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still "his own" and that God "gave and took" her things on earth. Bradstreet is grateful in that God has freed her from the temptations of earthly possessions which may have trapped her in "Hell's Spider's web" described in Edward Taylor's "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly." These possessions would prevented her from being able to be saved by God. 3. This is from the sermon of Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the…

In “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” Whitman describes a spider casting out a web in hopes that the web will bring the spider to good destiny. He uses the spider to emphasize the importance of being open to growth even if it might seem risky. This idea is evident when Whitman writes how the spider “launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them” (Whitman…

Walt Whitman wrote a poem about making connections from the perspective of a spider and his soul. Using both literal and figurative observations he shows the conflicts each face and how both overcome their difficulties. Why would his soul struggle to make connections? How will observing a spider help with this challenge when both are so different? What has impelled the poet to have an observer watch the spider? What significance does writing in the literal and then the figurative tense have on…

My cousin was bitten by a brown recluse, that spider put a whole in her leg to where she was in the hospital for days it was very nasty looking. That night I remember when I went to sleep and woke up that next morning, it was one on my arm that spider scared me so bad to where I knock it off of me so fast, and hard to where I kill it instantly, but one thing it didn’t bite me at all. Every since then I always been scare of spider. That is a classical conditioning because it’s an emotional…

qualities. Peter Parker was a normal high school student until getting bit by a spider. Shortly after this “minor” bite he discovered a new range of powers that he had never had before. These powers included spider-like abilities including the capability to shoot webs from his wrists. He vowed to use these powers for the good of his city and fight off various villains and to keep his real identity hidden he adopted the name Spider-Man. Beowulf was one of the strongest and bravest men in…

immortality. “A Noiseless Patient Spider” carried with those themes, accentuating the spiritual elements (“Walt Whitman”, 1998). The form is free verse, and the plot follows a spider spinning a web and a soul trying to make connections in the world. The deeper meaning requires drawing similarities between the spider and the soul. Both have to put some of themselves out there into the world to make their mark, whether the mark is a web or a friendship. Like the spider launching filament out of…

animal would be interesting? Imagine all the things you would be able to do that is impossible when being a human being. Crazy right? In the book, This interest made me want to compare and contrast the book, The Metamorphosis and the movie, The Amazing Spider Man. The Metamorphosis is about Gregor, a traveling salesman, who wakes up and realize that he is an insect. The book never tells us what kind of insect he is so it leaves the reader hanging. Gregor is having a hard time adjusting to his…

causes this sensation called fear? Why does the brain react to certain circumstances in such a way? Fear is the brain's reaction to abnormality, not recognizing what it is seeing. Fear is commonly aroused by scenarios such as: paranormal events, spiders, and horror films. Looking at these scenarios in depth, you can’t help but to notice the abnormality of them all. For example, the paranormal is not a recognizable topic to the brain, therefore…

searched far and wide for the very venmous Funnel Web Spider. She placed the spider in Jack's bed, and as soon as he went to sleep the spider would bite him and he would have a very painful death. Later that day, Bananas told the kids it was bedtime and she followed Jack into his room so she could witness the entertaining death of Jack. Just as Jack was entering his bed the spider started crawling up his arm. Once it made it to his neck the spider bit down very hard, and all of the venomous…

The church scene in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 offers powerful insight into the archetypal relationship between death and rebirth. As darkness shifts to light, Raimi depicts the death of the black Spiderman and the coinciding birth of Peter Parker. Contrarily, Raimi displays the simultaneous death of Edward Brock Jr. and the birth of Venom, as Edward stands with outstretched arms asking God to “kill Peter Parker” (Raimi). It is through these haunting images Raimi challenges our preconceived notion…