Honor your father and your mother

if you lost your father? Would you sit around and mourn over the loss, or would you use that to go out and be motivated to live a good life? In the play “Hamlet”, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet deals with the loss of his father while his mother remarries his uncle. Throughout the entire play, Hamlet becomes more and more crazy and as a result starts doing wrongful things. Later on, Hamlet finally accepts his father's death and death in general and decides to avenge his fathers death by…

the goblin Curdie shows courage using compassion and integrity by staying overnight in the garden to watch over the princess, and to earn toward a new red petticoat for his mother. Honor is the product of courage integrity wisdom humbleness and basically every virtue. It takes a lifetime to earn and a second to lose. To earn honor you need to make sure people trust you. It’s like rolling a large stone up a hill it takes a while to reach the top. Yet one false move and it all goes down Curdie…

culture has everything to do with honor. Women have the biggest responsibility when it comes to honor. Losing your honor might undoubtedly portray as the worst deed in this culture. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the author Gabriel Marquez, demonstrates the horrifying actions taken when losing one’s honor. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the events that occurred in the novel and compare them to the same culture and also the outcomes of going against your religion in different…

In Chronicle of a Death foretold, the concept of honor is very strong and vital in a town’s Latin-American society. The Vicario brothers are forced to commit murder to rebuild the honor of their family, even though they do not have the heart to go through with the crime. Gabriel Marquez discloses the effects of a traditional sense of honor in many Hispanic cultures and how it becomes the downfall of both men and women. The honor of the Vicario family is lost when Angela’s premarital sex and her…

camp via Apollo, who send plagues. Agamemnon, knowing the plagues wont cease unless he gives Chryseis back to her father, demands Achilles give up Briseis for him, stating; “Brave you may be, godlike Achilles, but don’t try to trick me with your cleverness. You’ll not outwit me or cajole me. Do you think, since you demand I return her, that I’ll sit here without a prize while you keep yours?” (Hom. Illiad, Book I pgs. 101-147). Of course outraged by this demand and having to comply, Achilles…

Honor means high respect, esteem, privilege. Honor to me means to both give and receive respect, strength, doing the right thing (even when it's hard), putting others needs above yours, holding yourself to your values and not harming others. There are many people who hold definition to honor...such as scientists, firefighters, soldiers, government officials (like the president). There is many people that are honorable, one of these people are Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale was…

educational journey. Growing up a black male, living with my single mother and sister in an environment where higher education is non-existing. Also going to school with people I felt were smarter than me because they had parents who were well educated and had the tools to teach them the meaning of a college education, is a few challenges I face every day. The one thing that has affected me the most is going through half my life without my father. Not having someone to look up too as man or male…

To The Evon Price Memorial Scholarship Committee: Greetings brothers and sisters in Christ! I am submitting this letter as reference for Jaron Dotson. It is my honor and esteemed privilege, as the President of the Green Street Church of God Usher’s ministry, to submit this letter for your review and consideration for your academic scholarship program. Jaron Dotson lends dynamic support and dedication to our church family. Jaron Dotson exhibits strong character, always displays outstanding and…

which Hamlet takes place, Christianity's influence on all the characters is more impactful because Christians live by the guidelines of the ten commandments. In Hamlet one of the commandments, “honor your father and your mother.” Causes Ophelia and Hamlet to struggle throughout the play to honor their fathers by being truthful and obedient. Hamlet Sr’s ghost and Polonius take advantage of the insecurities of their children manipulating them as tools in their plots for vengeance and their own…

“War is Kind” by Stephen Crane is a poem extremely critical of war and questions if the war and the death and destructions that the results are truly worth it. Crane uses sarcasm and irony to move the reader to be critical towards war and to see the pain it the causes. The pain suffered by the soldier is obvious, but this poem shows the pain that family members of the soldiers suffer as well. The repeated chorus, “Do not weep/for war is kind,” ties the emotional experience and the actual…