Memento

In the epic Beowulf, written by John Green and translated by Seamus Hanley, the concept of simplistic duality is utilized quite frequently. However, this is not the case in the movie, “Beowulf & Grendel”, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson. In this day and age, where moviegoers want their films to mirror the original plot of their favorite novels, why would the director of "Beowulf and Grendel" decide to make such a shift? The answer lies in our modern culture. Because our culture differs greatly…

In the Life of Pie by YANN MARTEL the excerpt “DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO?” felt important to the advancement of the plot. I felt that this excerpt mainly told the whole story of the book. In the zoo people wanted to find the most dangerous animal so PI father set up a booth with a curtain. In the booth was a mirror and when people opened the curtain they find out that it was them all along. In the later part of the book Pi was in a heavy predicament. He was pinned…

other a sailor. The medical student is seen in some sketches holding a skull. It could be possible that Picasso initially wanted his audiences to know about the fatal consequences of visiting a place like the brothel. The skull could also signify a memento muri and symbolize the connotation between sensual pleasures of life and a fatal sin. The sailor could have been Picasso himself, as he was often seen wearing his stripped sailor shirt, and he often visited the young ladies in the streets of…

In recent years, many youth athletic organizations have decided that trophies should be given out for participation, rather than athletic ability. This policy is supposed to promote skill building and equality among all adolescent athletes. While the players may be building skills on an equal playing field, they are also being allowed to believe that they deserve to be recognized for giving their best effort, when in reality that is not the case. Although initiated with good intentions, the…

home. The wooden birth tray played a utilitarian as well as celebratory role in commemorating a child’s birth. It was covered with a special cloth to function as a service tray for the mother during confinement and later displayed on the wall as a memento of the special occasion. It was also sometimes given to the first born of a family and passed down to generations. The reverse of the birth tray, The Triumph of Chasity, is painted with the arms of the wealthy Florentine Samminiato and…

The Dominican Republic, originally known as la Hispañola, including Haiti, was discovered by Christopher Columbus in December 5th, 1492. It is an island in the Caribbean which shares border with Haiti. In October of 1500, Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo arrested Christopher Columbus and sent him in restraints to Spain. Columbus, during his third break to the new world, busy in a dispute with the representative of Santo Domingo, Hispaniola Columbus was later free and pardoned by the Queen…

or spiritual ceremonies which made them even more sacred. Orrú and Wang state that Durkheim considered religion to be made up of four elements: beliefs, practices, the sacred, and a Church. (Orrú and Wang, 1992) Durkheim also said that religious mementos are divided into two kinds of phenomena. These are known as the sacred and the profane. The sacred refers to items such as the totemic symbols in the Aboriginal tribes, these special objects require certain and specific religious treatment and…

Priceless Pennies There are lots of good ways to spend a summer. Stay up all night, sleep until noon, lounge by the pool, watch TV, or spend time with friends before they go back to college. The particularly ambitious might get a job and save up some money (just don’t work too much!) For three years I did none of these things. Instead, I wanted to do something better, something more memorable and meaningful. If I was short on time I would tell you that I am a drummer and I toured with some…

The predominant church alludes to traditional religious practice and faith (with its promise of salvation), while at the left a cypress—a traditional Mediterranean memento mori and the tree Van Gogh himself called “funereal”—introduces a note of death. The elegiac tenor of these motifs is, however, overpowered by the richness and animation of the celestial spectacle beyond—the image of an afterworld both vast and exciting…

Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. Theodore Bundy started out his life as his mother's secret shame. Eleanor Cowell (Ted’s Mother) was twenty-two years old and unmarried when she had her son Theodore, which scandalized her deeply religious parents. To hide the fact he was an illegitimate child, Bundy was raised as the adopted son of his grandparents and was told that his mother was his sister. Eleanor moved with Ted to Tacoma, Washington, a few years later. In 1951,…