Venial sin

When it comes to philosophical believes, everyone's ideals have a foundation. Robert Frost's, "After Apple Picking", along with his other poems, have important references and ideals coming from biblical allusions. Many of Frost's work are centered and somehow incorporate biblical proverbs throughout the unrolling of the poems. For starters, one can infer from the title itself that the story of Adam and Eve has been used as a point of reference. However, his inspiration also came from the…

key theme that I found more interesting than the others that might be able to be taken from the text. I thought that god finding a balance between the sin committed and the degree of punishment you will suffer was interesting, it was weird to think that there was once a belief (or still is I’m not sure) that there are tiers of hell and based up your sin you will suffer a harsher fate than others. The key theme reminds me of the Hammurabi's Code "an eye for an eye", balance in life is seen as…

Kaylie LeCuru March 30, 2018 Mr. Burrell Word Count: 1055 “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” Lyric Analysis Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” is a song about God bringing justice to those who have not followed His will. The song displays the judgement of God upon those who are sinners and are offenders of the commandments. Johnny Cash sings this song as a message to those who believe God’s will can be ignored, and by doing so is spreading the message that our actions are seen by God and he…

answer questions like why prejudice does exist and why it continues to persist over time. The scapegoat theory The concept of ‘scapegoating’ originates from a religious ritual in which, in expiation for their sins, the priest putted his hands on the head of a goat, and confessed the sins and ills of the community, after that the goat was…

In Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, we follow the trial of Bertram Cates; a man accused of violating a law that states that evolution cannot be taught in school. Cates is defended by Henry Drummond and the prosecuting attorney is Matthew Harrison Brady. This work can be compared to the real life trial of John Thomas Scopes in 1925, where Scopes was accused of the same crime. This play has many underlying themes, but only one principle theme. The principle theme appears to…

Filled with regret and despair, the mariner is tasked to tell his tale of sin to others in order to cleanse his soul. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge infers the importance to love all and respect all of god’s creatures. The journey the mariner parallels the journey of man dealing with sin and being freed. Throughout Coleridge work, we see the sailor bombarded with constant misery to atone for his action and the people around him suffer. The wedding guest hearing his tale can be a…

Hester is glorified and condemns Hawthorne for the dishonest depiction. In his opinion, the impact of Hester’s sin is impaired by the praise expressed in Hawthorne’s writing. D.H. Lawrence effectively conveys his opinion to the audience by using allusions to literature, a concise syntax, and a harsh tone. D.H. Lawrence’s allusions to literature help to prove Hester Prynne’s mortal sin. He compares Dimmesdale and Hester to moral people to make their characters look worse. He contrasts…

murder. (New International Version, Genesis. 4.16). Before Cain kills Abel, God tells Cain, “sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” (New International Version, Genesis. 4.7). “You must rule over it” is a phrase converted from the Hebrew word “timshel”. However, timshel directly translates to “thou mayest”, meaning that although Cain has the choice to overcome his sin of jealousy, he lets it fuel his action of killing. In the novel East of Eden by John…

Realist and puritan both have very different perspectives on how they comprehend things, but both showed rhetorically effective passages. The realist had a decent amount of the parts in the rhetorical triangle such as talking about the authors and what they had accomplished and why they were important. Puritans had a much stronger approach on the rhetorical triangle for instance it had a big impact on the audience. The piece of writing the puritans showed was more rhetorically effective than the…

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God “You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.” Jonathan Edwards stated this quote in his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. On July 8th, 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut, Edwards expressed his beliefs to his audience: people who were not saved by God will go to Hell; these “people” were also known as “Unconverted Men”. Edwards was known for the uprising theology of the Great Awakening. Henceforth upon…