We are Seven

Canto 18 Dante and Virgil are outside the eighth Circle of Hell, known as Malebolge. The circle has a wall along the outside, and has a circular pit in the center. The ridges create ten separate pits. This is where the people receive their punishment for fraud. This is where Virgil and Dante see souls from one side to another. The demons with great whips cause pain to the souls when they come to the demon’s reach, which then force the souls to the other ridge. There is an Italian that Dante…

corrupt, base, mean and vile. When The Bible describes someone as wicked, it seems to be distinguishing average sinners from those who are morally bankrupt. To some degree, all people regularly sin; whether through those things we actively do (sins of commission) or those we fail to do (sins of omission.) I refer to Donald Trump as an amoral person; one devoid of morality. There is no moral standard to which he aspires. Like a boat drifting in a storm, an amoral person…

The short story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathanial Hawthorne takes place in Salem, Massachusetts. The time of the story takes place during puritan times, mostly meaning that everybody was going to end up with god if one does not sin. Sins do not make a person evil, because everybody sins, and Nathanial Hawthorne proves the theme everybody has sins throughout the use of symbolism, irony, and foreshadowing. One of the literary techniques Hawthorn uses to develop the theme everybody sins, is by…

Dante has taken revenge over all kind of figures that he knew by. Furthermore, Inferno is filled with allegories and represents a deep literature. In this essay, we will discuss about the uses and significance of allegories in Inferno. Hidden beneath The Divine Comedy, we can find Dante’s emphasis of the number “three”. Often times, we can find the number being used to categories the realms of dead; the three beasts that stop a man from achieving salvation (lion, wolf and leopard; the ultimate…

The Middle Ages contained some of the most interesting classes of people this world has ever seen. The amount of knowledge that is possessed from this era is very little, but the quantity of what the world does possess gives the people fascinating information about what life was like in those days. The most remarkable piece is the class system and just how corrupt the church system was at that time. Geoffrey Chaucer does a fantastic job at showing this corruption. The church system contained…

agreements, the colonists wouldn’t have had the slightest of chances in defeating the British. Out of all the nations the colonists took help from, France served the greatest role. They themselves had a harboring hatred for the British dating back to the Seven Years War and it showed when they were willing to send thousands of weapons and even some of their best military officers to the colonies. That too, the French were risking all their assets when they formed a shell corporation, The…

“The Devil and Tom Walker” written in 1727 by Washington Irving, tells of a greedy man, Tom Walker, who makes a deal with the devil in order to fulfill his need of wanting money. As a result of this, he becomes a prisoner of his own wealth and ultimately dies from his greed (Irving). Tom let power and wealth get the best of him, as many people do, and eventually wealth and greed got the best of him and he went up in flames. This can be the result of making a deal with the devil. Greed is a…

almost as if the were lust given flesh. They offer him comfort, and Calypso, one of the nymphs, even offers him immortality. Yet he denies them to return home. Lust is not always a source of power for women, especially when it is not reciprocated. “Seven states don't have any laws preventing a rapist from claiming parental rights” (CNN). It is almost unimaginable for a woman who was raped to have to face her attacker in court over child custody rights. Yet these women have no power to stop it.…

In this selection, Thomas H. Benton compares students to the seven deadly sins and painfully exaggerates his argument. By agreeing with Benton, it can cause some consequences due to the fact that he semis persistent on being negative throughout the whole essay. The main ethical problem in this section would have to be the fact that he uses the seven deadly sins in a way that seems like there is not way of truly fixing the situation. Sloth: Benton writes that students under this category are…

The more the brain is encoding the information, the better possibility that it will be able to recall this information. Encoding has four main types to it; Acoustic, Visual, Tactile, and Semantic coding. In a way, we uses these four types of encoding to learn something new. This one of the errors in my experiment. I did not tell the subjects how they should study the words, I just gave them the words and told them to study them. “It is believed that, in general…