Purity

In society color has many meanings such as red and blue symbolizing hot and cold. Also, in society colors represent many different things, yellow represents warmth but also represent caution. The meanings of colors throughout history have changed too, today in society blue portrays sadness but in the Middle Ages it portrayed devotion. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the luxurious 1920s are precisely depicted. During this prosperous age there were many key factors that shaped…

Winthrop Jordan explains, Anglo women were the “repositories of white civilization” (Jordan, pg. 100). The foundation was that where there was a mother, there was a civilization. This meant, in a society where the social construction was racial purity and racial separation, the role of an Anglo woman was to be productive and reproductive any way the enslaved African women was not. The Anglo woman “served principally an ornamentive function, for everything resembling work was done by Negro…

the reader as the epitome of purity, “They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house” (Fitzgerald 8) She is written in a way as to seem like an angel that has graced us with her presence down on earth. She doesn’t appear to be quite human, perhaps a fairy of sorts that can take flight at any moment. Dawned in a white gown, she is supposedly mirroring her glow of purity. She is routinely…

Essay Option 1: Vacation in Omelas It’s the beginning of the summer season in the beautiful land of Omelas. The citizens of Omelas are busy preparing for the much anticipated summer festival. Music was playing, people were dancing, and children played in the streets. Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant stroll through the downtown village and overhear a discussion between some older children. The children have discovered the child being kept against it’s will in a basement is there to preserve the…

Allison Baker Prof. Ronald Davenport PHI202-04 1 October 2017 Does Utilitarianism Make Sense? Before I enrolled in this course, I never knew how much information there was on morality. I used to think that morals were simply what you personally thought was right and wrong, but I now know there is so much more to it. Morality has more of an impact on the world than I would’ve ever known, and learning about a topic such as utilitarianism has especially opened my views relating to society and…

Khadra Hassan TA: Hannah Degraaf September 28th 2016 Banana Oil (lab report) Purpose: The purpose of this laboratory experiment was to synthesize banana oil (Isopentyl acetate) from the reaction of Acetic acid and Isopentyl alcohol by the Fischer Esterification reaction. By using the methods of refluxing, washing, drying, and simple distillation to purify the end product. When the product was isolated an IR, H NMR and boiling point were used analysis the product, the end product had a…

Ralph’s specific choice of words, and dark undertones throughout the novel has a strong significant meaning in the overall story and its theme. For example, the way the phrase is displayed makes it seem as though there is something dark and foreboding about this "creature" of boys. As though the boys are capable of bringing some kind of anarchy or devastation to the island, which foreshadows what they will do at the end of the novel. Furthermore, Ralph is really not afraid at this point, but…

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair depicts the horrors and hardships faced by immigrants and the working class during the industrial revolution.Sinclair focuses on the working conditions of employees of a meat factory. These struggles with working conditions and disease are considered quite inhumane by modern standards. The new spike in demand for goods across America during the industrial revolution created factories, which dehumanised workers in an effort to increase profits. Sinclair describes the…

De Stijl’s most outstanding painter was Mondrian, whose art was rooted in the mystical ideas of Theosophy. Although influenced by his contact with Analytical Cubism in Paris before 1914, Mondrian thought that it had fallen short of its goal by not having developed toward pure abstraction, or, as he put it, “the expression of pure plastics” (which he later called Neoplasticism). In his search for an art of clarity and order that would also express his religious and philosophical beliefs, Mondrian…

Catherines life displayed that the Sisters of Mercy now root themselves in are spirituality, community, service, and social justice and critical concerns. McAuley also followed five virtues very closely. These virtues were zeal, charity, humility, purity of intention, and confidence in God. These virtues gave Catherine the strength to achieve her goals, put God and others above herself, enlightened her soul, and have complete faithfulness in her religious beliefs which led her to trust the idea…