Vagueness

One of the allegorical details that can be interpreted is the literal and figurative implication of Faith. As Goodman Brown commences his journey, his longing desire to meet the Devil hints at a slight shift in his belief. Abandoning his wife, Brown shows a sign of negligence. The Devil questions Brown for his delay to which he responds, “Faith kept me back awhile” (Hawthorne 2). The “faith” here symbolizes both Goodman Brown’s wife, Faith, as well as his religious belief. In a literal sense,…

Darwin's evolutionary view of the world has been of the greatest human achievements of the human race. However, the evolution theory itself evolves over time, as it is expected from any other living entity. The modern evolutionary synthesis was the first major update to the Darwins model. The main idea behind update was integrating the latest achievements and understandings from biology in the original evolutionary framework. But it was not the last update. These years, a new group of…

In this decision, the Court’s granted a weight inconsistent with previous cases to the potential for coercion of students created by what the Court concluded was the essentially involuntary nature of the event. A comparable component is not present in the facts of this case. The voluntary nature of group’s meeting could lead the State to rely upon the decision of the Court in Sante Fe (2000), as the event at issue in that case, a high school football game, would be like the petitioner’s…

As still being a younger person, it is likely that the narrator has never experienced death before. The lack of experience could serve as an explanation for the vagueness of the poem. In the final stanzas the narrator delivers the strongest imagery in the entire piece to the reader. The narrator describes his brother as being “paler now and wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple.” Those descriptions serve to shock…

In the article “Did the Early Middle Ages Really Exist?” by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz, Niemitz elaborates on his own theory regarding the validity of the recorded timeline, events and people of the middle ages. I disagree with Niemitz claim that a portion of the middle ages was fabricated. Niemitz claims that the rulers in Europe would want to seem more auspicious and powerful and therefore would also most likely be politically motivated to maintain their power by changing the calendar and…

In the flash fiction story of “Flowers” by Alice Walker, every sentence contains a specific meaning. Throughout the story, she uses language in order to establish her central theme - or what she desired the reader to learn. Specifically, Walker uses an allegory to describe that though one should have hope, one should not be naive to see the reality. In “Flowers” there are a multitude of allegories in this one piece. The literal allegory is easily recognized in the story. Walker includes the word…

Interdependence of State and Federal Governments Taxation System Federal and State government relations in the United States have ranged from cordial to adversarial over the years. The constitution differentiates the roles of both governments with clarity and vagueness in equal measure. Whereas the clarity has brought about smooth interdependence, the gray areas have often led to conflicts that at times inevitably end up in court. One such case is the South Carolina v Baker (485 US 505, 1988) in…

that man is primarily evil” (432). Fogle’s perspective on the story is valuable to readers because it helps reinforce aspects of the reader's interpretation by providing a second-hand examination of them. Fogle helps confirm that there is indeed a vagueness to Hawthorne’s writing, but instead of being a flaw, the technique proves itself to be an enhancement to the story. One seemingly complex issue in regards to critics is that many of them have completely different insights into the same piece.…

“One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric”-Justice John Marshall Harlan What is value? This question swept the court room in 1987 during the case of Pope v. Illinois. Pope and Morrison, the Petitioners in the case, had been charged with the illegal sale of obscene magazines. They argued that the State of Illinois Obscenity Statute- under which they had been convicted- was unconstitutional because it had allowed the “value” of the magazines to be judged by community standards. In response,…

have handled the case if Katelynn identified as an aboriginal child, or her mother did, neither of them did. My main critique of the Child and Family Services Act regarding the Native Child and Family Services portion would be the sheer length and vagueness. In this act there is pages upon pages of rules and regulations, while the section for Native families is given a few short paragraphs and often lead with “The Minister may designate” leaving me asking if there are any hard rules regarding…