Shroud

The woman had died without pain, quietly, as a woman should whose life had been blameless. Now she was resting in her bed, lying on her back, her eyes closed, her features calm, her long white hair carefully arranged as though she had done it up ten minutes before dying. The whole pale countenance of the dead woman was so collected, so calm, so resigned that one could feel what a sweet soul had lived in that body, what a quiet existence this old soul had led, how easy and pure the death of this…

Next, is the Islamic doctrine of Scripture, which is one of the many differences between the Islamic doctrine and the Christian doctrine. For Christians, the Scripture of the Old and New Testament are God given and God breathed, which is seen in 2 Timothy 3:16 (“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness”). In other words, “God the Holy Spirit guided or acted on the minds of the authors of Scripture, revealing to them what He…

The marijuana still carries a false shroud of stigma as a dangerous drug lead to harder narcotics, medical and scholarly officials have began to change the American view. The wide variety of applications of marijuana from both ingrained in our American history to hemp oil to drive our cars…

into the idea that she needs fiction to understand herself, Bechdel can be seen on the pages discovering that she is a lesbian, not through experience, but rather through reading. In the last chapter of her memoir, Bechdel drapes her journey in a shroud of references the novel The Odyssey. In the midst of her journey, she realized she was a lesbian amongst books and kicking off the tale in the middle of her journey, similar to the way that Homer begins telling his novel midway through Odysseus's…

The Bell Jar is about a story of a young, brilliant and enormously talented woman and her struggles as she grows up in a foreign country, America. This short autobiographical novel details six months in the life of its protagonist, Esther Greenwood and the events of Sylvia Plath's twentieth year; about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. In the narrative's opening chapter, Esther, an over-achieving college student, is spending an unhappy summer as a guest editor for…

“Look over there, new gridania, the shroud, gone forever.” I couldn’t believe it; I could see all of Eorzea. Limsa completely washed away, Uldah engulfed by flames. “VASSAR! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS?!” The words fell out of my mouth. “He speaks?! How fortunate for me!” He laughed manically…

(384-385) Oedipus responds with, “Who could restrain his anger when hearing you? What outrage- you spurn the city!”(386) Even in the face of adversity from a feuding Oedipus Tiresias stays strong and responds with, “What will come will come. Even if I shroud it all in silence.” (388-389) The significance of this quote is that it subtly displays the ideology that many characters share. Many characters, like Tiresias, hold a heavy regard towards their belief in true faith. Tireasias being a…

End of Life Care -Nursing Cultural Competency America is a melting pot of many religions and nurses are called upon more and more in today’s world to practice cultural competency. This paper focuses on awareness of other religions in order to practice culturally competent end of life of care for all patients. Judaism, Catholicism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism’s end of life rituals and traditions, stance on organ donation, embalmment, autopsies, after death care will be briefly discussed in…

Police brutality is making headlines around the country and people are trying to get to the root of the problem. There are multiple reasonings as to why police today are brutal. Some believe it is because police are trained to be militaristic. They may also believe that police have to deal with situations that require them to be brutal for their own safety. While others believes that cops are brutal due to their training that influences racism for their decisions while policing. In Lorraine…

This paper will argue that the photographs of the Countess de Castiglione and Emile Zola’s, “The Kill” both present women that rely on their appearances to discern their identities. It will further demonstrate that because of this emphasis on appearances to assert reality, women depend on their body as a mode of expressing the more complex parts of their personalities. To understand the immense attention paid to women’s appearance during 19th century France, it is crucial to consider the role…