The Passions

Stephen Crane characterized the characters of the novel through their actions and interactions with other characters during the story. Such as Jimmie, from the opening scene it was obvious he was violent and did not care much for rules and even his own safety. In the opening fight scene Stephen Crane wrote,“In the yells of the whirling mob of Devil’s Row children there were notes of joy like songs of triumphant savagery. The little boys seemed to leer gloatingly at the blood upon the other…

The painting that I chose from the gallery was The Penitent Magdalene, created by Flemish artist Abraham Janssens around the year 1620. I really liked this painting and was drawn towards it because the woman represented in it looks very sorrowful, upset, and perhaps even a little lonely, tear mark clearly visible by her eyes. Despite this, she looks like she is contemplating something important and troubling to her. Perhaps it could be an event in her life that has gone wrong? Her arm is resting…

Ever since I was in third grade I have always had a passion for dentistry. I love going to the dentist and have always thought becoming a dentist would be ideal for me. I have recently job shadowed my dentist. While job shadowing, I gained an abundance of knowledge by watching and questioning. He has been very helpful in my decision to pursue dentistry. In my sophomore year I also found a new passion for chemistry; I could apply this newfound passion to dentistry. My love for chemistry began my…

1. Why do the passions make us slaves, according to Spinoza, and how can human beings achieve freedom? The heart of Spinoza’s case for understanding ethics lies within our pursuit of our passions. The extract first begins with Spinoza saying that slavery is when we do not have power over our moderation of passions, and that passions are controlled by some external cause. He goes on to say that what we do have control over is our virtue and reason, which can only be acted upon from the laws of…

I was fortunate enough to shoot in tournaments around the country for four years, not only winning in my state of Texas but other states too. Shooting for my school drove me towards the sport of Bowhunting, and by doing this I found my passion. Through my passion for archery and bowhunting, I would make a business where I could design and manufacture compound bows for both tournament use and hunting. I believe that this business would be a good idea because bow companies and manufacturers today,…

Passion coupled with duty can drive nations to prosperity, or if the forces are separate the they can lead to ruin..These forces are so powerful that even the greatest and most powerful societies of today and in the past are swayed by passion and duty’s influence. Those civilizations of the past wrote national epics tackling these forces, two of those books being the Aeneid and the Iliad. The Aeneid discusses four particular civilizations, each of which interact with the forces of passion in…

Honor Killing An honor executing is the murder of an individual from a family by different individuals, because of the culprits' conviction that the casualty has brought disgrace or shame upon the family, or has damaged the standards of a group or a religion, for the most part for reasons, for example, declining to enter an orchestrated marriage, being seeing someone is disliked by their family, having intercourse outside marriage, turning into the casualty of assault, dressing in ways which are…

“Steven Avery” is a name millions of people are becoming familiar with due to the airing of the Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer”, created by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos through Synthesis Films. In this ten part series, the atrocities committed by the Manitowoc Sheriff Department were revealed, as well as their apparent disregard for human life. Steven Avery and his family were essentially outcasts in the Manitowoc community. Avery worked on a scrapyard on the outskirts of town that…

Presidential Passions was a very stimulating read that kept one glued page after page. The details, especially that of President Kennedy, are extremely scandalous and worth reading to learn about the past presidents that led the nation, and how their intimate lives affected the course of the U.S. as well. From an epic womanizer to a man attached to his first love, each president mentioned in the book are remarkably different in their own way of running the country, as well as loving a woman or…

While it sounds so simple, one of the hardest things to do is to hit a baseball. The best baseball players in the world are expected to hit the ball 30% of the time, and they are paid millions of dollars to do so. Baseball has been a passion of mine throughout my life. Since the age of 5, I have been working towards perfecting the skill of hitting. I have practiced hours at a time whether it be by going to the batting cages, hitting off a tee, or facing live pitching, in hopes of improving my…