We are Seven

Timothy Jay, a psychology professor for Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in the Berkshires, states his research on the matter in a Washington Post article, “By the time kids go to school now, they’re saying all the words that we try to protect them from on television...We find that swearing really takes off between ages 3 and 4.” If kids are using these words at such a young age, they will grow up with a relaxed mentality about the use of these words which will lead to a…

brought him to the Second Circle. This allusion depicts the power of lust; one does not stay true to oneself and cheats others. Dante also meets Francesca, who deceived her husband to have a love affair with his brother, Paolo. Francesca states “that day we read no further” in accordance to the day she was killed while being sexually indulged with Paolo. This sentence of her is similar to that of Book 8 of Saint Augustine’s Confessions. In that book, Augustine read a book by Saint Paul and…

Remember that story from the bible about Adam and Eve and the evil snake? The basic overview of the story is when God first created the heavens and the earth, he also created the first humans, Adam and Eve. God gave them a set of rules to live by and one of the rules was to not eat the fruit of one specific tree because it was holy. Adam was laying under the tree one day and a snake slithers beside him. The snake is the devil in snake-form. To finish the story, the snake convinces Adam to eat…

Ghosts, witches, and family curses aren’t subjects normally found in nineteenth-century romances. And yet, all are present in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s eerie second novel, The House of the Seven Gables. In it, Hawthorne introduces the Pyncheons, a self-righteous, greedy, and slothful people whose destructive hereditary traits arouse the revenge of the humble Maules. In turn, the Pyncheons blame the Maules’ revenge—and, particularly, the ancient curse of accused wizard Matthew Maule—for each…

carefully analyzed the different themes.As there was so many to choose from, I made it clearn to myself that I did not want to be like everyone else. Kevin Smith used some of these insightful scenes to capture and exaggerate a hidden meaning of the seven deadly sins. In this first scene Dante is standing behind the desk at his job of a store clerk. A customer presumes in asking…

When we think of the seven deadly sins, we often think about Envy. What does it mean to Envy? “Envy is the passion which causes evil, the father of death, the first entrance of sin, the root of wickedness, the birth of sorrow, the mother of misfortune, the basis of disobedience, the beginning of shame” (Hagedorn, 1998, pg. 15). When we are filled with Envy’s trance, we hold resentment in our hearts as we are very aware of a condition or circumstance that is adored by someone else that we may…

The seven deadly sins are excessive pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, the seven deadly sins are incorporated into the society of Salem and shown through each character to represent human nature. In Arthur Miller’s play, all seven deadly sins are incorporated through the characters to cultivate the theme of the human nature to sin. Judge Danforth represents pride, John Putnam represents greed, while Abigail represents both lust and…

War political relations had significantly impacted the relations between Britain and its American colonies and surpassed economics and ideological relations. Politics is the most important because it helped direct the government into the government we have nowadays. Leading up to the French and Indian War, the French found foothold in Canada. The French were convulsed during…

The 1936 Rendition of The Last of The Mohicans directed by George B. Seitz is more historically accurate than most movies today and is deeply infused with 1936 ideals. These ideals do not always match up with the movies 1856 setting. This movie adaptation of Fenimore’s classic novel accurately depicts the right people on the right dates in the right historical events. It takes liberty by adding a few characters and changing the characteristics and relationships of historical figures. This film…

Greed is considered one of the seven deadly sins, which means wanting too much of something and never being satisfied , this sin is presented as a theme in the novella The Pearl , written by John steinbeck which talks about mainly about an indian legend of ( the pearl of the world) and what this discovery of this pearl effects the life of the main character and his family, this novella starts by showing the readers about kino's life " the main character " before he finds the great pearl and…