Young Goodman Brown is a short story set in 17th century New England. In the story Hawthorne explores and criticizes the Puritan/Calvinist values of the time. The Calvinist religious philosophy is ascetic and is critical of the world. In Calvinist philosophy humanity exists in a world of depravity and only those who are born into a “state of grace” are worthy of joining God in heaven. Hawthorne explores the religion’s philosophy and explores the hypocrisy of the rigid Puritan world. The…
Earnest Hemingway. Love in the Modern Era was expressed through history and mythology much like Tennyson, or through the chaos of real life. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and was born in Dublin in 1865. He was very interested in The Occult and social issues, as well as Irish mythology. Yeats had a “Gyre Ideology”, which revolved around…
Toro with cinematographer Guillermo Navarro and supervising art director Simon Lamont. The film follows its namesake, a demon ripped from another dimension and brought to Earth by the Nazis. Professor Bruttenholm, a man well great knowledge of the occult, raises the young demon to protect humanity. In the climax of the movie, the Professor is shown a vision of the apocalypse that will result if Hellboy is forced to embrace his darkness and become Death. The scene that follows depicts a hunched…
needed community, and the possibility of not having an agreed upon goal (Shi, & Johnson, 2014). For example, the insurance companies may not think that it is important for everyone to be screened for colorectal cancer via colonoscopy. Since the stool, occult blood tests are to detect cancer which has already been growing in the colon, and a colonoscopy may detect a polyp before turning into cancer, the study will promote colonoscopy as a screening process (Wong, Ching, Chan, & Sung, 2015). The…
Hell’s Angel Hells Angel, Robert Foster, a former convict gets a second chance on life after breaking out of prison into an alternate apocalyptic version of his hometown, LA. Hells Angel cleans up the crime in LA trying to do his best to put his dark past behind him. Previous life/ Shooting Robert Foster a lowly worker in the advertising industry but his life changes when he snaps after losing out on a promotion which is given to a bosses love interest. He comes back to the office with…
Nature plays an important role in many romantic novels, acting as the bringer of life while also being an agent of death on many occasions. In Mary Shelley’s horrific novel, Frankenstein, nature serves as a docile yet powerful backdrop for the story, constantly reflecting the emotions of the characters, while also guiding them to their ruin. A key force of nature that appears as both good and bad throughout the novel is lightning. Lighting serves as a beautiful but powerful force that aids the…
As early as the 1600’s, Central Europeans have been immigrating to the United States. Settlers from Germany, the former Soviet Union, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein came for various reasons. World wars, the collapse of the Soviet Union, economic disparities, and dissatisfaction with their government were among the most common reasons. Each ethnic group influenced American culture by introducing new foods, music, and literature.…
however when there are suspicions of cancer, imaging can be done. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women ages 40-55. (“Digital,” 2009) Even when mammography is performed properly, approximately 10% of cancers remain radiographically occult,…
The heterogeneity of the S. Marco bowl includes not only a wealth of information but also a network of relationships of different levels of meaning. The origin of the individual parts, their materiality, the fragmentation and the gesture of the details demand possible interpretation in the assembly and observation of the object. The Byzantine makers and artisans served as the viewers of the conventional conception of the iconic characters, trying out ideas to ensure that their references could…
a career of change and monuments stopping the coffins lid. I will never exhaust the impulse to better myself. You bet your bottom dollar I’m a brokeass. Thanks to loans I start school in a couple months. I would like to be a clearing house for the occult, esoteric, and my weird radar. Instead…