The Tragic Ending of Faust: An Interpretation of Faust II, Act V, Lines 11678-11829 In Part II, Act V, line 11678-11829 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tragic play Faust, Faust’s soul is rescued by angels. There have been many scholars that have interpreted this scene as representing the redemption of the protagonist after a life of evil and destruction (Van der Laan, 67). That view has now largely been rejected. An alternative reading of this scene would be to deny Faust any identity at all,…
Crowdfunding Another way to fund a startup not only in Russia but in many other countries is through crowd-financing. In Russia, the first platforms developed in 2011 and since then many websites have emerged that concentrate on different types of it. According to J’son and Partners Consulting the market for online crowdfunding in 2014 was around 640-700 million Rubles ($9,743,769- $10,657,248 USD). There are three types of crowd financing: crowdinvesting, “crowdlending” and crowdfunding.…
The non-fiction book titled No Angel follows the story of Jay Dobyns in his attempts to infiltrate the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang. The first section of the book follows Jay under his new undercover alias “Bird”. He travels to Bullhead City, Arizona, to meet a illegal arms dealer, leaving behind his wife Gwen, daughter Dale, and son Jack. When Jay first leaves for Bullhead City, I feel a strong feeling of sympathy for his family. The people that Jay deals with in the first part of his…
The stone angel (1964) is a compelling journey seen through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her life. Since her childhood, as the daughter of a respected merchant to her disruptive marriage, Hagar has fought a long battle for independence and respect. In the course of examining and trying to understand the shape her life has taken between her divided feelings about her husband and her passionate attachment to one son and neglect of another. So, she is sometimes regretful but rarely…
to join but he was going to do this regardless. Every day that peace remained only meant that war was sure to follow. It had been over a century since the demons and angels had fought. However, this time the humans from his village and even the villages that were nearby had begun to train their men. The first war between the angels and demons had started in 2017, the human governments had been taken over by demons who pretended to be human. They pledged peace and harmony to win the vote of the…
be true; thus, punishments were administered accordingly. In an effort to minimize the wrongful convictions, The Innocence Project is committed to assist and exonerate those who have been convicted of a crime that they did not commit. In June 1995, Angel Gonzalez was convicted for aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping. Gonzalez was initially sentenced to 40 years in prison; however, upon his completion of 20 years, DNA testing cleared him from the accusations. Initially, however,…
In the Paradise Lost, Books I and II, Satan is shown to be the epic hero. Satan is the head of the bad and rebellious Angels. These group of Angels have recently fallen from heaven. In the poem Satan’s antagonist role shows that he is the originator of. The first person that ever was and will always be ungrateful is Satan. He is ungrateful for the Lord's blessings entirely. In the poem, Satan starts a journey to Earth. This journey eventually leads to the fall of Adam and Eve. This case does not…
Horton: Horton describes angels as heavenly servants who were created to serve God. Angels minister to people, watch over believers, and learn the truths of God’s unfolding mystery in Christ. Horton believes that God brings angels into existence and they have the ability to choose whether to follow God or not. “The fallen angels are not treated as evil by creation but as followers of Satan in his mutiny” (407). Horton speaks of Satan as the most angelic angel, but became prideful and planned to…
he doesn’t feel so isolated. The Ainur are like Christianities’ angels. The Ainur are split into two groups; the Valar, are the guardians of the world. And the Maiar, wizard or the Istari. The Istari are low-angels; including Gandalf, Sauroman, Radagast, and the two blue wizards. The Istari’s main mission is to protect the people of the world from evil. Melkor is the reason for such evil in the world. When Eru Iluvatar and his angels sang to create the world Melkor wanted a song of his own. Much…
The Angel of Auschwitz Auschwitz was located in Poland, and was the largest death camp. Originally, it housed political prisoners, and could hold around 150,000 people. It is estimated that 1.5 million people died in this prison. In 1944, the Hungarian Jews were brought to Auschwitz, and with them came Dr. Gisella Perl, a gynecologist. Upon her entrance to Auschwitz, she was selected by Josef Mengele to work at the camp “hospital”, where there were no tools, no medicine, and no beds, only…