emotionally and…

Sharks may be dangerous in your eyes, but really they are living things that don’t mean to hurt you. They only will kill you like if they feel threatened. Like a bee, before they sting you they feel threatened by you. So they sting you. Kinda like a shark, right? People mostly kill sharks because of their fins. Brutal People! Just Brutal! So, Save Sharks, Don’t Destroy Them. Okay, so me I personally prefer sharks not humans. Even though i am a human….. still. Humans don’t only…

To be honest I was a little bit confused by this story. I assumed that because it was set on June 27th 1948 that the story would be about the Berlin Airlift, because that was the day that it opened. But it was really about a small town of around three hundred people on the day of the lottery. every man picks a slip of paper and the one with a black spot on it has to have their entire family draw from the papers, including that of the black spot. whoever has it get’s “stoned.” In the case of this…

truthfully states, that people are shaped from their environments to either good or evil. There are several examples that show that Rousseau is correct about her opinion. For example in the book Lord of The Flies by William Golding the boys did not start off evil it gradually got to that point. The boys were kind, good leaders, and organised. Now even though we cannot determine the boy's home lives. I would say we have a pretty good idea of what they’re like. As the time went on in the book, the…