Lament

having a baby girl. Each of these forms of Art revolve around the idea of situations fading over time. A third example of current texts replicating Anglo-Saxon themes is in the anonymous poem, The Wife’s Lament and Ray Bradbury’s, All Summer in A Day as they each use the theme of exile. In The Wife’s Lament a community shuns a women due to her failing to conduct herself in the manner that was expected at the time. Bradbury’s story uses the same idea on a smaller scale as the girl is shut out…

Many great works have been lost to time. Some of the most well-known and respected authors of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome have not been fully preserved, and what could have been their greatest works are gone. Despite the difficulties many of these authors have faced in their conservation, the narratives they tell remain timeless, each reiteration shedding new light onto the subject. One of those timeless tales is that of Achilles, the main hero of the Iliad. The story of Achilles,…

innocence. The depiction of the Creature in the death scenes of both the film and the novel vary greatly. Within the novel, the Creature is portrayed as an articulate being capable of rational thought and higher intellect. He possesses sensitives and laments over his loneliness as he feels “so desolate in this peopled earth.” The Creature’s fixation on his…

Koinonia is the communion and participation of Christians whose relationships are experienced with God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and themselves, according to the Westminster Theological Dictionary. Koinonia is the Christian communion, partaking, or participation in the body of Christ. The concept of koinonia is a consistent theme that found its place in all of the doctrines learned this semester. These doctrines are Revelation, Triune God, Incarnate Christ, Creation, Sin, and the Problem…

Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s The Time: Night is, for lack of a better phrase, a family novel in that it delves into familial relationships specifically regarding motherhood. Petrushevskaia explores three generations of women: The grandmother Sima, mother Anna, and daughter Alyona. Delving into manic hysteria, Anna’s situation portrays a cyclical view of history wherein Anna’s life repeats that of Sima; leaving us to assume that Alyona will also follow suit. Anna’s crazed view on motherhood and…

In order to create a truly persuasive essay the author must appeal to the audience in a way that can be compelling to the reader. Rhetorical appeals are a great way to convince the readers of something and can be the most crucial part to any essay if they are used in an effective way. The three rhetorical devices include ethos, pathos, and logos and they all appeal to a different aspect of the reader's perspective. Kathy Hull uses her speech to reach out to the community in encouraging everyone…

God’s authority in all things, even suffering. Poetry Reading the Psalms shows Scripture in the form of poetry. Nevertheless, scriptural poetry is found in other places. After crossing the Red Sea, Moses sang praises of triumph (Exodus 15). David laments at the death of Saul and Jonathan (2 Sam 1:17-27). Joshua even uses poetry to plead with God for the sun to stand still (Josh 10:12-13). Mary’s song is familiar to numerous Christians (Luke 1:46-55). Various pastors still use Aaron’s blessing…

In Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Pedestrian”, a simplistic writer named Leonard Mead walks every night along the sidewalks of a city depicted as “a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows” (Bradbury 47). In a futuristic world where literature and interaction become obsolete, Mead shows retrogressive tendencies as he takes nightly walks throughout his city in which many citizens appear as sluggish and addicted to television. One night…

eastern hemisphere like a wildfire, taking out every being that crossed its path. Due to the disease being able to enter the body through both the bloodstream and respiration, the infected population nearly doubled by the minute. As described in a Welsh Lament, the plague was "death…

I am sure as people see through my personality, they don’t see me as this hidden story. I don’t lament anything that I was put through because If It wasn’t for those days, I wouldn’t be as strong and determined. At that moment, I didn’t come under the impression that I had so many amazing qualities that were being stepped upon. I look at those people…