Unforgiven

Natasha Trethewey’s “Incident” and Claude McKay’s “The Lynching” are both written about hate crimes. “Incident” is the generational retelling of the author’s family that witnessed a cross burning on their lawn, as a warning, with unsettling images of the aftermath as well as hints of fear permanently embedded in the family’s memory. Each time it is retold, the experience becomes more dauntingly descriptive. “The Lynching” illustrates the picture of a grim and saddening sight of a malicious…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has raised controversy on whether the law support or damage the health insurance for all Americans. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) or commonly known as Obamacare is a federal law signed by President Barack Obama on 2010. According to the website Obama Care Facts this law “creates a mandate for large employers to provide insurance, the expansion of Medicaid, and the opening of Health Insurance Marketplaces to help subsidize private insurance.”…

Biblical Poetic Readers: Learning How To Know God Can you live in the world, partake of the ways of the world, and yet please God? Psalm 1 is written by an anonymous psalmist, however, the reader can see the psalmist knows God, as well as understands that life without him is bleak. The Wisdom of the psalmist has shined through this Psalm to create this illustration of a wonderful wisdom psalm, perhaps through personal experience or sometime in his life, God revealed to him the importance of the…

Morgan Freeman born Memphis, Tennessee on June 1, 1937. After high school Freeman joined the air force so that he could become a pilot, later on he realized he wanted to be an actor. It was hard for an African American man to find a job as an actor back than, but in 1967 Freeman landed in a all African American Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly"! During that time as well Freeman was performing on a off- Broadway production known as "The Nigger Lovers". Than in 1971 Freeman appeared in a…

The Journey of Self The Salem Witch Trials brought a great deal of fear and suspicion to the dwellers of Salem, Massachusetts beginning as early as 1692. Arthur Miller presents many different ways that one handles the pressures of the trials and also the fear of behaving in a way that would get oneself accused of witchcraft. Two characters in particular, John Proctor and his servant, Mary Warren, deal with the pressures in different ways. John Proctor, after committing the sin of adultery,…

Harrigan 1 Noah Harrigan Mrs. Cooper Honors English 2; Period 4 19 September 2016 The Confusion of Revenge for Justice The revolutionist Martin Luther King, Jr stated during one of his speeches that, “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle”. Martin is defining the relationship between man and the act of doing one's best self-interest. More and more a man willing to try and conceive an act of…

Shane Quote: “I’ve heard you’re a low-down Yankee Liar” The tale of a gunfighter who, no matter how hard he tries, can’t escape trouble, Shane is the quintessential Western. A quiet movie overall, the final gunfight is sheer dynamite. Tense in built up and lightning fast in action, the 3-against-1 shootout is heart racing and iconic. The speed of the fight (gunfights then and now are typically quick affairs) keeps the scene grounded, as does Shane getting mortally wounded. The movie earns…

When people enter into restorative justice, they do so pre-sentencing. This means that if there was a domestic abuse case, then the offender could be could forcing their victim to allow them to go through the process; earning the offender a lighter sentence (The Irish Times, 2016). This issue is seen even by Margaret Martin, the director of Women’s Aid. What she states is “"There was a big ouch factor here in Women 's Aid about RJ because of this power and control issue,"(Irish Times, 2016). So,…

Just as a child cannot know goodness without a model of virtue, a child cannot know offense without an image of villainy. As enlightened animals, humans set out to reject natural tendencies and live without sin. In Steinbeck’s magnum opus, Cathy is a humanoid symbol for predestined immorality and devilish values. She is the embodiment of divine rejection and a representation of the seven cardinal sins: pride, greed, gluttony, sloth, envy, lust, and wrath (Catholic Church 1866). By committing the…

In a 2006 study about group forgiveness, researchers Catherine Philpot and Matthew Hornsey, found that Australians did not yet forgive the Japanese and other groups of perpetrators, for killing or harming other Australians. Although they were reluctant to forgive, many Australians were more willing to concede when individuals apologized on behalf of themselves, or of the group they represented. They concluded that forgiveness is not granted unless there is motivation promoting condonation. To…