Simon Middleton’s piece, “’How It Came that the Bakers Bake No Bread’: A Struggle for Trade Privileges in Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam" was created as a primary source to argue that free-market oriented economies were brought up during the 1661 Dutch bread shortage in their North American colony. The consumption of bread and related items rose increasingly with a massive shortage due to the miscalculation of how many people were involved. Middleton writes this document to collect the attention of his cultured audience by depicting the origins of free trade which is similarly impressive because around roughly the same time William Penn proposed the startup of modern local democracy in North America by colonists. Middleton’s intention was…
In 1830, a weaver by the name John Downe writes a letter to his wife Sukey from the United States to England. Downe’s purpose in the letter is to persuade his wife Sukey into coming to America. He adopts an objective tone in order to glorify America in his letter to Sukey using ambiguity, repetition, and pathos.…
In the novel, “Lord of the Flies”, by William Golding, he tells the story of a group of boys stranded on an island. During World War II, a plane filled with young boys got shot down which led the young survivals on a deserted island without any adults. The young boys decide to have a leader who can willingly lead the group to survival. Ralph is chosen to be the leader, yet after a series of events maybe Ralph wasn't a good choice after all. I believe Ralph is the reason of the development of their savage society. Ralph takes responsibility for the island’s decline because his poor leadership skills result in nothing getting done and the young boys breaking into groups rather than cooperating like they should have been…
Melinda Sordino was raped by Andy Evans at a party during summer in August. She called the police but she was too shocked and scared from the event that she couldn’t say anything to the woman on the phone. Someone from the party found out she called the police and told everyone. The police came and arrested some of the students, but by that time Melinda has already left and gone home.…
Golding used the weather as a symbol of fear. From these two sentences, Golding tells us the mental state of the boys on the demanding nature. It also shows how the strong waves could affect the behavior of the boys. Golding suggests that nature can destruct humankind easily, no matter how tough oneself can be.…
A heartless man gets his life change on an overnight trip with three ghosts. In 1843 a now, well-known novella “ A Christmas Carol” wrote by Charles Dickens is one of the best holiday classics. Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character of “A Christmas Carol” and who is a greedy old man, that only cares for himself. Several events cause this remarkable change in Scrooge’s heart.…
Luke’s theme is about new conversion and the rapid spread of Christianity, however, with the addition of the story of Mary and Martha it becomes confusing as to how this story fits in with the overall theme of the Gospel of Luke. However, Luke continues his theme with this story because he wants everyone to know the truth about Jesus. Jesus wanted Martha to stop doing the busywork and focus on the truth of Him and who He is. Before this passage, we have the story about the Good Samaritan who was there to help even when it was frowned upon socially. After this passage, we have where Jesus teaches about prayer. The passage about Mary and Martha go with the Good Samaritan story because Martha was doing what was expected by her culture and society, while Mary was going beyond it and sitting at the feet of Jesus.…
Browning uses a number of different narrative techniques to tell the story in Porphyria’s Lover.…
Simile- More of a figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another.…
A parable is a simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson. A parable is thrown alongside the truth in order to help the reader understand the deeper truth behind the story. The parable in this story is that you can’t hide your darkest sins or any sin at all from God. By wearing the veil upon his face, the Minister is carrying the people’s sin just like jesus died for our sins in order to save all our souls. The sin of humanity is the greatest of fall sins but people choose to hide it from society because they are ashamed of what they have…
Mitchell calls this “The living words of the community”. The primary source for one’s message must be the Bible; this is the tradition of which we speak. For example, few Bible scriptures communicate to the New Testament church like the very words that Jesus spoke. Jesus would use analogous stories to convey his message. These stories are referred to in scripture as parables. The word parable is a transliteration of the Greek word παραβολή (pä-rä-bo-lā'), which literally means to lay one thing beside another. Our Lord would lay beside commonly understood things, from everyday life, a story with a disciple-making message. He would analogize the message he wanted to convey by laying it along side a common thought or well-known narrative. Leroy Eims reminds us that there were intimate times when Jesus would communicate with his disciples without parabolic verbiage, but to everyone outside of the twelve disciples he would communicate…
1. What lesson or moral is taught by the parable at the beginning of Part II?…
In this piece of his soliloquy, Iago is talking about how he plans to use Desdemona to take down both Othello and Cassio. Iago is going to convince Othello that Desdemona is cheating on him with Cassio. Iago knows his plan will work as Desdemona will feel sorry for Cassio and try to convince Othello to make him lieutenant again. This plan will definitely work to Iago’s advantage here as Othello will probably be too heartbroken to think straight, and will end up ruining his relationship with Desdemona. He will also make sure that Cassio’s reputation is destroyed in the city. Iago can finally at this point take over Othello’s job as general, which is one of the things that he wanted. Shakespeare chooses to have Iago say that he will turn Desdemona’s…
Ramifications of chasing traditional rewards in, “How Not to Get into College”, “Somnambulist”, and “Iced- Cream”…
Hannie Rayson's play attempts to articulate an Australian identity and suggests that the experience of living elsewhere alters one's perceptions of home. She explores ideas about loyalty and betrayal from the perspective of an expatriate, Meg, and examines to what degree should we criticise or accept the faults of our country and of our loved ones.…