Invocation

The Many Allusions of Bartleby “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” is a complex story with many different components that contribute to its depth and meaning. One of the most important components would be the allusions, because they incorporate more subtle descriptions of the characters and allow the reader to interpret a whole other meaning to the story. The allusions within this story allow the reader to discover the deeper themes of isolation and corrupt American capitalism…

primarily a system of race relations-as though the chief business of slavery were the production of white supremacy rather than the production of cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco”. “if race is defined as innate and natural prejudice of colour does it’s invocation as a historical explanation do more than repeat the question of way of answer. She believes that race is not an element of human biology nor is it even an idea that can be plausibly imagined to live an external life of its own.…

Indigenous voices calling for greater autonomy from the state were ignored or repressed, while caudillos and rurales maintained a firm grip on peasant communities located far from the capital. It is interesting, then, that this corrido features a broad invocation of the Mexican nation followed by a pivot to the pueblo as both the literal and figurative locus of the audience and its…

Milton creates an invocation, or call to the muses, introducing the idea of the fall of man with an essay including the “warning” of the danger of knowledge by stating the nature of the text and what readers can learn from it. Milton writes, “Of Man’s first disobedience and the fruit / of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe / with loss of Eden, till one greater Man” (Milton, 1.1-4). Although readers are introduced with this invocation and…

Most of us could look back and reminisce about our lives when we were twelve years old. Twelve, being an age where responsibilities and making difficult decisions are ultimately obsolete for many of us. This was not the case for Langston Hughes. In Langston Hughes’s short story personal narrative “Salvation”, he vividly describes the struggles he faced when being saved one evening in church. A young man who lost his faith after trying to appease adult perceptions of faith with his young mind.…

Second Vatican Council reminds us the seven sacraments build up the Body of Christ in these acts of worship. The “sacraments” are the biblical roots or Gods plan to save us into salvation through Christ. I will touch on a couple of sacrament that help build the foundation of the Church which is known as a sacramental sign or instrument of salvation. Baptism and Theology since Vatican II state that “Baptism was a reference to the Sacraments of Initiation”. In council requested for a special…

On Saturday February 6, 2016, one day before Super Bowl Fifty; Beyoncé Knowles released a music video for her new song “Formation .” Filmed in New Orleans with the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina as a backdrop. The video featured a scenes where Beyoncé sits atop a half-submerged police car that continues sinking. Giving a nod to the Black Lives Matter movement, “at the end of the clip, a line of riot-gear-clad police officers surrender, hands raised, to a dancing black child in a hoodie,…

The foundation of Christian faith is worship. Worship is the central theme of Christianity. Worship is associated with the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In fact, worship is not about the human but the divine. Christian worship is “built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord” (Ephesians 2:20-21 NASB). Therefore, worship is vital…

to their succession scheme. Lady Macbeth declares that she would have: "Dashed the brains out" (1.7.58) of an infant to realize an otherwise unachievable goal. Scholars have traditionally read this as well as her earlier "unsex me here" (1.5.39) invocation as evidence of Lady Macbeth's attempt to seize a masculine power to further Macbeth's political goals. To overcome her husband's feminized reticence, Lady Macbeth assumes a masculinity she will prove unable to support. This results to the…

“The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo.” That isn’t particularly smart, considering they are 8,911 km (or 5537.039 miles) apart. So why did General George Patton tell the 3rd Army this? Because they were about to enter into the biggest push of their lives. It was the middle of WWII, and they were forcing Nazi troops out of Normandy. When he spoke to his men, he wanted them to be brave and fight as hard as humanly possible. He spoke with such passion, inspiration, and power that…