Outward Bound

Members of the ‘lost generation’ often characterized manliness as acts of outward bravery. Hemingway experiences this rift in “A Moveable Feast” through his interactions with Jean, a waiter that he met while on holiday in Switzerland. Hemingway gained a new admiration of Jeane when he learned that Jean had earned “the other sort…

is socially constructed in children. Butler proposed that gender is inescapable and that subjectification is required to participate in human culture (as cited in Wells, 2009, p. 51). While gender performativity focuses on a socially constructed outward portrayal of gender, gender reproduction theory focuses on how social norms reproduce inequalities between men and women in society, and gender socialization theory focuses on societal influences upon gender. In this paper, I compare the…

A Genuine Portrayal of a Renaissance Man When thinking about one of the greatest renaissance men, who comes to mind? Does Leonardo Da Vinci come to mind? Unequivocally the man who brought to life the Mona Lisa and designed the first scissors is bound to be a successful man; but his love and dedication to his many various types of works is what made Leonardo Da Vinci a true renaissance man. At the very young age of fourteen Leonardo Da Vinci began to apprentice with a man named Andrea Del…

pleading for his life. Because of the sense of connection that Ch’en feels with this man, similar to the connection that made him hesitant to assassinate originally, he feels obligated to help. As Ch’en watches he thinks, “he himself was that man bound hand and foot… Unable to do otherwise,he went towards the man, his knife in his hand, to cut his cords”(98). While his intentions are perhaps selfish, he acts upon his own inner voice and desire to accomplish what he wants to do, independent of…

happy without knowing why. She [Edna] was happy to be alive and breathing, when the whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day” (53). In that instance, Edna was no longer bound to her life’s position in the Creole society. Because she did not have to be reminded of her husband and children, she felt as if she “were walking…

Death As Inevitability In ‘Totem’ Plath once described this poem as “a pile of interconnected images like a totem pole” (Padel, 2013). Even the title resounds a spiritual significance. A totem is kinship related, and the interconnected images that compose the poetic totem explore an almost ritual, visceral blood relationship to death in which all life forms are implicated. Life, thus, is adopted as an emblem for death. Plath’s Totem is in fact a culmination of her fatalistic attitude, the…

With the coming of the Industrial Revoultion, came many changes for the lives of the citizens in Britian. Advancements in manufacturing, mobility and many other areas of life left every citizen affected, whether it be for better or for worse. One place that received a considerable amount of change was Manchester, England, who with Industrialization, became a leading textile manufacturing center. The citizens of Manchester would have to deal with the detrimental effects of Industrialization, and…

“What’s wrong?” “I’m Afraid.” “What are you afraid of?” “Everything…” If we were all really honest with ourselves, and we peer into the depths of our being looked at our deepest part we would find a similarity within each soul. Hiding beneath the desire to be loved, wanted, and needed we would find the fraction of us we seem to hate the most. This small piece shows itself in countless ways. It hinders us from success and fulfilling God’s greatest purpose for our lives, and we often times…

Since Christ is present under the appearances of bread and wine in a sacramental way, the Eucharist is undoubtedly a sacrament of the Church. In the Eucharist, the definition of a Christian sacrament as "an outward sign of an inward grace instituted by Christ" is verified. The second of the two, baptism, is not as easy to see as a sacrament as the Eucharist. Some Christians see baptism as necessary for salvation, while others see it as a sign of the covenant…

Andrew Walls, former missionary and lecturer was the founder of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non- Western World (University of Edinburgh). He also was the founding editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa. Walls was one of the first people to document a southward gravitational shift of the Christian Church. He first wrote about it in his essay “The Gospel as Prisoner and Liberator of Culture” which was published in 1982 The aim of this paper is to assess and critique Walls’…