Sophia

Transcendentalism in The Scarlet Letter People every day are given the bountiful task of having to discern the perfections or flaws of a person’s being. Variations of personalities chose to put more emphasis on one attribute over the other. Belief systems or religions follow the same guidelines. For example, Puritanism and Transcendentalism are diverse forms of one population’s viewpoints. Nathaniel Hawthorne was raised in a Puritan home but married and converted to Transcendentalism. Nathaniel…

While each empire, Roman and Byzantine, were each located along the Mediterranean Sea, they shared multiple similarities and differences that shaped their empires and made them different from one another. Both the Roman and Byzantine Empires had an effective law code, however it changed from the 12 Tables to the Codes of Justinian. Another change that occurred was that the emperors of the Byzantine empire believed that they were part of God’s empire while the Roman empire didn’t really tie…

has stayed more than 24 hours is stupid. The *quote-un-quote* Doctor Zubritsky hires a schoolteacher to try and teach his teenage daughter who JUST learned how to sit. If he stays more than 24 hours, he will become one of them. He tries to marry Sophia, the Doctors daughter, but the Count, whose family put the spell on. In, the end, he fixes the curse and they live happily ever again. I thought the play was very comedic, but some flaws existed. My favorite character was the butcher,…

Hollywood production, to so openly, embrace any faith. Director-producer Sean McNamara explained, "I was never going to shy away from the fact that she's a Christian. We aren't hiding anything… I want to show these people for who they really are." Anna Sophia Robb, the protagonist, perfectly depicts Bethany as a beautiful, blond, brave, young thirteen-year-old girl with a love for the ocean…

Historically, white men have monopolized violence. By this, I mean that the white males have the capacity to commit acts of violence against an oppressed group of individuals. Further, these acts of violence often go unheard, ignored, or protected by the law. Usually, the adjudicators of the law are complicit in white male privilege or are the recipient of this privilege themselves. Yet, when oppressed victims of white male tyranny use violence against their oppressor, these individuals are…

them to be safe. In the article, “Why I love my strict Chinese mom” by Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, in her perspective, she talks about how she was treated as a child’s point of view. Her mom pushed her to be the best and succeed in life, every child wants to be good at something. Sometimes, parents push their children to be the best and other times the parents go a little too far when you have to succeed in this one thing. Sophia also said that once in a while, their mom let them have fun for a…

With the odds stacked up against Fredrick Douglass he had still managed to become a famous abolitionist, author, and statesman. He began his endeavor literary after leaving Colonel Lloyd plantation and going to Baltimore. His new mistress, Sophia, was kind hearted and began teaching Fredrick the Alphabet. After learning the alphabet they moved on to four letter words, however, her husband Mr. Auld found out what was happening and forbade her from progressing with her lessons. Mr, Auld argued…

During the Antebellum Era, slave narratives were prominent historical sources that gave great insight to the first-hand experience of slaves in America. As they signified to white America the true horrors and exploitation of the institution of slavery from the witness accounts of enslaved African Americans who actually experienced it. In the narratives, the enslaved stressed the horrors of slavery through their various life experiences in the south with their slaveholders and their great will to…

Throughout Heart of Darkness, there are several references to blindness, darkness, and light. When literal blindness, darkness, light, and sight are introduced in a literary work, figurative seeing and blindness are often involved, as in this novel. Captain Charles Marlow sets “into the depths of darkness” in order to quench his thirst for knowledge about an unnamed river in central Africa (18). However, Captain Marlow loses this flavor of childhood innocence as he witnesses the death of his…

he Apostle Peter’s position within the Catholic faith survives as one that receives high praises as the first Bishop and first Pope of Rome, and the chief pastor of the whole Roman Catholic Church. There exist various reasons why Peter’s honor prevails so respected within the Catholic Church. Justifiably, after reading the Acts of Peter, if true, one may feel overwhelmed with admiration for this noble apostle, and appreciate Peter’s placement within the Catholic Church. Credibly, documentation…