Mortification of the flesh

media have been seen to bring social immoralities through a change in human behavior which is similar to the sinner used in Dante's inferno. The inferno has been used as a crusade against immorality. Two authors Servitje, Lorenzo and Cvetkovski, Trajce shows how digital media use can promote good behavior war against crime. Lorenzo shows how the Dante’s Inferno has been appropriated into a video game as it presents holy mortification of a hero's flesh as an emblem of modern war on terror as a social immorality. One the other hand Cvetkovski shows that the media use today is faced with a lot of illegal use inform of piracy. It contrasts the good work of media in crusading for war on terror by showing that piracy has become an immoral use of media. In this case, piracy may be used against the war on terror since information illegally obtained through piracy may be used to cause war. The objective of this paper is to show how the use of modern digital media world relates to the divine comedy. Servitje, Lorenzo. "Digital Mortification of Literary Flesh: Computational Logistics and Violence of Remediation in Visceral Games' Dante's Inferno." Games and culture vol 9(5) (2014): 368-388. Lorenzo Servitje in his article explores visceral game “Inferno” takes part in rewriting historical literature through computation in video games. In 2010 a video game for Play Station 3 and Xbox 360 developed from Dante's Divine comedy and named Inferno was developed by Visceral Games.…

Byzantine civilization. The author himself, St. Athanasius, was a man that would have preferred the monastic lifestyle, but was an important and influential man in the church and therefore, contrary to his wishes, had to live among the people. This colours his perspective and most likely makes him somewhat biased in the way that he describes St. Antony. The attitude toward the human body in this text is that it is necessary to care for it when needed, but it does not come near to the importance…

devotion to her Lord. However, she knows the ways and temptations of the flesh, so she helps to lift us above our superficial tendencies of Christian living. Background and significance During her latter teen years, Teresa suffered from ill health. But it was also in this crucial period of her life that she discovered her religious vocation. In 1536 she left home to become a novice at covenant of the incarnation and a few…

Purpose of secret closet Dimmesdale has peculiar night activities. Hidden from the public eye, Dimmesdale practices mortification of the flesh in his “secret closet” as his way of coping with his guilty conscious. “In Mr. Dimmesdale 's secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge. [Dimmesdale] plied it on his own shoulders; laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly, because of that bitter laugh” (132). The poor minister suffered from…

knew him when he was a monk and scholar. Though in 1517 he made a paper attacking the Catholic Churchs corrupt practice of selling indulgences to get rid of sins. His 95 Theses which put forward two main beliefs that the Bible is the main religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds. Here is a few of his 95 Theses: When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, Repent he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance. This word…

feast or tribal celebration is held in celebration of the spiritual journey the individual has experienced. Vision quests have been and still remain a major part of religious practice for most Native Americans. However, most cultures with this practice are from the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. This area is comprised of the vast grassland between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains from present-day Alberta province in Canada to present-day Texas in the United States…

She claims that “slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own” (Jacobs 830). Although Jacobs does mention physical violence in her narrative, she centers her narrative on female damage from mental violence such as sexual oppression. Since men were considered the dominant gender during the slavery era, they were obligated to commit deplorable acts such as rape…

understand the worldview of each of these religions. William A. Young (The World’s Religions) defines religion as the Human Transformation in response to perceived Ultimacy. Unique Elements of Each Religion and Conclusion Each religion developed within the situations it faced and addressed. Groups separated and formed new sects and branches of the religion because of various disagreements or views on the matters at hand. Rom Landau, author of Islam and the Arabs, points out that the Muslim…

We are taught about slavery in school growing up but our attention is not brought to the horrors of slavery. Instead, it is treated like a skeleton in the closet of our history. It 's there but we avoid the subject. Jacobs’s novel is important. Not only does it show the strength and courage and hard life of a truly amazing and inspirational woman but it educates us and gives us a glimpse on what slave like was like and how slave owners really were. It gives us insight into the unique suffering…

memories, he considers himself closer to his mother than his father, yet he echoes his father as he does not consider the required communion necessary, illustrating the development of Stephen’s thought because of his indifference to the central Catholic doctrine, a doctrine absorbed from his birth. Stephen decries the practices of the church as antithetical to his destiny of transcending the snares of Ireland, a position solidified through his sojourn through the Catholic faith. While the…