Stigmata

As it happened in Hemingway’s earlier works such as In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms has also revealed the author’s resentment of war and politicians and before Frederic’s full disillusionment of this occurs, this resentment and political disillusionment has been revealed by many of the author’s characters; Pissani once points out that ‘There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is” (47). Soon thereafter Pissani adds…

Several men that hung around Doc‘s house after seeing the big Indian carry Charity inside, stepped up and told Jeremiah that the Sheriff, Mr. Reed, and several others were conducting a search of the outbuildings and storerooms around town, looking for Jane Reed; saying she was still missing. Someone voiced their opinion that she had run off with a boy. “We know she's missing,” Jeremiah grumbled, “We might know where to find her. Y'all help us find the Sheriff!” Doctor Lane was staring at…

Introduction Catherine of Siena, a medieval mystic that greatly impacted Christianity through her writings. This paper might seem meaningless to most because not a lot of people know of Saint Catherine of Siena. It wasn’t until recently that she even became known as Saint Catherine. Only a few scholars know of Catherine. I chose to write about her because her story is not average, but it is unique and unusual. At first I didn’t even know anything about Catherine, but after researching and…

complete control over their actions. Lombroso was specifically interested in the 'atavistic criminal', an individual who was seen to have not properly evolved, in his studies he focused on the physical attributes of an individual, also known as the stigmata, of a criminal. The abnormalities in a persons physical appearance, such as a sloped head or exceedingly long arms, was seen as the individual being a “throwback to an earlier stage of the developmental history of the species” (Walklate,…

Dracula: A degenerate and a threat What is Dracula? Is he a monster, a villain, an illness, a disease or an immigrant? Whichever way Dracula is looked at, he is a symbol for what we most fear. In Dracula, Bram Stoker utilises late Victorian era anxieties and uses the character of Dracula as a symbol for threats regarding imperialism. When it came for me to do my research into degeneration, two theorists lead the way; Max Nordau and Cesare Lombroso. I decided to continue my research by…

of the Rasta Movement in the eyes of most Jamaicans. and his presence brought throngs of Jamaican Rastafaris to see him. Marley’s wife Rita, witnessed Selassie passing through Jamaica in his motorcade. She swore she saw the mark of 7 stigmata on his palm and from that moment on, swore her unwavering faith to the religion of Rasta. When Marley returned to Jamaica to hear this observation from his wife, he began to explore the religion himself and began his path to becoming a…