strives to remain strong in the face of such public ridicule and contempt‚ inside she is suffering. Hester pushes through many long days‚ “throughout them all‚ giving up her individuality‚ she would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point and in which they might vivify and embody their images of woman’s frailty and sinful passion” (Hawthorne 32). Hester recognizes that she has become a living lesson and this weighs on her. She
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The knight-errant is similar to the medieval knight who follows the code of chivalry‚ fights honorably‚ and defends the weak and poor. However‚ the knight fights for and is loyal to his or her liege‚ whereas‚ the knight-errant fights on the side of justice and pledges fealty to no one. Regardless of the gender‚ all knight-errants exhibit certain character traits such as righteousness‚ honor‚ and bravery. These properties of the knight-errant are evident in the three short stories‚ “The Sung Founder
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Krishna to tell Arjuna that people will not see him deserting the war as an act of compassion‚ but rather an act of cowardice. No respect will be brought to a Kshatriya leader who cannot fulfill his duty as a warrior and would rather cower away from a righteous battle. Arjuna’s name would be associated with great humiliation‚ and he himself would be brought more fear. Krishna conveys to Arjuna that “No effort in this world / is lost or wasted; / a fragment of sacred duty / saves you from great fear” and
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New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag "They have a word down South to describe the way you feel when your packed into a crowded dive at 1:00 AM‚ where the cigarette smoke is so thick it makes its own weather; and the waitress is slinging bourbon and Fritos while some bad-ass Jazz Funk band rocks the house as hard as Blue Ridge granite‚ and the sweat flows down from the stage like the cloudy waters of Pamlico Sound. There’s a word for how you feel when you hear live Jazzy-funk music so sweet and hot‚ you
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writing‚ Francie has not experienced the righteous‚ eloquent metamorphosis Edmundson claims all English majors will experience. He spins the English major as a tea-sipping‚ coffee-shop-frequenting‚ notebook-toting
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The best advice I ever got about reading came from the critic and scholar Louis Menand. Back in 2005‚ I spent six months in Boston and‚ for the fun of it‚ sat in on a lit seminar he was teaching at Harvard. The week we were to read Gertrude Stein’s notoriously challenging Tender Buttons‚ one student raised her hand and asked—bravely‚ I thought—if Menand had any advice about how best to approach it. In response‚ he offered up the closest thing to a beatific smile I have ever seen on the face of a
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Democracy as a whole. By use of small wars and political pressures both Reagan and Wilson‚ with the exception of Wilsons entering into WW-I‚ used diplomacy and these small conflicts to do what they thought was best and righteous to defend freedom and Democracy. But were they truly righteous individuals or did they just have their own ideas and agendas of what was best? Woodrow Wilson: “The Ideals of America” speaks of how the United States evolved after throwing off the tyrannical yoke of English
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HABAKKUK OUTLINE I. The Questions of Habakkuk..............................1:1-2:20 A. The First Question..........................................1:1-4 B. God’s First Reply..........................................1:5-11 C. The Second Question of Habakkuk...........1:12-2:1 D. God’s Second Reply......................................2:2-20 II. The Praise of Habakkuk........................................3:1-19 A. Habakkuk Prays for God’s Mercy...................3:1-2 B. Habakkuk Remembers God’s
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puissant soliloquies that are highly interpretable by the audience. Hamlet discovers his father’s unnatural death was a heinous plot by his uncle to steal the crown and the queen. Throughout the play‚ in Hamlet’s soliloquies‚ he reveals himself to be a righteous individual who will execute what he believes in: justice. In Hamlet’s second soliloquy‚ he vows to avenge his father after he was murdered by Claudius in perfidious fratricide. Hamlet affirms he will not forget the ghost and its desires and ignore
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into the life of a Christian and how we are called to live. The verse states that “You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality‚ and you shall not accept a bribe‚ for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. Justice‚ and only justice‚ you shall follow‚ that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you” (Deu.16:19-21). Deuteronomy was written by Moses in the late 7th century to the generation of Israelites bound to enter the
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