Shunning

The narrator’s attitude towards the Puritans is very negative. He portrays them as unforgiving and cold-hearted people. The Puritans believe that people who have sinned must confess their sins and be punished for them. They punish anybody who has sinned and use them as an example to others. This is the case with Hester Prynne because she has committed adultery and is condemned to wear a scarlet letter on all of her clothing to show the crime she has committed. She was also forced to stand on a…

If one chooses to go the biblical route, the first sin was committed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. For that, they were banished and given labors; in their footsteps is what all of mankind has been following since. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne suffers the same sentence that Adam and Eve suffered. Not only does she feel disconnected from society and is essentially banished, she trudges through the labors of single motherhood, including her world spinning…

This reminds me of the concept that we learned in social about one of the characteristics of being a dictator. Being a scapegoat. Scapegoat essentially means to blame something you did on someone else. I know for a truthful fact that my sister is a great example to use. When we were younger I would always bribe her to tell my mom that she was the one who “committed the crime.” Luckily, she was really easy to talk to especially when it came to money. I soon regretted it for when I started…

It is not wrong to question or doubt gospel doctrine. Without doubt, church members would be less motivated to finding the truth. Questions lead to building testimonies. Some may think that questioning or doubting doctrines given by prophets is a sign that someone is falling away or lacks faith. However, people ask questions to gain knowledge and build faith. Elder Utchdorf in his talk "Come, Join with Us" declared, "There are few members of the Church who, at one time or another, have not…

One may affirm or deny concepts and proposals. Through affirmation or denial people form their ideas and concepts of the world. Pursing and shunning, however, have to do with actions and goals. One either pursues a goal (via action) or shuns the idea (via inaction). 5. p. 84, paragraph beginning "But from these." Here Descartes gives the basic explanation for why we make errors. Briefly, what…

generation would work to bridge the divide. Unfortunately, the opposite is the case. In reality, we have been brainwashed by a new, politically correct culture. That culture shuns complex thought, and makes any dissent from the PC mainstream punishable by shunning, yelling, and attempts to…

While reading the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, I found myself having an epiphany on page 69 of the book. Here, Elie is discussing a predicament the Jewish people in the concentration camp are having as Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday is approaching and traditionally people of the Jewish religion fast on that day. Elle said, “the question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death.” These two lines provided me with the sudden revelation of how religious many of the…

memory of his actions too painful and surely seen as unacceptable to society to his unconscious state of mind. In addition, Mathew allows Sydney Henderson to take the blame for his actions and suffer. Sydney faces the consequences of society; the shunning, the attacks and verbal…

Bitter and Bitten is a lawsuit about Lofton Jackson vs. Northwestern University Hospital. Mr. Jackson is a university campus police officer who was called from his post, adjacent to the hospital, to help subdue a patient out of control. He has assisted the ER in the past with these types of patients. Before Mr. Jackson arrived, the patient had informed the ER staff that he has AIDS. It is the hospital policy to inform any staff member if a patient is infected with AIDS and they have done so in…

It all started last month with one sick child. It has quickly blossomed to whole families dying within a week. This so-called “Black Death” has been rampaging through the community for a month, no one is safe. People have started secluding themselves, no leaving their homes, not so much as speaking to anyone showing signs of the illness. Contrary to somewhat popular belief, these actions did nothing in protecting from the sickness. People still contracted it, people still died. My family has…