The Magic Barrel

enjoyed showing that he was Jewish in his writings, but this was for the sake of his nationality and interest in his writings. Malamud used his Jewish background, because he wanted people to know who he was, and wanted people to know that Jewish people are what add drama to stories. The short stories “the Magic Barrel” and “The German Refugee” displays Bernard Malamud 's Jewish culture and background through characters and other parts in the story. According to Bernard Malamud’s the “Magic Barrel”, “Not long ago there lived in uptown New York, in a small, almost meager room, through crowded books, Leo Finkle, a rabbinical student in the Yeshivah University. Finkle after six years of study, was to be ordained in June.” (Malamud) This…

In Malamud’s “The Magic Barrel”, Leo Finkle, has been studying at Yeshiva University for the past six years. He immerses himself in his studies so that he can achieve his goal of becoming a rabbi, leaving no time for a social life. It can be inferred that because he leaves no room to familiarize himself with women, he became socially awkward around them. After an acquaintance of his said that he “might find it easier to win himself a congregation if he were married”, he contacts Pinye Salzman, a…

Seeing the pool of blackness move he knew it was James’ people. Lucas took a drink of water looking into the telescope again. “War shall be waged soon,” Lucas says looking up to the skies, “please leave us all safe.” Cedric walks into his castle completely unaware of the fact James’ people were coming. He sees barrels outside of the door and sprints to them. “They’re back! Bring them down to the rest!” He says. Lucas looks at Cedric’s kingdom and sees smoke rising from it. Upon a closer look…

named his price: a NASA research grant for his district, which LBJ was glad to provide. For most of American history, a principal goal of any member of Congress was to bring home bacon for his district. Pork-barrel spending never really cost very much, and it helped glue Congress together by giving members a kind of currency to trade: You support my pork, and I 'll support yours. Also, because pork was dispensed by powerful appropriations committees with input from senior congressional leaders,…

This is very much in line with Romanesque style, where geometric shapes are commonly used along with squares, lozenges, chevrons, and plain circles. In Figure 2 you can see the distinct chevron pattern on the innermost tear of the lower arch. The chevron pattern can also be seen in the Listello separation the upper and lower arches. The influences of Roman architecture can be clearly seen in the Romanesque style, through the prominent use of roman developments like columns and rounded arches.…

Middle Ages, witchcraft did not hold such a negative connotation. In fact, it was divided into two – white magic and black magic. White magic was used by healers, wise men and women, as well as others who fit this category. Black magic, on the other hand, were practiced by those who sought to harm others, thus used their abilities for evil. It was this kind of magic that got a person labelled as a witch rather than the titles used for the practitioners of white magic. A witch was someone who…

Do you believe in Satan, the devil, or even witches? In the years 1692-1693, in a town called Salem, two-hundred people were accused of being witches, and twenty of those people were executed. Many other places such as England were very religious at the time. The Witch Trials were caused by the fear of the devil and anyone associated with him. Not only were women incriminated as witches, men were accused too. Modern day witch hunts continue to be a superlative example of man’s inhumanity to man,…

How do poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present their ideas of war in their poems, Exposure and Does It Matter? Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two famous war time poets, who conveyed their first-hand experiences of war through the form of poems to enlighten people towards the reality of war, as shown in “Exposure” and “Does It Matter?”. Exposure is an emotionally powerful poem that expresses the reality of the brutal weather conditions that were endured by the soldiers in the…

People are born to instinctively judge others, but there is always more to the story. The book The Heretic's Daughter is written by Kathleen Kent. Kathleen was inspired to write The Heretic's Daughter from the stories that her family told her of the Salem Witch Trials. Kathleen's family is a direct descendant of a family who lived during the Salem Witch Trials. Kent is a tenth generation descendant of Martha Carrier who was one of the first women to be accused, tried, and hanged as a witch in…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about what happened during the Salem Witch Trials. It gives insight about what people had to deal with in this situation and how they handled it. The trials were basically a big test which helped figuring out whether or not people were guilty of witchcraft. This is an example of what a crucible is. In our world today we still have crucibles and even though they are different than back then, they all relate to each other because of what influence they have…