Unforgiven

The point of the gospels is to learn about Jesus Christ and his word of God that he delivers to people in hopes they will learn to become faithful, decent followers of God. Specifically, “Luke’s narrative of the story of Jesus can be summarized as the human life and message of the Son of God. In view of the disciples’ association with Jesus, it can also be seen as the human life and message of those who share in his divine sonship” (LaVerdiere 62). Luke’s Gospel was conceived in a time after…

In the novel of the Iliad by Homer, the principal protagonist in the novel Achilles has many multiple and conflicting motivations in which make him a complex character. The author Homer was a man of complexity himself, he was the creator of the novel named Odyssey as well as the Iliad, and was considered to be one of the great epic poets of his time. A complex character, as well known as a dynamic character, is highly developed and complex, meaning they have a variety of traits and different…

American Identity Through the West Two things come to mind when I think of the West; vast open spaces that seem to go on and on and also Clint Eastwood’s movie, “A Fist Full of Dollars” theme music. Whatever vision comes to mind for people, the west has been a part of American identity for decades. Westerns in film have been a huge portion of this identity. First, it began with documentation of Daniel Boone explorations, then on to the dime store novel. Western film would be the biggest…

minority characters sometimes are not fair in action movies. Inclusion means including characters from different races into the movies. Such definition brings a potential problem and causes the “fake diversity” in action movies. For example, in Unforgiven, Morgan Freeman plays a person who is whipped to death by the sheriff. Although this movie includes African American characters, they are only supporting characters who reflect the characteristics…

The towers fell, Washington was distraught, We prayed for their lives at the same time we prayed for ours. I left behind my people,culture and the waves of unforgiven time before I got a chance to meet them. My Mama and I her only companion stepping in a empty desert with sand our feet did not recognize, and the lost footprints of those before us. I know, Mama must have been terrified , aching and begging I wouldn’t cry or at least stay quiet for them not to notice she fought every fear inside…

The first 8 out of the 14 lines within the poem identify with representing religion, “His spirit is smoke ascended to high heaven./His father, by the cruelest way of pain...The awful sin remained still unforgiven./All night a bright and solitary star/(Perchance the one that ever guided him,/Yet gave him up at last to Fate's wild whim)...”(McKay n.p.). The first line speaks of his soul ascending to heaven which can already be seen from a religious standpoint…

The Blood Pit Kate Ellis is a crime fiction writer known for her ability to incorporate medieval history and archaeology in her crime and mystery novels. The historical facts used to illustrate Kate’s novels enrich its plots providing readers not only with the excitement of solving mysteries but also with interesting facts about history of the medieval times. The Wesley Peterson series is an example of her mystery and history blend, it is an exciting series of eighteen crime novels in which she…

seems to be to tell a story that evokes emotions and subjects the reader into deep thought into a very deep issues, the issues earlier stated. The first theme of this poem is warfare, Wilfred Owen shows warfare for what it really is, a gruesome and unforgiven chain of events. He uses imagery, like “men marched asleep” and “drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots of disappointed shells that dropped behind” to show the tiring, but the onward push of coming back from battle (1101). Another…

The Protestant Reformation is often indicated as just the Reformation. It was the major disagreement within Western Christianity started by Martin Luther. Martin Luther wrote his 95 Theses in hopes of just starting a debate between the church, but ended up setting the religious world aflame. In his document, he started by criticizing the selling of indulgence, demanding that the pope had no authority over purgatory and that the Catholic doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in…

Christian, all acts that can lead to taking one’s own life is strictly forbidden. It is believed that everything such as birth and death are determined God. Hamlet does consider suicide, but resists because of the Christian belief that suicide, is an unforgiven sin, would disqualify the soul from finding eternal rest in heaven with God. Hamlet is saying that nobody would choose to live in a pain and misery life except that they are reluctant and fearful of what will happen to them after they…