Hell in popular culture

When Malcom X said “By Any Means Necessary” I think he meant that for human to treat each other right. Or that people have their rights to be equal on this earth and for a human being to be respected and treated as a human being and not an animal. For human to be given the rights they are born with, to me he was speaking for the African Americans at the time for all the racism and discrimination. Malcom’s goal to me was for him to try for everyone to have complete freedom, justice, and equality…

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a story that originates from Mesopotamia. Through out the epic we learn of several gods, the sun-god Shamash that helps Enkidu and Gilgamesh defeat Humbaba, Aruru who creates Enkidu as Gilgamesh’s equal because the people complained about how badly they were being treated by Gilgamesh, Ishtar the god of love, Anu the sky-god etc. There were numerous gods responsible for all areas of life. The gods were an intricate part of human life and affected daily events.…

various nations develop, people migrate from many different places. When they arrive, those settlers have brought with them their cultures, ideas and beliefs. In the establishment of the United States, many colonists came from all over Europe. Although many of the settlers who began to colonize the Americas came for religious freedom in 1700, the beliefs and cultures were quite different. The groups of settlers who came to the Americas consisted of many different religions. J. Hector St. John…

preserve their religious culture and independency…

Both Muslim and Christianity are popular religions across the world, and they have significant impacts on the lives of their believers more so spiritually. Christianity and Muslim have common originality and values and believes making their believers respect and understand one another. In many countries across the globe, the two have been involved in the formulation of laws which the government uses in governing their various countries. Even though researchers show that Christianity is…

in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.” The preceding quote is from the wildly popular book, The Hunger Games and is meant to convey the image of citizens living in fear of their dissatisfaction with the government getting them killed. This story, along with others such as Divergent and The Purge shocks the audience, but while its popularity is rising in today’s culture, it most certainly isn’t a new idea. In 1932, Huxley portrayed the problems that arise with the…

nation has always been a desired destination for immigrants from countries all over the world. Consequently, the traditions practiced by the country as a whole can often be traced back to the roots of one of the many subcultures that make up American culture. One such tradition, practiced for Halloween, is the jack-o’-lantern. The jack-o’-lantern is made by hollowing the inside of a pumpkin and then carving a spooky face into the outer shell. Once the face is carved into the pumpkin and the…

A myth is a story that holds some kind of significance in a culture, a story that addresses fundamental and difficult questions that we as human beings ask: who or what am I, where did I come from, why am I here, how should I live, what is the right thing to do, what is the universe, how did it all begin? Myths are stories that are told about great men and great women; about the forces of good and evil; about large and small animals; about natural thing as well creatures like giants, gods and…

Claude McKay is a brilliant poet, whose words illustrate the struggles of black communities in America. Some of his most popular poems are about a black man living in America. In fact, “America” is arguably one of his most influential poems, speaking about the duality of the United States through the eyes of a black man. Claude McKay was a skilled poet who used many literary techniques to convey his deep-rooted messages in his poems. He uses specific techniques such as a sonnet structure in…

they both end up fighting in a general store where they both get caught by two hillbillies trying to rape both of them and when Koonz was speaking to butch as child he said that the POW camps was a “Hanoi pit of hell” and the two hillbillies say that the dungeon of rape was a “pit of hell” this and the POW camps are similar in their ways he has to overcome this obstacle like his father and pass on the watch to the next generation.The fact that Butch when back to get him after escaping he it's…