John Brown

Jack’s Adventure Once upon a time, a village boy named Jack went for a walk into a forest. Jack was looking for his missing golden goose. After sometimes, Jack was feeling tired and he sat under a big tree. He was very sad because he could not find his golden goose. Suddenly, he felt a massive shake behind him and it was from the big tree. He turned around and he saw a small bearded dwarf climbed down from the beanstalk. Jack was very shocked and he shouted “Arghhhhh!!!”. The dwarf fell from the…

to land on the branch of a tree. Young Goodman Brown is in utter despair; he cries, “My Faith is gone! There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.”] As he came to the realization that those he perceived to be good and moral individuals were just sinners, he becomes betrayed and confused. [He is met by Deacon Gookin who seeks to offer Young Goodman Brown a blessing, which Brown shies away from.…

DATA’s Don't Sing is a commentary on the nature of humans and our secret motives. It investigates a Christian suburban neighborhood at a deeper level, showing that everyone involved has darker fantasies at work. The video introduces us to the 5 main characters, The Housewife, The Fat Man, The Deviant, The Catholic Girl and the Neighbor Boy. We explore their inner thoughts. The Housewife wants to kill The Fat Man. The Fat Man wants to beat his neighbor, The Deviant. The Deviant wants to have sex…

Young Goodman Browns test of faith In “Young Goodman brown”, Hawthorn uses examples like browns love and trust for his wife and deacon to develop the theme that you should never put your full trust in man. All the characters in Goodman Browns journey were once thought by Brown as good. Hawthorn also uses symbolism like Goodman’s wife’s pink ribbon and faith herself to tell a story of betrayal. As we may portray the “old man” as the bad guy in the story, I see him more as a good guy because he…

the recent discussions of the intentions of lies, an issue has arisen about the selfishness of lies. On one hand, some argue that lies which are created with the feelings of others in mind are never selfish. On the other hand, others argue that all lies are based on selfish needs. They claim that every lie, no matter how small, is created from the selfish nature of people that want to better themselves. In short, the issue is whether lies can ever assist others. My own view is that there is no…

The story, “A Devil and Tom Walker” has many important themes. These themes are important, because they make the story play out in a certain way. Some of these important themes include, greed, values, religion, manipulation, bargains, moral decay, temptation, morality and corruption, misery and evil vs. good. This story has the theme of greed, because it shows that Tom is greedy and that is why he ends up the way he ends up.…

Blake and Dahl, the Bad Boys People are born both innately good and bad. Throughout history, there are figures that one can look up to as symbols of innocence as well as symbols of evil. Literature has attempted to explain the differentiation between the two, often in a religious sense. “Genesis and Catastrophe” by Roald Dahl was written in 1962 and evaluates the birth of the infamous Adolf Hitler. In William Blake’s “The Tyger,” the author ponders the difference between good and evil in god’s…

though scholars still debate over whatever the true cause was. Besides all this, his Puritan background was still a prominent part of his writings, along with the fact that some of his ancestors were involved with religious persecution, including a John Hathorne who was one of the judges during the Salem Witch Trials (Hawkins and Houston) whom he tries to distance himself by changing Hathorne to Hawthorne. Furthermore, his work takes place during the time of Dark Romanticism that followed from…

1 Six guardian and beneficent snakes at Edfu temple Ahmed KhalafAllah Safina∗ The scope of this paper is limited to the discussion of some lesser known aspects of six snakes at Edfu temple1. I aim with this paper to develop the understanding of these elusive beings through the examination of their nature, roles, names, and epithets. These snakes originally belonged to subordinate deities2 that had a beneficial and protective role with regard to Horus of Behdety…

On Saturday, March 25th, 1911, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, which occupied the top three floors of the ten story Asch building in New York City, caught on fire, killing 146 people within fifteen minutes and seriously injuring 70 more. Those affected were mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women between the ages of sixteen and twenty three. At the time, the space was occupied by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a clothing sweatshop run by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris. The Triangle…