students biting their nails and pulling their hair out struggling to grasp the concept of journeys. On our show today we have a special guest who is here to talk about his world-renowned poem ‘Dante’s Divine Comedy’ which is basically the epitome of ‘imaginative’ journeys. Yes folks you heard correct‚ please welcome the one and only Mr. Dante Alighieri. For any students who are on the edge of their seats wanting to embellish Mr. Dante’s insightful frame of mind whilst writing the poem listen in closely
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The divine comedy is an epic poem written b Dante Alghieri between 1306 and 1321. In three sections Dante takes you through Inferno (Hell)‚ Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise or Heaven). Each section has 33 parts that include mythological and historical personages. Dante starts in the Forest of Error when he is just 35 years old. The Forrest of Error symbolized his sin and the sin of the world. He tries to get through the light on the top of the hill which represents Christ but a leopard
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What is culture? Culture is a way of life – for most people anyway. People’s culture is what makes them as a whole‚ such as their religious beliefs‚ political views‚ and much more. The text Two Kinds‚ Where Worlds Collide‚ and Everyday Use shows that culture influences people’s views and the world. In Amy Tan’s short story “Two Kinds”‚ Jing- mei‚ is guided throughout her life by culture. “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America” (Tan 21) Jing-mei’s mother wanted
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Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” is a trilogy of poems describing three realms of the afterlife. Each of the three books in “The Divine Comedy” symbolize an afterlife station‚ “Inferno” representing hell‚ “Purgatorio” representing purgatory and “Parasido” representing paradise. The story is told in the first person‚ and is originally written in Italian‚ the language of the masses. This was unusual as most literary works of the time were written in Latin‚ a language not easily read by the common person
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Chaucer’s or Dante’s time. Medieval Christians would have a source for it -- Satan -- and if could easily devise a series of ecclesiastical checklists to test its presence and its power. In our secular world‚ evil has come down to something that hurts people for no explicable reason: the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City‚ the burning of black churches in the South. We have taken evil out of
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Stereotyping is a controversy today all over the world. Stereotyping is also extremely common and is heard everyday. Although there are bad points to stereotyping‚ there are also some good points in stereotyping. The Eric Berne’s Article "Can People Be Judged by Their Appearance?" and the film Breakfast Club will be used for resources and examples. Understanding other people’s emotions or feelings because that is just the way they act can be used as a good thing for stereotyping‚ but when used incorrectly
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Claire Mameli The differences in treatment outcomes due to the amount of hope a patient held in “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness‚” was a perspective I had not yet ruminated. The author‚ Dr. Groopman‚ retold the stories of multiple patients suffering from cancer‚ each showing that hope can have a positive outcome on treatment. This account has shown me that death is inherently a part of life‚ but by instilling genuine hope in a patient and their family‚ their remaining
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Does Science Explain All? In the beginning there was darkness. Then there was light. Then there was consciousness. Then there were questions and then there was religion. Religions sprouted up all over the world as a response to some of humanity’s most troubling questions and fears. Why are we here? Where do we come from? Why does the world and nature act as it does? What happens when you die? Religions tended to answer all these questions with stories of gods and goddesses and other supernatural
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People’s cultural view When looking at a different part of the world people think that it is weird. Well that is all culture are different and special. In “Where Worlds Collide”‚ Frida: a biography‚ and Two Kinds‚ the passages show that people’s culture affect the way they view the world and their cultures. In Pico Iyer’s passage “Where Worlds Collide‚” he talked about people that their culture and how it affected their view on the world. “They see Koreans piling into the Taeguk Airport Shuttle and
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Dante’s Inferno and The Swimmer Dante’s ever popular‚ poem‚ “ The Inferno‚” and John Cheever’s “ The Swimmer” is both set upon the theme‚ reflecting on ones life. Cheever highly accepts the profundity of Dante’s pious allegory (1). In the swimmer‚ the protagonist Neddy Merrils‚ swims throughout his well-heeled neighborhood‚ which is credited the intense journey of Dante. The Swimmer‚ a story about a man’s eight-mile journey home‚ is a book that explores how a man reflects upon life. Many of the
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