Praying with Anger

My cohort and I left for New Orleans a couple of days early due to a booking error, however we had planned on going on an excursion anyway so it worked out just fine. It was amazing to hear the history behind some of the plantations and to walk the same halls that these people walked in 170 plus years ago. The view from Oak Alley was breath taking a symbol that still stands as a testament to the South’s golden age. The trees were planted a 100 years before the land was purchased and a home was…

influences his actions later in the play. He will eventually kill King Claudius because he values justice so highly, and realizes that he was born to do this task. Hamlet portrays his values of revenge and justice again when he walks in on King Claudius praying. He says, “And am I then revenged / to take him in the purging of his soul / when he is fit and seasoned for his passage? No.” (3.3.89-91). Hamlet is debating whether or not to kill Claudius is this time of vulnerability, as he wants to…

In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the North American coast while searching for a new route to the Indies on behalf of the Spanish crown. After his unwitting discovery of the New World, European countries flocked to claim the land - first Spain and Portugal, then the English, French and Dutch. As colonies popped up all over North America, these countries gradually discovered great wealth in agriculture and trade. However, the land was already occupied by Native American tribes who, while…

Kippur took place after the Israelites’ “exodus from Egypt and arrival at Mount Sinai,” where God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. Descending from the mountain, Moses caught his people worshipping a golden calf and shattered the sacred tablets in anger. Because the Israelites atoned for their idolatry, God forgave their sins and offered Moses a second set of tablets.” Many historians and even Jewish texts…

killing people. I can't imagine it – that boy who shot me, I can't imagine hurting him even with a needle.” Malala’s values on forgiveness, evening forgiving the gunman who shot her, may stem from learning about her father training to be a jihadi and “praying for martyrdom,” however, her father was saved from that lifestyle after realising that he was being brainwashed, through his questionable mind and his future brother-in-law, a secular nationalist. Malala talking about her forgiveness…

Elie Wiesel published Night in 1955. This book is his testimony to the awful situations he and millions others had to encounter. Eliezer is a devout Jew at a young age. His conviction is flipped upside down when the Nazis enter his life, and he believes God walked out. In Night, Wiesel uses Eliezer to depict how his once unconditional faith is shaken down to nonexistence during the Holocaust. Before Eliezer’s living nightmare reigns down, he is dedicated to his religion. At twelve years old, he…

In The Life of Pi, a young boy called Pi is left to fend for himself in a small lifeboat containing a Royal Bengal tiger, an adult orangutan, a ferocious hyena, and an injured zebra. They are forced to cooperate and survive along each other, but many of those animals do not survive. Eating is part of survival during the day-to-day life of everyone, but in The Life of Pi, it means much more than that. Eating becomes the most important thing in both Pi and the animals’ lives, which gives it a…

of their respective fathers however use different schemes to complete their goals (“Literary” 1 of 4). While the two take two different approaches to enact their revenge “anger prompts both Hamlet and Laertes to act spontaneously, giving little thought to the consequences of their actions” (“Hamlet” Novelguide 1 of 3). This anger is seen when Hamlet is talking to his mother and then notices someone behind the arras thinking that this person is Claudius “… Hamlet consumed with rage…

Fortinbras’s army, he says, “How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge” (IV.IV.31-33). By “all occasions” Hamlet is referring to all the opportunities he did not take to kill Claudius. Mainly, Hamlet is referring to when Claudius was praying, and Hamlet could of easily taken his revenge, but, he did not. In a way, Hamlet also let religion get in the way of seeking revenge because Claudius had just came from confession, and has been cleansed of his sins. Hamlet wanted him…

engages himself in prayers, a measure to call for help from God, he experiences a vision seeing himself suffering and dying on the cross. This vision raises more fear within him causing him to pray more and ask the disciples not to sleep but keep on praying.…