Our Lady of Sorrows

instead of gaining money, the men are so scared of the boy that they pay the father to take his son back. The message of the story could be interpreted as thinking before you act. In “The Lady or the Tiger?”, a princess is in love with a handsome young man, but her father makes him either be wed to another lady or be mauled by a vicious tiger. “This was the king’s semi-barbaric method of administering justice.” (Stockton 2) Both the princess and her lover know what would happen if the king found…

often failing to perceive the flaws in their own thinking. In Scene One of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth calls on spirits that assist murderous thoughts to make her less like a woman and more like a man. “… unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall.” This soliloquy shows the audience that Lady Macbeth is the steel behind Macbeth and that her ambition will be strong enough to…

Throughout the centuries, religion has played crucial role within the stages of grieving, and the lives those affected by loss live thereafter as either a crutch for the weak to lean upon or a boost of energy for the powerful to grow. The scope of religious practice is non negotiable, given that only 14% of the world’s total population follows a secular, non-religious, agnostic, or atheistic view on the powers of religion, and as such factors are ever present, the necessity of ced mystical…

Mrs. Kennedy & Me is authored by Clint Hill. Mr. Clint Hill is a secret service member and has just been assigned to the First lady detail of the upcoming Kennedy Presidential term of 1961. This book gives you an in depth, up close and very personal view into how the secret service prepares and works. The President, his wife and children are all on round the clock surveillance and through this book I have better understand and knowledge of just how exciting a President’s life can be. Clint…

Last night on April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate advocate shot our nation's President. This occurred at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. John Wilkes Booth has planned many attempts to assassinate the President. Booth was a Maryland native born in 1838. At 10:15 Booth slipped into the President’s box and shot him in the back of the head with a .44 caliber single shot derringer after puncturing Henry Rathbone a young army…

And loved the sorrows of your changing face” The author uses words like “pilgrim soul” to describe how pure and beautiful the speaker think she is. This matters because it creates a soft, quiet mood for the readers when we read the…

to show the shading of the curb of which she is sitting on. Also, the shape/ form that is used is amazing because it displays her slouched over, her head is down, and her arms are crossed and covering her face. The style of work Van Gogh made with Sorrow was realism, with all the detailed in the pictures I believe it couldn’t be any other style. It is believed that Sien was pregnant at the time Vincent Van Gogh drew this work of art. The drawing is of Sien that is a young prostitute who Van…

Poetry has a long standing reputation for being boring, but poems from the Romantic era are anything but. Romantic poetry, despite the name, aren’t just about love. These poems are about tragedy and sorrow, and the inevitability of death and its effects on our lives. Lord Byron does a fantastic job of combining literary devices in poetry to create some of the most heart-wrenching and emotional poems ever written. And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair by Lord Byron exhibits nature imagery,…

yes, the cost was worth it. If we had not, England would be in control over us and what we trade. If we had not done anything to protect our property, who would have? One must also think of their family members and see how they want their future to be. England wanted to take control over the United States and tell us what and what not to do. They would attack our ships causing many deaths and wounded men which would hurt many families. The British would pay Indians to get enemy scalps and…

For as long I as I could remember, the idea of death never had an personal affect on me. Death to me was the end of a person's life and that was it. When I attended funerals as a child I could see the sorrow in other children's eyes as the men in the family would carry out their grandparents casket from the church. Their tears flowed like a never-ending waterfall of grief. I would hold on to my mother’s arm as tightly as I could while everyone else mourned for their loss. I would whisper into my…