Sundown

To examine an aspect of religion, one can look at places, temples, objects, and tasks. I observed a typical Islamic service on Friday to better understand Muslim culture. To further delve into the reasons behind their rituals it can be broken down into two parts, the scared, and the profane. “The division of the world into two domains, the one containing all that is sacred, the other all that is profane, is the distinctive trait of all religious thought” (Delaney). The mosque (masjid) was an…

for food In memory of my endeavors in my elementary school years, I reminisce fondly of the summers I would spend alone, sitting at the foot of my bed and reading in absolute silence. My books were what kept me content day to day from sunrise to sundown, flipping the pages without knowing it. My reading interests were that of any first grader, childish books like World Atlas, The Solar System by Alexander Gordon Smith , or The Science Encyclopedia. I would wobble as I brought them over to my…

Alejandra Saitas Mr. Raley American Literature November 21, 2014 Moby Dick Moby Dick: The Illusions of Good and Evil In 1851, upon the publication of Moby Dick, Herman Melville wrote to his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, “I have written a wicked book and feel as spotless as the lamb.” Melville implies the confidence is derived from Hawthorne understanding his book, “a sense of unspeakable security in me this moment, of your having understood the book” (Melville 604). Hawthorne, a romantic, argued…

Judaism can be separated into two groups – rituals intended for the mourners and rituals for the deceased. The Jewish laws and tradition dictate that the deceased’s body be buried and the funeral occur as soon as possible after death, ideally prior to sundown on the day of the death due to the belief that the soul returns to God immediately after death so the body can be returned to earth to complete its return to the dust from which it was created (Clements, Vigil, Manno, Henry, Wilks, Das, &…

As Central Asian scholars brought in influence from Eastern Europe, especially the Ottoman empire, they discovered the growing importance of education and attempted to further the idea among Central Asian elites. The Patricide by Mahmud Khoja Behbudiy is a play that exemplified the very values of those scholars, who were known as Jadidists. In the play, Behbudiy introduced two ranges of characters which represented the divided attitude in the acceptance of Jadidist beliefs. One side involved…

Like the space Derrida speaks of in his notion of text, Quentin’s section draws us into a space where there are no boundaries between the real and the fictive, the present and the past, and the external world and the internal world of mind. Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s “La folie du jour” reveals how the text eclipses the clear divisions between what comes before and what after and what is in the text and what outside, by the narrative’s self-repeating process. Incidentally, Derrida argues…

I gripped my lacrosse stick like a blanket on a cold winter night, scared down to my bones about what I was about to do. I peeked the back door open to see if anyone was watching, but I knew that no one would be up at this time of night. I grabbed my backpack from the table and quickly ran out the door toward the woods not sure what was lurking in its darkness. I ran through the trees as briskly as I could, nimble on my feet. I knew no one could catch me now, no one knows what I’ve done. I was…

Travon Bradley 4/16/16 AMH2020 1319 The person I decided to interview is a retired Command Sargent Major in the US Army and is also my grandfather. George Bradley Sr. was born on November 1st, 1949 in Sanford, Florida. He was the fourth of seven siblings and vaguely remembers anything other than plating outside with his siblings and getting cookies for one cent. While conducting this interview I realized that many things that were socially acceptable during his childhood differ from mine and…

1.) Considering everything I have learned in this course, I feel the three most important themes of the class were the spectrum of intergroup relations, understanding undocumented immigrants, and “The Danger of a Single Story”. These topics were ones that proved most interesting, and were most applicable to real life. How these topics influence my personal life and careers is relevant in shaping my mindset and opinions on certain people and situations. The spectrum of intergroup relations…

Yes, it is true that depending on gender, skills, region, and time period slaves would be treated better or worst. However, the one thing all slaves had in common was the 5 pre-conceived stereotypes created by the whites. They believed Africans were evil because of their color. They also believed they were savages, nymphomaniacs, and animals. However, back in Africa, certain areas were urban, or agricultural. They were also religious, for example, they were Islamic, Polytheistic, or Animistic.…