The Gates of Hell

In the film The Breakfast Club Bender is seen as the delinquent kid who doesn’t care about anyone. However, he sacrifices himself for the rest of the group when they are almost caught on their way back to the library by running through the halls yelling for Mr. Vernon. Archer, a character in the novel Damned is also portrayed as a criminal with a tall spiked mohawk, a leather jacket, and a safety pin in his cheek. He too makes a sacrifice for the rest of the group when he rescues Maddy from…

Dante Alighieri wrote a famous book called Dante’s Divine Comedy in the 1300s that is still used in classrooms today. The most famous text of Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic poem called Dante’s Inferno. In this epic poem Dante makes a trip through Hell, purgatory, and heaven. Virgil serves as Dante’s guide through the underworld. Dante uses Virgil as his guide because Dante says that Virgil is the best poet of all time. Virgil and Dante are both Roman Catholic. Virgil wrote many important…

peoples view of heaven and hell. It is an exciting topic to talk about and discuss with your colleagues. The views of different people may change the outlook on life, and how they live on a day-to-day basis. Heaven is known to have golden gates, streets to walk on and delight every day, but on the other hand Hell is supposed to be an endless pit of fire, destruction, and torture. Dante’s views of Heaven and Hell differ to what the Bible says. Dante’s view of Heaven and Hell determines what…

60 seconds or less. There are 3 main stages to the trip: The Gates, Blast Off, and No Man’s Land (Mur). The first phase is full of bright light and a lot of colors and shapes. The most common way people describe this phase is they see bright light around gates and they feel the need to go through them. Once they go through the gates they move on to phase two, but some people get stuck behind the gates. When they get stuck behind the gates, they have many hallucinations, disorientation, and…

This poem is one of my favorites from the ones I picked, due to the touchy subject it is on. The subject even though it is very touchy is a very important and meaningful subject. Part of it is the truth of it, from any one that joined the military and fought in the war. What is still left, what has left you. Was is it overall worth it or if you could would you undo the past choice to join the military and change your life completely. The other question is why and this is also brought up in…

Jewish and Catholic religion, there is a heaven and hell. The Catholic Church teaches that if you live a good holy life, you will go to heaven and if you live your life completely opposite then you will go to hell. Along with these, though, is ”...an afterlife state hwich is between heaven and hell the Catholic Church calls ‘purgatory’,”(victorzammit.com February 2016). In purgatory one gets completely forgiven and purified so they can enter the gates to heaven, just as they were before they…

want the audience to feel. By knowing what you want them to feel, you edit the color of the scene to match the tone you want. As human beings, we connect certain colors with certain things. If a gate is gold with white background, we think of heaven, if the gate is red with black background we think of hell. If a scene consists of a pale shade of every color, it gives off a very dry, dim tone. Unbroken has grey, white and pale yellow color in its scenes. This not just helps with tone of the…

Nevertheless, one of the topics discussed in the poem is undoubtedly in regards to the topic of love. The first connotation to this is the opposing phrases seen at the gates of the garden, in which both sides of love are introduced. Love, on one side can bring joy and happiness, yet it might also be the responsible for sorrow and anguish. The love represented by anguish is of the second kind, while that of Nature alludes…

I can smell the excitement in the air. The crimson and white colors on everyone, and some people have even painted their bodies. It is football season, finally. Tuscaloosa has been referred to as “The City Of Champions” because of The University Of Alabama’s sports teams--mainly football. In Tuscaloosa, we brag about the Southeastern Conference and the number of BCS National Championship titles the university holds. Tuscaloosa is the place I call home, and I live in a town that revolves around…

anti-African-American feeling in Maycomb which led to Dolphus Raymond’s fabricated drinking problem, and also becomes evident through the hypocritical attitudes of Miss Gates. Through the eyes of eight year old Scout, we witness endless examples of injustice carried out upon the African-American race within Maycomb County. Scout’s third grade teacher, Miss Gates, proves to have very hypocritical views on the issue of racism. When the topic…