Seven Against Thebes

The purpose of James was to encourage people to live a Christian life, to resist temptation and be faithful to God in all ways. "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him (James, 1:12). So as people live in the Christian way by spreading the word of God and living in the light of Him, doing right, they will be praised. God promises the Kingdom of Heaven to those who are faithful, and…

What has brought upon this madness? It is as though the entire town of Salem has been swept up in a wild inferno of vengeance – an inferno surely herding us all into the wrathful grasp of Satan. Surely, for all the years of learning, the wisdom I have found in my books I should have doused this folly before it began! I see the brand of condemnation on my hands, as bright and stained as it were the ink that with those hands sold the souls of the good Christian men and women of Salem. I have not…

The evil serpent persuades Eve to go against God’s wishes and eat the fruit. She is overwhelmed with curiosity, hunger, and temptation and therefore, eats the fruit. God then banishes her and all humans for eternity. Likewise, Pandora is told by the Gods that it is forbidden to open this sacred…

Augustine’s confession’s recount the tale of both his path to redemption and praise of God who allowed him to start anew. Without God Augustine and many others would go astray and live a life of sins. Augustine states, “The thought of you stirs him so deeply that he cannot be content unless he praises you, because you made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace until they rest in you.” Connecting with God is one of the many ways that humans can best live their lives. If one does not…

sin. One of the rounds was the first round that is named after Cain, Abel’s brother and killer (Genesis 4.8), and punished by having “their necks and heads out of the ice and permitted to bow their heads” (Ciardi 32.0) to represent their treachery against their own blood family. As they reach the center, they found Satan, with his lower body hidden inside a mass of ice, at the last round of the ninth circle gnawing on as a representation of the seriousness of the sin they have committed. One of…

Ever since I started understanding philosophical ideas, one of the most feared things for me was karma. When people follow their bliss, they forget that the sins they commit in order to attain their bliss will follow perpetually. Dante Alighieri’s Inferno is a prime example of karma which conveys to the audience what to avoid when “following one’s bliss,” an idea of Joseph Campbell. Campbell believes that myths “won’t tell you what makes you happy, but it will tell you what happens when you…

As one of the most insightful philosophers and psychologists of our time, William James’ influential theory of primary and secondary memory in 1890 kick-started the long standing dispute between theories of unitary and separate memory stores. Advocates of multi-store models focus heavily on distinctions between long term memory (LTM) and short term memory (STM), such as differences in their capacity of storage and duration of which information can be withheld within each store. Other theorists…

they are greedy with these worldly desires to please them self and find false joy. The husband is also very lazy or sloth, so the writer is going to add laziness to the list as the seventh. Wrath, lust, pride, envy, gluttony, greed, and sloth; the seven deadly sins. The second sign of this hidden motif of religion is, what I call the conversion factor. The Husband sits on the floor with Roger, closes his eyes and begins to see. This may seem confusing, but most religions have a faith or some…

with Aristotle’s and Lao Tzu’s. Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, lust, and love seem to be completely unrelated and opposites; however, Dante argues that all seven of them are related and stem from love; however, some lack love, while others exceed love as previously discussed. Dante’s true summum bonum, love, is found when all seven of the deadly sins are…

Bryan Burrough was previously a writer for the Wall Street Journal, and won three John Handcock Awards in financial journalism. As an author he wrote six bestselling books before The Big Rich, including Days of Rage and Public Enemies. Burroughs grew up around the families of the Big Rich and was amazed by them. He wrote The Big Rich in response to the lack of knowledge about the families who were once considered Texas nobility. The book focuses around the lives the Big Rich, Roy Cullen, Sid…