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The Proclamation of John the Baptist 1 The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2 As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way; 3 the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” 4 John the baptizer appeared[e] in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the…

What’s a girl to do? I have given him so many chances and he continues to be malicious towards me. I am so done. My daughter did nothing to him. I got so many beautiful things for my baby shower from family and friends. • Pampers • bottles • crib • car seat • stroller • high chair and the potty. It was one of those pottys that when she makes a siren goes off and it starts lighting up, then ends with that sound like the heavens have opened up. She would have loved that. Well anyway, I didn’t…

In the late 1700s, prominent writers Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith used satire to rile their contemporaries against flaws in their society. Today's writers rarely possess the literary genius and flair these two men had, but the topics they cover are often similar. Controversies of personal identity, terrorism, and climate change, all common in the news today, share many aspects of the social issues that Swift and Goldsmith dealt with in their time. Identity politics concerns the large…

Words are the essence of the soul, the beauty that surrounds us, and everything that ever was. They weave history with grace and elegance, twisting and turning through the orchestra of time, never stumbling. They have the power to open a man up and toy with his emotions. They are heroes, heretics, and heroes, but to Patrick Rothfus they are “… pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest…

and the children lived in horrific conditions. It must of have broke those parents hearts not being able to care for their children properly and it must have shocked the public. For instance he quotes in lines 2-5 where he states "He is sitting on a stoop in front of a vermin infested apartment house in Harlem. the stench of garbage is in the halls. The drunks, the jobless, the junkies are shadow figures of his everyday world."(MLK) Which is referring to the harsh living conditions the boy is…

Natasha Martin’s arrest shows that though we may live in a time that transgender identities are entering the cultural mainstream, transgender people who are not white and upper class still experience unique forms of oppression. The article begins by citing the various ways transgender people have received cultural attention, making it seem we live in an “enlightened” time. This progress did not, however, protect Natasha Martin from vulnerability to arrest because her oppression is interlocking…

The short story “Paul’s Case,” written by Willa Cather, uses the setting to show the reader more about Paul’s actions. Paul’s case begins in a town in Pittsburgh. Paul’s hometown of Pittsburgh is used to show the reader about how dirty and monotonous Paul’s life was. The setting later becomes New York. This setting is used to show the reader the life that Paul aspired to live. The last setting in the story was at the train tracks where Paul committed suicide. This setting has many instances of…

A Dreamer’s Nightmare The play “The Death Of A Salesman” conveys the tragedy of the American Dream. Willy Loman’s high hopes and blind ambition lead to despair and suicide. Similar to most ambitious self seekers, Willy Loman struggles to identify himself as a middling salesman and alters reality in order to fulfill his unrealistic version of the “American Dream.” The “American Dream” can spark ambition and perseverance in people with high moral values and ideals. It can also destroy a person…

In this metaphor, the owl is the wealthy, upper class, endlessly hungry for more money and being merciless and brutal to get it. The owls in the world seem to have no limit as to how low they will stoop to get their money or their kill and when they succeed their boastful shriek can be heard for miles around. Mrs. Oliver even further pushes this symbolism by saying “The world in which the owl is hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which…

Writing on women has been an ancient tradition but the early eighteenth century provided an outlet that furthered the writing to an extreme. Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu create the perfect argument for this situation. In this multiple analytical essay, I will analyze and discuss the early eighteenth century satire on women in Debating Women: Arguments in Verse and the arguments from two different perspectives—specifically the work of Jonathan Swift in The Lady’s Dressing Room and…