Isaac Jogues

At the end of Isaac Asimov 's The Caves of Steel, robots seem to be the salvation of the human race, as foreseen by Dr. Fastolfe and the spacers--a highly advanced society of humans from the outer worlds. At the same time the spacers believe they have preserved the future of humanity, however, in an event foreshadowing how robots will one day represent a threat to humanity and perhaps the failure of the spacers’ plan, Robot Daneel Olivaw says the most shocking lines of the story: “[g]o and sin…

In the novel of broken monsters we see a series of characters portraying different kinds of artistry in hopes of captivating an audience. Our Author Lauren Beukes a South African writer, does a fantastic job describing each individual character and how they desire to captivate an audience. Beukes has a fascinating manner in which she delivers her divers themes of supernatural mystery, thematic creepiness and distinctive characterization throughout the text. When incorporating these three…

The document that is being reviewed is The Life of a Female Slave written by Harriet Jacobs. Harriet Jacobs was an African American slave that, after many harsh trials, was able to obtain her freedom, along with her children, by escape to a free state. Jacobs is responsible for her own writings, in the sense that she both wrote them and published them herself, which is remarkable because during this time it was uncommon for slaves to be able to read and write. Jacobs’ writings were later…

Loss of life, something that everyone must face, many short stories have dug into this topic such as Gwilan’s Harp by Ursula K. LeGuin, The Washwoman by Isaac Bashevis Singer, and The Last Leaf by O. Henry. The climax of each story comes when an important character dies, forever impacting the surrounding characters. In Gwilan’s Harp, Gwilan endures the loss of her husband Torm and of her beloved harp, but finds fulfilment in her god given talents. The Death of the washwoman in the aptly named…

There is a charming story tilted Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae. In the story, the giraffe is sad because he can't dance like all the other animals. That’s when the cricket shattered his perspective with this jaw dropping quote. He said, “‘ Excuse me’” said a cricket “‘ but sometimes when you’re different you just need a different song’” “‘ Listen to the grass and listen to the trees’” (Andreae). The cricket puts the message of the whole story into one simple sentence. He is telling the…

GIMPEL THE FOOL With magnificent characterization and an outstanding point of view, the story "Gimpel the Fool", written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, clearly strengthens the age-old thought that repentance and good deeds will be…

Luka Zuschlag 12/21/16 Fool’s Crow Review Mr. Maggid Sourcing Fool’s Crow was written by James Welch and published by Penguin Books in 1986 featuring 393 pages. James Welch is the son of two native Blackfeet parents. He is considered as the first great popularizer of Native American literature. His writings may be biased in favor of the Blackfeet as he is one. Summary of Book Fool’s Crow is a book about coming of age and of change. It's shows changing culture, people, and entire ways of life…

The Jesuits served the necessities of the Church, doing and traveling wherever the She needed them. The Spiritual Exercises by Saint Ignatius and The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis strongly influenced the missionary work that the Jesuits performed (Connor). Ignatius’s main reason for starting the Jesuits and all the Jesuits’ main principle was to bring souls to Christ through the Catholic Church by the “ministry of the word, by spiritual exercises, by works of charity, and expressly by…

Envisioned by Joseph Magnin, the first St. Patrick’s Cathedral, originally named St. Peter and often referred to as the Old Cathedral, built in 1815, burned down in 1868. When its reconstruction finished, it was downgraded to a parish church on a site destined and purchased by the church as a burial ground. In 1853, the city commissioned James Renwick Jr. to device a cathedral to accommodate the growing population of immigrants of Catholic religion entering the United States. Renwick’s design…