The Departed

Comparison of Menelaus and Adolf Hitler Within the last one hundred years there have been numerous people that were villains, Menelaus was a king in Greek mythology and no one is more comparable to Menelaus than Adolf Hitler. Both Menelaus and Hitler have parallel lives, actions and beliefs. Menelaus was the king of Sparta and was a dominant figure in the Trojan War. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and was the center of the Holocaust and World War II in Europe. Menelaus and Adolf…

CALIFORNIA One day when I was at my house I was bored, until my mother came and told me that we were going to California. After I heard the news I started packing immediately, after I packed we loaded the car, then we were on our way. When we arrived in California we went straight to my aunt’s house. When we arrived, she was so excited to meet us and I was thrilled to see her. She had told me she had an entire week planned for our stay. First, we were going to pack a lunch full of sandwiches…

made for my head. After we arrived we crawled into our rooms to rest for the night for we had a exponential day ahead of us. When we awoke that morning we gathered in my fathers room to discuss the days events and to eat some breakfast before we departed for the park. I enjoyed a large bowl of pops cereal which is one of my favorite breakfast foods. Its is the fluffiest and sweetest food I can imagine…

Most people celebrate this holiday out of love and commitment to their loved ones. Mexico is the number one country that celebrates this particular holiday. One major mural in this holiday is a sugar skull. A sugar skull is a representation of a departed soul. The first day of this celebration celebrates both life and death. You can find sugar skulls on the streets made by people to sell. You give sugar skulls to people to take them back to their passed families. There is a lot of artists who…

Anselm Keifer's painting "Aschenblume" was influenced by the Paul Celan poem "I am alone." The majority of Paul Celan's work is about death, World War II, and the Holocaust. You can utilize the poem in order to assist in the interpretation of the Keifer's artwork. "I am alone, I put the ash flower
in the glass of ripened black, sister mouth,
the word you speak lives on before the windows
and silent climbs me, just as I had dreamt. I stand in the full bloom of the faded hour
and save a resin for…

In the book The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Peter Brown discusses in detail the role of “dead human beings” in Christian life in the time between the third and six centuries AD (p.1). These departed human beings were a direct connection between heaven and earth in the minds of early Christians. Brown also discusses the existence of a theoretical “two-tiered model” of religious practice between the elites and the vulgar throughout the book. By minimizing…

his birthday with his friends, when they asked if he wanted drugs. Sampson’s friends were all smoking cocaine and pressured him to do the same. He refused, however his friends didn’t accept his answer. Before the situation became worse, Sampson departed the car knowing that he made the right decision. Then several weeks later, his friend tempted him to sell drugs to earn money. Sampson agreed and went to Harlem with his friend to buy drugs so they could sell it, however when Sampson…

In “A Dream,” poet Edgar Allen Poe employs a variety of literary devices such as reinforcement in what happens to him in the past and his experiences through his dreams, and his wishes to explore what has faded from his past. The poet begins by addressing of how he wishes to be actually in his past, but the truth is that it hurts him to woken up from this past and the love that faded from reality into memory. He is dreaming of joy that has now left him, and that joy is no longer real to…

they spent the next two hours talking. The only things that interrupted them were people coming to the shack to return oars because they were finished with their dinghy, or paying to rent one. No canoes were rented after the couple ahead of Stacey departed that morning. Nobody realized what Arlen was trying to educate Stacey existed going northward. The southward swift running water to Wharton, and on to Fred Trout was a relatively new attraction, and not well known enough to bring in the…

When a reader views texts in perspective, he or she draws on the words, characters and their actions while viewing the content personally. Drawing on religious motifs and ideas, Alice Sebold presents a remarkable, complex, and comforting vision of heaven, as the platform from which Susie Salmon was raped and murdered; by a neighbor at the age of fourteen. Heaven indeed has many “mansions,” one of which is the “wide wide Heaven,” which can provide one’s every desire. The powerful Deity also…