The Gates of Hell

Bounty hunter Levi Owns glared at the wanted poster one last time before folding the heavy paper along its deep creases and sliding it into his vest pocket. He loaded the remaining supplies on the pack mule and turned back to his sister-in-law Rose. She rested one hand at her side and wrapped the other around a smooth handled shovel. “Sis wanted you to stay,” she said, her voice cracking. “Let the law handle that no-good land-grabber.” Few people challenged him, yet Rose rarely waved. The young…

and the very scarce amount of money we had to our family name. When we made it to the departing port we were met by thousands of other Italian families just like ourselves that were trying to live a better life in a new place. The trip was absolute hell; it was a never ending forty-day sail. On board living conditions were poor, the food was inadequate, and the sickness was rampant. We had to rely on the cheese that my father stuffed in his shoes for the last few days of the trip. This is when…

There is no apprehension that Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano’s freedom was given to them because of their religion, and faith. Nevertheless, freedom is defined as the ability to have one’s own rights and not being forced to do something because of the belief that being colored is a low class. Douglass is attempting to escape bondage twice before he actually succeeds. Additionally, on one of his attempts, he manages to escape with Anne Murray a freed Teasley 7 black woman that he later…

THESIS: The Grimm brother’s folktale, “Hansel and Gretel,” is one of a torn apart family and the struggle to bring them back together, on the outside anyways. I believe the deeper story to be about the classic and oldest struggle of the battle between good and evil, and how one should never quit fighting or lose hope, no matter how deep one seems to find their selves in the darkness. STORY SUMMARY, “Hansel and Gretel”: A woodcutter, living with his wife and two children, is having…

My perspective on the existence of God and the problem of Evil breaks down to free will, therefore I believe that although God is all-knowing and all-loving, allowing humanity to process free will created a gate for Evil to rise in the form of decision making. God allowed humanity to exercise free will. This may, in a certain perspective portray God as an evil entity, but he does not command humanity to commit crimes, rape, murder, lie, cheat, or steal. A person’s own free will is the decision…

In this kind of generation, I can’t tell you enough how people want some type of weapon and start bashing on zombies. They have no type of regard that if dead ever did start walking this earth, they’re in no condition to actually combat it. With the new Millennia passing us up with new movies and video games portraying different types of walking dead, the common zombie was transformed. No longer did we have the casual skeleton or corpse being controlled by wizards or the apocalypse reigning from…

A Separate Peace by John Knowles expresses biblical allusions and Greek mythology through most of the primary characters. The figures of Adam and Eve, Judas, Apollo, Pan, Phthonus, and Jesus are all strongly alluded to throughout the book within the characters of Gene, Finny, Leper and Brinker. This will be strongly demonstrated through the following comparisons of Greek myths and biblical stories and, the events that surround the characters of A Separate Peace. The story of Adam and Eve is…

The heavy fog of dark smoke clouded the air, blocking out all light from the sky. Ash and dust sprinkled down like rain only this time, it was the ruins of my once beloved city. Bodies after bodies, the streets were filled from top to bottom with lifeless men. I, however, was still stuck in my room, watching the horror play out before me. A subtle creak sounded behind me, and before I knew it, I was being dragged down to my death. The creature carrying me by the arm smelled of horrendous body…

While the LGBT+, especially the trans, community still has a long way to go in terms of equality, there have been major strides in the right direction. In 2004, Massachusetts becomes the first law to legalize same-sex marriage and give straight and gay couples the same marriage rights under the law. In 2010, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is repealed and in 2011, President Obama states that his administration will no longer defend DOMA. This comes into fruition in June of 2015 when the Supreme Court found…

which showed him the cruelty that went on from slavery, the first event occurred at a very young age when he first witnessed the awful beating of Aunt Hester by Captain Anthony, “It struck me with awful force. It was the bloodstained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle.”. (Narrative pg. 24) The second event would be when Douglas was transferred to Mr. Covey, Mr. Covey was known as a “nigger-breaker”(Narrative pg. 69)…