To the Virgins

textbook said that women needed to be virgins to marry and they would need to be teenagers. Wow that is young back in those days to marry. So from birth to 13 you could be a child well up to about 7 and then you had to learn how to be a housewife and worker. That just seems like a short life to be a child and have fun. You was called a “broken vessel” if you was not a virgin on your wedding night (Morris 31). Prostitutes are those ones that was usually not virgins and never married. Some of the…

In the modern psychological debate of nature vs nurture many psychologists believe that people are shaped by their genetic predispositions and environment. Novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his gothic romance, The Scarlet Letter, fictionalizes the seventeenth century shameful epoch of the Puritan adulteress Hester Prynne. Hawthorne himself descended from the Massachusetts Puritan John Hathorne and his motivation to write developed as a result of his conflicting feelings of shame and pride for…

To be view as La Virgen they view one as a devoted mother, submissive and asexual. La Llorona is negative mother and the opposite of la virgin who seeks revenge in guys and La Malinche as a trader. Alma Lopez, who identifies herself as a Chicana lesbian feminist challenges those views. In the original image of La Virgen her hands are in a prayer position and her eyes are cast down. She stands…

Hurricane Irma has led to many devastating events in the Caribbean Islands. Hurricane Irma was a Category 5 storm when it crashed through the Caribbean, leaving a minimum of 36 people dead in its wake before moving on to Florida. "There's no food here. There's no water here," said Germania Perez, 70. Residents of the islands are struggling to maintain a semblance of the life they had before Irma as they fight off hunger and thirst. Water supplies are contaminated and there is no groundwater to…

this lifestyle that she was nearly forced into following, and instead paved a path that nobody had expected and became known as the Virgin Queen. Elizabeth was known for astonishing accomplishments during her reign such as defeating the Spanish Armada to making her reign known as the Golden Age! However, Elizabeth was mainly known simply because she was the Virgin Queen who ruled with no man to the throne. During this time period, this was remarkably outstanding simply because women were…

The movie ,Monty Python, does an excellent job of mocking religion and serious events from the past. The knights look to religion for answers. Instead of God being a savior he is depicted as a mean spirited man who does not want to help. The mocking of the black plague shows the fear that people felt. When King Arthur gets to a difficult point on his journey he looks to God for help. He gets on his knees and starts begging for forgiveness. The points he makes during his prayer are all about…

In the movie Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuarón, the director used many film techniques to slow down the barn scene to make it a critical point in the film. This scene comes right after a highspeed chase and the rebel group choosing a new leader. Moreover, this scene needed to be in the movie to give Theo a motive to finish his mission in helping Kee. Before this scene, Theo was doing it to rekindle his romance with Julian and was ready to abandon the group. Cuarón does an excellent job…

In the movie the Breakfast club. You can see the forming stage at the beginning. It can be seen when the character John Bender began asking each student about themselves. This then prompts the students to ask the names of the other students in detention. Each student also begins to ask one another what cause them to receive detention. This served as a “meet and greet”/” ice breaker”. This was a method that the students used to gather information that in turn causes them to place judge others.…

spent time in Venice and Rome. In the picture Christ, has called out from the cross to God, and a bystander has “fetched a sponge, which he soaked in sour wine, and held it to his lips on the end of a cane.” Saint John stands below the cross as the Virgin Mary and two companions arrive, mourning, while three soldiers at left gamble for Christ's tunic. The figure on the ladder is a particularly brilliant narrative interpolation. Christ is shown crucified between two thieves on the hill of…

was not very happy when Agnes turned him down, and this was Sermpronuis the son of the prefect. After he proposed for the second time and still got rejected, his father, the prefect, went to condemn her to death. But fortunately, Agnes was a virgin and virgins were not…