Praying with Anger

While Claudius is praying, Hamlet drew out his sword and says, “And how his audit stands who knows save heaven/But in our circumstance and course of thought/ 'Tis heavy with him. And am I then revenged” (3.3.87-89). Claudius is asking for forgiveness and Hamlet thinks if he…

Passing Nella Larsen’s novel, Passing, is her second work of literature and sets the scene in the 1920s. Throughout the pages, the reader is gradually faced with several conflicts such as race and identity as narrated by the main character of the novella, Irene Redfield, a married black woman with two children for whom these conflicts arise when she re-encounters an old acquaintance, Clare Kendry. Clare is presented as the antagonist and as the opposite of Irene, and the more Clare is around,…

Bluest Eye Writing Assignment 1. Read the first one or two paragraphs of the reading and stop. a. What has the writer told you so far? The writer has given us a setting where everything begins. The book talks about the racial disparities and how different people were treated differently because of their color. The first two paragraphs just gave a quick insight into what I would be getting myself into in the rest of the book. b. Based on what you’ve read so far, what do you expect the rest of…

Coping with a Terrible Disease Surrounded by his friends and family, the loved one had a huge announcement. He revealed that he had been diagnosed with Lung Cancer. All around, he heard sobs and family members asking why? Grandchildren were distraught that their grandfather was going to have to go through this. Even though he believed the hardest part was over, the real journey has just begun. The diagnosis is life altering in more ways than simply damaging health. Dealing with evolving…

The author of Night, Elie Wiesel, takes the readers through a journey, during a place in time no one wants to visit. The victims during the holocaust were scarred for life “Wiesel and many survived victims wish they could forget what happened, but all say “Never shall I forget” to imply the wish, yet inability to forget” (Nurick para.2). The holocaust was an anti-Semitic event that discriminated Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group. Jews were sent to concentration camps, and were…

John Mellencamp, a well known American rock singer-songwriter, once said, “When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.” What he is essentially saying is that when people are a part of an environment where emotions (typically fear or anger) are suddenly heightened, they start to behave in an uncontrolled way. In such a case, emotions can become so strong that they can cause people to lose sight of reality and their morals. This is evident when one stops taking the time to think…

reason to not have completed his revenge. This is why he throws doubt toward the Ghost instead of himself. Because of this, Hamlet also tries to use logic to explain his reasoning for delaying his revenge. He refuses to kill Claudius while he is praying because he believes that in doing so he is cleansing his sins and will therefore be sent to heaven instead of hell. He says, “This physic but prolongs thy sickly days” (III.iii.97). Once again Hamlet is blaming someone else for his hesitation. He…

The bottom line: filmmaking is expensive, and therefore, a film must be efficient in its conveyance of story. Classical Hollywood cinema depends on the idea that cinema is deliberate, pointed, driven quickly through a linear narrative by carefully orchestrated action and plot devices. Transitions are smooth and fast paced, dialogue is pithy and heavily directed, not one second wasted on narrative “blank space”. But what happens to this model when the story a film strives to tell is a story not…

mom to follow the crowd in running away because I was afraid of dying but she refused, insisting that she cannot leave my siblings and dad behind. Not quite long, we saw my siblings running toward us while mom was on her knees, mourning, crying and praying. As soon as she saw them, she said," praise be to God, who hears prayers. “As soon as they got close, we all decided to take to our heels like others and she defunded us not to carry anything, as life is more important than…

In today 's society, some adults have said at some point, “your generation won 't be famous for anything, because your generation is lazy.” Although it 's true that we 're lazy due to many technological inventions, some of us might do great things in the future. Before people in my generation start to make a name for ourselves, we will always deal with this problem. People have always faced being compared to others, whether good or bad. There are situations that can change a person 's opinion on…