The Departed

Lincoln’s perspective there had been a shift in the relationship between liberty and property in America. The constitution states that “…all men are created equal”. Lincoln interpreted that the word “men” included Negros. He asserted that we had departed from the ideas of Thomas Jefferson that liberty of one man to another meant nothing “…when in conflict with another man’s right of property”. Instead, we had adopted a new ideology: “make slaves of other people”. Lincoln wanted to re-adopt the…

people go through today. Gilgamesh felt uneasy and couldn't think straight. In the poem it stated, “And he - he does not lift his head. I touched his heart, it does not beat.” At that specific moment, Gilgamesh had realized that his friend Enkidu had departed. He immediately felt lonely, empty, and filled with despair.“Like an eagle I circled over him. Like a lioness whose whelps are lost he paces back and forth. He tears and messes his rolls of hair. He tears off and throws down his fine…

that she is more concentrated on her family because being referred “hypocrisy” indicates she is worried about disregard from her parents so that she wants to deny the reality. Furthermore, she feels “ familiar hollow space” inside with respect to departed from her parents and homeland while walking to the jetty by recalling her memories of church, library, doll store, etc (40). This reveals her prediction that she will miss her place, even in process of departure, since empty space represents…

As humans, we tend to put ourselves in the spotlight of our own world. We use humanistic terms that give a place imagined borders. Don McKay’s “Otherwise than Place” is a lyrical essay that starts off with the narrator holding an introspective stone from the West Coast of Vancouver Island, he asks himself what the relation is between place and wilderness. As encouraged by Don McKay, it is a good meditative practice for humans to notice that we label things according to our occurrence to the land…

deadly plaque. “And that night the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went home, and dwelt at Nineveh. (2 Kings 19:32-36) (Like a bird in a…

Frederick Douglass, a self-taught abolitionist and the most important black American leader of the nineteenth century, was born into slavery in a big plantation in Maryland. He suffered inhumane treatment from the hands of his owner and endured harsh living condition. On the contrary, Mark Twain, one of the most important and influential writers in American history, was born in a tiny village of Florida, Missouri. He lived a carefree and free-spirited life. Their background affects their writing…

as our story progresses. But I am getting a little ahead of myself here - by all accounts, given the time and circumstances under which they live, the Maxsons have a rather ordinary and stable home life, which includes visits from Troy's recently departed disabled brother Gabriel (Mykelti Williamson, reprising his stage role) and Troy eldest son Lyons (Russel Hornsby, reprising his stage role) from a previous marriage. Another member of the extended Maxson clan is Jim Bono (Stephen McKinley…

In Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court struck down a New York state law that regulated the number of the hour that a person may work in a bakery. The lawyers for Lochner argued that the Act did not apply to all bakers equally, that the hour work restriction did not fall under the state’s police powers as baking was not an inherently dangerous profession, and the Act was not a health regulation but a regulation of work hours. In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Peckham examined the…

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the story of a young puritan woman, Hester Prynne, who commits adultery with a minister and bears a child into a small, judgmental town in the mid-1600s. The character of Hester Prynne changes a considerable amount throughout the novel. Although, three words that would undoubtedly describe her, are courageous, determined, and selfless. The Scarlet Letter presents a tale of love and betrayal set within the seventeenth century in Puritan, New…

My dad and I saw them off as they drove down the long, gravel driveway. When they were out of sight we went back inside and went about our business. All of a sudden, moments after my mom had departed, we heard this awful sound come from the front lawn. Speck was out grazing on the sweet, fresh grass, all the while making a terrible shriek. You would’ve thought that a wild animal had grabbed onto her neck or something. Who knew that a horse was…