In the short story‚ “To Hell with Dying” by Alice Walker‚ the narrator is a young girl who reminisces about the “revivals” that took place at the house of her alcoholic and diabetic neighbor‚ Mr. Sweet. Many times throughout his life Mr. Sweet was near death and the narrator’s father would summon his children to surround him and remind him that he is loved and needed in an effort to bring him back from the brink of death. The central idea to this story is love can bring a reason to live when the
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THE ROAD TO HELL John Baker‚ chief engineer of the Caribbean Bauxite Company of Barracania in the West Indies‚ was making his final preparations to leave the island. His promotion to production manager of Keso Mining Corporation near Winnipeg – one of Continental Ore’s fast-expanding Canadian enterprises – had been announced a month before‚ and now everything had been tidied up except the last vital interview with his successor‚ the able young Barracanian‚ Matthew Rennalls. It was crucial that this
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Kingdom of Heaven Kingdom of Heaven is about a man named Balian from Ibelin who travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century‚ and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people. During this movie Balian’s wife commits suicide and he kills his own brother and runs away from the village. Throughout the film Balian tries to gain forgiveness from his father and redemption. The movie concludes as Balian is joined by his new girlfriend Sibylla‚ and they pass
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A Whole New World The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis gives the reader a new perspective on hell and life after death. Written in the demons point of view‚ a new light is shed on the amount of work put in to tempting humans into hell. Zeroing in on the struggles and conflicts humans go through on a day to day basis‚ Lewis is able to make his novel timeless for all generations past and here to come. Though it is not exactly clear why Lewis ended the novel with such a broad idea‚ The Screwtape Letters
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What does it mean to be an American citizen in the current hyper-polarized political moment? How do social identities shape our perceptions of race‚ gender‚ and ideology in America? Why does vocal gender inform ideas about female agency and power? In modern-day American public discourse‚ identity politics are seared into the minds of partisan politicians‚ social identity groups‚ and political movements. However‚ absent from these conversation is a frank discussion about how the role the of race-based
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Introduction Liminality also known by its alternative title ‘Heaven’ was written and performed by the well-known spoken poetry artist Neil Hilborn in April 2014 at the Soap Boxing Poetry Slam in St Paul‚ Minnesota. Hilborn who is better known for his poems titled OCD and Joey both of which became viral sensations upon release generally focuses on poetry that discusses mental health‚ loss and sacrifice. Liminality also focuses on such themes with the poem itself written in narrative form‚ detailing
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changing society‚ one’s background is everlasting. As people grow older and make their own decisions‚ they find themselves faced with the perplexity of escaping their past lifestyle and customs‚ but they will ultimately carry them throughout their life. Jhumpa Lahiri’s “My Two Lives‚” the excerpt from Alan Ehrenhalt’s The Lost City‚ and N. Scott Momaday’s “The Way to Rainy Mountain” take different approaches to develop the plot‚ but they are all connected by a universal theme: the eternal presence of ancestry
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“Nobody can give everything away. It ain’t healthy‚” (Alexie 33). Sherman Alexie’s book of short stories‚ The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven‚ focuses on the life of Native Americans on the Spokane Reservation‚ specifically focusing on Victor‚ the main character. In the collection of stories‚ Victor learns about the damage caused by letting anyone other than himself control his life. Victor has always wanted to become a warrior. “You know‚ my generation of Indian boys ain’t ever had no
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Claude Levi-Strauss once said ‘being human signifies‚ for each of us‚ belonging to a class‚ a society‚ a country‚ a continent and a civilization.’ Belonging is a human desire of being accepted with people or places. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s story‚ The Namesake‚ the story follows the Ganguli family from their traditional Indian life in Calcutta through their uneasy transformation into America. This family is strewn with opposing fidelities and the underlying concept of the difficulties of cultural belonging
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From the research I did‚ I have come to the conclusion that Nirvana and Heaven are two different places/states of being/concepts; but are also the same in a sense. First off‚ trying to define nirvana was not as easy or straight forward as I thought it would be; many of the formal and accepted resources seem to refer to it as a Buddhist concept‚ and it was difficult to find a Hindu centric definition without the crossover to Buddhism. However‚ nirvana‚ as defined by Merriam-Webster (2018) “…is
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